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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

The department commander Memorial
day order will be found at the top of the
third page, this evening.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

The child of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph e.
Twitchell has been indisposed.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

The new method garden hose and the
ball nozzle lawn sprinkler are just the
things to buy now. G.. " REED & ca.
1857
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

Complaint is made Of the raising U
rates by the Aqua Pura company.
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Fishing tackle and trout flies at Wagner
a. Myers, Temple building. 1t
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Put your spare cash to work. Take a
share with the Mutual building and loan
association. 12S-tf
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A meal of plenty, well cooked and sery-
ed. at the New Brunswick. 106-tf
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The seven-months-o old son of Juan San
doval was buried this morning.
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The usual Friday evening services were
held at the jewish temple, last evening.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

The wife of Bona Apodaca is under
treatment by a physician.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

Native bran at the Las Vegas Roller
mills, at Soc. per 100. l60-tf
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The New Brunswick restaurant for an
appetizing meal. l0o-if
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

People wishing to sell or buy Improved
or unimproved real estate will do well TO-
sec G. Il. H~utcn:ssn 8 Co. 2S5tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

For parties, concerts and s~ccisIs, rent
Rosenthal Bros. hall. 80 s-tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

The Boston clothing house Is away in the
lead in nice, stylish mems hats,at very low
figures. 1t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

Jake Block has just received the prettiest
russell colored shoes for men ever offered
in Las Vegas. See them. 1t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

Mrs. Ben Romero ani child are both sick
abed.
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FINE
BULK
OLIVES,
rs Cents per Quart.
~
STEARNS,
The Grocer.

Ice cream soda, fresh, daily, at the Win.
ters drug store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-16

J. Biehl, leading undertaken.
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METROPOLIS MISCELLANY.

SATURDAY EVENING, MAY IS. 1896
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
..rhe Mn..e. and the Classes"

Under the above caption the Eight Hour
Herald, the able organ OF organized labor
in Chicago, prints the following sensible
and patriotic editorial:
perhaps the most lamentable feature of
the present campaign will be found in the
partial success which has attended the ef-
forts of certain politicians in sowing the
doctrine that one class of citizens can only
succeed at the expense Of another. There
never was a more pernicioIs doctrine
preached, nor one that would engender
more hatred and distrust between man and
man. Ignoring a small and insignificant
element who subsist on inherited wealth. it
may be admitted that there are two classes
in this country-two classes in which the
fate of America, its future. its success or
failure. it's prosperity or decline, are in
separably connected. These two classes
are composed of the employers and
the employed. all workers with hand
or brain, and each dependent up
on the other as is the fate of the govern
ment upon both. When a politician tells
you that you can only succeed by adopting
a policy that will ruin your employer you
can safely set the man down as a mounte-
bank-or a observation-disclosures Is agree
able Nor can the merchant or man
ufacturer long succeed when the working
classes are idle or poorly paid. 1t is only
when the employe is consumer to his
fullest capacity that all can enjoy pros
Derity
1.-The commercial and manufacturing in
dustries of America were never so sorely
pressed as at present for lack Of activity
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
THOSE BRYAN CROWDS.

1.-THE American people are with Bryan;
those magnificent audiences are more than
significant" says Mr.. Chairman Jones, of
the Democratic national committee, in the
course of a recent newspaper interview.
II Mr.. Jones has drawn the conclusion that
the American people are with a candidate
simply because they go to hear and gaze
on him, he is but poor student of history
and a poorer interpreter of American polit-
ical methods.
Twelve years ago last month James G.
Blaine started upon tour of the United
States, and everywhere he was greeted
with audiences as great or greater than
those which Mr.. Bryan is now receiving.
The people flocked eagerly 20 see and
listen to him, and for six full weeks he
proceeded along his route in the midst of
an enthusiasm which was simply wonder
full, But in November Grover Cleveland
was elected.
Tyenty-feur years ago this month Horace
Greeley was the hero of the same kind of
triumphal tour. Let his biographer, Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, tell the story of that mem
orable episode in American politics:
MIR. Greeley's nomination at first caught
the popular fancy, and his canvass prom
ised for a time to resemble that of 1S40 in
the enthusiastic turmoil in which he had
first risen TO national prominence. At last,
on appeals from his supporters. who
thought extraordinary measures needful,
he took the stump in person. The series Of
speeches made in his tour extending from
New England through New York, Penn
sylvania. Ohio and Indiana, evoked great
| enthusiasm. All sides regarded them as an
| exhibition of brilliant and effective work
unprecedented in that generation. But they
were not enough to stem the rising tide.
| Mr.. Greeley received s3i.o79 of the popular
| vote against General Grants 3,597, 90. but
| he carried none of the Northern states, and
| of the Southern states only Georgia, Ken
| lucky, Maryland, Missouri. Tennessee and
| Texas"
| According to the newspapers OF Greeley S
! day, the crowds which attended him were
! as large as those which now greet Bryan.
| Going still further back into political
| history, It will be learned that Stephen A.
Douglas invaded the South thirty-six years
| ago with stumping tour which some
| what resembles that of the present Popo-
| cratic nominee. Everywhere he was greeted
with tremendous audiences who howled
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
Who Made the Trampss

From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
The Kansas City Times reminds ex-Con-
gresham Davis of certain conditions which
he had a hand in establishing. in answer to
that Popocratic statesman's insincere in
uuiry as to who made the tramps. Mr..
Davis says the gold standard made them
between 1880 and 1890 This will be news to
the tramps. some Of whom were fulfilling
their ambulatory destiny at that period
without knowing 1t. Their general belief
is that during that decade they were pret-
ty good workingmen. with plenty OF work
to do, plenty of money coming in and rising
wages swelling their little savings bank
accounts, in spite of the awful gold stand
ard. After 1880 there came a flood of silver
and the tramp began to appear. Then a
panic set in little later and Mr.. Davis
and his brethren refused to stem the sill
yer torrent, which began to drown out in
dustry. With Republican assistance 1t was
finally shut off, but before the tramp could
go back to his workshop Mr.. Davis and
his friends started the free trade plague,
and just as the country was recovering
from that the free silver job was sprung,
and the Weary Willies and Dusty Rhodeses
took to the bush for want Of better en-
ployment Who made the tramps? Ask
the silver trust.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
STRANGE NEWS FROM JAPAN.

Japan, being a silver standard country,
should certainly offer some of the Utopian
advantages claimed by Mr.. Bryan from
free and unrestricted use of the white
metal The condition of labor should be
better than in gold standard countries, and
there should be general good times among
the plain people If the boy orators theories
are correct.
But some strange things are reported
from Japan. The horrible rumor comes
from the land of the mikado that the rich
are growing richer and the poor poorer
over there. Within the last five years
prices of the necessaries of life have ad-
vanced 80 per cent, while wages have been
reduced. Labor in Japan has never been
greatly overpaid, skilled workman some
times receiving as high as 40 cents day,
while an ordinary day laborer makes about
IS cents per diem. There are plutocrats in
Japan who are amassing big fortunes by
speculating in the money metal of that em-
pire-silver-as it fiuctuates from day to
day. But the workman. the farmer and
the fisherman are being crucified on cross
es of silver by having their wages and
profits cut down. and crowns of thorns
are the prevailing headgear among them
and their families.
There is something wrong in this state
of affairs somewhere. The conditions do
rot accord with Mr.. Bryan's theories. but
possibly there Is a serious error in the
laws of finance. After listening to Bryan's
glowing words, one can hardly realize that
a plutocrat could exist in a silver country.
He would suppose that a workingman un-
der the silver standard lived in sort of
paradise where he received big pay for
little work, and wallowed in the fat of
the land. But the wage-earner of Japan
is not happy. In 1888 the silver yen of that
country was worth over IS cents; to-day it
is quoted at s. cents, with daily fuctua-
tions in its value. With such facts star
ing him in the face. Mr.. Bryan goes about
advocating the silver standard for the
American people. and preaching untold
woes to result from the sound money
standard under which We lived and pros
pered for SO many years. 1t is that kind
Of talk which is driving nails into his
political coffin every day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
A state Paper on Mexico.

From the New York World.
The two commissioners, P. j. Mas ana
Patrick Enright, sent out by the iraoes
and Labor Assembly to Mexico to fnvesti-
gate the condition OF labor in that coun-
try. have made known the results OF their
observations in a report that Is really
worthy of being classed as state paper.
1t is a plain and truthful statement giving
the facts as to wages and the purchasins
power OF wages, and the whole lnaustrlai
condition of the wage-earner in Mexico IL
puts before the public in a few words the
important details of situation that could
be easily expanded to fill a volume.
Briefly summed up. it shows that the
Mexican laborer works harder, 1ares worse
is more poorly paid and buys less with MS
labor than the very poorest type oi iaooler
of whom we know anything IN TINS coun-
try. These two representative working
men. Messrs. Mas and Enright. tell the
whole story in the assertion that the
American workingman is a prince COM
pared to the workingman OF Mexico.
OF course there are dinerences OF race,
of climate, of past history and OF political
conditions to be taken into account. But
the most liberal allowance that could be
made for these differences would still have
no effect in shaking the evidence OF fact
that cheap money does not prosper the
workingman. 1t does not secure MIN good
wages, nor does it cheaper the articles
which he must purchase with his wages,
nor help him in any way to a better stand
ard of living. The panacea which Is recon-
mended to us by the quacks OF finance has
had a full and fair trial in Mexico and in
every other silver-nsing country. To say
that it has utterly failed to bring about a
single one of the results claimed for it is
to state only half the case. 1T has failed
to ruin the prosperity of countries that
have tried 1t simply because no country
that has tried it had any prosperity to ruin.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
wAGE-EARNERs FOR SOUND MONEY

An intelligent Irishman who was recently
discussing the money question with some
of his fellow workmen very neatly summed
up the effect of free coinage on the labor
ing man. He declared he was unalterably
opposed to 16 to l because its adoption
would eventually lead up to ''nothin' to
ate" A concise and truthful description
of the effects of Bryan's theory on the
dinner pail
Just now It looks as II large per cent
OF the wage-earners of the country held
to the witty Hibernian's view. The indica-
tfons are that workingmen are going over
to the cause Of sound money en- masse. At
the outset of the campaign many were in
doubt as to the right position on the cur
rency question, and good proportion be-
lieved that the free and unlimited coinage
of silver would inure to their advantage.
Now from every direction come reports
that the wage-earners are focking to the
standard of sound money, and the "toiling
masses are preparing to join hands with
the employer, the merchant, the bank
er and business men generally and
vote for policy that will assure
the country a sound and stable cur
rency and an Industrial system to stimulate
home production and provide work for all
who wish to labor
If anyone should be interested in keep
ing the dollar honest 1t Is the wage-earner
1t is of vital Importance to him that the
money he works for should be just what
it purports to be. On the stability and
honesty of the currency depends his
comfort. prosperity and happiness. Con-
sequently it is small wonder that the work.
ingman is showing deep concern in the
financial question. The outcome means
much to him and those dependent on him,
and 1t is not surprising that as he becomes
acquainted with the true situation he feels
less and less disposed to try hazardous ex-
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
More Bryan "statiatic.."
Chicago Times-Herald.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
10 meet and refute all the blunders and
misstatements of MIR. Bryan and his asso-
ciates is like plowing the sands of the sea-
shore. The supply is apparently inexhausti-
BILE, and as fast as old canards are de-
stroyed new ones take their places and run
their little day. Still, as long as they are
plausible and effective they must be ex-
posed.
One of the most persistent of these frauds
is Mr.. Bryan's oft-repeated statement that
carriage rates have not decreased as much
as the prices of commodities. The New
York Tribune has undertaken to demolish
this assertion. and it does so in a man.
ner that leaves nothing to desire. 1t shows
that on the three trunk lines-the New
York Central, Pennsylvania and Erie-of
which the rates as far back as 1855 are
available, the present rates are 2l.9 per
cent of the rates of 1855 and 20S of the
rates of 1866 But" says the Tribune, "if
he says that he had in mind only the de-
cline since free silver coinage stopped in
1873 he might have observed that rail rates
are only about 1861 per cent. or little
over third, of the rates charged in 1873
on grain. By lake and canal the rates now
charged are only 2l4 per cent of the rates
of 1873. The average rates for all freight
on Eastern trunk lines are but 4l.6 per
cent of the rates in 1873, and on Western
trunk lines but 49,"
The Tribune concludes that eft Mr. Bry
an imagines that prices of commodities
have declined in any such ratio he stands
| woefully in need of education and of the
self-respect and self-control which prevent
a man from talking when he does not
know what he is talking about" The de-
duction is accurate. but as the campaign
approaches its close we become more and
more convinced that Mr.. Bryan is indif-
ferent to the soundness Of his facts as
well as to the soldity of his arguments.
He has said some things in this campaign
which no man Of his intelligence could be-
lieve, and such has been the demoralizing
effect of his example that his followers
have abandoned themselves to reckless and
indiscrminate misstatements.
The coarse falsehoods issued by the pro-
moters of the campaign at the Auditorium
| Annex have become the object of general
contempt in the West. Mr.. Bryan's mac
| curacies, however, still occupy different
| plane and they must be answered until
election day disposes of them all for good.
| The one recalled by the Tribune Is OF a
| piece with the whole lot-a hollow but
| high-sounding deception. without single
| foundation in fact.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
Hanna, the General.

chicago Correspondence N. Y. Sun.
Old political correspondents and old cam
paisners are in the depths of admiration
over the vast machinery in operation at
Republican national headquarters. Every
department is run with rapidity, thorough
ness and tireless energy Every town and
hamiet in the middle North and far West
ern states is instantly reached by a vast
system or direct telegraph wires. The con-
stantiy moving army of 400 speakers, and
the thousands Of agents and silent cam
paigners are in quick and complete COM
municadon with headquarters. Nothing is
left to "hearsay" or they say" Every
step in the campaign is known, and the
information is direct and authentic. All
this led one Of Chairman Hanna's friends
TO say to him at the Auditorium hotel to-
day:
Hanna, you missed your calling. You
ought to have been a general You'd
made Hannibal or a Caesar or a We'll
lington."
Hanna blushed like a school boy over
the compliment. Truly the pace has been
set for future national campaigners.
AT fopocratic headquarters things are
far different. 1t is with no desire to be
critically offensive when 1t is recorded
that everything pertaining to these head
quarters has shiftless appearance that
Is positively distressing. There does not
appear to be any system for anything
OF ANYBODY. II is go-as-you-pleaSe head
quarters. There is always natural
simile for everything in existence, and it
is not going too far to say that Popo-
cratic headquarters as compared to Re-
publican national headquarters is very
much like junk shop to a 1OO-ton Corliss
engine. Chairman Hanna is nervy,
springy and determined. Chairman Jones
is listless, dreamy and uncertain. Talk
with Hanna and you find him chock full
of vim and fire. Talk with Jones and you
find him timid and hesitating. He has
a far-away look. Hanna is forceful and
brim full of confidence. Jones acts very
much like a man who has been hit with
a brick and who is on the lookout for
more bricks.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16

themselves hoarse over his brilliant sem
tences and mastery cilmaxes. He, too. was
left far behind In the race for president.
In the town Of Montgomery. Ala. where
his audience was said to number 10000, he
received Just 1913 votes. all told.
Republicans are not feeling alarmed at
the size of Mr.. Bryan's audiences. They
know how and of whom they are made. For
Illustration, the crowd which greeted Bryan
at Kansas City was probably more than
half Republicans. In that gathering were
seen hundreds of well known Republicans
of Missouri and Kansas, including num-
ber of the Kansas state officers.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
~ Xnrsin Forrest.r

From the New York Sun.
Il had an idea." said the political re-
porter, that all the changes had been
rung on the hand and foot game, but Tim
Campbell got off new one on Saturday
night. Tim was speaking down in the old
Ate. and toward the close he got fiowery.
Fellow citizens he said, yes have
had har-rd tonnes, God knows. but vote
for Mckinley n Tim Campbell an ilict
thin, an, mark me worlds. th' pararies
IL blossom loike tn rose, an tn face of
tn whole country II become loike TIL var
gin forrest
"A fellow down in the crowd says:
'G'wan, Tim. / know yes, n what'n TIL
ell d. yes know about vargin forests? ?
What's a vargin forrest, TIM
THE crowd began to yell, and Tim got
on his dignity. He pointed his finger at the
miscreant. and said:
IA vargin forrest, we ignoramus. is a
forrest where tn hand of man niver put
f,tf
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16
FREE SILVER AND FREE TRADE.

Although the Democratic platform has
declared for tree trade, it was scarcely
necessary to Go 50 after the declaration for
the free coinage OF silver. The financial
policy Of Bryan and his party would de-
stroy the manufacturing industries of the
United States more surely than any free
trade legislation could do. No business can
be successfully conducted with deprecated
money. The earnest and hearty co-opera-
tion between employer and employe, which
is necessary for the successful prosecution
of all enterprises. cannot be had when tho
wage-earner knows that his compensation
will come in dollars worth less than their
face value. With dishonest currency all
business must inevitably languish. produc-
tion fall off, new enterprises be discouraged
and commercial stngnation result.
But with free trade in addition to free
silver the conditions would be still worse.
Every factory in Europe within six months
after the passage of a free trade measure
would double its output of wares for the
American market. This country would not
only become the dumping ground for the sill
yer of the world, but for the worlds manu-
factured products as well. The American
manufacturer can only compete with
foreign workshops by reducing wages to
the European level, and as these wages
would be paid in silver the laborers Of this
country would find themselves reduced to
the condition of the Mexican or japanese.
If American wages are not reduced our
mills canrot hope to compete with the
cheap labor of Europe. and they must
therefore, under free trade, be closed and
our artisans and mechanics thrown out of
work If wages are cut down to the
foreign level and also paid in silver. the
| American workman will indeed be in a
pitiab1e condition.
The policy of the Republican party is to
| interpose the shield Of protection between
the workingmen Of this country and the
| cheap labor Of Europe. 1t holds the stimu-
lation of home industries to be more de-
| sirable than the free introduction OF
| foreign commodities. It believes in and
advocates the establishment Of more mills
wherein American labor can be employed
at American wages, those wages to be paid
| in dollars as good as gold"
How does Bryan's policy Of a cheap dol
| lar for the farmer and a dear dollar for the
laboring man, and free trade for the bene-
| fit of Europe, compare with the Republican
| nolicy?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-16

one-hah, while the price Of everything else
will have doubled. Within five or six years,
perhaps. their wages would begin to rise
to more reasonable proportion to the cost
Of living. but in the meantime every ad-
vance of wages. every quarter of dollar
day added to them. would have to be
fought for. with strikes and tumults and
starving children and empty larders and
stoves, forfeiture of the purchase money
put out on installments, and all the misery
and woe Of abject poverty. Not having
any overwhelming desire for this ex-
perience. 10 per cent of the population will
vote against Mr.. Bryan, and give him a
chance in obscurity to study up the causes
of political earthquakes.