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The record-union., 1896-10-17

bob Ingersoll'' put it squarely In his
last famous speech when he said that
o.,e of the grave questions in this cam
naign is whether this is Government
of aaw ,>r whether there is an appeal
from the Supreme Court 10 the mop.
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Weather Forecast.

Nrothern California-Generally fair Sat
urday; probably slightly cooler at Red
Bluff; fresh, generally westerly. winds.
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Entered at the Postofflce at Sacramento
Is second-Class matter.
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REPORT

OF THE CONDITION OF THE MA
TIONAL BANK OF d. o. MILLS & co.
at Sacramento, in the State of California.
at the close of business October 9th. 1S96s
RESOURCES.
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Loans and discounts. 81. 191 .Oo6 es
Overdrafts, secured and un-
U. s " Bonds oii to secure circu- SO'ooo 81
lation. :. 49,. :. -. $4,000 90
Premiums U. S. Bonds. 1000 90
Stocks, securities, etc. c........ 22952 10
Due from National banks (not '''00o y"
reserve agents.. ........ s,o1e So
Due from State banks and
bankers. n. 56.794 80
agents. =. !. :. \. J. . 5s.0s7 70
Checks and other cash items. 2,O4o 66
Notes of other National banks 1920 90
Fractional paper currency,
nickels and cents. .........: 2oe 5s
Lawful money reserve in
bank, viz:
Specie: =. .ss14, ,1s1 90
Legal-tender notes 6.100 90 $50, ,291 90
Redemption fund with U. S.
Treasurer o per cent. of
Due G,acoir5ron' from i. s. treasurer. 200 90
other than 5 per cent. re-
demption fund. -. 1850 90
Total. ;. :. !. !. -. =. 50, ,3es, ,os5 90
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. n........ 100000 On
Undivided profits, less ex- O'0Oo '"
-penses and taxes paid...... 73.4Ss 9s
National Bank notes out
Due satof to other National banks. 4Ss4S s.S9S ~
Due to State banks and bank
ers. -, :. 2O7.O7s 81
Individual deposits subject to
check. 49,. ;. 1,011559 6l
Demand certificates OF deposit 420,SS3 %
Certified checks. =. :. 1921 or
Cashiers checks Outstanding. 4,306 20
Total. :. :. -. -. so. .36S. .os5 90
State of California, County of Sacra.
mento, S.
/. CHARLES f. DILLMAN, Cashier ot
the above-named bank do solemnly svesr
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief
CHARLES f. DILLMAN, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me tbts
18th day of October, 1896.
(SeaL) W. e. kLEINSORGE
Correct-Attest. Notary PuhIic
FRANK MILLER
PRENTISS SMITH.
EDGAR MILLS, Directors
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American River Grange.
Rev. Hoskinson of this city will
preach at the American River Grange
on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
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WOOL ITEM.

Corning Observer: Certain statistics
just furnished by the United States
Consul at Bradford, England, show that
the amount Of wooden goods shipped
from that place to this country during
eleven months under the Wilson law
was 334, ,454 pounds, whereas during the
corresponding period under the McKin-
ley law it was only 5,1OS pounds.
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Los Angeles Express: Now that the
election OF Mckinley is assured. the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12

be the same professional, commercial
or manufacturing.
No one we think will GispIt, these
propositions: and the gravest charge
that can be made,-and truthfully
made, to-day, against the two old
parties, is, that, through their great
leaders, they are dominated from Gen.
ter to circum ference, by this non pro-
ducing. grasping, greedy, conscience
less element OF money-lenders. Nat
urally these latter are not pc liticians;
they resort to state-craft simply as
means to still farther fill their Golfers
and strip the world.
Should those who are not money
dealers help them in their selfish en-
deavors? Why should they? What
are they to get for it? Are they not
themselves among the despoled?
Will not their children sink to pau
pcriSm if this work is not checked?
Think this all over, down in the
silence of your own heart. alone with
your God, and put your conclusions
into your ballot.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12

roads. land especially the Milwaukee
and ST. Paul company, which have for
thirty years deprived Minnesota Of its
just rights, due to the fact that the
Great Lakes penetrate to our upper
border. 1t is but 15O miles from the
Twin-cities to Duluth, while it is 400
miles to Chicago; and yet it costs as
much to send grain by way of Duluth
as it does to send it by way Of Chica-
go. Our public men, being mostly
railroad servants, have ignored this
fact and permitted our people to be
plundered without the slightest eff
fort to defend them. Hence the
commerce Of all southern and south
eastern Minnesota has been forced
away from the short-haul to Duluth,
by way of the Twin-cities, and over the
.long-haul ESQ miles longeD to Chica-
go. Every man who has raised grain,
or any other product, in the southern
half of Minnesota. for thirty years
past, has been paying freight for 25O
miles which his produce need not
have travelled. This is one Of the
reasons why Chicago is enjoying an
abundant prosperity while Mime.
apolis and St. Paul are amusing them
selves with bankruptcies, suicides,
murders, and other devilish delights.
What is wanted is to build up our
seaport, Duluth, and turn all our
business. from the remotest corners
of Minnesota. to that outlet, via St.
Paul and Minneapolis, which would
share in the benefit of such course.
The old-party politicians have traded
away the rights of the farmers and
the whole people to the Chicago rail-
road companies. in exchange for cor
ruption funds to be used at the cleo
tions. We had better have Chicago
on our own soil than to have it 400
miles away. But this cannot be
reached until the government owns
the railroads and permits the geo.
graphical factors to come into play,
unimpeded by tricks, rings and COM
binations.
Does Duluth understand this? 1t
would double her population every
year.
| Think how the Milwaukee and St
Paul Railroad Company, invaded our
own county of Dakota, and spent a
thousand dollars to keep us out of the
State Senate, because God did not
make us to be servile tool and in
strument of rotten, robbing corpo-
ration! And that which was done to
us will be done to every independent,
honest man anywhere in this nation.
| Government ownership Of transpor-
tation is the only remedy for this
dreadful domination.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
A CITY THAT GROWS. I
The Chicago Tribune says:

liz OhASNSQ AiAcuAS ouy
"Thc state census taken last year
by Minnesota shows that the popula-
tion of Duluth has jumped in five
years from $4,000. in round figures, IT,
1000. The rate Of increase has been
Is per cent, and the actual gain no
less than $4,000. That is very re-
markable record, and it can be match
ed by few towns in. the United States.
1t places Duluth we'll up among cit es
Of class very different from those
with which the Lake Superior Dor t.
has hitherto been ranked.
The probabilities are Duluth has
passed at least thirty cities in the last
five years. 1t has certainly swept by
twelve in the States Of New York,
Iowa. Massachusetts,, New Jersey, and
Kansas, and the chances are that
about twenty more have fallen behind
in other states"
Duluth is within forty miles of be-
ing as near New York, by the Great
Lakes,as Chicago is. This is mighty
fact which cannot be ignored, and the
effects of which will become more and
more manifest as time rolls on. In
stead t making faces at each other las
they are now doing. the Twir-cities
should recognize the presence of this
great rival on the northern horizon,
and msve together with a view of
eventual consolidation in enc great
municipality, in order to make war
more efficiently on the Chicago rail
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
A BATTLE FOR FREEDOM

Let the 22d of February be the birth
dag of commercial freedom III the North
tcest
Let meeting be held in every town
ship. Send reports to THE REPRE-
SENTATIVE.
Take steps, at the same time, to
build local warehouse. See in an
other column of this issue, how it
worked at Mcintosh.
The state will do nothing for you.
1t even brushes all attempts to enable
you by legislation to build a terminal
elevator at Duluth.
You are in the hands of the Philis-
tines. The wheat-thieves own the
politicians and the courts,
You must fall back on your own re-
sources, your own mental capacity,
and your own resolution. BE men.
Invest few dollars to save thousands.
\ Get together, few of you, in each
township, at once, and issue a call for
a meeting on the 22d inst. Insert it
In county papers and pass the word
from man to man. Be able to report
at the county meeting, the following
! Saturday, how much stock is SUBJ
scribed. There is way out OF
these robberies if you only have nerve
and good sense.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
Il PROPHET.

He declared Furthermore with much
solemnity that Grover Cleveland was
the last President the Democracy
would ever elect. He concluded his
speech, which. it must be admitted,
set the Senate by the ears. with dis
NAL prediction that this country
would yet wade through seas of blood
and emerge either despotsm or such
a Democracy as was intended to be
created by the French revolution
Report of Senator Tillman's speech.
Really, such predictions are not
pleasant to read: and we hope, so far
as the bloody war is concerned, that
they are not true; and yet even the
moderate and conservative man must
ask himself ,-where is this reign Of
corruption to end? Courts uries, legis-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERN
MENT.
is IT GOING TO SEED IN THIS COUN-
TRY?-A JUDGE WHO is A DEVIL
JNCARNATE

is 1T GOING TO SEED IN THIS COUN-
TRYo-A JUDGE WHO is A DEVIL
INCARNATE.
Special to Minneapolis Tribune Rep0
Pierre, 5. D., Jan. 3l.-Inere are
shocking developments here today in
connection with the resignation of
Judge Kellam, OF the supreme beach.
1t transpireS that the resignation was
by request and that Kellam is charged
with gross immortality. He is openly
accused Of having taken liberties
with child, and of taking advantage
of another mans wife while she was
under the influence OF morphine. The
reluctance of the victims, who are
prominent, to be dragged into the
publicity Of the courts,is the only rea-
son he is not now under arrest. kel-
lam has admitted all the charges and
the feeling against him is very bitter.
The following in the local daily ex-
presses the general sentiment here to-
night: .....
ut seem incredible that man who
has been so honored by his fellow citi
Zens, and that even when this honor
was beS flowed at time when his in
tegrity was being assaulted in cOnnec-
tion with the Chamberlain bank fail
ure, should alike forget the duty he
owed to the people OF the state who
had thus honored him, and that more
sacred duty, that Of husband and
father, as to stoop to acts that would
bring the blush OF shame to MephiS-
topheles, to think that in a supreme
Judge Of a state, the highest triDun al
Of commonwealth, he should have
such rival. II the reports are true,
Alpnonso G.. Kellam out-devils the
devil. Fiendish would not begin to
express the acts which he is ac-
cused of committing. Ii the charges
are proven there can be no punish
ment sufficient for him in this world
or the world hereafter. TO be placed
on slow fire and be forever roasted
would be inadequate"
There are judges who are an honor
to human nature, but instances
like the foregoing they are not
few,-show how unwise it is to per-
nit the judiciary to rise above the
legislative branch Of government,
and nullify any laws that do not sui t
them or those who hire them.
The Dakotas seem to have been the
very flower and fruit of the evil condi-
tions OF our time. There corruption
doth boil and bubble till it DER runs
| the stew" One who processes to
know says that there have been ses-
sions Of the legislature, especially in
North Dakota, where three-fourths Of
the mem bers we're bought and paid
| for, and .one-half Of them had name
less diseases, procured from EN- ployes.
| The stories we have heard would
make an honest mans hair rise on his
head:-they are, however, unreliable,
| in any decent or Christian society.
And all this under the domination OF
a party that claims to represent God
and morality. And sustained by good,
honest fools who believe in the profess
sions of the Scoundrels,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
4 TAX NATTER.

We print in our Forum a letter
from Mr.. Harvey Gillitt, of Hastings,
Mimi, to which we ask attention. We
do not usually yield our space to local
matters, but it seems to us that the
questions raised may concern a great
many all over the state and nation.
We know nothing personally OF the
facts, but Mr.. Gillitt is prominent
citizen of Dakota county, and pub
lished a newspaper therein for twelve
years; and we take it for granted that
what he writes is true.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
CONSIDER.

Did you ever know farmer, in this
country, attempt to fix the price of
what he had to sell?
Did you ever know mOney-le nder
that asked 4 borrower how much in
terest he could afford to give?
Did you ever know store-keeper
that let the purchaser fix the price Of
his goods?
Lie awake half the night and study
that out. And il you vote the old
party tickets rig up fool-kicker such
as we showed you in this paper week
or two ago.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12

burnt withes. The only question is:
have the producers, who constitute
the vast majority Of the whole popu-
lation, the intelligence to know when
they are wronged, and the courage to
rise up and, at the ballot box, right
those wrongs? Ii they have these all
the rest is easy.
1t must never be forgotten that a
scarce supply of money means dear
money, and that dear money will buy
so much more of the productions of
industry. Hence the theorem-dear
money, cheap labor and cheap pro-
duce; abundant money high prices for
those things which men produce and
have for sale. That is the whole
money question in a nut she'll.
Our friend is mistaken in another
respect.
Ii opening the minis resulted in
bringing our people to silver basis,
as our friend seems to anticipate. and
immensely 'watered" the currency, as
would be worth to-day $3.50 per
bushel, oats so cents, barley 60 cents,
corn IS cents, and everything else in
proportion, and it would not take
long for the people. with these prices,
to pay off their debts and become once
more free men.
But We have always held that we
would not go to an exclusively silver
basis. AS soon as the minis Of the
United States were opened to the free
coinage of silver 4l24 grains of stand
ard silver would be at once worth 100
cents (now about SOY, because the own
er could get 100 cent dollar for it at
the mint, and he would not sell it for
less than he could get for it. That is
| as plain as a pipe-stem. Now the stcer
dollar is acoHh as much as gold do!tdr
because 1t is legal tender for all debts, pub
lic and prirate. Open the minis to free
coinage and the silver bullion would III
stantly rise TO be of as much value as
a like amount of CON- Gold would n OF
leave the country because there Woui ia
be no deprecated money to fly from.
| We would like some gold-bug to
show us wherein this reasoning is de-
fective. We will open our columns to
him to do so.
The restoration of silver to it's an
cient standing, side by side with gold,
would not initiate values. There is
not enough silver in existence to 90
that. Hence the demand Of the Peo-
ples Party for supply Of paper money,
amounting to not less than $50 per
capita. This would be $17.26 less than
the per capita we had at the end OF
the war; but it would be sufficient to
break the backs OF the usurers: it
would bring the business of the world
back to cash basis; it would enable
the debtor, by the increased price OF
his productions, to pay his debts; and
it would strip the creditor class OF
that tremendous power which they
are now welding for the domination
and ruin of mankind.
Will anybody show us why this
should not be done.
We hope we have sufficiently ans
wered our friends inquiries.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
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NO WONDER.

Owing to the exposition Of their
treasury looting conspiracy and the
almost unanimous silver sentiment
that exists in South Dakota the Re-
publicans have no hope whatever Of
being able to carry that state this
fall. Pupulists have sure thing
there.-Farmer Tribune, Iowa.
No wonder The spectacle of the
God and morality party stcutting
around with $500 of the peoples
hard earned money in its pockets is
enough to create laugh under the
ribs of DEATH"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
OFFENDED THE PROPERTIES.

Washington Specialize one man
ever shook up the United States SEN
ate SO thoroughly as was done this af-
ternoon by Tlllman, the South Caro-
lima tirebrand, VINO has kept quiet for
two months, but who evidently has
been storing up venom all the time.
The old heads of the senate were
shocked and mortified by the freedom
of his language, and yet the curiosity
to hear him roast the President was
so great that almost every seat was
occupied on both sides Of the cham
ber,-and the galleries we're packed.
The ex-governor of South Carolina
is much younger looking man thin
most people imagine him to be. His
face is smooth and his figure slim. He
wears long tailed frock-coat closely
buttoned around him, and he looks
for all the world like an ambitious
student, in the senior class of law
school, trying case before moot
court. AS he speaks he holds in his
hand slip Of paper obtaining notes,
to which he refers occasionally, but
his utterance is generally so slow that
he has little difficulty in eping the
thread of his remarks. At times he
becomes excessively wrought up and
is often disposed to act out his speech.
On one occasion this afternoon,
where the sentiment seemed to de.
mand it, he skipped around the open
space back of his desk, in something
which was very like a jig, and which
so much annoyed Senator Morrill, that
the old legislator from Vermont de-
liberately turned his back on the
South Carolina Senator.
The Senator from Vermont repre-
sents very large class that have a
keen sense Of the proprieties and not
a particle Of honesty. Vermont, with
her rocks and mountains, has trans
fered the wealth of the black soil Of
our Western prairies into her Golfers,
and grown rich while we grew poor;
but Morrill, is shocked to think the
Senator from South Carolina should
execute pigeon-wing, behind his
desk, on that floor where so many viii
Iainies have been contaminated. Nor
al Morrill,! Professor of department.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
WANTED.

Gen. w. II. Standish, Of Grand
Forks, N. OAK, writes US that the
people of that state will want Mrs.
Lease for number of places, at $25 a
night, and. expenses from last place.
She will be here in June and can COM
bine her North Dakota and Mime
sofa engagements SO as to save travel.
Let all hands write her at Wichita,
Kansas. We wish she could be kept
going in the Northwest until the eNc-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12

latures, congresses are all tarred with
the same stick. The man who resides
on his own farm, and is out Of debt, and
lives on what he raises, may survive;
but the Lord help him ii he has to get
off his land to defend his rights. He
descends into hell Of misrule, filled
with creatures ready to devour him; a
bottomless pit with nothing solid to
walk on. We contemplate the future
with the gravest apprehension.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
TAKE NOTICE.

That wa cannot receive single sub
scriptions for three months for 10
cents or anything less than % cents.
The cheap rates are only where guam
Titles are ordered, as set forth in our
advertisement.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-12
WE'LL PUT.

A cores pendent of Sound Money, T.
D. Hinckley, Mt. Vernon, Illinois,
says:
The men who originated the Omaha
platform are not politicians in the or
binary sense of that word. Their en-
vironments, however, forced them to
study the science OF government as no
latter day partisan Office seeker ever
did. When farmers found themselves
producing their crops at loss and at
constantly depreciating prices regard
less of the laws OF supply and demand;
when they found themselves confront
ed with the paradox Of low prices and
steadily increasing suffering from
hunger on the pant of the producing
class in the large cities; when they
found their burden Of debt and taxd-
tion rapidly gaining upon them, they
began to look around for the cause,
and they found that the corn they
sold for L. cents per bushel was
bought, in NEAL by the city labOrer at
80 cents: they found that the beef
they sold for u to cents per pound
was doled out TO the city laborer at 10
to 20 cents: they found the wheat
they sold at 60 cents selling to city
people in bread at the rate Of 81 per
bushel. LaborerS, too, wondered at a
cond ition under which constantly
augmented crops and steadily de-
preciating prices to farmers seemed
only to aggravate their own lack Of
bread, and they, too, began regular
ly organized inquiring into matters
which certainly appeared strange.
They found that the beef hides Tor
which the farmer received 5 cents per
pound, after being manipulated, large
ly py machinery and to the value Of
which la Dor did not add an additional
5 cents per pound, sold TO other labor
ers and back to the farmers them
selves at the rate of more than 81 per
pound in their. boots, shoes, harness,
etc, they found the COTTON for which
the producer received less than Ii
cents per pound sold to labOrers aud
back to farmers in shirts, OverallS,
etc., at an increased cost Of more than
10 times the price originally paid the
producer; they found the coal they
mined for 10 cents per ton selling to
| farmers, in many instances, as high az
| So to II per ton.
1t is not matter of wonder that
| these discoveries on the part of our
city and country wealth producers
| compelled them to put on their think
| ing caps. Neither is it wonder that
they soon discovered that they were
| jointly the victims of unrestraiDeG
| monopoly, nor that they put their
heads together and evolved the
Omaha platform of principles in an
| effort at relief.
There is great deal of force in
these striking figures. Their sub
stantial truth cannot be disputed.
Let even the skeptical read them
twice over, and then ask themselves
whether they are having fair divide
of the good things of this life? And
if not, who is to blame? Who can it
be if not the two old parties, who, be-
tween them have had control of all
legislation for thirty years past.
Think it over, friends.