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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

can have coined into money. There is
not dollars worth of bullion in this
state. :llcre is not dollar in any state.
bnrring five or six. These five or six
have a total population of less than the
city of New York. and these small states,
representing small interests. ask you and
rennsylvania and Ohio and Illinois and
Massachusetts and Maine and all of the
great commemorative of this country to
take the bullion of that little population
from that little territory and make it
worth 100 cents for their fifty-three.
This is what free-coinage means. and
this tI! is what they ask YOU to adopt as the
poli:y of the American people in this
coming election. l say to you it is mis-
take. 1t is the worst mistake you are
asked to commit and YOU will find it out
II you commit it this fall. say to you.
consider this question. Think your
selves, don't listen altogether to what
other people say. and let it be settled not
ny Your 'partisanship. hut by your citi-
zenship. and YOU will make no error
Rochester Democrat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

Every single individual was in holiday
attire and in holiday humor-a combi-
nation Of barbecue, circus day. county
fair and graduation day spirit. The seller
of official souvenirs. tin horns and CAM
paign badges found ready market.
The crowd found the first outlet for it's
enthusiasm in the morning parade pre-
ceding the soldiers monument dedication,
and kept the supply steadily on tap. until
after the Knox boys had trounced the
young football players from Parsons,
Kan, in the afternoon.
The ceremonies on the campus of Knox
College. were, of course, the event of the
day. The crowd commenced to gather at
noon ON the historic spot where "Honest
Abe" and the Little Giant" wrestled in
debate thirty-eight years ago. Old Knox
had put on festal garb. The college col
ors. purple and gold, were everywhere.
Three significant dates were displayed on
big banners-1S37, the date Knox Col
lege was founded; 1858. the year of the
debates, and 1906. The history Of 1lli-
nois could have been written from the
personal recollections of the men in the
crowd.
John H. Finley, president of Knox Col
lege, presided. He is the youngest col
lege president in America. Addresses
were made by DIR. Nash. president of
Lombard University; Chauncey Depew,
Senator Palmer and Robert T. Lincoln.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
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Young Housekeeper-Yes, chicken
salad is regarded as CONNIE IL faut for
square meal. 1t is compiled the same
as lobster salad; except you use cold
veal instead Of lobster. The dressing
for the salad should not be decollete.
In case your efforts are rewarded with
success you may send us large sam.
pie.
Ambitious-No, you should not tE.nk
of writing jokes for living. 1t is too
hard work. Even the men who arc
funny without trying have to get right
down to hard work to prepare good,
durable jokes for the market. Writing
Jokes Is not so funny as you might
think.
Simple-A man need not necessarily
have biased views because he is cross.
eyed. One Of the most biased men we
ever knew had eyes as straight as
gun barrel.
Boarder-We think you must De
wrong in saying that the hash at your
boarding house contained foreign sub
stances. Nothing is foreign to hash.
You probably meant that there were
ingredients in it, and in that you were
not wrong. You can lessen the hash
evil by eating all the meat that is plac.
ed on the table at each meal.
Lumpy Jaw-You have our sympa-
thy. Perhaps when medical men and
scientists are through making impor-
tant but useless discoveries, they will
take day off and discover a remedy
for toothache. All deadly diseases now
yield to medical skill and science, bu.
toothache is as bad as it was in tic
time Of Pharaoh.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
The Home Market.

Mckinley speaks with wisdom and
truth when he says ''tlle home market is
the best market in the world" 1t is
the home market that opens factories,
and fills the land with consumers of
farm products.
One great cause of the hard times is
the denial of these facts by the tariff re-
formers of 1894. who undertook to sell
E,s the eme 6 afbet be MorI ia sfshanSs e for rcs tf
was that they lost the former and did not
gain the latter. so that the whole scheme
was II lamentable failure.
The truth is that protection and rcci-
procity have demonstrated their great
value to our home industries and for
sreatest prosperity under protection.
while 1892. wien the Mckinley law was
in operation. was the banner year of
our exchanges with foreign nations.
Comparing 1899 with 1896, the result
is MS follows:
Our exports fell from 81. 1.O3O. .27S. .14S in
1892 to SSt3.2O0.4S7 in 1896. IL decrease
S167 .O77.fl;1; and our imports fell from
$S27. .4O2.462 in 1892 to $7779.71O.O24 in
lS9li. a decrease of S47.G92. .43S The bal
ance of trade favorable to the United
States in 1892 was $2O2.S775.96S; for the
fiscal year just closed it was only $685.
49O.46:5. n decrease of $119.3S5.22:3S.
Thus hecommOn experience of the pco-
pie shows the wisdom of taking care of
the home market. while the record dem
oilstrates that with the market in IL
flourishing condition the foreign markets
take care of themselves. The step to-
ward free trade was colossal failure.
and an attempt to mend matters by
adopting the free and unlimited coinage
of silver would be even a more stupen-
dous blunder. = Rochester Democrat
Chronicle.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
DEPEw CALLS BRYAN DOWN.



The most remarkable of the citations
of MIR. Bryan during his address in
Brooklyn last Wednesday evening was
the one in which he said, referring to
Henry Ward Beecher:
!! only wish that the distinguished divine
whose name has added to the great fame
Of the people in their great tight Of today.
Chauncey NJ. Depew used this rs q
text in his address at the Clermont ave-
nue. rink this evening. The occasion was
the formal opening of the Kings county
Republican campaign in Brooklyn. Six
and cheered the speaker. National
Chairman Hanna was one of the dis
tinguished men on the platform.
In referring to Mr.. Bryan's statement
Mr.. Depew said in part:
During the fiat money and unlimited pm
er delivered Il famous sermon Thanksgiving
day on the peris Of the day. LII it he used
this language. which is commended to the
study of the Populistic candidate for the
presidency, since he has called Henry Ward
Beecher as witness:
''Wherever. in any nation. there is such
an an attempt to tamper with standards that
the moral sense of man is bewildered and
liberty Is given to unprincipled men ut
large to cheat, to be umfaithful to obliga-
tions. to refuse the payment of honest debts
whenever that takes place. 1t is all the
worse If done with the permission of the
law. | hate the devil riding ON Il law worse
Than do the devil riding without law
lishe'l standards hampers with the very mar
row and vitality of public faith.
Gold is the worlds standard. Gold is
the UNIVERSAL measure of value. Other kinds
OF money-siver, copper paper-all must
and he interchangeable with 1T; in fixed and
definite proportion. Gold is king to COM
merce. Ali other money must represent
gold.
Gold came to It's supremacy as repre-
sentative Of property by the lOng-estab-
lished consent of mankind. Congress can
not change it for the world. nor even for
this nation. except upon past transactions.
1t may give impunity to men to cheat con-
ti,lins creditors. but it cannot rule the
value of currency in all future transactions.
1.-The crime of paying debt In n currency
inferior in value to that in which 1t was
contracted. base at all times and every
where, has n deeper guilt and baser in
fanny in our case. When in our mortal
struggle capitalists were solicited to lend
their money to us on the faith of the nation
we We're too glad to promise to pay in gold
and We're most grateful for their aid. Now.
our dangers past. we revile them. finding.
10 epithets too violent. and strive to pay
them. not gold for the gold they lent our
misery. but in dishonest measure of an
inferior metal. To return their aid by IL
base treachery Is to deserve an infamy as
deep us the lowest depths Of hell."-Chica.
so Times-Herald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

bureau, who has been making experi-
ments in kite flying for the purpose Of
getting wind variations at great eleva-
tions. has succeeded in producing kite
twelve feet high, having 1872 square feet
of sail. The frame is so shaped and
placed that it bends readily IN one direc-
tion and is braced rigidly in the other, SO
that slightly concave shape is obtained.
The weight Of the kite is three pounds
and eight ounces, SO distributed that it is
balanced equally from common center.
The apparatus, resembling two diamond
shaped cambria boxes Joined by slender
rods. with no tail. has been given it's first
test. A breeze of six miles an hour was
blowing. but it few the kite nearly over
head, the angle being between 75 and so
degrees and carrying only two feet of
slack in 600 feet of line. The strain on
the cord was between 80 and 100 pounds.
too great to be held in the hands. 1t ia
Mr. Hulbert's intention to fly the kite
with piano wire, and it will then be used
in any kind of wind, and recording instru-
meats will be sent up.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
MURDER BY BANK ROBBERS.
Minnesota Bandit. Kill Two Me,
oud N1oLo Tt,.;r E,c.

Minnesota Bandits Kill Two Men
and Make Their Escape.
The deliberate murder of two men was
committed Mt Sherburne, Minn., We'd
nesday by highwaymen who robbed the
Bank of Sherburne of $1,000. The af-
fair was terrible reminder of the great
bank robbery Mt Mortified in 1876, in
which the James and Younger boys were
participants. About noon two strangers,
one of whom looked like mere boy, rode
along the main street OF bicycles. They
We're both well dressed but were un-
shaven and travel-stained. No particular
attention was paid to them, rs Sherburne
is town of but 300 persons, most of them
workingmen, and Mt that hour they were
hurrying home to dinner.
The strangers loitered around the out
skirts until nearly / o'clock. At that
time they sauntered lazlly down the street
and stopped Immediately in front of the
bank Of Sherburne. After moments g
talk they went into the bank, and the
elder of the men engaged Assistant Cash
Ter George Thorburn in conversation. One
OF the desperadoes secured possession of a
roll IF bills containing about $1,000.
Ihorburn tried to prevent the men from
getting away with the money, when they
whipped out their revolvers and began
firing and at the same time retreating.
One of the bullets struck Thorburn, caus-
ing almost instant DEATH The shooting
within the bank aroused the town, and
the citizens began running in that direc-
tion. The first man to reach the place
was Olaf Oestern, travelling salesman
for the Wood Harvester Company of st.
Paul. The desperadoss, fearing they
would be captured. quickly turned their
weapons upon Ocstern. He made u dash
to grapple with them, but was not quick
enough, as he was struck in the head and
fell dead at their feet.
They ran down the street firing Mt ram
dom. while persons in the street hurried
to places of shelter. They ran about three
blocks to some bushes where they had
left, their wheels. These they mounted
and rode rapidly away toward the Iowa
line, six miles to the south. Mayor G. L.
Everett and the town marshal at once
did all in their power to capture the BAN
dts. Sheriff Hill, of Marion County,
organized large posse of determined
Sherburne men, which moved southwark
OH horseback late in the afternoon. 1t is
declared that if the men are captured they
will be strung up to a limb of the first
tree big enough to bear them. The men
got away with the roll of money, about
$1,000, which they snatched from the
counter of the bank. Gov. Clough issued
a proclamation Offering a reward of $500
for the capture of the ROBBERS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

This shows COS divided by p that
our average per capita consumption of
under four bushels. This was 33 per
cent. below the per capita home con-
sumption in 1890 when times were good.
Surely any intelligent farmer ought to
low consumption of wheat by our people
meant in 1894 and 1895. He realized its
people were out of employment under
the Wilson bill and unable to buy and
consume as much as they did in 1890.
With consumption in 1894 of only
about 80 per cent. of what it was in
$780, the value of our home market and
labor fully employed in relation to the
price cannot be overlooked. The value
of 1.-THE markets of the world" supplied
largely by Argentina and Russia with
cheap wheat are as nothing compared
with our own market. In 1890 wheat
was worth 80 cents. in 1893 only 73
cents and in 1894 only 81 cents, the de.
cline in price being in about the same
ratio with the fall in home consumption
per capita. This presentation of facts
ought to be convincing.-Buffalo News.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

and that 1t is not the multiplication of
tools that makes business. any more than
the multiplication of hny racks makes
will always be found IL sufficient number
of hay racks to harvest the hay; so given
the demand for products and the inevita-
bly, resultant supply. and there will al
ways he found monetary vehicles for the
distribution of such products. AS mat
capita today is 20 per cent. larger than in
1873. The trouble is that the large VOL
ume of money We have is not calculated
and used because Bryan and his supports
crs broke down our industries and busi-
ness and the earning power of the masses
at the end of 1892. and the people are
therefore consuming less.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

to the future. Other men, whose part
it is to apply in the present the lessons of
the past, Joined their voices in the chorus.
There was Chauncey NJ. Depew, strong
in the knowledge of what has made his
country great and superb in ability, to tell
the story of that greatness. There was
Senator John NJ. Palmer, soldier and
statesman, best qualified of all men in
Illinois to throw the flashlight of personal
experience upon the mighty struggle of
forty years ago. when two Illinoisans
were 1he champions, the American peo-
pie were the spectators, and the unity of
the nation, the fate of the nation. was the
ground of battle. There was Robert 4.
Lincoln. famous son of world famous
father. and there were the dozens who
cheered on the fight in the old days, and
the other dozens and scores who have
given their lives since that time to put
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

Re t. LINCOLN. for holiday, receiy-
ed holiday crowd. Every railroad
brought in special tram loads. Long
lines Of vehicles-carriages, buggies, fam
lily carryalls and plain springless farm
wagons-rolled over the country roads
in seemingly endless streams. Each was
piled high with old people, young people,
babies and lunch baskets. Galesburg
houses were opened early, and emptied
before 10 o'clock in the morning. Thirty
thousand people thronged the streets,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
silver Mine Proflts.

The New York World has been doing
some investigating in the West, and It
finds that the Ontario mine, in Utah,
has pnid over $13.OOO.OOO in dividends.
the Horn Silver S5.OS0.OO0, the DAILY
and the Centennial Eureka $780, OOv.
and these are small compared with the
Comstock and other of the great mines
in Colorado and Montana. Yet, accord
ing to Mr.. Bryan's doctrine and belief,
the profits of these mines. controlled by
the silver trust, are to be doubled by
please note that the law is not to carry
with it any whcat-purchasing clause tha
will make the cereal leap up 100 pei
cent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

nlverSHry OF the tu-
nous debate between Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen A. Douglas. dwelling of
bronze tablet, built into the walls of
Knox College, to commemorate that
event. Formal announcement of the es-
tablishment of the Abraham Lincoln
School of Arts and Sciences in Knox Col
lege. Dedication of monument to the
soldier dead of Knox County. Finally,
lest the day should seem too one-sided,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
TEXAN REVOLUTION.
Il 1s to Be commemorated In a
Bronze Monument.

A magnificent bronze monument is to
be erected in Galveston, Tex, in COM
memoration OF the Texan revolution Of
1886. George j. Zolnay, Hungarian
sculptor, made the design. The monu-
ment will be constructed on four huge
granite blocks, each one of which is
smaller than the one below, thus form.
ing four steps around it's base. Sur.
mounting the granite platform blocks
Is an irregular base of dark granite, on
which rests n tall and graceful shaft.
This shaft is surmounted by a bronze
ball. on which is perchcd a figure of
Victory with outspread wings, holding
IN one hand an olive branch and in the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
THE coMMEMoRATIvE MoNUMENr.

other an olive wreath. She extends the
wreath over the heads of the heroes
sculptured below. On the four long
panels Of the base are bas-reliefs in
bronze Of the four principal events of
tie decisive battles of the revolution.
On the four cartouches are portraits
In bronze of heroes of the revolution,
while standing on the base in the pic
turesque uniform of the Texan soldier
nre life-size figures in bronze Of Sam
Houston, Davy Crockett, Milan, Sid
ney Sherman, and other heroes Of the
revolution. On one side of the shaft
is inscribed: "Moriamor Pro Patria
Nostro."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

too much given to the things that live
mostly in the recollections of the old, the
day closed in genuine college style with
n football game.
This manifold, many-sided occasion
sprang from the desire of old Knox Col
lege to emphasize its adherence to the
doctrine that true education combines
care for citizenship and patriotism. The
veteran soldiers who had poured out their
blood in expression of their patriotic creed
Joined hands in the endeayor. Men who
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
DoUBLE-DEAL1NG sEWALL.
He Demands Gold in Payment for Tim
bcr Transportation.


Attention was lately directed in these
columns to the significant fact that ALT
geld of Chicago. although Il rip-roaring
champion of silver. so far as his vocifcr-
GUS talk in conventions and out of them
is concerned, when it comes to business
failure of Altgeld's practice to conform
to his preaching by reproducing the
clause which forms a part of all the
leases which are made out by the Unity
company. a business enterprise of Chica-
go. of which .Altgcld is president. He
vention which made the dishonest de-
mand for the free coinage of silver. but
nevertheless the lease clause in question
expressly stipulates that the tenant shall
pay his rent IN STANDARD GOLD
COIN OF THE UNITED STATES"
ming for vice-president on the Bryan
ticket. is caught in the same sla.ing
hypocrisy. He. too. is expressly COM
mitted to free silver. Indeed. he is more
thoroughly committed to it than Atgcld.
since he is making the canvass for the
vice-presilency upon the silver Chicago
platform and has professcd loyal ale
that. it turns out. does not prevent Ar
thur Sewall from ignoring silver and in
sisting upon gold when it comes 10 the
payment of debts due him. That is the
sort of IL brave knight of silver lie is.
He is unmaskcd i'll the New York Trh-
une of yesterday. Sewall recently took
the contract for carrying four sliploa,ls
of timber from Maine to Long Island
City for the creosoting firm of Eppinser
\ Russell, and insisted upon the :nscr-
ton of the following clause in the con-
tract:
The party of the second part agrees to pay
to said party of the first part. or agent. for
the transportation of said timber. - dol
lars aud cents. UNITED STATES
GOLD OR IT'S EQUIVALENT.
What do You say to that Mr.. Bryan?
Or YOU. Tom Watson? Imagine the feel
ing of the Populists when they read this
exposure! The soldier company which
on its formation adopted resolution
reading. ''resolved that in case of war
this company will Immediately disbaml.'
wonld have been an organization after
Sewall's own heart. In his canvass.
when his aim is to fool the voters he
poses ais a free silver soldier. but when
it comes to getting pay for timber-pres-
to-he disbands his free silver convic-
tions and eXacts gold, Omitted States
gold or it's equivalent"
Further comment is not called for. We
may well leave Sewall to be dealt with
by his party associates whom he has so
basely Observation-Disclosures Post-Ex-
press.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
THE MORAL,
A Ouack and His Remedy.

Bryan's reply to Maj. McLinley's SEN
tentious statement that what we need is
not the opening of more mints but of
more factories, shows the slallowncss of
the hoy orator" The. substance of
or issued by the government will
open the factories. The ..boy orator.
fails to comprehend the fact that money
is !, tool to facilitate exchanges or the
production aud distribution Of. products;
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

The United States Minister, Mr.. Tay.
lor, has declared to the Spanish Govern
ment that the United States is most ia.
vorably disposed towards Spain, but that,
owing to the extent of the United States
coast line, she is unable to prevent the
departure of filibusters for the island of
Cuba.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

came from the sur
rounding cou n t ry
and assisted in max
ing it a day Of en-
thusiastic, ble-
spirited celebration.
These were the fea-
lures of this most
noteworthy day in
the history of Gales
burg: Celebration of
the thirty.eighth an.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16


ting into enduring
form the decision
then rendered. Ma
ture smiled ON the
efforts of her chill
dren and gave a per-
feet day. and a gor-
geous setting for
their undertaking.
Galesburg, clothed
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16

lived in the days
when the deeds COM
me.norated W ere
wrought and who
k ne W W 1t h the
know W ! e d g e that
comes from person.
al contact, the emo
tions t h u t ruled
mems souls at that
time, came to read
the lesson of the
past, and apply them
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-10-16
JosHtA DUzENBEnRY's MEDIrAr,c,

JOSHC A ADUZENBEfsRY'SM SMEDITATlCN y :,
I've been thinkin' this thing over, and been
rcadn' every line
What the silver folks has written, and at
present l incline
To the sensible opinion that us long as hank
An advantage in gold dollars, they cannot
be good fer me.
And ! won't touch food nor water while
the bankers drink and eat,
And I'll travel on my shoulders while they
walk upon their feet.
For I've come to the conclusion that what
they do must not.
Or I'll surely come to sorrow and lose eyery-
thing I've got.
Twill cease to clothe my body till the pluto.
And until they shun the barber l will never
comb my hair:
Will use my ears for SEEM. and Ill listen
with my eyes,
And whenever they do SO-and-so, why. I'll do
otherwise.
And. Meissy. while the bankers are CON.
tented with their wives.
You an'! ! must take to livin' widely sepa-
rated lives:
'Twont do fer me to ape them, so the silver
hate TO throw you over. but there ain't no
other way.
We're in need Of mancipatin'. If I've got the
right idcc.
Ana whatever rich men favor must, of
course. he bad for ne;
If they want one kind Of money. 1 must
want some other kind
Bryan says we form two classes, and the
line Is we'll defined.
So. I've Joined the silver forces, and wen
show them rich galoots
How we can lift ourselves. b'gosh, by the
straps upon our boots!
When we get in We'll fix 1t SO the streams'll
run up hill.
And we'll have our flour double the wheat
we take to MILL
There. Melissy,. stop your cryin'-there amt
no cause for 1t;
Don't look at me so scared like; 1 amt
quite crazy yit!
do
Sometimes have cause to favor things that's
good for me and you?
Cleveland Leader.