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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-10-19
FREE COINAGE ANDLABOR


bered As th. Writer - $. M arti-
cles for rHc Pos7-D sCatch several
months - on Tn Price 0f Col"
Ftx-d by Law" \ In present
tim Mr.. Egglest"n 1S the na"ag-
irg editor OF the H~i~ra (Mon')
IDdep. mt. l. ne ."0Nr: Z
letter Il Cta,les B. Cook of -,
LOUIS, Mo, ne answers c. nvIrc-
ingly RI. question "f.en ask d hy
workrrgmen: H " a,':i the free
cnineg~ # silv.T b. n f mt?'
D-ar S'r-R,Pyng 20 Iours of
Oct 7. 1896 N r,eard t" the mum
Der OF miners who would be en-
pl1ved in the West ~ case IF free
coinage of silver, conservative rs-
Inmates by those familiar with
m;nirg resources am possibilities
in Montana and other mining
states place the number at 5000
In Montana alone, with an addi-
tional 50 ooo skilled and unskilled
laboreIs IN other occupations in
this stare, whose labor would be
demanded by increased general
business Of all kinds on account of
Increased mining. not only of sill
YER, but of lead, ztnc, copper, coal,
iron and gold, all of which except
i-on and coal, are found in our
silver bearing ores.
For the eleven mining states of
the West we estimate-on a con-
servative calculation-5oo,ooo ad-
ditional miners and other labor
ers. But it would be a mistake to
suppose that any of the miners
would BE- producing silver alone.
In the list Of dividend and non
dividend paying m'nes published
regularly in the Engineering and
Mining Journal of New York, you
will fin1 scarcely 4 mine that pro-
duces silver alone. Many mines
that b=gin with SILVER 'rc at he
surface develop gold lower down
as the great Comstocl mine, tor
example.
Anv one can sze, then, tba:
free coinsge, which means fixed
mint puce of SI.20 an ounce for
silver, meaus a. enormous in
CT, as in cur god production,
sine it will t:.r rsy 20 work oTyS
containing beth gclI ard lv-7
which cannct now b. worked e.
cept - a l2ss F-r example:
N-sr Helena 5 i sroup Of r,trac
tory ores, showi~5 at lvrsc 1900
900 to1s, showing aa arsraga a
SI2,n go.d aql sixteen ou-ces OF
silver p-r ter, mixing the ors
worth a. presens abous SIS at ton
Sn ling aud fright charges or
sucl GRE amount 20 So = ION, e
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-10-19
I w O r IN G S
Q. q. NASH.

Always travel with CUPID, and
two rings trav5l with The rings we
s9H-the ring Itself, and the ring
.. hones1y-honescy II material,
workmanship and price.
lie machinery thar runs this
J-weIrY business is honesty. IF
you buy d baby pin here. iC Will
oe good BABY p1n-rt will be
good when baby IS a woman. IF
you buy q watch here. it will be q
god watch. Buy something and
see if tbs isn't 50.
Ia g IUTg M -x..sxnrr.
Je"eIvE, Oca!a, Fla.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Germans Against FREQ Silver.

The Anzeigcr des Westens Of St
Louis, leading German Democratic pa
per Of the southwest, is disgusted with
the free silver plank adopted by tho
Democratic state convention. 1t says:
Its authors identify themselves
prominently with this lG to platform
as adherents Of the time honored prin-
ciples' formulated and practiced by
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Benton
and other great and distinguished Dem
ocrats However, he who is in the least
acquainted with Democratic history
knows that these time honorcd DEM
ocratic principles have nothing in COM
mon with the modern Populistic advo-
Gates Of free silver, and that the great
and distinguished Democrats. from
Jefferson down to Tilden, were one and
all sound money men, adherents and
champions Of honest, full value specie,
who would have fought every attempt
at depreciation and at fraudulent shift
ing Of responsibility rs being rascally
and criminal. One might as we'll try to
imagine George Washington in the role
Of the traitor Benedict Arnold rs those
distinguished Democrats advocates of
the proposition for the coinage Of 80
cent dollars or compelling the creditors
Of the nation to take them as payment
for 100 cents. old Hickory Jackson
and old Bullion Benton would have
driven from his threshold with curse.
if not with a lash or horsewhip, any
one who would have dared to approach
him with such proposition.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Church Directory.

Reformed Church-Rev. G. A, Whitmo1e
ras or. Services bi-weekly alternating
morning and evening. Services ednes'
dav.7 D. m., Sunday School 2p. M.
Guild each Lords Day p. m. Other SER
vices announced from the pulpit.
Lutheran Church-Rev. j. II. Barb, pas
tr. Services, Sunday 10 A. M and 6,So r.
M. Sunday School,, 2. P. " Prayer Meet
ing, Wednesday, GAS P.
United Brethren Church-Rev E. Q. b,
Castle Pastor. Regular Services by ap'
appointment from the pulpit.
Glass Meeting every two weeks at ~ a. H.
PRAYER Meeting every thursday evening
Sunday School 2 PM.
Mite Society Semi. monthly, "Wednesday
evening at s o'clock. W. MIS- Meeting
Monthly at Parsonage.
Moravian Church: Rev. NJ. F. Oerter, Pas
tor. Sunday School every Sunday,9 m
Preaching services will be held every other
Sunday as heretofore, alternating morning
and evening at 10 ard 7:3O respectively.
Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev.
Henry Mann Pastor. Services every alter
nate Sunday at 10 A. NJ. and 7.30 P. M
Sunday School at 8 A. NJ. Prayer Meeting
every Wednesday evening at7.3d +. M.
ST. Stephens Church, Protestant Episco-
pal-Rey. r. Whttingham, Rector. Ser
vices every Sunday at 1880, a. mp and
Sp. m.
Service on FRIDAYS at s p. m.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Rascally LEGISLATION.

Suppose man Of grave phiz and
character should in distress apply to his
neighbor for the loan Of 1000 silver
dollars with solemn promise OH his hon.
or and truth to repay them in month.
and in the meantime the tender act un-
der consideration should pass into law,
and the borrower, at the months end.
should tender 1000 Of the new paper
dollars in payment
~ beg leave here to propose to every
member of tho assembly who voted for
that law and to every other man who Is
a member Of this state what their SEN
timents Of that action would be. and In
what light they would view the borrow
er, who rendered the paper dollars--i.
e., two-fifths of the debt-in payment
Of the silver ones he received. q,
would they consider him as All upright,
honest man, or shameless rascal?'-
Pelatiah Webster in Political Essays"
Published in 1901.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.
Prosperity Not Politics.

1t is Of the highest Importance to the
people Of Illinois that both state con-
ventions shall declare clearly and posi-.
lively for sound money. The money
question is not one Of politics, but Of
prosperity.
Two years ago there was n large
amount Of English and Scotch money
in this city for investment 1t was
loaned at low rates and ON favorable
terms It lowered the interest rate in
the general money market. 1t helped to
make money cheap as we'll as abundant.
As soon as 1t became apparent abroad
that the senate Of the United States was
dominated by men who believed in free
coinage Of silver, which means that
debts contracted ON basis Of 100 cents
to the dollar shall be paid at the rate Of
80 cents to dollar, this foreign capital;
which had been SO fruitful for the
state, gradually withdrew
Its withdrawal contracted available
money to that extent and ut the same
time raised the interest rate, while it
tightencd the money market even at the
higher rate. There is scarcely an in
dustry in Illinois that has not suffered
by this stringency. There is not an in.
dustry in Illinois that will not be bene.
fited by the return Of this foreign
money. The man who needs to borrow
to make a payment on his little home is
as much to be benefited by it as the
great merchant, the farmer rs much as
the manufacturer.
Should either state convention declare
for unsound money or qualify its finan-
cial plank III any way 80 as to seem to
lean to free silver coinage tho entire
state will be the sufferer, and the class
upon whom tho injury will fall most
cruelty will be the wage earners. For,
with money at high rate and hard to
get, it will be impossible to continue in
operation industrial plants that give
steadfast employment to hundreds Of
thousands.
Let both state conventions therefore
speak for honest money, and speak so
that the language shall be universally
understood.
The money question is question of
prosperity, not Of politics.
Times Herald.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Real and Spurious Democracy.
Sound money plank (Aiissouri free silver
National Democratic plank OF platform Of

(Sound money plank missouri free silver
National Democratic plank OF platform Of
platform. lS2) state convention
We hold to the use OF 1901
both gold and silver rs Resolved, That We
the standard money Of demand the free and
the country and to the unlimited coinage Of
coinage Of both gold silver and gold into
and silver without dis primary or redemp
elimination against tion money at the ratio
either metal or charge OF lG to Without walt
for mintage, but the ing for the action or
dollar unit Of coinage approval OF any other
Of both metals must be government.
Of equal intrinsic and
exchangeable value or be nd justed through in
ternational agreement or by such safeguards
Of legislation as shall insure the maintenance
OF the parity OF the two metals and the equal
power OF every dollar Mt all times in the mar
kets and in payments Of debts. and We demand
that all paper currency shall DO kept ut pnr
with and redcemnble In such coin. We insist
upon this policy as especially necessary for the
protection OF the farmers and laboring classes,
tho first and most defenseless victims OF I'M
stable money and II fuctuating currency.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
A Freo Silver Couxressman's Admission.

A FREQ Silver COnETe6smAn'S ADMISSION.
Representative Charles A. Towne Of
Minnesota is regarded as one Of the
ablest advocates Of free coinage in con-
gress. 1t is doubtful, however, whether
tho fatists and Populists in the silverite
army will welcome him as one Of their
leaders, for in a recent speech in the
house he distinctly repudiated the foun-
dation principle Of the cheap money
theorists. After long argument in
favor Of free and unlimited coinage Mt
10 to l he ranged himself with the be-
levers in sound money who wish to
maintain the present standard by de-
claring: "The government stamp can
not create value. Let us hear no more
cheap denunciation of creating value
by law Nobody claims you can do 80. "
With all Difference to Mr.. Towne this
is exactly what the silverites and fiat
money advocates do claim. They assert
that the government stamp can make
piece Of paper worth 81, $40 or 500,
or raise the value of IN ounce of silver
not worth 68 cents to $l.29. The whole
scheme for free coinage rests upon the
assumption that if 37l14 grains Of sill
yer were stamped "One Dollar, " its
value would be equal to 23.22 grains
Of pure gold. Unless it should do so
the silver dollar would bc partly fiat,
or resting upon the governments ability
to maintain it on par with gold.
It is certainly true that value cannot
be created by law. This is why the op-
poncnts Of free coinage have insisted
that All attempt to raise by legislation
the commercial value Of silver now 80
to l, to l6 to 1 would be failure and
would involve the finances and business
interests Of the country in disaster
Law can no more increase the real value
Of labor products than it can increase
the rainfall or the average temperature.
But by making so cents worth Of metal
q legal tender for a dollars worth of
debt, the government can defraud cred
itors, break contracts and upset the
great commercial and industrial inter.
ests which are based on a dollar worth
100 cents. Since Congressman Towne
does not believe that law can create
value, how can he consistently favor
the l6 to l swindle, which depends en-
tirely on the theory that the govern
ment's stamp can make l8 ounces OF
silver worth us much as ounce Of gold?
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
An Unjust Judge.

Populist Judge Mckay Of Harper
county, Kan, shows himself true be.
iever in his party s principles Of repudi-
alton and debt evasion by his advice to
the people Of his state. He is reported
as saying in published statement:
1.-THE way to get rid Of these boom bonds
is to quit paying taxes If lands are not
sold, the titles will remain as they are
now. Then, when the debts against the
counties and municipalities are outlaw
ed, we can begin paying taxes again."
This is straightout declaration for
anarchy and confscation. If the teach
ings Of this unjust representative Of law
and order were generally adopted, civil
lized society would be impossible and
men would return to lawlessness. With
out taxes governments could not exist,
and unless men were willing to pay
their just debts trade and industry would
come to q standstill.
Yet Judge McKay's doctrine Of whole
sale Reputation is only the logical re.
suit Of Populist cheap money doctrines.
If it is right to confscatc one half Of the
Va S1CultOlS by SAaOAAuE ACUOOAo
to pay their obligations in SO cent dol
lars, why would it not be equally right
to repudiate the debts altogether? Does
stealing become honest on so per cent
basis1 If the government can justly pass
a free coinage law which would wipe
out one-half of all the debts now owing,
why would it not be as fair to wipe out
two-thirds, three-quarters or the whole
amount2 And if creditors may be robbed
of their honestly acquired property, why
should not the farmers lands or the
workingmen's cottages be taken for the
benefit Of the landless and homeless7
The only safe principle on which to
base all legislation is the absolute secur.
ity Of property rights. To what conclu-
sions scheme for partial repudiation
may lead is shown by the advice Of Q
Populist judge. Are the American peo.
pie ready to swallow the financial tho
cries Of party which openly advocates
reDudiatiou and dishonesty?
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
A New Kind OF Turnip.

When the idea that cheaper measure
Of values will make the country richer
once gets hold Of man, it is pretty
hard to drive it out Of his mind. It is
not so much a matter Of knowledge or
belief as blind faith in what sc:ac enc
has told him. Facts and logic are pow
erless against delusion, but sometimes
an illustration drawn from his own ex.
perience is effective.
Suppose that all the farmers who
think that free coinage would benefit
them should learn this spring Of new
turnip seed which was guaranteed to
produce roots just twice the size Of those
now grown, but which would te Of such
nm inferior quality that it would be
only half as valuable for feeding stock
The new variety would require more
ground for growing, more fertilizers,
more labor for cultivating and pulling
and larger cellars for storing. But as
the food value Of the roots would be
just the same as crop Of the kind now
raised, where would be the advantage
of the bigger quantity7 Would not the
farmer who tried the new kind be poor
or to the extent Of the extra land and
labor used in their production? His cat
tie would find that they had to eat two
bushels in order to get the same nour-
ishmcnt that they got from one bushel
Of the old kind. He could not exchange
bushol Of them for more than half Of
the things that the same quantity OF
the better quality would buy. And he
would without doubt swear that he
would never again waste time and labor
OH roots which were one-hah worthless.
Money is money. Turnips are turnips.
Doubling the quantity Of money by cut
ting its value in two would be as fool
ish rs growing kind Of turnips with
twice as much water in them.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Conditions Before 1873.

"The free silver Bourbons, says the
New York World, want to restore the
conditions prior to 1873 Let them be.
gin by increasing the price of silver
from GS cents an ounce to $1.30. Then
perhaps they will bury out of sight the
400, 900, 900 and more of silver dollars
coined since 1878. The next step would
be to seal up the great silver mines that
have more than doubled our current
supply of the white metal After all
this is done free coinage could do
no harm. But the conditions must be
restored before the country can safely
10 ahead on the Bourbon theory
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21

Not few who read what Mr.. Robert
Rowls, of Holland, Va, has to say be-
low will remember their own experience
under like circumstances. Mast winter
l hand la grippe which left me in low
state of health. l tried numerous rem.
edies. none of which did me any good,
until was induced to try Chamberlain 8
Cough Remedy. The first bottle of j.
70 far relieved me that was enabled to
attend &c my work and the second bottle
effected cure" For sale at 25 and so
cents per bottle by DR.. Jas. K. Waters.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Free Coinage Explained.

Coinage at the ratio of l6 to means
simply that the silver dollar shall weigh
l6 times as much as the gold dollar. 1t
does not mean, as some suppose, that
the government shall coin l8 silver dol
lars to every gold dollar. Free coinage
means that the mints shall take the
bullion presented by individuals and
coin 1t into dollars, hand them to the
individual, and he and all others who
get them can compel their acceptance
for debts according to their face value
The amount Of silver bullion required
to make dollar can be bought now for
about 80 cents
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Heroic Salnd,

'aThis is a plucky head of lettuce, "
said Mawson.
"Plucky3" asks Hicks.
"Yes," returned Mawson. Full
Of grit. Cloak Review.
Willie Thought 1t Was "Jsm.'
"A door has two jambs. Write that
ON the blackboard, Willie" And VII
lie wrote, "A daw has two jambes,
and his teacher had to admit that b
was right.-Harpers Bazaar.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
A Song OF THREE P's.

A SONG OF THREE P's.
Let me sing you a song of three P's,
That for work are as busy as bees;
They ensure what's worth more than
wealth,
A most blessed abundance of health.
The liver they invigorate,
And yet they do not salivate,
The bilious and dyspeptic, too,
They quickly make to feel like new;
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Health.

A man too busy to take good care
of his health is like woodchopper
too busy cutting down trees to keep
q keen edge on his ak, or a drafts
man too much engaged in drawing to
sharpen his pen cil.-Exchange.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Afraid Of n Flea Bite.

The Chicago Journal surveys the sill
yer sentiment of the far western states
and remarks that "a party willing to
sacrifice New York for Nevada must ba
nightly afraid Of flea bite. q
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
THURM0NT, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday May H. 1896

And piles and constipation 60
Before this remedy you know.
But 1 will stop for you probablyknow
what I am driving at. Who does not
know that DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
cure all the complaints mentioned and
many more. Small, sure. safe, pleasant.
Once used they are always in favor.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
What the Gold Dollar Says.

never fell below par and was never
protested for nonpayment. I never de-
ceivcd or defrauded am worth all I
claim. need no legal tender need
no redecmer. l owe all my value to Ia
Dor. ! am the same whether stamped or
not, and whether called one name or
another
Inever get indignant except when I
am undervalucd. l never get tired ex-
cept when l am required to keep lot
of poor neighbors mp to par. They some
times get too heavy for me. Then l
leave and let them down to their own
level. Twill not stay where am COM
PEELED to do too much drudgery. w.
McClung in Money Talks.
"LET Us Cross OVER THE RIVER
and rest in the shade Of the trees"
Thus spoke the dying hero, Stonewall
Jackson, a man whose conception OF
war was 80 heroic, so chivalric that
friends and foes praise him alike. How
many dispirited women feel that they
would indeed like to "cross over the
river and rest" Every day brings its
measure Of annoyance and pain. IT
only they could be made to realize the
lnestimable comfort and physical
strength to be fonnd in DR.. Pierce s
Favorite Prescription they would soon
feel that "their ways were ways Of pleas
antness. their paths were paths OF
peace"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21

Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg at
8 S26 and 10 40 a m, and 3 81 and "a p nj.
Leave Highfield for Gettysburg Hanover
York and B and H Div. Z so and II 40 m
and SO pm.
Leave Edgemont for Waynesbolo, Cham
bersburg Shippensburg, and intermediate sta
tions at Z O8 and II 45 M and 35 p m
Leaye Hagerstown for Cherry Run and all
points on Potomac Valley Railroad at O6
u m and 10 35 and 10p pm.
p r r Leave Bruceville tor Frederick at 40
a m and 40 p IN and for Littlestown Tan
cytown & Columbia at 44a m and 40 p m.
Daily-all other.daily except Sunday.
tStops to land Passengers for Baltimore.
tStops only to land Baltimore passengers.
NJ. HOOP. B Fl. GRIswoLD.
Genl, Manager. Geul, Passenger, Agen
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-05-21
Volume XVI
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