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The American guide., 1896-08-22
SPEAKS
The Great Financier's Views
on the Money Ques-
ton.
A Comprehensive Review Of the
History Of Coinage in the
United States.
The Ohio Statesman Appeals for
a Safe, Sound and Stable
Currency.
Dangers Of the Free Coinage Of Sill
YER Ably and Plainly Set Be-
fore the People.
FOR THE couNTRY's CREDIT.

The following is the full text OF SEN
ator John Sherman's address, delivered
at Columbus at the opening of the re-
publican campaign in Ohio, August 10;
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens' A
citizen of Ohio has been selected by the re-
publican national convention as their can
didate for president of the United States,
and we are here to ratify and support his
nomination. We take pride In william Me-
Kinley, not only for the honor conferred
upon Ohio by the convention, but because
we know him TO be flttod for that great Of
nee. We know that since his boyhood his
life has been pure and stainless; that as a
soldier in the union army he was brave
and loyal. that as member of congress
for many years he exhibited the highest
mental traits and rendered great services
10 his country, and that us governor OF
Ohio he proved his capacity 10 perform
difficult executive duties. And he has the
higher claim upon us that during all his
active life he has been a faithful and able
republican, thoroughly in sympathy with
the principles OF tho republican party.
That party does not rest Ito claims to your
The American guide., 1896-08-22

u1The young states Of the west need
immigrants, but more than that they
need the investment Of capital. How
can they expect men 10 Invest cnpitat
in states where tho people apparently
favor financial system that wouio
decrease the value Of returns on In
vsstuents7-sioux City Journal
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nn of a majority of the two great PARTIES

ion Of a majority of the two great parties
OF the country.
And here, fellow citizens, we ought to
stand. appeal to democrats and repub-
licans alike. We are all interested In hav-
ing sound and stable currency, founded
upon gold and silver. We cannot by law
fix the value OF either metal or coin or OF
any OF the articles that enter into the wants
OF life.
The great law of demand and supply ar
fects the value as 1t does iron, copper or zinc
All have fallen In market value by means
OF new discoveries and improved methods
OF production. have here a statement OF
the director Of the mint. dated July q, 1925,
showing theamount and cost of silver bull
lion purchased under the acts of 1878 and
isen and its value at the present market
rrlce. showing a shrinkage Of over sli5,-
OOo, 900:
Hon. John Sherman. Mansfield, O.-Sir;
I have the honor to state, in reply to your
letter OF the 18th inst, that the aggregate
amount and cost OF silver bullion pur-
chased under the acts OF February 2S. 1878.
and July "A, 1890, was as follows;
Fine ounces. Cost.
Act OF Feb 2S rs s291 272 Ols Sc s50s .2e0 u
Act OF July IA, 90 l6s674,5s2 So 155, ,O02 rs
Total ...,... Sass, ,sis 7Oi % si64, 21O. .262 se
Worth at to-day's
market price for
silver, namely,
s0692l2 per fine
ounce ....,.,...,~,,........... .sSls. $40 IS
Loss in purchase, ,.,,..........N .Nf5,s7 ,e52 q
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EXPRESSED AN OPINION.

One of the most prominent physicians
in Washington owns farm somewhere
in New England, and whenever he gets
unbearably tired of his fashionable pa
tients he goes there. puts on his oldest
, clothes, lays in stock of corncob pipes
and rusticates One day last summer
he was jogging lazily along a country
road in a rickety old cart drawn by a
horse almost as rickety. A countryman
walking on the same road asked for a
lift, and the two fell into conversation.
who are you workin' for?" asked the
countryman.
"Oh, I'm working for DR.. j., down
there" answered the physician.
What doin'?'
oh" went on the doctor, II do every
thing for him. I take care of him, you
know. l dress him and feed him. and
l even wash his face and put him to
bed. 1 do everything he needs DONE"
How much do you get for it ?" asked
the native.
my board and clothes"
AN you do all that for him-wash
him, an dress him. an feed him, an all
that?"
Yes"
The countryman looked at the doctor
moment in silence. Then he leaned
over the wheel and spat solemnly.
We'll. of all the darn fools ever sect"
was all he said.-Washington Post.
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MISS BONAPARTE'S ALLIANCE.

On December 10th, at Washington, the
most interesting marriage Of all, that of
Miss Louise Bonaparte and the Count
Won Moltke Hiutfeldt will take place.
This union will bring about an alliance
between Russian and Danish nobility
and descendant of the always pictur-
esque family of Bonaparte. The young
fiancee is great granddaughter or Ma
poleon's king of Westphalia and a great
niece of the Princess Mathilde. The
father of Count Adam Won Moltke has
been dean of the diplomatic corps at
Paris for the last forty years. and he is
himself secretary of the Danish legat ion
at st. Petersburg, whittier the young
couple will go soon after their marriage
1t is seldom that a wedding takes place
of so much historical interest, with so
strong a f1avoring of poetry and ro-
nance. Miss Bonaparte's bridesmaids
will be Miss Alice Belknap. whose en-
gagement to Mr.. Paul May of the Bel
gian legation has been so often reported
but never confirmed. and Miss Elsie
Anderson.-New York Sun.
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SCHEMES OF THE TRUSTS

The plea tnat 'ts senate should take
pass It before Mr.. Mckinley is ;naugu-
rated, so as TO obv;ate the necessity for
ar extra. session Of congress, is a ven..
eered schan.-, Of The industrial barons.
The Dingiey bill Will not be taken from
the calendar because there is enough
patriotism in the senate to prevent it.
The bill was rushed through the lower
house under the hue and cry that it was
needed immediate ly to keep the nation
were enough honest senators to stop it,
The inner meaning Of the scheme was to
give certain Industrial monopolies an
opportunity to turn the screws and
squeeze more dollars out of consumers
of their goods and wares. The bill
would not then nor would it now mate
rally increase the customs duties, but it
would materially increase the price of
the articles scheduled to the American
consumer. 1t was then and is still an
atrocious play to increase the already
too large profits of little coterie of pet
manufacturers; besides, when the Ding
ley bill was in full operation as part of
the Mckinley act il failed utterly to Sc
cure the revenue that was promised
from it. and those who are pushing it
know very we'll that it would not now
any more than 1t did then add farthing
to the custom house receipts.
That President Mckinley will call con-
gress in extra session there is no doubt.
The trusts and monopolies will be impa-
tient to commence the foreclosure Of
their mortgages on him. and an extra
session would expedite proceedings very
much. They know as well as Mckinley
knows that al this cry about . higher
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W. ]. BRYAN.

Wherever the fight was hottest, there
he was in the center of the fray, and
wherever his banner waved there the
plain people took new heart and learned
to stand up bravely against any possible
odds. That his rela ton to public affairs
does rot end with the battle just closed
is manifest to every person capable of
thought. If his life be spared there must
be an important future for him in the
councils Of the nation. The Democracy
viii. never consent to allow him to drop
from the list of it's foremost men, and
vast numbers of hts countrymen, ire
spective of party. will look eagerly in
the years to come to him for guidance
amid the difficulties that may beset
! them as citizens.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Ws think proper to say of Mr.. Bryan
personally. however. that there need be
! nothing Of humiliation or distress to him
IN the contemplation of his defeat He
has borne himself with courage and de-
votion from the beginning to the end
of the campaign. He has exhibited such
qualities Of endurance such sublimity
of faith in himself and in his mission,
such power over men. such gifts of eio-
quence and magnetism, as may truly
be said to be without parallel in the his
tory of American politics.-Washingt
| Post.
BY their votes the people of the United
States have turned down one of the
most able men that ever appeared before
| the American public. He had the intel
| iigence of Jefferson. the courage Of
| Jackson and the convictions of Lincoln.
| But you can't keep a good man down;
| Mr.. Bryan is young. and II he takes his
| defeat for the presidency as he did his
| defeat in Nebraska for the United States
senate, it will only put him in trim for a
more aggressive fight next time.-St.
Louis Journal.
| Whether he has been elected or de-
| feated William ]. Bryan stands forth the
grandest figure in the republic. He has
| fought a battle for justice, for freedom.
! and for humanity unparalleled in hui
man annals. God bless him, and give
him length of days and increasing use
! fulness and unbourded horors. In all
| the pages of history there is not record
of extraordinary gifts more worthily
| bestowed or nobly employed.-Dubuque
Telegraph.
THE fight has just commenced" said
Mr.. Bryan, when asked what effect the
election of Mckinley would have upon
| the Ifree silver cause. That remark,
made in the hour of defeat. further DEM
onstrates his fitness to lead. No great
| cause was ever won in a single fight;
none was ever carried to success unless
1t had leadership that knew no such
thing as discouragement.-Ariz Ga
| zette.
Hon. William J. Bryan is one of the
best and most splendid examples of
oratorical ability under trying circum-
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CIT IS MISCHlEvOUS"

In the course Of an address before
gathering Of Indiana farmers the other
day, Mr.. Benjamin Harrison took occa-
sion to say: 1T is mischievous to de-
nounce classes, and this thing, and that.
II there are trusts let us try and bring
legislation to bear upon them. and the
court DEGREES to bear upon them" Com
ing from man who has been corpora
ton. trust and monopoly lawyer for
third of a century, and from man pho
approved a tariff act that placed the
labor of the country under the thumb of
capital combinations, the sentiment Mr..
Harrison gave utterance to comes as an
ironical joke. Mr.. Harrison is one of the
great lawyers of the country, and his
knowledge of the law has always COM
manded a big price from the railways
more especially His right to BIZ great
lawyer is not questioned. nor Is his right
to espouse the cause of the corporations
against the people denied. but one would
hardly select him to give advice to
farmers or other working people.
But is it mischievous TO denounce the
classes" 1t was by denouncing the
classes-favored classes-that the fire of
the revolution was kindled. 1t was by
denouncirg the slave-owning class. or
rather the system of slavery, that made
the Repub lear party possible 1t was
by denouncire the whisky ring, favor
ed class that sent whole lot Of thieves
in high social and political life to the
peniten:iary Every great political and
social reform has come of denouncing
pie will hold onto the good old way of
talking from the shoulder" when they
want wrongs righted and class favorit-
ism given over Vigorous denunciation
of just such classes as Mr.. Harrison says
it is mischievous to denounce is an easier
way to remind them that they have gone
far enough than to wait and apply heroic
remedies later.
AS to bringing the court DEGREES to
bear upon the favored classes, thus far
the people have not had very good luck
on that line of defense, and as Benjamin
Harrison has always been employed to
look after the interests of the petted
classes when the people appeared in
court for such a decree as he speaks of,
the distinguished corporation lawyer
must have smiled all to himself when he
talked of court DEGREES" 1t was de-
cree of congress with President Harri-
sons official approval that sent an army
of Pinkerton detectives to shoot down
Carnegie striking wage earners, and
| inaugurate Industrial riots in Pittsburg
and Throughout the coal mining districts
of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. 1t
may be mischievous and very mean of
the people to denounce classes who have
| so shaped national legislation as to make
| them money lords at the expense of the
| people. but the people will continue to be
mischievous. Mr. Harrison's advice to the
| contrary Notwithstanding
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INTERESTING INFORMATION

There Is no reason why the men,
women and children OF the United States
should not feel that they know more
about the science and philosophy OF
money than any other people in the
world. The campaign just closed was
conspicuous for freedom from political
pyrotechnics and spread eagle oratory.
and equally distinguished for the elab-
orateness OF the methods employed to
educate the people in the mysteries of
theoretical finauciering, 1t would be i'm
possible to even approximate the num-
ber of books, pamphlets and other forms
Of printed matter that were distributed
among the people. but they would run
up into the billions.
The SOUND money committee Of the
New York chamber Of commerce mailed
to the address of voters In the middle,
western and southern states over 6O,oOo,-
900 pages of non-partisan arguments
against the free coinage of silver. The
work of distribution was conducted most
directly to the adaress of the individual
names having been procured from local
bankers and Others in sympathy with the
purpose. The expense must have been
| enormous for printing, clerical work and
| postage, but tn. chamber thinks the
result more than justices the expendi-
ture, and it is cordially shaking hands
with itself.
| But a dozen ether commercial bodies
| did the same thing. and very many of
| them mailed persona! letters to hundreds
Of thousands Of voters. How many tons
of printed matter the Republican ma
| tionai committee distributed will prob
ably never be known. but 1t is known
that it was sent by the carload to state
| amount of money paid to publishers of
| gold-standard newspapers, magazines
and other publications for space" would
amaze one if he knew it. There
never was such a campaign of educa-
ton in the history of the world as that
conducted by the Republican party and
| it's gold-standard allies. But the only
regret is that the Democratic party did
not have the money to conduct a SINH
lar campaign. Too much reading matter
on economic and financial subjects can
not be put into the hands of the people.
| They cannot know too much of the sci
ence and principles Of government, and
so long as chambers of commerce and
political parties are willing to pay the
| expense, they should be encouraged 10
keep it up. There is no danger of the
people being educated to their hurt by
! reading partisan literature. They will
draw the line at the right spot and 1t
the right time. Let the good work go
on, only let all sides be heard.
The herald., 1896-11-14
CAUGHT IN THE ACT

The latest assault of the Times is upon
the League for Better City Government
and this time, in order to make point.
the paper prints an apparently deliber-
ate forgery. Yesterday the Times
printed the following in its news depart
ment, under the caption, 1.-THE Public
Service:
c. 5. Walton. as secretary Of the
League fuY Better City Governments
executive committee, yesterday filed
with the city clerk the following petition
to the council
ITO the Honorable City Council: At
meeting of the executive committee OF
the League for Better City Government l
was instructed to request your honorable
body to advertise the proposed amend
ments to the city charter in some Demo-
cratic daily paper, in order that said
amendments might be brought to the
notice of all of our citizens. for the rea-
son that it seems desirable that the
greatest possible publicity should be
given to this important movement.
whereby large and well-considered
vote of the electors of Los Angeles may
be obtained"
Now this letter, purporting to he a
communication from the League for
Better City Government. is forgery.
1t is forgery from the fact that it is
like a raised check, it has been altered
to say what the original document does
not say
The original document says that the
executive committee of the league re-
quests the council to advertise 1.-The pro-
posed amendments to the city charter
in some Democratic, as well as in Re-
publican, paper. in order that said
amendments might be brought to the
notice of all Of our citizens" etc.
BY leaving out these six words Of an
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stances among contemporary public men
and orators. He may be poor man, as
we believe he is. but he has gained rec
ognition which, in whatever line of pro-
fessional work he applies himself, will
unquestiouably bring him in a comfort
able income Syracuse Courier.
William Jennings Bryan is a shining
example of American grit and spunk.
No matter how much one may differ
from him, his courage is to be admired.
Washington Post
When the bitterness of the conflict has
been assuaged. Mr.. Bryan will be rec
ognized as one of the great leaders of the
American People.-NeW York Journal.
The herald., 1896-11-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Acting on the notion that. as pruning
was good for fruit trees. 1t would benefit
potato vines. Jerry Luckish Of Portland.
Or, clipped off the vines in patch close
to the ground as soon as they were well
up, and some of the potatoes grown
there were 1T is said, among the largest
and finest found.
Information comes from st. Peters
burg that the transportation of convicts
to Siberia is about to be brought to an
end. Gen. Duchovski, the governor gen.
eral of Siberia. has urged in high quar-
ters the acceleration of this measure, and
it is expected that an imperial order to
this effect will be issued shortly.
A jury in London has granted nomi-
nal damages against the chairman Of
corporation meeting who refused to put
a motion offered by one of the members.
The damages would have been substan-
tial If commercial loss could have been
proved. The case is to be appealed.
London clerks complain bitterly of the
terrible competition they have to meet
in the shape of innumerable young Ger
mans who come to that city not to earn
a living. but to learn the language.
These invaders are content with wages
ridiculously small, as they look upon the
service merely as a sort of postgradu-
ate course in business methods and ex-
pect to find compensation in the high
salaries tney Will command at nome al
ter it is completed.
The outstanding obligations of the
Spanish government foot up to 81 ,420,-
C00,000 and this does not take into ac-
count the 900 Cuban debt, for
which Spain is liable, over half of which
has been incurred on account of the pres
ent revolution. 1t requires nearly one
half of the present national revenue to
meet the interest on this debt, and now
Spain is trying to place a further loan
of 5000, 900 for the purpose of carrying
on the Cuban and Philippine wars.
A funeral directing company in Brook
.lyn, formed for the purpose of provid-
ing funerals at a very moderate cost"
heads an advertisement it sends out
thus: Sentiment with economy. Life
is serious matter, and we should not
forget that death is always knocking
at the door. Available in the hour Of
need" But the real up-to-dateness of
the establishment is shown at the end
of the circular, where possible customers
are notified that there are Lady atten-
dants and embalmers when desired"
1t has become a common custom, fruit
full of harm, for persons suffering from
some slight throat affection to purchase
the conveniently prepared chlorate Of
potash lozenges, obtained from any
druggist, and which are eaten indis-
criminately. AS chlorate of potash is n
great irritant to both stomach and kid
neys, it has been found necessary to
warn the public against this practice,
especially as children are most frequent
ly the victims of the indiscretions.
The herald., 1896-11-14

tariff act to provide revenue for the ex-
pense account of the government is to
call the attention Of the people, away
from the real purpose. They know and
1t is the business OF the people to know
that the people paid from rs to 100 per
cent more for their supplies of manufac-
tured articles under the Mckinley act
than they have since its repeal, and that
I for all that the revenues during its oper-
alton failed by about sS7 900 900 to meet
the expense requirements of the coun-
try.
Major Mckinley did not let day pass
during the campaign without boasting
of how the country prospered under
protective tariff UP to 1890 If it pros
pered then, why NEEDLE with the Wilson
tariff? 1t is substantially the same
schedule of custom house charges that
prevailed during all those years, and had
the tariff of 1888 not been made to yield
to the Mckinley monstrosity In 1890.
there would have been no panic in 1893.
The plain facts are, there is an Industrial
conspiracy to increase the profits of the
mill and factory trusts more than $780,
100000 year by advancing the price of
manufactured articles, and in their anx-
iety to begin robbing consumers they
want an extra session of congress to
reinstate McKinley's old high protection
act. When it was in operation there was
general reduction of wages, and there
country Verify the trusts and monopo-
lis are in the saddle, and rough shod rid
ing over the people will begin immedi-
ately after March 4. 1897.
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THREE QUESTIONS ANSWERED

A subscribe, writes: During the cam
paign just closed a great deal was said
about unit of value standard o. vslne
and measure of va'ue.' To n- these
terms are verv confusing ara nnsatis-
factory. VIII The Herald please con-
duct a 'campaigr OIL educa ton lopg
enough to get this unit and value bus
mess straight in my head?"
Strictly speaking, there is no such
thing as unit of val,e' IT, money We
employ the term to convey an idea eX-
actly as we do wher we say the sun
rises and the sur sets, whereas, i'll fact,
it does neither. A unit has no value at
all except for compuration-to compute
transactions made on the bass of
standard of value. Tie uni. is immov-
able, but the standard may be, or seem
to be, movable. The accountant could
not make debit and credit entries with
out a unit of computation and nnmera-
ton. but with the standard or meas
ure of values he need have rc'njne to DO
In this country the dollar is the book
keepers unit OF computation although,
in fact the centis.sIli France the franc
IL the unit of accounts, and in Germany
the mark is used. 1t is of TO consequence
to the accountant whether his unit of
computation has the full or only frac-
ton of the commercial or purchasing
value of the dollar, franc or mark, as de-
o,.I IF
unit employed by him is merely an i'm
aginary thing upon which to base and
enter the debts and credits and strike
balances To be sure, his entries stand
for values, but the values are treasured
and determined by a STANDARD of value
which the unit of money, as established
by law, ereets.
The standard of value or unit of money
In this country is a coin dollar, although,
in fact, it is the cent piece. Th.oretical-
ly the STANDARD of value fluctnates in
value, tina, L. to say, it goes above and
below ts.e par ysl-e bat ir fact the dol
lar is never at a premium nor at dis
count, whether ne material it is made of
goes up or down. in its bullion or COM
modify price 1. IS the things which are
exchanged for the dollar that fluctuate-
not in price, strictly speaking. but in
quantity. That is to say, if two bushels
Of corn were exchanged for dollar yes
terday and four bushels are required to-
day, the fiuctuation is in quantity of
corn caused by a supply that is greater
than the demand and the dollar has
measured the value of the corn in har-
raony with the necessity of the owner
Of 1t to obtain the dollar. The necessity
OF the owner, however, would be no
greater with one bushel as the equiv
Aieut of one dollar than with four bush
els, but he is obliged to conform TO
new scale Of values which a surplus of
corn has obliged the standard of values,
the dollar. To estabiish2u4
The unit Of money. which is the stand
ard Of value, is fixed by law, but there
< y less friction in trade interchange when
ne coin and bullion value of the metals
y the same. for in settling large bal
4nces It 10 more convenient to transport
Hofs than disks, besides the danger Of
abrasion u less. But in any event the