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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.

The following is taken from the
Indianapolis Sentinel and presents the
silver question to the farme.s in a
business way:
NoBLEsvILLE, IND.-The Hon. James
l.. Evans of this city, for four years a
congressman and a lifelong 1epubli-
can, has come out for free silver Mr..
Evans has been engaged IN tfrc-sEai ID,
business in Noblesville for forty wears
and has always voted the republican
ticket, but he says he will give Bryan
his cordial support in the present. cam
paign. He has the following unique
offer posted in his office of his grain
elevator:
Il will contract to buy all the No. .
wheat you have raised in 1896 at &C
cents per bushel, providing Bryan is
elected, and with him a free coinage
congress; or l will sell you all the No.
> wheat you want at 30 cents per
bushel, providing Mckinley is elected. -
In an interview today Mr.. Evans
said: Il will make money on either
proposition. If Bryan and free coin
age congress is elected wheat will 90
above 20 cents. If Mckinley is
elected and the gold standard is con
Gan OuF IL 1OI lCSS UIldH OF
cents.
Among other things he added:
while in congress l served on u COM
mittee of coinage, weights and meas
ures, and 1 think l then learned Just
what free coinage of gold and silver
means. The experience of years since
then has only strengthened my con-
victions. Free coinage is the Only
hope for our farmer friends We can
not have prosperity on constantly fall
ing prices. There must be restor-
alton of the prices of the products OF
labor before we can hope for revival
| of business and a return of pros
perity.'
The long business experience of Mr.
Evans has taught him that la Dor is the
basis of all prosperity. aud whenever
the prices of the products of labor are
low, business languishes all along the
line in every avenue of our commercial
development.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
THE SILVER DOLLARS NOBLE
SELF.

The Des Moines Register is treating
its readers to financial catechism and
it is an interesting array of nonsense.
Here are few samples from the Reg
listers remarkable production:
Question-Is there any argument in
the Mexican dollars being circulated
here?
Answer-None, except to show that
free coinage dollar will circulate at
its bullion value
Question-But the present American
dollar circulates at 100 cents, does it
not?
Answer-It does. but the present
American dollar is not a free coinage
dollar. nor is it what is called a dollar
of final redemption. A free coinage
dollar without redeemer is bound 20
circulate on its own merits. and its
own merits are measured by so cents
at the present price for silver The
measure of the Mexican dollar, as of
every free coinage dollar. is the silver
in it; the measure of the United States
dollar is the 100-cent gold dollar.
These gold organs and orators have
unique conception of a campaign OF
education" Why do they attempt to
mislead people while they pretend to
educate people? 1t is true there is
no argument in the Mexican dollars
being circulated here 1t shows abso-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
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OPPOSED BY THE RICH.

One reason for thinking that Mr.
Mckinley will win is that the rich all
over the United States are against Mr.
Bryan and they have had months TO,
making preparations to safeguard
themselves against danger.-Londor
Statist.
There are great many people who
by hard work have accumulated prop
erty that ought to be worth enough to
make them comforta BILE and even com
para lively rich. But under the single
gold standard these men have seer
their property dwindle away before a
constantly approaching dollar These
who are against Mr.. Bryan
1t will be conceded that the ex
tremely rich are ''all against Mr.
Bryan" and if the gold organs in Lon
don or the gold organs in America car
make any capital out of this fact the,
are entitled to all of it's benefits.
But the rich all over the United
States" will not by themselves settle
the presidential contest.
OH one occasion congressman John
Allen, the humorest from Mississippi
had as an opponent man who had
been major in the confederate army.
This man insisted upon running on hi.
military record and in public speech
asked the ex-soldiers to stand by him
because he had been a ma jor. Reply.
ing to this, Allen said: .'My opponent
asks for the support of the cx-soldiers
because he was a major. am willing
to meet him fairly on this ground. lie
was a major, l was private. l asl,
all who were officers to vote for nv
opponent and | ask all who were pri.
Yates to vote for me-" Allen defeated
his opponent by an overwhelming ma
jority.
We commend the very plain moral oil
this story to the gold organs in Lon
don and the gold organs in America.
1.-The rich all over the United States
may be against Mr.. Bryan" but the
poor are with him-and under a single
gold standard ''the poor We have with
you always"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
FIFTY CENT DOLLAR.
National BimetaIist

National Bimetalist
The man whose little boy thought he
was making money BY selling his silver
dollar for 65 cents because he had'
heard his father say it was only worth
52'cents is a just subject for ridicule
for all.
Yet even Foraker, in his keynote
speech, stoutly claims that under free
coinage silver dollars would only be
worth their bullion value and that
they are now worth 100 cents ''only be-
cause they have been redeemed in
gold"
Is this ignorance or an attempt to
deceive.
Every man of ordinary intelligence
knows that neither silver certificates
nor silver dollars have ever been re-
deemable or redeemed in gold.
But to settle this question beyond
dispute or denial let the United States
! treasurer himself answer
Circular 1913, United States treasury,
July 1, 1896, page IL, says: Neither
silver certificates nor silver dollars are
redeemed in gold" On page 10, para
graph 3, reads; ''Gold coins and stand
ard silver dollars being standard coins
of the United States are not redeem.
able
The standard silver dollar is worth
100 cents because congress, in the eX-
ercise of it's power under the constitu-
ton, Ito coin money and regulate the
value thereof" has coined it and fixed
its value at 100 cents, and has made it
legal tender for all debts, public
and private, from the wages of day
ladorer to the recently purchased
bonds of J. Pierpont Morgan. What
ever else may happen every man of
ordinary intelligence knows that sill
yer dollar coined under this power
with this legal tender quality can
never be worth less than 100 cents.
To pretend that it will be is as alb
surd as to say that one legal yardstick
will only measure Is inches because IL
| is made of pine, while another legal
yardstick will measure 33 inches be.
| cause it is made of sandal wood
The fact that changing the treasury
in to brokers shop to buy gold for the
| Eichleheimers to send to Europe, and
the virulent abuse of the goldbug press
and the abuse of the money lenders
have not faxed the silver dollar de-
monstrates that its currency and value
cannot be destroyed.
The reason for the violent opposi.
ton to the free coinage of silver is not
fear of so cent dollars but a well
grounded fear that it will so increase
the money of the country as to release
labor and the producers of the country
from the grip of the syndicates and
trusts and the debtor from the bloody
knife of Shylock. HENRY L. NnEa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

The comfortable philosophers w 10
like to tell us of the blessing of pov ep.
ty and the healthfulness of toll. wi.l
find a yalua bic lesson in note to the
fifth chapter of the fourth book of
Alfred Marshall's Principles of Econ
omics. 1t Is there shown that while
the average life of the upper classes in
England is fifty-three years, the aver
age for the whole population is only
forty-one years, and that the infant
mortality is at least three times as
great in the lower as in the upper
classes. Figures of the same import
could be given for this country In re-
gard to health and longevity. as we'll
As in regard to leisure, intellectual de-
velOpment, esthetic culture. and all
that makes up real life, it is still true
that 1.-The destruction of the poor is
their poverty. FIX.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

4 Brooklyn romance of ten years
standing was eliminated the other day
by a marriage on the death bed of the
bride, Miss Annie n. Gargan. The
groom of an hour was a wealthy liquor
dealer named Peter j. Kelley. X Curl
aus series of accidents has repeatedly
caused the postponement of their we'd
ding and finally the bride became fat
ally i'll. Both wishing to consummate
the sacrament of marriage, priest was
summoned, and amidst the weeping
family the beautiful ceremony was per-
formed. Their troth was originally
pIighted when he was lad of 10 and
she a baby of 8.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

Miss Della Stacey, the well-known
New York actress, has made ten
strike hit in the metropolis by accept
ing a S. bet to smoke a cigarette on
an open Broadway car, and carrying
out the wager. To say that the ap-
pearance of this beautiful girl calmly
pulling her paper cigar on the car Gre
ated a sensation is to put it very mildly.
number of other ladies left the car
at once, but Miss Stacey was fixed in
her determination to win the five and
she did.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

Why is it that people will keep vari-
Gus poisonous drugs about the house in
close proximity TO harmless medicines?
Why is it, Furthermore, that persons
knowing such facts get up at night and
drink something out of an unidenti-
fled bottle? Is it so much trouble to
Eight the gas and be sure what one is
doing? Day by day the newspapers
recount deaths resulting from such
carelessness and it is hard to feel much
sympathy with people so reckless of
common sense
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

The Rothschilds recently bought a
fourth interest in the Anaconda copper
mine at Butte, Mont, for 81, SOC. 600
and now they have bought another
fourth for $4,000. 900. These are the
people who by the grace of Grover
Cleveland are sapping the substance
of Aperican labor through interest on
bonds, and the transaction at Butte is
only another purchase by foreigners of
American property with American
money.-The Labor World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

The census returns show 213 cen
tenarians in France; and the only con-
ISOLATION the statisticians can find is
that they are better off than Germany
where Stfe4ea.- are. only seventy-eight
centenarians. A comparison . - .
different countries OF Europe in this
respect is interesting. Switzerland,
for instance, possesses no centenarian
Mt all, England has LAG, Spain 4O1 and
Ireland SIS. 1t is in the Balkan
states, however, that there is a sur
prisingly large proportion of people
over 100 years old. Servia, for ex-
ample, has SIS, Roumania 1854, and
Bulgaria 3,SS3.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
Hon. William Jennings Bryan will
be in Topeka on Oct 3, the last day of
the old soldiers reunion.

Hon. William Jennings Bryan will
be in Topeka on Oct. 3, the last day of
the old soldiers reunion.
Coffey county is one of the best or
ganized counties in the state in the
way of silver clubs. Nearly every
school district in the county has club.
Ex-Congressman Harrison Kelley is
the leading spirit in the work ana is
out nearly every night
Will Jenkins.not long ago was well
known Kansas newspaper man and
used to run paper in Smith county
lie is now on the Populist state ticket
In Washington, candidate for secretary
of state. John r. Rogers who started
the Kansas CommOner in 1887 is the
candidate for governor on the same
ticket A Kansas newspaper man may
be without honor in his own country
but he is appreciated and comes to the
front when he gets away from home.
Col. T. III. Durham, Republican coun-
ty attorney of Lincoln county is not
very much of d Republican this year
He will not support Ellis for congress
nor Mckinley for president, neither
is he giving the state ticket his sup
| port. Col. Durham used to be the
rankest kind on a Republican and
never before refused to support the
ticket. He is a leading G. y. K. man
and has influence with the old soldiers.
The finance plank is, of course, the
cause of his bolt.
The Harvey county Democrats met
in convention and endorsed the Popu-
list ticket which was nominated some
weeks ago. The endorsement was not
unanimous and the convention refused
to include the Populist nominee for
commissioner, though they made no
| nomination of their own.
The Populist rally at Newton on the
| and was Il grand success. 1t is esti-
mated that not less than 5000 people
were present to listen to the speaking
and witness the raising of the free sill
yer pole. Gov. Leedy and r. w.
Turner made splendid speeches in the
| afternoon and evening.
a special to the the Topeka Capital
from Wichita says that Chester /.
Longs speech at that place had a won
derful effect, especially on those who
had leaning towards free silver. and
that the Populists are beginning to see
their way clear to vote for Mckinley.
The special also states that Wichita
was never in better shape politically
than this year. There is not a true
statement in the report. Longs
speech did not create any special COM
ment, even the Eagle saw no special
merit in it. No free silver men have
since then seen their way clear to vote
for Mckinley, but on the contrary the
Bryan clubs still continue to add
names of former Republicans to their
lists. Wichita Republicans are divided
into two factions, have two tickets in
in the field and were never in worse
shape politically.
The Republic, a Populist paper, is
now the only paper in Goodland and
has the whole county to itself
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

When Mr.. Mckinley proposes to re-.
the country remembers that the
avowed object of his bill increasing
the duties was to reduce the surplus.
And so effectively did it accomplish it's
purpose that there was a deficiency in
the revenues in each of the last three
months of President Harrison's term
New York World
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
SOME GOLD MAN ANSWER.

L would like to ask few questions
through your columns, and have some
one answer them who is opposed to the
reconciliation of silver
Why is it that silver-using countries,
such cs Japan and Mexico, are prosper
ing as never before, while the United
States is almost on the verge of bank
ruptcy, with millions of men out of
employment, manufactures idle, bust
ness men closely crowded to the wall,
and the streets filled with hungry and
ragged men, women and children?
Why is the Mexican farmer getting
one dollar bushel for his wheat while
we only get fifty cents 4 bushel for
ours?
Why are we selling our silver to
England for fifty cents an ounce, while
they take it to India and have it coined
into 100 cent dollars?
Why would it not be as well to give
the miner this benefit, where it would
be used to build up business in this
country, as to give the benefit to Eng
land?
Is it not true that 20 per cent of the
people of the world use silver alone for
money, while only 80 per cent use gold
and silver both, and if we should re-
monetize silver to its old place of 16 to
| would IF NOT aSta bliSb +ba+ ,,r;oa fo,.
our silver product, so that the nations
who are using silver at half price, as
they do now, would have to pay us full
price or not get it?
If we are getting tea from China and
Japan, Coffee from Brazil, Java and
Mexico, and sugar from the Sandwich
Islands, and had silver coinage at 16 to
], would not that esta blish the price of
silver and these countries be compelled
to accept their commodities of them at
their price?
Or are we as a nation SO dependent
upon other nations that we must grant
them the privilege of fixing the price
Are we not being robbed and impov.
erished by this scheme of compelling
us to sell our silver at half price. all
for the one purpose of allowing the
banks to supply the people with the in.
terest-earning rag paper money in
place OF silver or other money, which
I ha oil q, Al.
privilege of supplying under the con.
stitution?
Why is it that the people do not rise
in their might and demand, at the
polls, next November, that this priv
ilege, of which we have been robbed by
Shylock, shall be returned to us in
order that prosperity shall be rein
stated in this nation?
If silver is remonetized and the gov,
eminent should coin silver. and issue
silver certificates and pay them out to
the silver mine owners, starving labor
would gladly accept such money, ant
the wheels of prosperity would at once
commence to revOlve. Manufacturers
and farmers products would at one,
find ready market, and peace, plenty
and happiness would soon come agair
to the relief of our now beggard pee
pie and country, and no one would bt
injured except possibly few banker
and money lenders who are now rapidly
absorbing the wealth of the nation nc
becoming millionaires at the expens,
degenerating into nation of paupers
Jesse White, in St Louis Journal OF
Agricultural,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

There are in the United States, it is
stated, 100000 machinists. 10000 tool
makers. 5000 boilermakers, 10000 pat
ternmakers, 100000 carpenters and
joiners, 100000 masons and bricklayers,
$4,000 contractors and builders, 10000
plumbers, gas and steam filters; $50, coo
stationery engineers and firemen, 1907,
900 locomotive engineers and firemen,
$4,000 electric railway and light en-
ploycs, $4,000 cabinet-makers, carvers
and woodworkers; $4,000 civil. mechan-
zeal, electrical and mining engineers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

Another remarkable suit has beer
commenced. 1t is started by Mrs. Mar
ley, OF Auburndale, Mass, against Rev.
Dr. Simpson a Christian scientist, for
the recovery OF a fine gold watch
which Mrs. NJ, in a moment Of relig
iCus exaltation, gave to the cause OF
foreign missions at the camp meeting
last week, at which 100000 in contri-
buttons was raised. Mrs. Marley inii-
mates that the doctor hypnotized her
and who knows, may be he did
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

The truth about the silver dollar of
Mexico is that it buys, today, as much
domestic commodities as it did ten
years ago, when its bullion value was
at par with American gold coin.
Wages remain steady at the figures OF
ten years ago and the cost of living has
not increased to plain people who are
not buying of costly foreign goods.
Tho artificial and temporary disparity
of silver to gold has enhanced the
prices of imported wares, but of domes-
tie products, including manufactured
articles. the .'fifty-cent' dollar OF
Mexico buys as much as it ever did
St Louis Republic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

Farmers near Alexandria, S. D.,
some distance north of Sioux City.
Iowa, report tine appearance in that
section of a potato pest never before
seen in the northwest. 1t is a dark
green bug about half an inch long.
appears in swarms and settling on the
potato patches quickly eats every
vine. 1t is extremely lively and hard
TO catch and whenever it settles on
the face or hands raises a blister.
Farmers have been killing it by scat
terirg straw in the patches, driving
the pest into it by beating the vines
and then burning straw and bugs to-
gether. Thus far the bugs have not
been numerous nor have their ravages
extended over a wide area.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

Here is a genuine tragedy: Peter
Fleming, aged 81, a New York or
gan grinder, loved with unrequited
passion Mrs. Ida Peters, aged Sc, in fact
not half as old as himself, by four
years. She presided over her washtubs
and ironing boards with Queenly
grace which so captivated the old 'mu-
sician's soul, that he offered her his
heart and hand, including the organ
but she turned a deaf ear to his pro-
testations of love, whereupon he went
upstairs to his room and shot himself
Who then shall say that Cupid regards
years or any other earthly considera-
ton?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

lutely nothing Under free coinage
bullion value of silver will be 81. 90 per
ounce. The free coinage dollar will
circulate for 100 cents then, just the
same as the silver dollar circulates now
with the increased advantage that
there will be one dollars worth of sill
yer in every free coinage dollar.
The Register says the present Ameri.
can dollar is mot what is called dol
lar Of final redemption" This is a
ridiculous statement. The present sill
yer dollar is absolutely a dollar of ulti-
mate payment. The present silver
dollar has no redeemer other than its
noble self and neither would the free
coinage dollar" have redeemer
We cannot attribute the Registers
misstatements to ignorance, for it
seems to be the policy of gold organs
and orators to misrepresent the posi-
ton the silver dollar occupies in our
money law. Governor Foraker, in a
speech at Columbus, o.. last Saturday,
which he says he prepared for the
press in advance. made the statement
that 1.-The reason silver dollars are
maintained at par with gold is because
silver dollars and every other form of
United States money are redeemab bic
in gold"
This letter from the acting secretary
of the treasury explains itself:
Washington. d C. Aug. 0. 1875
Hon. Thomas c. McRae, Prescott. Ark.
Sir: In reply to your letter of the
9th inst, have the honor to inform
you that this department does not re-
deem either standard silver dollars or
silver certificates in gold. Both are
receivable for all debts due to the
United States, but silver certificates
are redeemable only in stamped silver
dollars, and the latter, being standard
coins of the United States, are not re-
deemable in any other form of money.
Respectfully yours, w. E. CURTIS.
Acting Secretary.
The trouble with Mr.. Foraker. tn
Des Moines Register and other champ
ions of gold is that they imagine that
they can hoodwink the people and
they are losing no opportunity to carry
out their purpose.-World Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

The New York Journal, after short
alas, too short-period of reposc. has
again turned Master Alan Dale loose
on the suffering and defenseless public.
This noted explorer has now "discov-
ered'' Marie Tempest, and while this is
of course not so great feat as hav-
ing discovered London, he is working
Il for all 1t is worth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

A professor in Johns Hopkins Uni
versity has discovered that only the fe-
male mosquito bites. This is highly
important if true, and greatly simpli-
flc5 the situation. Henceforth in the
Silly watches of the night if you are
serenaded by winged New Jerseyan
don't get excited, but strike a light
and find out whether your visitor is a
mai, or female.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

DR.. Rawles, of Creston, Iowa, took
dCse OF his own medicine with very
damaging results. But the doctor
showed his faith.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

In st. Paul the other day plumber
and an iceman were sunstruck. Even
the heated term is not entirely without
us bright spots.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09

There are few women who do not
carry the idea that they are better than
their husbands. Most of them conceal
their opinion, but 1t is there all the
same
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
KANSAS

An annoyance does not take long to
develop into d grievance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-09
Keeping your mouth shut i. genius.

Love in IA cottage, means no ice and
three in bed.