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Beef. wine and iron, SOC; Paine's cell
cry compound, roc; Ayers, Hoods and
Joys Sarsaparilla, 65c; bromo-kola,
25c size 15c; G. c. c. hair tonic and
scalp cleaner (sold under a guarantee),
5Dc. silver coin, at the &C. C. c." drug
department.
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Races (!

George Rose & Co. will open their
rooms Monday morning at $50 X
street. Capital Hotel building. All the
events of the State Fair races booked
daily and the result known almost as
soon as on the track.
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WHAT TT DOES NOT MEAN.

That some people are misled by the
niable. 1t Is fact well authenticated
that in one community in the West a
meeting was held and a committee ap-
pointed to receive the sum of money
supposed to come to each to increase
the per capita, in case free coinage pre-
walls. 1t is humiliating that there is
such ignorance.
Let it be understood that if there is
free coinage. or if there is coinage Of the
bullion the Government has on hand
and the reduction Of gold coinage to
coins Of not less than $40, and if all
silver coinage is made legal tender to
the sum of $50, a plan the Record
Union" advocates, in neither case, nor
in case Of issue of silver coins by the
Government on it's own account, will
there be any chance of any man getting
a dollar without earning it by labor
than there is now.
Throw open the mints to free coinage
and no man save the depositor of bullion
will have a dollar more or less because
of It. The dollars will belong to the
fellow who brings the bullion to be
raised by a single blow Of the Govern
ment die from its purchasing capacity
OF 54 cents to 100 cents. What profit
in the transaction there is will go to that
fellow, not to the Government, nor to
the man who has no dollar and no
bullion
Nor will an Act Of free coinage give
momentum TO the new coins to project
them into circulation. But under the
Record Unions" plan it will be differ
ent. Limitation of gold issue, coin, or
paper based on coin, to $40 as the mini
mum, and fixing the legal tender quail
ity Of silver at $50. and giving that
capacity to all silver coins, will abso-
lutely force silver into circulation. If
to this is added the convenience Of a
silver bill of $40 the momentum will
be augmented.
But let this be kept clearly in mind
body else a single nickle, no matter
nobody is going to give away to any
what the policy the country may adopt
But protection of American industries
as proposed by the Republican party
will set wheels and enterprises in mo-
ton calling labor to employment, and
that means that the dollars will begin
to move in circulation, and the financial
question will then settle itself In the
natural order Of things.
The Bryanites exclaim, Give US free
silver-it Is all we ask" Mr.. Bryan
himself says: 1T will cause panic foI
time," but after the panics have
passed you will be all right. Such was
the prophecy he made, though in other
| diction, at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, last
March. "Give US free silver coinage
and in time you will have good times"
| The Republican party says: Coin al
| the silver needed for domestic uses OF
the demands of commercial necessity
keep the two metals on parity, every
dollar as good as any other. Give Us
protection Of American industries, con.
| servation of American shipping inter
ests, and there will be no panic, ne
shaken confidence, no fears, no doubts
but general prosperity"
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T. de Wolfe Hennah

Can be found at his exhibit at the Pa
vilion during the three weeks of fair,
morning, afternoon and evening. He
makes a speciality of glasses for the
ox,a
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Dairymen Milk Cans.

Seamless necks, extra heavy and very
strong. See this can and get our price
before purchasing. American Cash
Store, Eighth and X.
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General at their demand. What will
follow then none can clearly forsee
Certainly no harsher man can be sent
to subdue the Cubans. It would seem,
therefore, that in any event their cause
will be helped. To carry out the Weyler
order will drive many to their side and
destroy or weaken the influence Of the
Conservatives To withdraw it and
recall Weyler will distinctly be tri-
umph for the insurgents. There is not
another nation on earth, not even eX-
cepting Turkey, that would permit it
self to be put into such a corner. But
anything may be expected from Spain.
The great Ohio Falls Car Works OF
Jeffersonville, Ind, have closed down.
They have possibly failed. They are
certainly financially crippled and the
small army of workers who toiled IN
those great shops are now looking idly
on. This Is but one of scores of ex-
amples at hand of the failure of conf
dence, which lies at the basis of all
business prosperity; indeed, as we have
already said, confidence is really the
capital of the country. far more so than
bonds, dollars and bills. Here we
have result Of the threat OF
the panic which Mr.. Bryan said would
come if his ideas prevail-he conceded
that at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, March 18th
ya- ;fxriy
it only with the words there will be a
panic, at least for a time, if a change
is made to free silver coinage"
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Cloudy Saturday
along the coast; fair inland; continued
warm weather in the valleys; light south
westsrly winds.
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Dr. Weldon, S06 J street, extracts
teeth without pain: local anaesthetic-
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Entered at tho Postoff1ce at Sacramento
n Second-class matter.
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THR WEEKLY UNION

Il the cheapest and most desirable Home.
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast.
The Weekly Union, per year........$A oo
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VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers In
Brief,
On All Shades of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of
the Day.

Stockton Independent: Under pro-
lection the American surplus farm pro-
ducts that had to seek a foreign market
were only about 10 per cent. Of the
whole. Under free trade the surplus is
equal to at least half Of the product
Thus half Of the American market has
been given away in vain effort to get
the markets Of the world, which they
now want to repel by abandoning the
only money that is recognized in those
markets.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-28
Cuba's Discouraging Experiment.

Cuba is furnishing nearby example
Of the beauties of government regulation
Of the value of money ON the Bryan
plan. Captain General Weyler had a
deficient supply of cash, and so he had
the Banco Espanol put out lot of pa
per money and issued a stringent edict
that everybody should take it at par
with gold. As the island is practically
under martial law, here was govern
ment control of the currency at its best.
If you didn't take the bank bills at par,
you were liable to be shot. Even Bryan
couldn't do more for silver than that.
But did the edict keep the bank notes at
par? Not for day. Almost instantly
they were at discount, which soon
amounted to 30 per cent. Even with
guns and bayonets you cannot make so
cents equal dollar. Weyler has had to
give up trying. He has finally allowed
the Havana Stock Exchange to quote the
value of the bank bills in gold. We
were going to say that this proves the
powerlessness of law to establish the
value of money. but we remember in
time that Cuba has less than Q, 900, 900
population to our 20, 900, 900; that she
never put down the greatest rebellion Of
modern times; that her inhabitants are
not tho richest. proudest, most intelli-
gent people on earth, and so we are not
so sure. Her case is only part of uni
yersal experience, but we have changed
all that. York Post.
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Hired Mani heard that in your Des
Moines speech you said prices are so
low that you have either got to get
more for your oats or else cut my wages.
Boies-You heard right.
Hired MAXWELL, which are you
going to do?
Boies--I am going to get more for
my oats.
Hired Man-How?
Boies-By lessening the purchasing
power of money. Free coinage will give
us u dollar which will only buy five
bushels of oats instead of ten bushels,
and that will be the same as getting 90
cents for my oats,
Hired MAXWELL, what are you go.
ing to do about my wages?
Boies-Oh, III pay you just the same
as I'm paying you now, $50 month.
Hired Man--Are you going to pay
me in these new dollars?
Boies-Certainly the same kind of
dollars that get for my oats
Hired Man.-Those dollars that can {
buy only half as much of anything as
the old dollars?
Boies-Yes, yes; the same sort of dol
lars.
Hired Man-Then, as l understand
it, you propose to get twice as much for
your oats and pay me only half what
I'm getting now?
Boies-why, no. I'll still pay you
$40.
Hired Man-But this $40 won't buy
only half as much stuff as now, you say,
for the purchasing power is to be less
ened one-half; so with my $40 can
only get $40 worth of stuff. Your
scheme would bring you twice as much
for your oats and bring me only half as
much for my work. Is this fair, do you
think?
Boies-Well, every man has to look
out for himself.
Hired Man-So Isee, and think I'll
look out for myself and vote for an hon.
est dollar for an honest days work -
Council Bluffs Ga. } Nonpareil.
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Silver Question In a Nutshell.

In every rural town of the country
free coinage advocates are promising
farmers that 16 to l would raise the
price Of grain and meat and thus re-
duce the proportions Of the produce OF
the farm that goes to pay the labor en-
ployed. OF all brazen performances OF
the century, the most impudent is that
by which at the same time the wage
earners are invited to assist in cam
them and to reduce the wages of the
most numerous class of wage earners in
the country.
There is the silver question in nut
shell. 1t is simply question as to
whether our wage earners are getting
too high wages. They may as well face
the question. II our wage earners be-
lieve they are getting too high wages
and that this country is suffering in
consequence. all they have to do is to
take lower wages. If they prefer a
roundabout way, they can favor free
coinage of silver, and they will get their
wages cut down half without any fur
ther trouble on their part.
In the light of our experience with
fiat money legislation, from the green
back to the Sherman pig silver certifi-
Gates, this long suffering country will
finally learn that wealth is not created
by fiat, but is made by labor; that the
law can put no dollar into any mans
pocket unless it first takes it from the
pocket of some other man, and that
wage earners are first and most inter
ested in opposing interference by law.
There has never yet been made law to
put into any laboring mans pocket q
single dollar that he did not earn. He
of all men. therefore, has the best right
to insist that there shall be no law passed
that will raise the price of what he has
to buy, and thus take from him any
portion of what he has earned. Hon.
John De Witt Warner in Present prob
lens"
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Jefferson, in 1888, wrote "Just
principles will lead us to disregard legal
proportion altogether, to inquire into
the market price of gold in the several
countries with which we shall princi-
pally be connected in commerce and to
take an average from them. l very
much doubt right now to change the
value, and especially to lesson it. y
The house committee, in 1891, report
ed: "It is sufficient TO know, by I'M
happy experience, that its ratio of 10
to ] tendency is to rid us of gold cur
rency and leave us nothing but silver. "
The house committee, in 1884, report
ed: 1.-THE desideratum in the monetary
system is standard of uniform value.
We cannot ascertain that both metals
have ever circulated simultaneously,
concurrently and unfortunately in
any country where there are banks or
money dealers, and we entertain the
conviction that the nearest approach to
an invariable standard is its establish
ment in one metal, which metal shall
compose exclusively the currency for
large payments
Andrew jackson, IN 1850, WrOte:
'There is no fraud in gold. 1t is I'M
changeable and will do its office every
where and at all times. Labor imparts
an invariable value to it. "
Benton, in 1884, said in debate: at
[gold] has an intrinsic value. which
gives it currency all over the world to
the full amount of that value without
regard to law or circumstances. 1t has
a uniformity of value which makes 1t
the safest standard of value of property
which the wisdom of man has yet dis
covered. Its superiority over all other
money gives to its possessor the choice
and command of all other money"
Following this debate the act called
the administration gold bill, +" in
tended to put the country on single
gold standard, was passed, 145 to 80 in
the house and 30 to z in the senate, and
signed by Andrew Jackson, president.
The house committee, in 1858, report
ed: "Gold is the only standard Of value
by which all property is now measured.
1t is virtually the only currency of the
country We desire to have the standard
currency to consist of gold only, and
that these silver coins shall be entirely
subservient to it, and that they shall be
used rather as tokens than rs standard
coins -
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Leave Lnmbertville for Manunka Chunk 8.S3
1920 m. 1877, 567 and 8.25 p m. Sunday. 8.25
For Philipsburg and Easton only 6.1s IN week.
days.
Leave Frenchtown 90, 1O47 a m, 2.l0, $50 and
S.54 M eek-days, 81 Sundays. For Phil
lipsburg and Easton only, 7.02 p m.
Arrive at Phillpsburg 940 and 1l.22 a. M. ?.i5,
5.5S, 1876 and 9.3l p. m. Sunday 9sl p
Leave Phillipsburg TBS, 9.45 and II p m 200,
604 and S5 m. Sunday IS p IN.
Arrive Bevdere 1853, 1922 and 1i.53 a m. 81
632 1902 m. Sunday, 1902 p m.
A arrive Manunka Chunk 500, lO:SO aud liS9 III,
8 33, 63s and 1910 p m. Sunday, 1910 NJ.
Additional trains leave Belyidere for Manunka
Chunk 100 and $50 IN, and 80 p m. sunday
100 IN. Returning, leave Manunka hunk tor
Belyidere s.25, l04S m, 42O, GAO and lOl5 p M
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at 90 M BeIvidere 6.l5 M Martins
Greek 6 .35 M, arriving Lehigh Junction 53 IN,
will carry passengers and make stops at flag sta
tions north of Phillpsburg.
Passengers for Broad Street Station, Philadei-
phia, by trains leaving Manunka Chunk 7.25 a m
daily, and 1925, 5.2i m weekdays, and leaving
Phillipsburg SEQ a m daily, 100 and $50 p M
weekdays go through without change at Tren-
ton. A through car for Manunka Chunk is at
tached to trains leaving Broad Street Station at
$50, $40 m, 1900 noon, and 81, IN. by all
other trains passengers to or from Broad street
change cars at Trenton.
Connection is made al Manunka CHUNK with
Delaware. Lackawanne Western Railroad; lie.
high Junction with Lehigh Valley Lebigh 4 Sus-
quehanna M orris Essex, and New Jersey Contra
Railroads. At Lambertville with Pennington Rail
road At Trenton with trains to and from Me-;
York, Camden. DC.
Forfurtber / Information see timetables, which
can be obtained al the ticket of6ees.
j X. WOOD
General Passenger Agent.
s. NJ. PROVOST.
General Manager
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The greatest danger to those who dive
into the sea for valuables that have
been sunk is that of falling asleep.
On hot day the contrast between
the heat above and the delicious cool
ness below water is apt to make a diver
sleepy. One of these men stated that
he once slept half an hour at the bot
tom of a wreck, where he was laying a
pipe.
Surprising that had happened in a
channel where the tide runs so swiftly
that diver can work only during the
one hour of slack water, the deadly
rush of tide would have snapped the
lifeline and hose. Then in working
wrecks there is the danger of getting
jammed in between freight or of get
ting the hose or line entangled. When
the hose snaps at great depth the ire
mendous pressure kills the diver. He is
frightfully distorted by it,-Pearson' 8
Weekly.
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A Serious Experiment.

The free coinage Of silver and the
substitution Of a new unit and measure
Of value for the existing one in the bust
ness transactions of the country are not
an ordinary experiment which can be
safely tried today and abandoned to-
morrow il found injurious, because the
immediate consequences Of such step
would be so farreaohing and SO endur-
ing that they would continue to be felt
for years after the policy had been re-
versed. 1t is incumbent, therefore, upon
those who insist upon the adoption of
this revolutionary policy to show plain
ly and conclusively in advance not only
that it would result in no injury, but
that it would be positively beneficial,
for if not positively beneficial the change
would at least be wholly useless. This
cannot be done by appeals to the excited
passions and prejudices of the people,
by attempts to array one class Of our
citizens or one section of our country
against another or by loose and extrava-
giant statements unsupported by facts
and reasons. The questions involved are
too serious, the interests to be affected
are too large, and the common sense OF
the people is too strong to justify OF
even excuse this course Of treatment -
Hon. John G.. Carlisle.
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An Item of Expense,

In handling silver and using it as
currency lies the fact that $40 of gold
can be stored in the same space as 81
of silver This has entailed an expense
of many hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars on our government in the last IS
years for storing the silver dollars which
the people registered as too cumbersome
for their pockets. Every time the treas
ury changes hands, and probably much
oftener in the banks of this country, the
stock of coin is counted over. 1t is just
as easy to count $40, 600 in gold double
eagles as 81, 900 i'll silver. If we open
our minis to silver, all gold will disap-
pear from circulation, at least SO far as
domestic business is concerned, and a
large and increasing expense will be in
flicted ON the mercantile class, and to a
lesser degree on the whole community,
in handling and counting the more
cumbersome coin.
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The Problem For workingmen.

The silverites promise that the work
ingman will get higher wages. but they
also tell us that all commodities of life
will rise i'll price. Do they guarantee MS
that wages will rise i'll the same proper
toni The chances are they will not, be-
cause employers never, or very seldom,
raise the wages of their employees vol
UNFAIRLY. But, admitted that wages will
rise in proportion to other articles, what
will the workingman gain by it? One
thing is certain. that if, under silver
standard, the workingman will have his
wages raised in the same measure in
which prices of other articles and COM
modities of life will be raised, he will
have it after "A very hard and desperate
struggle Is ii worth while to undertake
struggle for years in order to gain the
same which he has now and run risk
of getting less?-Daily Jewish Courier.
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Freight Charges Have Declined.

In the course of his remarks concern
ing. certain "fixed charges" by reason Of
which the farmer since 1878, as he as
serts, has found it more and more
difficult to live," Mr.. Bryan said:
RAILROAD rates have not been re-
duced to keep pace with falling prices.
Mr.. Bryan must have known that
this was not true. The reduction of rail
road freight rates. caused in part by
laws enacted in Legislatures which west
ern farmers controlled, as well, as by
competition and by improvements which
lowered the cost Of service, has for long
time been the subject Of popular discus
sion in Nebraska and other western
states.
The government publishes the follow
ing statement concerning the remark
able decline in freight rates onewheat,
i'll cents per bushel, by lake, canal and
rail from Chicago to New York since
1879:
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Wage earners should not gamble with
their wages. Certainly they should not
do so when the dice are loaded against
them, and it is case of "heads win
and tails you lose. He can win nothing,
but may lose much, if he CANDLES with
the silver mine owner and takes tips
from the free silver politicians.
No silverite claims that free coinage
would raise actual wages. The most
they say is that the wage Garner would
not lose much in the purchasing power
of his wages and that he would be likely
to have steadier work when the "more
money" period is reached. Perhaps.
But what should most concern those
who exchange labor for dollars is that
their dollars should not shrink in value
Looking at the question in the light Of
history and Of reason, it appears practi.
cally certain that the 10 to free coin
age dollar would purchase only about
half as much as the present dollar.
The Mexican dollar is free coinage
legal tender dollar which contains more
silver than would ours, yet it purchases
only half as much as gold dollar. This
is true of all other free silver countries.
Everywhere the value of the coin is
measured by the value of the bullion in
it.
If the price of silver should rise to
s1.2a an ounce in gold, the wage Garner
would neither lose nor gain by free
coinage. If, as is certain, the price does
not rise but little or not at all, then the
wage Garner has lost half of his wages
until he can by threats and strikes in
duoe his employer to raise wages. His
own and his family's food, shelter and
clothing are at stake. He CANDLES with
them when there is nothing to be won,
but probable poverty and starvation il
he loses. Will he enter into such an I'M
fair game?
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Sept. o, 1895.
HUNTERDoN COUNTY ORPHANS
IL COURT OF SEPT. S, 1896.

Presentation. II. Burdette Herr. In the
matter of the application of Bridget Cunning
ham, Executrix of Michael Cunningham, de-
ceased, for order to sell Real Estate to pay
debts. Rule to show cause
Bridget Cunningham, ExecutriX of the last
Will and Testament of Michael Cunningham
deceased, having made and exhibited to this
Court, under oath, Just and true account of
the personal estate and debts of the said de-
cedent as far as she can discover the same, by
which it appears that the. personal estate of
the said decedent insufficient to pay his debts;
whereupon on application of the said Bridget
Cunningham Executrix of the said Michael
Cunningham, deceased, setting forth that the
Estate situate in the City of Lambertville, in
the County of Hunterdon, and leaving his wi
dow him surviving, who hath an estate in
dover in said lands, and praying the aid of
this Court in the premises, il is ordered by the
Court that all persons interested in the lands,
tenements, Entertainments and real estate
whereof the said Michael Cunningham died
seized, do appear before this Court on Mon
day, the Ninth day of November, 1895, in the
term of September 1895, to show cause, if any
they have, why so much of the Real Estate
whereof the said Michael Cunningham died
seized as aforesaid, should not be sold as will
be sufficient to pay his debts, or the residue
thereof as the case may require, and it is fur
ther ordered that this notice be published in
the LAMBERTvIILE RECORD for six weeks sue
cessively, and also true copies thereof set up
as the law directs.
Done in open Court and dated Surrogates
Office, Sept. 8, 1896
Clerk of Hunterdon County Orphans Court.
Sept. 16, 1896
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Simple Facts.

Wages are higher now than at any
time before 1873.
Every workingman knows this fact
Or can easily find 1t out.
Each dollar of wages will now buy
much more than any dollar did before
1878.
Every workingman knows this fact
or can easily find it out.
Every workingman is better Off today
than at any time before 1873.
Every workingman knows this fact
or can easily find it out
Why, then, should any workingman
vote for a return to ''the conditions
prior to 1872"