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The advocate., 1896-10-28

rapid growth Of individual estates, and
others might quote Il space permitted,
indicate that the average income from
these great possessions is about 10 per
cent, and that 60 per cent. is q fair as
sumption for their growth from 1890 to
1895. With this factor to apply to the
absorbing" equation, we can see ap-
proximately "Where we are at" in 1896.
The minor milIionaires in this estimate
l will assume (arbitrarily) save but
tbres-fourths as much per cent, and the
third class one-half, Gs the great ones,
though they may be able to more closely
follow in the footsteps Of their lllustrious
leaders.
The census report asserts that the ma
tions increase in wealth from 1880 to
1890 was over 2,1OO millions a year. Even
II that was correct, we know that the in
crease since then has been much less.
Let us concede (which / very much
doubt) it has averaged 1900 millions
since, and that our wealth is now 8 bill |
lion dollars more than in 1890. The fol- |
lowing table will show from the above
outlined premises, first, who has got it,
and second, what the six years rule Of
the plutocrats and the trusts has left the
100000 other people:
The advocate., 1896-10-28

Let US assume our population to be
7O,lS0OOO, putting it about a million
below the figures in the Statistical Alb
stract.
The $4,000 people who had SOB per
cent. Of the nations wealth In 1890 now
claim 6S.1 per cent, or S40, ,742, 100000;
and the remainder Of the people, who
had 49.7 per cent. then, have now but
36.9 per cent, or S27, ,294, sol 10Y. So not
only has the favored $4,000 got the whole
OF the 8 billions increase from 1890 to
1896, but they have taken over 5 billions
more. The interesting question now is,
who have they got this from9
Another witness appears here reuuir.
ing to be heard, before the full iniouity
OF the plundering processes can be seen
or the full cause for present business de-
preston realized. In 1890 there were.
outside OF the three classes enumerated
above, 100000 persons with possessions
aggregating about 161S billions. This is
q class that has relatively just held It's
own, having practically the same DER
cent. Of the nations wealth as in 1890,
A few have goue to the wall in the struQ-
gle. A few have multiplied their thou.
Sandsi but as a whole, with them there
has been no relative change, and the in
crease OF their aggregate possessions l |
at II per cent. for the six years. |
This gives them now elS, 100000, or |
al,O per cent in 1890 TO S5.A per cent, in
The advocate., 1896-10-28

The masses, comprising 121S million
families in 1890, had nearly l6 billion
dollars, or "a 3 per cent. Of our wealth.
In 1896 the same class, Of IA million
families, have s8,S74,501, 1877, or 70 Der
cent. Of the accumulation Of a hundred
years.
1t is difficult for us to comprehend
these great quantities, but they are 40
real as their ominous portent is certain.
The millions have lost, not only the
whole Of their share Of the nations earn
ings of the past six years, but hundred
dollars apiece (or 1888 per family a
Year, besides. And now this new trust
of the railroad and coal bsrons has de-
cided to put another tax Of 81 apiece on
every person within our borders, because
they know, from the encroachments on
our rights which they have been upheld
in making IN the past twelve years, that
we lave at least lost either the wisdom
to define them or the nerve to defend
them' and they believe it is both. Is it
any wonder the New York World in its
five-column editorial address to Mr..
Bryan on August II, page G, column 6,
says Gn capitals): "Down with trustsl
Down with monopoliesl Down with So
cret bond syndicates! Down with pluto. |
cracy in politics and in government"
Realizing, as no other metropolitan
paper in the country does, the dangers
with which these changes and results are
Oesetting our pathway, it is no wonder
the World demands the destruction Of
their cause. The wonder is that the
World, with its knowledge VI the situa-
lion, can uphold the cause and support
'he nominee Of the party that Is defend
ng them and proposes to perpetuate
hem; and it's only excuse for its ipco-
1erent position in this great struggle
'eems to be embodied in the fear that il
he free coinage forces win this fight
hey intend to make new money table
With "fVe dimes make dollar" in it.
For weeks it has urged MIR. Mckinley
o state his position in reference to the
rusts, With editorials beginning and
ndiDg: "speak out, Mr.. Mckinley.
What do you think about the trusts ?"
After editorials commencing Mr.. Bryan i
or what he hss said, for his outspoken
'eliet and earnest purpose, and condemn /
ng Mr.. Mckinley for his silence, il said 1
October y: "Few things that have
'een said in this campaign equal in i'm {
'ortance what the Republican nominee
or the Presidency has not said about
be trusts. In his seventy speeches Mr.. O
lcKinley has not said word to indicate b
hat no even knows Of the existence Of n
no trust evil. To speak means TO win n
he support Of this multitude Of voters n
no take bis allenCe a. q danger signal, =
. must noe remain SILENT BE must 4
The advocate., 1896-10-28

not put in jeopardy the overthrow Of
free silver. Is not this common senseP
What do you think about the trusts ?
Speak out, Mr.. Mckinley"
Wealth accumulation by law-defying
plunderers is the greatest evil we are
bearing. How to stop it, and how to
correct some Of the wrongs it is doing,
are among the great questions our states
men will have to remedy. None see this
more clearly than Mr. Bryan, and few
have taken more advanced position In
behalf OF their victims-the plundered
millions. The World may well COM
mend him for what he "has we'll and
bravely said" Of the trusts on Boston
Common and at Tammany Hall, as it
may also reprimsnd Mckinley for his
silence. But no Hanna holds S100,OOOo Of
unpaid paper above Bryan's head, and
no Hobart bleeds the people by the shot
gun policy Of the trusts to meet his cam
paign expenses. If Mckinley should
now answer this demand to define his
position, he only yields to necessity.
What he might say would mean nothing.
But Bryan spoke his convictions and
purpose when he said at Tammsny Hall:
II am opposed to the trusts; and il I am
elected, shall use as an Executive what
power l shall have to drive every trust
out OF existence. II present laws are not
sufficient to meet this evil, /, if elected,
will recommend such laws as will meet
it. Ii the constitution Of the United
States is 30 construed as to prevent any
interference with the operation Of a
trust, shall recommend such an amend
ment to the constitution as will overcome
that evil"
The contest is between these two men
and the theories they represent. The
one the servant Of the schemers who
have fastened the systems and measures
IN the country that have robbed the
masses OF $500, 100000 more than the
Profits Of their labor in the last six years
1.-The fsttsrsd tool Of the plutocrats-.
no dumb vAasal os che patriOiansI tao
The advocate., 1896-10-28
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The advocate., 1896-10-28

Lm the ADVOCATE Of October 81, under th
neRding, "LaRguishing March Of Capital" MI
3nhiels gave our readers portion Of lette
written by him to the New York World, which
aAsisr that paper refused TO publish. The re
aaAnd9F OF the letter ID given below. together
Wish some additional remarks by him.l
The Providence Journal ssid last
August: Warmth in the home Of the
Wageearner will cost pretty penny
nsxt winter. Already the price Of coal
is ag high as it was last winter, and the
usual advance Is yet TO come. But then
Che free silver men tell US that it is this
sort Of increase in the prices of the NEG
sasaries Of life that make nations pros
perOus,' And in September the same
paper said: Every man who from neces-
Aity or negligence has postponed buying
hia winters coal till now, may get val
uable illustration in small way Of the
added troubles OF life that free silver
would bring. y y The increase OF
1880 per ton means ON addition Of
l2, 100000 to somebody's income. Now
Aet tIs SEQ how much Of this goes iAto the
pockets Of the workers in the Mines
"Now, Mr.. Editor, will you tell US il it
was any fear Of free silver, or OF the dis
epssion OF the question, that drove the
coal combine to raise their tax levy
glOi0OO,OOO this year; and enabled the
standard Oil Company TO divide S35,OOO,.
0oO On S9O,0O0,000 capital; or induced the
Nall River mills to make their last quar-.
sElY dividend average 5 per cent, some
a. them on capitalization, as you say,
representing probable imitation Of over
sfs rsr cent.P And this great new trust
sTa baby trust only ten months old-was
it formed on account Of the probable
raptrre Of the Democrat convention by
the 'repudiators' and free sllyerites' and
nnREchistS' and 'heretics'--by the oppo-
tants Of unjust taxation--the enemies Of
pyodlgate expenditurs-and traitors to
ways that are dark and tricks that may
st he vainG
Please also tell US why those who OBJ
1895 ~ being robbed by commercial
pirates, and bled by unequal taxation,
MA swindled by railroad wreckers, are
more revolutionary than those who COM
NAlt these crimes; as we'll as what our
plptOCratic judges find anarchistic in |
A1lrrcse OF effort to offer to every indus
'sSicus American citizen an equal oppor.
W for the enjoyment Of life, liberty
Nild the pursuit Of happiness"
"a the above letter to the World / |
NYe shown what high tariff and the
sandlSaa and unrsstrsined greed Of
AVless corporations are doing for the
how rapidly these willy enemies
justice are making the rich richer,
~ zee what they are doing Hor the
Dsa and how much OF the nations
4eNaae in wealth and what Of the hard
Eaed acCumulations Of labor have BEEN
:NsnFad By the great millionaires since
AE answer to thisimportant ques.
NV might induce us-not to annoy or
Aaa the plutocratic plunderers, not
Arange their well-lsid plans or vex
peryRnts lwho are are our treacher-
pficiAls), but torequest Mr.. Sherman
ae an "up-to-date" timetable. The
'can people have too much love for
too much veneration for those
NE sleek enough TO steal millions,
The advocate., 1896-10-28
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The advocate., 1896-10-28
TEE CONQUERING MARCH
OF CAPITAL.
BY GEN. PERCY DANIELS.

AM She ADVOCATE Of October 81, under the
Ae@ding, "LaRguishing March Of Capital" Mr..
Aanaiels gave our readers portion Of letter
written by him to the New York World, which
AAsisr that paper refused TO publish. The re-.
taaAndeF Of the letter is given below, together
Wish some additional remarks by him.
The advocate., 1896-10-28
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02

promises prosperity to all the people. 1t
would be relieved to have it's apprehen-
sions allayed and its misconceptions, if
they are misconceptions, corrected.
he Democrats IN vast numbers VINO
sions stand by what they believe TO be
the historic policy of their party in re-
gard to the currency. This policy was
declared in 1876 and reaffirmed in 1892
in these words:
silver as the standard money of the
country. and TO the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for mint
age. but the dollar unit of coinage of
both metals must be of equal intrinsic
and exchangeable value, or be adjusted
through international 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 at all times in the markets
and in the payment of debt: and we de-
mand that all paper currency shall be
kent at par with and redeemable in such
coin. We insist upon this policy as
especially necessary for the protection
of the farmers and laboring classes. the
first and most defenseless victims of un-
stable money and fiuctuating currency.
These Democrats still hold to the doc
trine of dollars of both money metals of
equal value, that the country may have
the benefit of a concurrent circulation of
gold and silver. and paper redeemable in
the same. Why not give these Demo
crafts a chance TO vote for you? Why
continue the alienation of so large a
body of intelligent. honest and aonSci-
entious voters? If you are ready for
bimetallism. and would welcome ntsr-
national agreement. if it can be secured,
TO effect a change without possibilit! OF
disaster at home. why not say so? foa
surely cannot object to an established
and worldwide parity of value between
gold and silver money. Why refuse and
reject international apreemept1 .
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
The Dificulty is the Tariff.

In a recent speech at La Grange, Ind,
Senator Burrows said:
with all the svagaries of the three
Bryan platforms they all unite in the de-
mand for the free and unlimited COMA age
of silver at 16 to 1, and to that question
his time in his speech of acceptance. He
declared that times are hard, prices are
low, and something is vitality wrong 1t
is not the crime of '73, however, but the
folly of '92, when Harrison was defeated
and the prosperity of the United States
destroyed.
'Mr. Whitney says: Don't talk about
the tariff But the whole difficulty to-
day is tariff. When Mckinley is president
'.More silver dollars were coined dur
ing Republican administrations than dur
ing all of the other eighty-three years of
our history.
Panic always accompanies free trade.
During the. thirty years from 1861 to
1892 we had unbounded prosperity
wealth advanced; this republic took a
lead in manufacturing and stood ahead of
all other nations until March f. 1898.
The public debt was reduced during Re.
publican administrations, and increased
under Democratic. There is not a single
day but the government is running be-
hind. The deficiency during July, 1896,
alone was $13,OOO,0OO.
'The results of the Democratic policy
are SO evident that new issue was nee
essary to give them even a fighting
paign, and so they say that in 1873 the
Republican party caused the trouble by
demonetizing silver. If that is so why
did it not show itself before 1898? We
were prosperous in '92, and the crime had
been committed before then"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
The Money of the Constitution.

What wild talk is this of the 'silver-
ties, !" convention, s.in favor of restoring
TO the, people of the United States the
time-honored money of the constitution
gold and silver-not one. but both
The constitution prescribes no such
money. nor any form of money what
ever. e''- ~
But if it is "gold and silver-not one,
but both''-that they want, why are they
not contented now? Both gold and silver
are in circulation now. on equal terms,
in larger quantities than ever before.
In the TWENTY-FIVE years since the blood
curdling "crime of 1873" was perpetrated
more than fifty times as many silver dol
lars have been coined as in the eighty
years preceding.
The simple fact is that the United
States has very much larger actual
supply of full legal-tended silver money
than any other country in the world,
excepting India and China, and larger
supply in proportion to it's population
than any other, excepting France. Spain
and Holland. 1t has more, gold in circu-
lation, actually, than any in the world,
excepting only France, and more proper
tionateIy than any European country.
excepting Great Britain, France and
Germany. It also has more money OF
all kinds in circulation, and all ut par,
than most nations of the world.
Less talk and more reflection would
convince these would-be currency re-
formers that we already have what
they talk of as 'ethe time-honored money
of the constitution" in abundant supply,
for eyery man who is willing honestly
to earn it.-New York Tribune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
Gen. Walkers BimetaIlism.

Francis A. Walker, president of the
Boston Institute of Technology, may be
called the leader of the bimetallists of
the United States, so far as man not in
politics can be called a leader of move
ment which has become political issue.
He has been an ardent advocate of inter-
national bimetallism for more than twen-
ty years. He speaks with authority on
all economic questions, but bimetallism
may be called his hobby.
> A new book, written without regard to
the present situation, but singularly ap-
propriate, has Just appeared, bearing
Gen. Walkers name on the title page.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02

1t is plea for bimetallism and in strong
opposition to the gold monometallists.
He says, though, as every other true bi-
metallst says, that the attempt on the
part of this country to coin silver in
unlimited quantities free, without an un-
derstanding with other nations, would
be an assault on the cause of bimetallism
the United States. In 1878 Gen. Walk
er said: For us to throw ourselves
alene into the breach, simply because
we think silver ought not to have been
demonetized and ought now to be re-
stored, would be piece of Quixotism un-
worthy the sound practical sense of our
people. The remedy of the wrong must
civilized states, under an Increasing con-
viction of the impolicy of basing the
worlds trade on a single money metal.
This is his opinion today.
As to the possibility of free coinage
without an immediate fall to silver
basis. and the strident claim that this
country is big enough TO "legislate for it
self" Gen. Walker points out two facts.
The stock of precious metals has so
greatly increased in the world, and COM
munication and transportation are so
much more rapid than of old. that even
France found it impossible in 1873 to
continue free silver coinage. Since there
is vastly less money metal used IN the
United States than in France. the IN
fluence which this country can exert
upon the money market of the world is
less than the influence of France. ANA
vet no one accuses. Gen. Walker of be-
ing less a patriot or less proud OF the
country for which he fought than the
youngest orator of the far West. The
difference is that he is a student and 4
man of sense.-Syracuse Post.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
Curiosities of Our Money.

Few persons are aware that silver GER
tifcates are not legal tender, though re-
ceivable for public dnes. The. fact was
recently, it is stated, forced on the
attention of the postofice department by
a person who refused to accept the GER
tificates in payment of money order.
Thus, it seems, the government is obliged
to receive silver certificates, but cannot
pay them out to any one unwilling to re-
ceiye them. Should our silver friends be-
come able to legislate, they will doubtless
make the certificates legal tender, SO as
to force the unwilling patriot to take the
paper representative Of So cents at 100
cent valuation.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
To sound Money Democrats.

Here is brief and simple catechism
for sound money Democrats:
ssDo YOU want to beat BryanY'
''If you want to beat Bryan, do You
know of any other way of doing it than
by electing McKinley?''
''If you want to beat Bryan, and don't
know of any other way of doing it than
by electing Mckinley, why don't you
take your coat off and wade in and elect
McKinley?"
Answers to these interrogatories are
respectfully solicited from sound money
Democrats who declare the currency the
paramount issue and yet refuse to act
as if they believed what they said.-Bos-
ton Journal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
Will Have to work for 1t.

After Mr.. Bryan shall become presi-
dent and free coinage shall be accom-
plished the people who were SO eager to
establish such conjuncture of circum-
are no better off than they were before.
Not man of them will be able to get a
dollar, whether worth so cents or other
wise, except in the same way that
be obtained in some sort Of honest busi.
ness or earned as wages. There is no
other way in which an honest penny can
be got.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02

Mai. McKinley's talks to the old vet
Grams who call upon him are models of
short, patriotic speeches, as have been
all his short speeches since his nomi-
nation for President. There are few
people criticising Mckinley a. a one-idea
man In this campaign.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-02
Mills. Not Mints.

More truth cannot be crowded into an
eouaI number of words than is found in
this passage of Maj. McKinley's speech
in reply to a congratulatory address from
some of his old comrades in arms:
. do not know what you think about it,
but believe it is good deal better to open
mn the mills of the United States to the la.
Dor Of America than to open up the mints OF
the United States to the silver Of the world.
This goes hard and straight to the
root of the matter.
Times are not dull in Pittsburg because
there is no mint coming silver or gold
dollars in that city, but because the
great iron works are not running on full
time. There was no mint at work in
South Chicago when the rolling mills
were at work by night and by day, but
there was a wage roll of $6,OOO,O0O a
wear. 1t was not because of the activity
of the mints that Louisiana nearly dou-
bled it's sugar output, but because of the
Mckinley bounty. 1t was not because
the mints were more active in 1891 than
in 1893 that in the first year men were
striking because they could not earn
more than So per day, and in the last
were hunting for work at IS cents, and,
for the most part, not finding it. The
mints were turning out as much money
in 1898 as in 1891. But the mills were
not turning out so many yards of cloth
or tons of iron.
Start the mills and the mints will be-
come active. Return to protection, and
the currency will settle itself.-Chicago
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