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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

err. The lack of money to move a crop
is a more effective method to depress
prices than anything else.
We give you but two questions, and
we shall give you more in our next re-
joinder. Now let us agree to Confine
ourselves to the facts, Mr.. Kyle. Let
us be fair, honest, and gentlemanly.
Simply because you and I differ on a
national issue, that is no reason WHY [
should think you are a scOundrel. In
the populist party there are plenty of
men, honest, sincere, and patriotic.
Simply because they have been deluded
with garbled extracts and false figures
it does not make them bad at heart. Not
at all. We are both aiming to secure
the greatest good for the greatest mum
Der. and that should be the object of
all honest voters.
As to partial Republication, You Nj.
Kyle can not be in favor Of such a prOpo-
sition. ii the dollar does not carry a
dollar In purchasing power, but sells at
a depreciation, or, two OF them for a
gold dollar, you would not for a moment,
Mr.. Kyle, be willing to countenance an
act that would deprive the person you
might " Of a single cent not Justly
his or hers. Look, for instance, there
are 1923 national banks having $50, 1870
sharehOlders-rem member, over a quar-
ter of million of shareholders These
2S5, 100 persons have authorized suck
of 1864, 1875, 915-an average of 81, 800 a
piece. This capital Is loaned out, and
with it the money of the depositOrs. It
amounted to 81, 900, 600, 900 on Jan. l,
1896. The amount of deposits was g.
900, OOO, 900 in January. The state banks
had deposits amounting to 81, O7O. 1872
$50. Here is s.. 600, 600. 600 of money on
! deposit. A deprecated dollar would
effect every bit of it. The number of
depositors Is something like 5000, 600.
Five million persons who are virtually
interested in seeing that they are not
paid in d. preciated money.
One might follow this up with the
facts pertaining to pensions, to wages
Of stipulated sums, of life insurance and
a host Of kindred subjects, which, by
free silver, would furnish a loss unpar-
alleled in the history Of the county.
What we want, Mr.. Kyle, is the name
: of our nation untarnished, a dollar that
will float with the same pride and re-
spect as flag. Whether the dollar
be 10 payment Of labor on the PenObscOt,
or to furnish solace II the fruit growers
OF California, it will be the same 100
cents in both cases. Let it not be said
that America settled its debt at so many
cents on the dollar. Give us work for
the workingman, start the smoke up
the chimneys, let the hum of the wheels
be heard and there will be no danger
but what products of the soil will re-
ceiye a better and bigger price.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
STEWART AND JONES.

This II Senator Jones' opinion of the
gold standard, spoken by himself June
IL, 1874, more than a yea after the
''crime of 1879:
Il am opposed to any proposition, In whatever
for It may come. that attempts to override what
God himself has made for money, l believe the.
sooner we come down to y purely gold standard
the better 1t will be- for the country
The Divine judgment was not chang
I'd and cannot.
Senator Stewart said in a speech de-
~livered June IL, 1874:
'There has been a great many battles fought
against gold, but gold has won every time. Gold
never hos compromised, ....... Gold has made the
world respect It all the time. The English PEG.
pie once thought they could get along without
gold for awhile, but they had to come back ti
He also said on the same day that the
simple question was, whether the labor
ing nan is entitled to have a gold dol
lar II he earns 1t, whether we are going
to cheat men with something else.
In all probability this is still the
soner judgment Of these senator
today.-Ex.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

The bible very explicitly refers to
gold as the measure Of value, even as
far back as the days OF Solomon. In
1 Kings, x, Il VIZ find
Aud All King SslOmnn's drinking vessels were
Ut gold. and all the vessels OF the house Ut the
forest Of Lebanon were If pure gold; none Vere GJ
silver; 1t WAS nothing accounted Ia the days Of
SOlOlnOn.
IL must he remembered that these
vessels we're utilized rs = medium OF
exchange, In barter and trade, and &C.
tually performed the functions OF
money.
We lind also in Ezra viii, 26, the fol.
lowing:
1 even weighed into their hands SIX hundred
aud fifty talents OF silver, amt silver vessels Al
hundred talents, ana Of gold an hundred tai
ents.
0nts.
Also in the 9th verse of the same
chapter:
Also twenty basons Of gold Of one Thousand
drains; Also two vessels OF fine copper rs pre-
ciOus ~ gold.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
D n

Our friend and neighbor, Eddie Toll
lefs0n Of Richland writes q column and
= half in last weeks Leader trying to
annihuate space and show how utterly
false were the remarks OF Coe I. Craw-
ford with regard TO overproduction
and remarkable increase In ~transporta-
tion facilities. Mr.. Tollefson is a
jolly good fellow and THE COURIER
man has nothing TO say against him
personally. His rather extreme views
o N all subjects have a tendency to
make him stretch a point. He GER
tainly misrepresents MIR. Crawford in
what he stated. Now our friend Eddie
states:
Nor could we he comforted by the statement
that n man, with the aid Ut improved machinery,
having never accomplished that feat We feel A.
II we were less than the average man. We fell
to figuring ut that problem. with the result that.
could persuade the rain t. fail only at night, and
had the power Of Joshua OF old to command the
sun that 1t wabble mot to the north or 70 the
25O days. But those Ideal conditions don't exist,
unless for state officials. they may have learned
me trick OF raising such crops with the aid of
the Improved republican machine:
You know, Eddie, il you know any
thing, that MIR. Crawford did not state
that a farmer could raise $500 bushels
Of wheat a year. You listened TO the
speech. Certainly. Then you did not
hear Mr.. Crawford say anything like
that. He however did read the opinion
Of David A Wells, a noted statastician,
a democrat, like yourself Eddie, and a
f~ree-trader, but wlthal a recognized
authority in the world. That a mans
power in one year Of 1856 days was
equal under the most favorable con.
Editions. with the very best machinery.
to $500 bushels Of wheat. That was
what he stated and he compared q
Notwithstanding power in 1873 tt
1895 The power of 1873 was only $500
bushels while that of 1896 is ia $500
bushels. 1t simply shows this, Eddie
that you did not fully grasp what the
speaker a talking about.
You do o mean to say, Eddie, tina,
mans power Of producing wheat ha'
remained unchanged, do you? Do 20,
deny the proposition that the power
OF production is greater now than il
1873? In other words will you admi
that One-man's-power, il constantly EN-
ployed for 365 days will produce $50
bushels of wheat, while in 1873 it woult
only produce 2.S0O-an increase of so
per cent. Here is the point the powel
OF production under favored condition
has increased 200 per cen in % year.
while the population Of the world in 2
years has increased on II per cent
Just revolve that around in your min,
Eddie and tell US all about it.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
that CHALLENGE.

A gentleman by the name of Kyle
has challenged the editor of THE COUR.
TER to a joint debate and has ever
drawn a mystic circle Within which il
might occur. Now, We have not the
pleasure OF Mr.. Kyte's acquaintance.
We do dot know whether he is alive or
dead, rea: or imaginary, or is able
to soar with the agility of a Chinese
kite o flop around like the bob-tailed
one we made in our youthful days.
However, he ought to know better than
challenge an editor. The poor 'cuss''
hasn't a suit of clothes good enough to
hold up his dignity when he appears
in public. Surprising he should appear
however, in joint debate with Mr.,
Kyle, and it wonld happen that he
would have occasion TO refer to a few
figures on the blackboard, what q
humiliation it would be to show the
two democratic badges he ia wearing.
Whew! Mr.. Kyto can't catch US In
any such a dilemma. However, we can
obviate this difficulty, we will accept
the challenge and proceed to name the
place. A school house could not begin
to hold One-hundredth the number The
COURIER reaches each There
fore, We propose TO make this PROPOSE
ton to Mr.. Kyle: That q joint debate
be had in the columns Of THE COURIER.
Mr.. Kyle Eat have the columns without
cost-we will place in cold type what
he wishes TO say in response to the
opening OF the debate-he being the
challenging party, the duty befalls on
US TO open the argument. Are you
willing Mr.. Kyle? Now walk up 70 the
scratch. The editor OF THE COURIER
is just rs anxious 10 fathom the right
OF the great questions before The people
AS anyone. We do not believe. Mr..
Kyle, that you are working for pay un-
der the direction Of the silver mine
millionaires No, sir. We do not be-
lieve that you wish to force q depreci.
ated currency upon the people of this
great nation. No, sir. We believe
that you are honest in your opinion,
and all that. We do not believe that
you wish to Mexicanize this country.
Oh. no. W. do not believe that you
wish to grind our labor down to the pit
iful condition Of the peon of Mexico, the
serf Of Russia, the sepoy OF India, or
the cuOlie of China. Oh, no. We do
not believe these things, but have the
charity vt heart to believe that your
heart is good, but your mind il woe'ully
deceived.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
A IGNORAMus.
SiOu1 FhHs Press.

1t Is remarkable how delicate the
Elk Point Leader is about some of its
figures, and how utterly reckless it is
about others. Here is an item from a
recent issue:
Through a typographical error the Leader
Ut equalization raised the assessed valuation OF
Union county lands rs per cent. 1t should have
read ID per con , II figure 2 having been substi-
tuted for y L."
And thus the Leader devotes seven
lines to correction of u blunder involv-
ing only the difference between Is and
Is per cent. How much then ought it
devote to correction of u plunder like
the following, which is contained in its
comments on Attorney General Craw-
fOrd's speech at Elk Point:
"Mr. Crawford said In 1850 two men could
make $4,000 pins In u day. now three men could
make 7,5OO.DNO In a day. According to this the
cost Of producing pins has decreased 10000 per
cent
Whenever anything decreased 100 per
cent it has been annihilated-and what
then must have happened to anything
which has decreased ~, 600 per cent?
"a hundred times 100 per cent? If the
Leader devotes seven lines 10 correct
ing u blunder of only 10 per cent, how
much ought it devote to correcting a
blunder Of $500 per c~ent-nine hundred
and ninety times as much?
The fact is that when these half
baked mathematicians go to handling
figures, they make themselves ridicu-
lOus. They aren't capable of compre
hending the primary principles of
arithmetic. They daily" with mil
lions and ''billions," and talk about
''ratiOs" and ''percentages," Just as if
they understood something about them
which it is evident they do not. But
the great trouble is that their blather
sometimes fools other people who rely
upon them-and thus there is scattered
through the land a vast and varied
amount of m~isconccption as to facts
and figures. And still these ignoram-
uses assume TO discuss questions based
on mathematics-talk about the cost of
production being reduced lO.O 600 per
cent. Why, the only way in the world
any such thing could be brought about
would be for the producer to pay the
consumer q tremendous bonus to take
the product of his hands. Suppose
that nm article cost Il dollar-then in
order for u sale thereof to he effected
upon the b,sis OF 10000 per cen de-
crease in the cost Of production" the
manufactures must pay the buyer
ninety-nine dollars TO induce him TO buy
it. This ia the sort of statistics when
some pOpulist OratOrs and organs are
feeding TO the people in this campaign.
They ought TO take a term or two in
night school and learn Il few of the
fundamental principles of figures.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
n WAS

Elk Point, S. D., Aug. ga crowd
Of Voters was discussing politics in front
Of John Malady's store Tuesday MORN
ing when Hance Murphey said and or
fered to bet that there is now a duty on
wool of l4cts. n pound, while wool was
only ringing Gets. in the market. H.
talked SO positive and said he knew
what he was talking about that the
crowd seemed 10 think it was 80. In
lOIking up the tariff laws since We find
wool IL free Of duty aud that this gov
ernment paid In 1895 SIP, fla, $50. 90 ia
gold for impaired wool. Then hear the
pops talk of the gold going out of the
country and hard times. How long will
the people b. fooled. 81. M.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
JU00LED FIGURES.

Under the caption OF 'Some Facts"
our warm hearted, genial and overly
confident p0pulistic friend Timothy
Sheehan presents figures, in the last
issue OF the Leader, sent out by u grain
firm in Chicago, Howard, BarteIs &
Co., of M. u Sherman street, with re-
gard to the worlds production of wheat.
Mr.. Howard and Bartel and the rest of
the firm are comparatively unknown SO
far rs We know. Their source of infOr-
nation must be limited. They can put
any kind Of estimate, but the reason
u friend Timothy took to their figures
rather than the statistics of the gov
eminent was because Messrs. Howard,
Bartels, etc., tried TO prove that the
worlds crop was really less than in
former years. After they had con-
WINGED you, they we're willing to sell
you options, guzzle you for your money.
But our friend Tim saw in it an oppor-
tunity 10 convince some farmer that the
worlds crop had not increased. The
scheme Of Howard, ETC., fitted right in
with the pop doctrine. Let us see
what are the facts? Let US investigate
the governmental statistics. Here is
the result Of how many millions Tins
figures are shy. Uncle Sans figures
are taken from the "Report OF the De-
partmenl OF Agriculture" Of 1895, page
$50.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

Edward Wheeler Parker OF the gcol.
ogical survey has completed the re
port OF the production Of coal la the
United States for 1895. 1t shows thai
the output OF the mines for that year
exceeded that of any previous year IN
the history Of the country. Ac.
cOrding TO the report, South Ia.
k0ta appears for the first time in 1885,
as n coal producer. The output was
small, amounting 70 only 200 short tons.
The coal is ignite, and was mined in
Fall River county, near Edgemont. I,
was saIld for ~ per ton for local trade
In the vicinity.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

The Leader, last week, prints a list
Of newspapers In this state that were
formerly republican but now are Bryan
ties. In this list Ia the Armour Herald
u BY Postmaster Mathews, q demo
crat Of democrats. The Herald was
never republican. Sioux Falls Journal
another In the list. mover was regarded
. = republican sheet. The Sioux Falls
Forum also In the list was Official organ
for the pop party. Better revise the
list.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
A COMPLIMENT.
SiOur Cilu journal.

The republicans of South Dakota
made 4 splendid choice when they nom-
mated Hon. A. O. Ringsrud for gov
ernor. He is q representative citizen
Of the great young commonwealth. He
has been identified with its people and
history for many years. He knows
them and their needs. Among them
he has wrought out the grand success
Of his life, and he has filled places Of
important public trust, always with
ability, always with fidelity always
with success. He is a man of courage
and independent judgment. He is not
the kind Of q to bow to the dictatiOn
Of q boss, rs the people OF South DakO-
tn we'll know. He will do right AS it is
given 10 him to see the right; yet not
stubborn o. perverse, but reasonable,
fair, and honest and firm in his honesty.
He is not n ''grand stand playe rs
the phrases runs, not q man who bab-
bles TO charm his own ear or tickle his
own vanity. He is not q dcmagOgue.
He is a plain practical, energetic ci,i-
Zen, who in public rs in private affairs
strives faithfully to do we'll what is
given him TO do. A. o. RingsrLd is a
aSP"osAStsbs 10 " NohcCI tut1SCs SAti-
Z r and loyal. You a always count
on him rs II true republican, as a gen
uine believer in substantial republican
principles. He has not bent to every
breeze. He has not wavered when the
storm was hard upon the party. He
has never gone off after strange gods.
He has stood true and firm when many
wavered or deserted or subsidized. That
Is the kind Of u man A. q. Riugsrud is.
and that is just the kind of IA man South
Dakota needs for governor, and just the
kind of u man the republicans of the
sta e will take delight in electing this
year. Their interests, as we'll as the
interests of the whole people, will be
safe in his hands. He will never be-
tray them. He will never be found
secretly cOnspiring to destroy them.
When he is elected governor he will
be just an honest, able, conscientious
and representative republican governor
doing his duty loyalty; attending TO his
proper public business; not seeking to
domineer and dictate TO the party for
his selfish ends: not building up cliques
and factions: not i%ndulging in crank
ism, fads or fanciful schemes-just the
right man for governor, a good first
rate republican governor. The people
Of South Dakota know him for this
kind Of q He is know as this
kind Of q man far beyond the boundar.
les of his W state. His nomination is
creditable 70 the republican party, and
his election will be creditable to the
people Of South Dakota.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

The Pettigrew party, states the Alb
erdeen News, Ut Sioux Falls ls not de-
lighted with the speech delivered by
General" Coxey In that city. He was
paid 70 talk OF labor, but didn't do 1t
because he didn't know anything about
Il. not being q reading man and never
having been brought into contact with
II. tie knew enough, however, to Sc
cure 100 advance subscribers to his al
leged paper at d each. The wheels OF
reform In this far western country seem
20 need . lot Of greasing.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

senator Cullom, OF Illinois, declares
that the exception contract clause in
the Bland act al 1878 vas put 10 at the
request Of Silver Dick Bland, and yet
We hear q few pops" howl with a
fervOr equal to that OF dervish when
they speaks of 1t.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

William Mckinley-"I do not know
what you think about it, but I believe
II 10 = good deal better TO open the mills
Of the United States to the labor of
America than TO open up the mints Of
the United States to the silver of the
world"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

from these cities In obedience to the
same laws Of distribution which now
exist. Free coinage would afford no
relief, go far a. money is concerned, to
the country generally. The same
credit and the same u would
have to be employed to get the money
out OF these money centers that are now
requisite to obtain money from these
same money centers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
THE JOINT DEBATE.

,asmuch as T. W.. Kyle, Of this County, has Challenged the Editor
of the COURIER to a Joint Debate upon the Silver Question,
as Enumerated in the NATIONAL Political Plaforms-We Have
Selected the Columns of the Courier us the Place and Furnish
This Proposition as the one for Joint Discussion - Resolved,
That the Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver. at the Ratio
of 16 to l, Without Relation to Any Other Nation, Would be
of Financial Injury to Our Government, and Its People as a
Whole.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

II the volume Of money measures the
price Of commodities why Is 1t, Mr..
Free Silver that in France with a per
capita circulation Of as and in Swift
erland with only % per capita prices
{ precisely the same. just toll US all
about It Mr.. Kyle.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
0therS

Anxiously watch declining health OF
their daughters. So many are cut of
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
the early stages, when not beyond
the reach of medicine, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla will restore the quality and
quantity OF the blood and thus give
good health. Read the following letter:
ut Is but just to write about my
daughter Cora, aged 10. She was COM
pletely run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
i've over three months. She had Q bad
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

The population Of the world has in
creased since 1870, only II per cent.
The production Of wheat has increased
825 per cent, wool l079 per cent, cotton
1924 per cent, gold 10 per cent, silver
$50 per cent.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

The freec0inage Of silver would not
result In tho general distribution OF
inoaey. The silver ore would GO from
The mines to smelters, just rs it does
roc, md thence 70 the mints in our
laFgs cfties, just ~ u dnes now. and the
moaeJ resulting therafrom would radi-
~ ~ circulate Through the country
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27
Tins Figures. Uncle SANS.


Total difference =. . ........... 1.2SD, OOO, 0OO
Tim 10 just shy in the five years 1880
millions Of bushels, three times as much
rs is raised in this country in q single
year. Take the year of l895-Tim gives
1880, SUI, 600 when the government re-
ports indicate 2,552, 81, 900, q difference
Of 592 million-mOre than this country
raises in a year. Our friend should be
n little more careful.
OF course Tins purpose Is clear
enough. He want to show that IL is
the decentralization OF silver that
knocked prices q glimmering. That
there has been no overproduction; that
1t il silver, only silver, which has
caused all the trouble. Get your facts,
Tim, from reliable sources and you will
not deceive the reader.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

We handle Guerney refrigerytors,
Barrel Churns, Ice Cream F~reezers,
full line OF Tinware, Staple Hardware.
Gasoline Stoves and Gasoline
s G. THORNTON,
Leading GrOce .
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

Rocky Mountain Tea never fails to
cure constipation Or sick headache.
For sale by DR.. Us. Talcott.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

Ii You want 70 get up early drink
Rocky Mountain Tea on retiring. For
sale by DIR. J.. S. Talcott.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

A clear, beautiful complexion follows
the use Of Rocky Mountain Tea. Try it.
For said by DR.. J. ). 1ialcott.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

They say that Bryan Is running we'll
In Mexico, and that by the Ides Of No
vember he can capture Japan.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

A fresh line Of Bread, Cookies and
Cake 1t City Bakery.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-08-27

Cake, ,Okies or anything in the
Bread line made to order at the City
Bakery.