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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-01

reserve, causing the bond issues, and
not the depletion by the new tariff laws.
If the silver party had been in power it
would have taken advantage of its
rights under the contract and redeemed
those notes with standard silver dollars
worth 100 cents each, or else those notes
would have gone unredeemed. This act
would have Iessened our present in
debtedness 1892, 100000 and saved an
annual interest on the same of $13 ,000,-
900. Had this amount of interest been
expended on public works it would have
made times better, and in the channels
of trade in the course of year it would
have paid off easily $5Oo,00O,0o0 of indi-
vidual Indebtedness. This S13, 900, 900 is
nearly one-third the amount put in
circulation annually under the Sherman
law of 1907. E. Evans, in Chicago
Record
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WHY BONDS WE'RE ISSUED.
How the Treasury Was Robbed of Its
Gold Reserve.

How the Treasury Was Robbed of Its
Gold Reserve.
What caused the recent bond issues
under President Cleveland? Some say
that the tariff was insufficient to bear
the running expenses of the govern
ment, and that money had to be bor-
rowed to make up the deficit. This is a
mistaken idea. The SIP, 000, 900 that the
government was really short during the
two years business (1S94-5) was not all
payable in gold. You can figure sec, 00O,-
900, however, TO be paid in gold, for that
would be the amount of interest for two
years on the bonds then outstanding.
This would make $50, 100000 of gold pay
able in 1894 and S30,000,000 payable in
1895, and statistics show that there was
enough gold in the treasury to have paid
this without touching the 500, 000, 900
lawful gold reserve. You know we never
have to issue bonds until we lower this
reserve. So that the idea of the tariff
being the cause was a mistake Then
what did cause the recent bond issues,
aggregating $262, 100000? This great
question is solved in the United States
treasury department circular 1913, bot
tom page SO. 1t says, in substance, that
during the fiscal years 1896 treasury
notes and United States notes amount
ing in all to about $460, 0o0, 900 were pre-
scented at the United States treasury
and payment in gold demanded, and
that they were so redeemed. This it
was that robbed the treasury of its gold
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HON. JAMES 6. JOY.
Death OF the Prominent Railroad Lawyer
and Promoter at Detroit.

DETROIT. Mich, Sept. 25.-Hon.
James f. Joy died at his residence
here after an illness of about three
weeks, aged IS years.
James F. Joy was born in Durham, ". H,
december 2, 1910. He graduated from Dart
mouth coIIsge In 1888; was admitted to the bar
in Boston in 1895, and Immediately came west,
locating in Detroit In 1916 Mr.. Joy became
identified with the corporation which had
bought the Michigan Central railroad and
shaped the legislation in Indiana and Illinois
under which it was extended to Chicago.
Mr. Joy then made railway law a specially and
he became the most noted lawyer in railway
litigation in the country A celebrated case in
which he figured was that OF George C. Bates
against the Michigan Central and Illinois Gen.
trail railroad ompanies involving the title to
all the station grounds OF both companies on
the lake front of that city, the case finally be-
ing decided in the company's favor by the
United States supreme court.
Mr.. Joy became identified with the railroad
interest of the country and largely engaged in
many years was president OF the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy. He promoted the railroad
from Kansas City to the Indian territory,
which was built with the aid OF government
troops and built the first bridge across the
Missouri river at Kansas City.
In 1857 he undertook the building of the 500
canal, and two years later the first ship canal
between Lake Superior and the Sault Ste.
Marie river was open In 1s67 he became presi-
uSut OL tue railroad ana
mediateIy began the extension OF its lines,
promoting the building of the Jackson. Lam
sing & Saginaw, the branch road from Jack
son to Grand Rapids, and the Detroit &
Bay City When the promoters of the Detroit,
Lansing Northern railroad failed in their
effort Mt Joy took hold and built that road.
He secured connection for this city with the
Wabash system by building the branch from
LoganSport 10 Detroit Then he projected and
built the Detroit Union depot and station
grounds for the use OF the Wabash: Flint &
Pere Marquette; Detroit. Lansing & North
ern, and Canadian Pacific railroads
MIR. JOY served term in the Legislature dur
ing the civil He was a warm personal
friend Of the late James g. Blaine. and made
one of the speeches placing Mr.. Blaine in nom
ination for she presidency IN 1884 He was
twice married. mis- first wife being Martha
Alger Reed, OF Yarmouth, Mass, ana his SEQ
ond Mary Bourne. of Hartford, Conn Two
daughters and three sons survive him-l
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WISCONSIN BoLTocRATs.

An Incident Which Shows Up the
Strength of the Goldbugs.
Here is significant straw from Wis
consin which well illustrates the weak
ness of the goldbug democrats. Wis
consin has the reputation of being the
state where there is the largest number
of goldbug democrats. 1t is the home
of that venerable irreconcilable, Gen.
Bragg. 1t had an anti-silyer delegation
in the Chicago convention, and it was
expected to keep up the fight.
the section law of Wisconsin, like
that of Louisiana, requires 1000 sigma
lures to enable the goldbug democratic
ticket to be put on the official ballot.
The goldbugs have been working on d
list for weeks, but have been unable to
get the LOCO signatures. They could
not get over 600. and were in despair,
and finally turned the list over to Chair
man Usher, of the republican state cen
trail committee.
What" be exclaimed, so says that
stalwart goldbug paper, the Chicago
Record, ''arc these all the names you car
get?" He was informed that it was
very hard work to get democrats to sign,
that the state had been canvassed, and
it seemed impossible to get more sigma
lures.
s'Evrry republican can sign that" re-
piled the chairman. Hustle. and get
some republican signatures. They will
do as WE'LL
1t is probable that the Wisconsin gold
bugs will get enough signat lures % place
+I,eir +fcl,at m, the official ballot lint r
will only be with republican assistance.
It shows that the goldbug democrats de
pend mainly on the republicans for
strength. that they are merely repub-
liean side show, and very weak one n
that, when after weeks of work in the
great sound money" state of Wiscon
sin, as they like TO call it. they can get
only 600 signatures to their petition for
representation a: the election.-N. O..
Times-Democrat.
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MUST DO 1T ALONE.

England VIII Never Help the United
States to Remonetize Silver.
We invite the attention of our friends,
who propose to wait for an inter-
national agreement before restoring sill
yer, to the utterance of the London
Times. It says: England does not
want it, and we do not believe Amer
leans who are using this argument for
political purposes want it, either.
But if America remonetizes silver Eng
land may be forced to make some such
compromise"
England not only does not want hi
metallism, which everyone knows, but
she does not want any international
agreement. She prefers to stand with
knife in hand and exact her pound of
flesh.
The best authority for public senti-
ment, and that especially of the money
power of Great Britain, admits that the
United States may alone remonetize sill
yer, and, what is still more significant,
admits that England may thus be
forced" to do the same.
There are plenty of timid souls-es-
Eecially in the merchant and banking
classes of our citizens, who say: "Oh,
the United States could never do IT
alone. The money powers of England
and Europe would crush us out. We
would be ruined During the revolu-
tionary war there was tin1id class who
said we could never stand alone. They
became sycophant tories. But those
who have espoused the great cause of
the people to-day have the courage of
their convictions. and propose, as fore
seen by tas Times, ito force" England,
or rather that fraction of England.
which seifishly clings to the single gold
standard, back to the bimetallism which
her money lenders had forced her to
abandon. The force will be that which
comes from reason and intelligent self
interest. It will restore the monetary
system approved by the best political
economists of Europe and desired by
large majority of the masses of the
peopIe.-Farnl. Field and Fireside.
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THE POSITION OF SILVER.
1t Is the Legal Tender Quality That
Maintains its Parity with Gold.

1t Is the Legal Tender Quality That
Maintains its Parity with Gold.
Several correspondents have adj
dressed the Herald in reference to the
question whether silver dollars and sill
yer certificates are redeemable in gold
or not. The answer of Secretary Car
Isle, as given below, is conclusive
enough, but the campaign of education,
as comprehended by the majority of the
republican organs, consists in either
confounding or deliberately misleading
the public.
The Lincoln Journal, the other day,
said:
These silver certificates are now redeem
able in gold at the subtreasuries. AS any
man can take his silver dollars and ex-
change them for silver certificates at will
and then exchange his certificates for gold,
the statement of Mr. Bryan in his New
York acceptance that it is the legal tender
character of the silver dollar that keeps
It at par with gold and nothing else, is
absurdly childish. He denies that the gov
eminent pays out gold for silver dollars
He would, therefore, imply that if free
coinage is adopted and as an inevitable
consequence the government must cease
from redeeming its paper issues in gold
coin on demand, yet the legal tender
character of the free coinage dollar would
be kept at par with gold. Those who con-
tend that Mr.. Bryan is an honest man
and believes what he says in public must
therefore, set him down as an imbeciIe.
The following letter addressed to
Senator Faulkner explains itself:
My Dear Sir: So Gar as / have been
able to ascertain, neither the treasury
department nor any subtreasury has ever
been called upon tO redeem silver dollar5
in gold, and no such dollars have been,
in fact, redeemed in gold. At the sub
treasury in San Francisco it often happens
that silver dollars and gold is paid out
in exchange for silver dollars in small
auoUz.s but this simply occurs in the
ordinary transactions of the business at
that place and for the purpose CT accom-
modating the public with money of small
denominations when needed and for Sc
curing for the subtreasury money of small
denominations when needed. It is not
in any cerse OF the term a redemption Of
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BOLD AND SUCCESSFUL.
Hold-Up of Chicago Cashier-WiId
Flight for Liberty With the Spells.

HOld-UP of Chicago Cashier-WIId
Flight for Liberty With the Spells.
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-Two robbers late
this afternoon entered the Office of the
Western Foundry Co., at the corner Of
Thirty-seventh and Albany avenue,
and holding up the cashier, took 81, 600
from the safe and escaped. They were
pursued by a crowd which was col
lected by the foundry people, and were
in a fair way to be captured at Thirty
sixth and California, but again eluded
their pursuers. At this place the
buggy in which the men were riding
broke down, and as they were about
starting to escape on foot milkman
came along. The two men jumped
into his wagon and demanded that he
vacate. On refusing, they shot him,
pitched him cut and drove away at a
furious pace.
Officers from the Brighton police sta.
ton who had been appraised of the out
rage were soon on the scene, and
started in pursuit of the fleeing rob.
beers in a patrol wagon. The men
were lost sight of, however, but the
police after following in the direction
in which they were supposed to have
fed, found, nearly two miles from the
foundry, the milk wagon, which had
also broken down.
The entire southwestern police dis
trict was notified and large detail of
officers was sent out.
There were five men in the office of
the foundry when the hold-up oc-
Cured. 1t is claimed by one of these
that the men were former employees,
One of the robbers was fashionabiy
dressed, while the other was rather
shabbiIy dressed in suit of brown.
The name of the cashier is NJ. A.
Rourke. The miIkman, Frank Ny
hoft, was shot in the leg and not dam
gerously wounded.
The police up to late hour had Sc
cured no trace of the highwaymen.
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a shenf Of Proverbs.

As jewel of gold in swine's snout,
so is fair woman withouta skirt.
A fat road malxeth a cheerful coun-
tenance, but tya steep hill is the spirit
broken.
Who can find woman who doth
cycle with safety? For her price is far
above rubies.
When scorching cometh, then cometh
shame, but with the slow rider is wis
dom.
1t Is better to ride alone on a "bone-
shaker" than with brawling woman
on tandem.
She that rideth with wise men shall
be safe, but companion of scorchers
shall be destroyed.
1t is the glory of women to conceal
their ankles, but the honor of men is
to display their legs.
A wise woman feareth and departeth
from crowded streets, but the foolish
rideth and is confident.
Whose mocketh the divided skirt re-
proacheth his manhood, and he that is
glad at a skirt lifted by the wind shall
not be unpunished.-N Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
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silver dollars In gold, or of the gold In
silver The result of these transactions
at the subtreasury is that the government
gains much more gold than it loses. Worry
truly yours,
Washington, D. c., Aug. &c, 1886.
In his statement of June 1, 1896, Sec
rotary Carlisle said: Neither silver
certificates nor silver dollars are re-
deemable in gold" On page IL of the
same circular, speaking of "redemp-
tion,' the secretary says: "Gold and
silver dollars being standard coins of
the United States, are not redeemable. I"
Los Angeles Herald.
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roo sm1L1 a BASE.
We Need a Greater Quantity of Prfmar
Money.


1t is puzzle to a great many people
that with the increase of silver money
coined since 1873, and why, having all
this silver in circulation, the silver men
insist that silver has been greatly
wronged, and that we have not now
genuine bimetallism.
1t is necessary. to reach correct views
on this particular branch of the silver
question, that the investigator IN
search of the truth should study the dis
tinction between primary money and
secondary money.
Prior to 1873 the silver dollar was
unit of value in the United States the
same as the gold dollar; it was abso-
lutte money of redemption, the govern
ment minis being open to all that was
brought, and in this country the silver
dollar was worth a percentage over
the gold dollar. This was due TO the
fact that the European ratio was
slightly less than our own. 1t was 151s
to 1, while the American ratio was 16
to 1.
In 1878, by the Infamous demonetiz-
ing law sneaked through congress as
the result of a conspiracy Matched in
London and Wall street, gold was made
the exclusive standard, and that year.
or the next, took from silver its legal
function, and closed the minis against
free coinage. This was likewise done
by Germany, and little later by other
European states. as it had been done by
Great Britain in 1916. at the commence
ment of decentralization in 1873 there
Irara oDIv % O00 OOO DeoDle of FurOoe
on the gold standard, including Eng
land and Portugal, while there were
nearly 3OO,OOO,OoO in Europe and Amer
lea on the silver or bimetallic stand
ard. At that time there were about 3d.
OOO,OO0,00O of gold, and the same amount
of silver in the world performing the
function of primary or redemption
money. This $4,000. 100000 was the
basis of money upon which all prices
in civilized countries were established,
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vaNDALs Or LIGHTNING

Have Badly Shattered the Washington
Monument at South Mountain.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-A dispatch
from HagerstOwn, Md, says:
The monument on South Mountain,
a few miles from BOons5oro, Washing.
ton county, erected to the mem.
DRY of George Washington by the
citizens Of Boonsboro in 1897,
was either struck by lightning
or dynamited a few nights ago and
badly shattered. A large portion of
the handsome structure fell in mass
at the base.
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A CHICAGO WINE MERCHANT
Makes a Probably Successful Effort to
shuttle on.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-John NJ. Faul-
haber, wealthy wine merchant resid-
ing at $50 North Clark street, attempt
ed suicide Thursday night. After
retiring he turned the gas partly on
and fired to shots from revolver
the bullets entering his head. The
act was committed late at night, and
was not discovered until morning. He
is still alive, but no hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery. business
and domestic troubles were the cause.
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Made an Assessment to Raise a Campaign
Fund.

LITTLE Rock. Ark, Sept 26.-Tke
populist state central committee of
Arkansas las made an assessment of
FIVE cents upon each man who voted
for Barker for governor in 1894. Barker
received 24,541 votes and if each one
of the number contributes q nickel,
the Arkansas populist campaign fund
will amount to 81, 227.O5.
The object of this fund is to push
the interest of the Bryan and Watson
electors in this state.
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The Net Cold Rescrvc

WAsHLSGToN, Sept 26,-The net
gold reserve at the close of business
yesterday stood at Sl19, 639, 1O2. The
days Withdrawals of gold at New
York was So, 500. There were ex-
changed for gold deposited 81, 600, 900
In currency.
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Peace on Earth.

This is once more enjoyed by the rheumatic
wise enough to counteract theirprogressive
maIady with Host tiers Stomach Bitters.
No testimony is stronger than that which
indicates it as source of relief in this COM
plant. 1t is also eminently effective as a
treatment for kidney trouble, dyspepsia, de
bility, liver complaint and constipation.
Use it with persistence for the above.
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Death of Mrs. Albert Sidnev ,Iohnso,

Los ANGELES, Cal, Sept 26-Mrs. Eliza
Griffin johnson, the widow of the late
Gen. Albert Sidney johnson, died in
this city yesterday at the home of her
son-in-law, United States Attorney
Denis. She was II years of age.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and smoke Your Life
Away.

If YOU want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic,
fun of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker that makes weak men
strong. Many gain ten pounds IN ten Gays.
Over 200, 600 cured. Buy No-To-Rac from
your own druggist, who will guarantees q
cure. Booklet and sample mailed free: Ad-
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago orNew YORK.
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GEN. MExiA,
MsxIOo's Leading Statesman and FInancior,
Is Dead.

MeKICOb Le3UInk StAbeBmAh ana I 1lAuCI6F1
Is Dead
DALLAS, Tex, Sept. ga private
telegram announces the death yester
day, in the City of Mexico, of Gen.
Mexia, chairman of the ways and
means committee OF the house of rep
resentatives of the Mexican congress.
Gen. Mexia was regarded as the lead
ing statesman and fuancier of the
Mexican republic. The town of Mex.
ia, Tex, was named for him. He
owned 10000 acres of land in this
state. He was II years of age.
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'sYoU will be married at high noon,
supposed" said Tenspot to his free silver
friend. II shall be married at IS minutes
to l." replied the white metal man.-De-
troit Free Press.
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Probably the average piutocrat is
afraid that il the people get in the sad
die, he'll wake up some morning with
out knowing where the next million is
to come chicago Dispatch
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s'I TOLD her would lay the world at her
feet'' s'What did she sayl' ''She said If
I was that athletic ought to be travelling
with show ~ Chicago Record.
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The old soldiers are getting in line
for sixteen to one. They arc not the
kind to ask John Bulls copsent that
Uncle Sam shall enact his own laws
Omaha World-Herald.
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s'MY boy, it is high time check was
placed on your performances" 'S.rhank
you, father. Please make it payable on
sight"
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: safe Practical Solution.

Under the gold standard there can be
no relief. Times, already bad. must con-
tinue to grow worse. Every business
feels the necessity for more money, and
the free coinage of silver offers safe
and practical solution to the pressing
evil of the Philadelphia Item.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-01

CAsCARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-01

mo MAUDE, middle-of-the-road candi-
date is not bicyclist. I'm orristown
Herald.
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friends
the time putting the screw"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-22
OFT REPEATED.
Justice Field VIII Not Retire So Long as
His III alth Is Good.

Chicago. Jan. 21.-A special to the
Daily News from Washington says:
Associate Justice Field will go upon
the retired list at the close of this
term of the supreme court If he keeps
the promise that he made to the presl-
dent and Senator White of California.
The senator Is authority for the state
ment. and for the information that Jus
tice Fields successor has been practl-
cally agreed upon in the person OF
Judge Erksine NJ. Ross, whom Presi-
dent Cleveland in his first term ap-
pointed on the United States circuit
bench In California. Judge Ross nomi-
nation will be satisfactory TO Justice
Field Senator White brought about
the reconciliation between the presi-
dent and Justice Field, enacted recent
ly at the white house.
Washington, Jan. H.-When Justice
Field was asked to-day regarding the
report that he would retire at the end
of his term, he said: mo such state
ment has been authorized by me. OF
course, a man at my time of life may
retire from the bench. If my health
should not permit me to attend to my
duties easily, l should not hesitate TO
leae the bench, but as long as / can
attend to these duties with ease, l have
no intention of retiring. At present my
heath is very good Should | again be
i'll. as / was last year, i should not
health Is very good. Should l again be
gard to my intention of retiring have
been circulated repeatedly, but with
out any authority"