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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
The Gold Stan
"hA ~
A Fifty-Cent ID,
How will They Vote ?

The result of the coming election will
depend upon the vote of the farmers and
the wage-earners. This is as it should
be. for they, more than any other class,
are vitality interested in the outcome.
They, therefore, should examine care
fully the proposition which the Demo-
cratic-Populist platform offers them, and
they should vote on it with full knowl-
edge of it's conditions and its inevitable
consequences.
The Democratic platform proposes free
and unlimited coinage of silver. This
means for the workingman that the dol
lar which he receives today will purchase
only one-half of what it now purchases.
1t means that the seller of commodities
will demand payment for them on gold
basis. That is to say, he will accept sill
yer, but he will require twice as much of
it for a given article as he does today.
Moreover, he and all other employers of
labor will pay wages IN silver so that
no wage-earner will have as much pur-
chasing power as he has today. This
applies to every Wage-earner in the Unit
ed States, whether he be a day laborer,
a foreman. a superintendent, a salaried
partner or president of n company.
Now. how will this affect the farmer?
Since the pay of Wage-earnerS will be
worth in the market only half what it is
now worth, the consumption of the en-
ployed class-and this class forms the
great purchasing element of our country
will be cut down one-half. They will
be compelled to get along on half the
-four half the meat and half the clothes
that they now consume. There will be
no escape from this, because their earn
ings will buy only half what they will
buy now. There will be, accordingly Il
diminished demand for all food products
and every farmer knows that when there
is no demand for wheat, corn, potatoes
and other products, he cannot sell his
crops.
Furthermore every holder Of a mort
gage on a farm will either demand a
renewal of the mortgage on gold basis
or he will foreclose at the earliest OPP
portunity. If he renews the mortgage
on gold basis he will require twice as
much interest in silver as he now re
ceives If he cannot get this he will
avoid receiving a deprecated currency
in payment of interest and principal.
The wage-earner therefore, would re-
ceive only half what he now receives.
The farmer could not sell his crops. and,
in addition, would lose his farm.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver
means the robbery of the wage-earner
and the farmer. Will they vote for their
own destruction or will they vote for
Protection, which will increase the de-
mand for labor, and, consequently, the
demand for farm products, since men
who are employed always consume more
than men who are unable to find work
VIII they vote for a financial system
that will rob them or will they vote for
sound currency that will give to every
man to whom dollar is due 9 full. hon,
est dollar worth 100 cents in every mar
ket IN the world?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
SLIPPED A COG.
Engine Dashes Down Pixies Peak
Railway, but Automatic Breaks
Stop the Coach.

Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 31.~-The
first accident on the Pixies Peak Cog
wheel railroad since it opened five years
ago occurred yesterday, and but for the
safety brakes used on all the cars OF thlS
line trainload of passengers would
have been hurled down the mountain to
destruction. Coming down the noun
tain the side bars on the driving wheels
on both sides of the engine broke apart
rendering the compressed air brakes on
the engine useless. Conductor Guyman
applied the automatic brakes in the pas
senger coach. the coupling to the engine
having been broken, and soon stopped
the car.
The engineer and fireman were COM
PEELED to abandon the engine, which was
beyond control in moment, and It went
down the % per cent. grade at Il terrific
speed for nearly half a mile, where it
struck curve, jumped the track and
shot through the air for fully 80 feet
going clear over Il boulder fifteen feet
high upon the mountain side above the
track 1t plowed holes in the mountain
and the tender and engine separated just
as the engine exploded, hurting iron and
steel in all directions.
The train was special carrying Man
ager Frederick Harrison and party of
the London & North Western railway
and Maj. S. X. Hooper of the Denver 4
Rio Grande road.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Campaign Pointers.

The sensible voter goes about declar-
ing that the thing most needed is the
free coinage of American muscle.
Prohibition may be Il good thing. but
what the country needs now is the gold
cure.
A "Strayed Goldbug' writes to the
New York Sun of what he calls ''the
eternal fitness of the title, the Boy Ora
tor of the Platte He explains that the
Platte is 1000 miles long and only six
inches deep.
Beware of the man or newspaper who
seeks 10 win in the present political CON
test by prejudice.
Pitch in, boys, and we will show our
silyerite opponents that the Republican
party is made of pure gold and will pan
out 100 cents on the dollar.
An oratorical failure for a man who
was nominated on his lung power is
rather a serious thing.
Mr.. Bryan's speech had the effect of
depressing American stocks in Europe.
Its principal effect, however, was the
depressing of Bryan stock in America.
There is one good thing about the free
silver bubble, and that is that when it's
biggest it will burst.
Scratch a free silver advocate and Won
will find an infatiOnist. He is a man
who believes that wealth can be created
by act of Congress, and hard times abol-
ished by law declaring poverty penal
offense.
Tree coinage OF SILVER would greatly
benefit all the people of this country en-
cept those who happen not to own silver
mines.
The more the people understand the
real meaning of free silver coinage the
less likely the country is to be afflicted
with that folly.
Maj. Mckinley will put his record
against Willie Bryan's promises and
await the verdict of the people.
To WI binly
dollar a bushel for wheat under free
silver coinage should remember that n
cents worth of silver and A CENTS
worth of wind do not make dollar.
1t will take more than Bryans oratory
to make the people believe that the
wrong is the right.
The intuition of women tells them
that Mckinley is the man to be Presi-
dent, and woe be to the husband who
does not follow their advice.
1t is becoming evident that Mr.. BRYAN
heads too many tickets.
If a silver basis is good thing for
nation, why is Russia eXerting her
best effort to accumulate a vast store of
gold in order to reach a full gold basis
as soon as possible? Russia is now on
silver basis, and desires no longer to
be classed with China, Japan. Mexico,
Argentine Republic. Brazil. Ecquador,
India, Afghanistan and every other in
consequential. poverty-stricken nation on
the earth. The nations which are the
more prosperous and more powerful
spurn 53-cent dollar monetary basis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
AFFECTS PEACE OF EUROPE.
Death of Prince Lobanoff-Ros
sky, Russian Minister Of
Foreign Affairs.

Kief Russia, Aug. 31.--Prince Loban-
ff-Rostovsky, the Russian minister of
foreign affairs, who accompanied the
Gar and Czarina on their foreign tour
recently commenced, died suddenly yes
terday while en- route from Vienna to
this city. The news of his death has
caused profound SORROW and considerab BILE
excitement throughout Russia The re-
greet felt is intensified by the fact that
diplomatic arrangements between the
powers for the settlement Of the yexed
Armenian and Oriental questions may
now be broken off and the Gar may be
compelled to defer his proposed visit to
Germany, Denmark, France and Eng
land
st. Petersburg. Aug. 31.-Following
the death of Prince LODanoff-R ostoysky,
the Russian minister for foreign affairs,
the Gar has summoned the deputy of
the Russian minister for foreign affairs,
NJ. Chichkine, to Kief
London. Aug. 31-A special dispatch
from Vienna says that Prince Lobanoff-
ROstovsky died of heart disease.
Vienna, Aug. 31.-The Fremdenblatt
says that while Prince Lobanoff- Restov-
sky was in Vienna he complained of
difficulty in breathing which he attrib-
uted to Qualification of the arteries. He
said he hoped to take q course of mas
sage at Breslau. When he accompanied
Count Won Gutenberg. the German am
bassadOr here, on q visit to Count Nigra,
the Italian ambassador to Austria-Hun-
gary, the prince had an attack of faint
ness so severe that he nearly lost con-
seriousness, and it was owing to this that
he changed his plans and started for
Kief instead Of remaining longer in this
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02

proves that whenever production has
been stimulated by the imitation of prices
it has invariably been Overdone. Collapse
has always followed, usually attended
by panic, and multitudes have suddenly
been thrown out of ,employment-to stay
has Overtaken production once more.
These spasm of production with in
teryals of stagnation are about the worst
thing possible for labor. The best thing
is the utmost steadiness compatible with
industrial progress, and that is attain
able only under stable monetary
standard and system.
Trifing with the standard is something
that no workingman should counte-
nance for moment. The toilers OF
England learned that long ago, and to-
day they warn their American brethren
against the seductive wiles of the sill
verites who seek to degrade the stand
ard.-Chicago Chronicle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
ADVANCE GUARD ok. OPP.
Camp Yale is Ready for the Uniform
Rank Encampment.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. 31.-The adj
vance guard of the knights of Pythias
uniform rank. which will hold it's great
demonstration and encampment in Min
neapolis this week, appeared early this
morning in half a dozen divisions of the
Minnesota regiments. None of the dele
cations from the outside states will reach
the city before late this afternoon and
the majority of them will arrive tomor-
row morning. AS each train appears it
is met by details of the First Minnesota
regiment, who escort the visitors to
Camp Yale, where they are assigned
their places in the big city of tents. The
city is already in gala attire and crowded
with visitors, attracted by the low rates,
the encampments and the carnival feat
ures arranged for every night this week
by a citizens committee
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
FINANCIAL DEFINITIONS.

In response to many inquiries as to the
meaning of expressions commonly used in
the discussion of issues involved in this
campaign, the Press has prepared the
following brief table of terms and equiv
alents:
Free Coinage.
The melting and stamping into
money, without charge for the sery-
ice. of all silver bullion brought to
the minis.
Sixteen to One.
The ratio sought TO be maintained
by law, according to which sixteen
ounces of silver shall equal in value
one ounce of gold
Commercial Ratio.
The ratio of actual value, the rate
at which gold and silver can be eX-
changed 1t is now thirty-one ounces
of silver to one of gold
Sound Money.
currency of which every dollar
is exchangeable at par with the
standard dollar of the country-in
this country a gold dollar
The Gold Standard.
The measure of value adopted by
the leading nations of the world as
basis for their currency-the coin
(gold) in which all obligations are
finally redeemable.
A Fifty-Cen Dollar.
One which, owing to the deprecia-
ton of silver is intrnscally worth
only this amount, and maintains It's
face value only by reason of the gov
ernment's pledge to keep it at par
ity with gold.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
DELUSIVE PROMISES.
Trifiing with tho Currency Should Not
be Tolerated by Workincmen.

The silver orator of the vacant lot tells
his audience that free coinage would
make money plenty. that if we had more
money prices would rise and that if
prices should rise there would be a great
demand for labor at higher wages.
As to that, iii the first place, free coin
age would not make money more plenty
for considerable time. The first effect
would be to drive every dollar of gold
we have out of use and that would leave
us with about one third less of what
passes for money than we now have.
All experience, as we'll as reason, proves
that this would be the first effect, even
if silver and other currency should fall
no more than l pei cent. below gold.
But suppose free coinage should give
us more money, how would the man who
works for wages get any more of it?
He has no silver bullion costing him SO
cents per ounce to take TO the mint and
get made into dollars for his own use at
the rate of S1.30 to the ounce.
The mine owner can rake off that fine
profit of 81 cents an ounce, but no man
who works for wages can do it, no not
even the man who digs out the ore in
the mine or labors in the smelling works
Prices would go up, unquestionably, if
we bad more and cheaper money. If
money gets cheaper people will not give
so much sugar or cloth or lumber for a
will take more money to buy the same
quantity of sugar, cloth etc.
How is the W0rkingman going to get
the increased sums of money that he will
have to pay for his groceries and cloth
ing? He has nothing to sell but his la
Dor. He cannot sit down in the evening
and mark up his labor and go out and
sell it for 10, ~, 50 or 100 per cent.
more the next day
The chances are that he will get no
more for his labor until long after he
has been paying more for most of the
things he has TO buy. and then only af-
ter he has been subjected to the further
loss and the wearing irritation of Il
strike.
While the mine owners ana others on
the ground floor of this silver deal are
raking in their nice advance of s. TO 80
per cent. on bullion the man who works
for wages viii have hard scratching to
get enough more to cover half his loss
from the rise in prices.
but" says the silver orator, when
prices begin to boom everybody will pro-
duce more so as to make money on the
rise: workmcn must be hired to do the
producing, and wages must go up.
The most thorough and careful statis-
teal Investigations prove that whenever
prices have gone up under the process of
making money cheap they have always
gone up more than wages. History also
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Wordsworth THOMPSON Dead.

New York, Aug. Wordsworth
Thompson. the American historical paint
er. died at Summit, \. j.. Saturday. the
fourth national academician to die in Il
month. His wife, the sister of Pompella,
an artist Of Chicago, survives him. He
was one of the academy's most faithful
exhibitors, as well as one Of its most
successful. He had been for several
years in delicate state OF health, which
he attributed to the privations of his
student days. He was sure that they
had been invaluable to him and often
quoted approyingly the Elizabethan re-
ceipt to make Of a boy an artist: GIVE
him an education and then let him
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
THROWN FROM A TENEMENT.
Cincinnati Police Mystified by the Case
of Mrs. Haney.

Cincinnati, O., Aug. 31.-Mrs. Mary
Haney, aged so, is dying at the city hos
pital from injuries supposed to have
been received in having been thrown
from tenement house here where she
lived with her husband and daughter.
There is a mystery about how it hap
pened but the police theory is that some
one in the tenement house, in a quarrel
or disturbance of some sort, must have
thrown her to the ground, where she was
found about 2:30 a. N. Her own room
being on the ground floor it is clear that
she must have been elsewhere when the
quarrel took place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
KILLED WIFE AND SELF.
Scion of an Old French Family Winds
Up Debauch.

Detroit. Mich, Aug. 31.-Frank Beau
bien. aged 40, shot and mortally wounded
his wife this morning, attempted to kill
his two children and then blew his own
brains out.
Beaubien, who is a member of an old
French family, was left considerable
money some time ago and has been drink
ing heavily ever since. This morning he
went home drunk, and when his wife re-
monstrated he drew Il revolver and shot
her in the back as she ran. lie also at
tempted to shoot his two children, but
both escaped injury. He then placed the
revolver to mis- own head and blew his
brains DAT
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
rrans-ContinentaI Relay Race.

San Francisco, Ca. Aug. 31.-A cou-
rier in the Examiner-J Journal relay race
reached Fort Steele Wyoming. at 1870
this morning. The time from Creston to
Rawlins, twenty-eight miles, was in four
hours. one minute. The loss on schedule
time to date is six hours in a total dis
fanca of 1161 miles
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
INTEREST WILL NOT BE PAID.
Union Pacific Cannot Meet Charges
Against Some Bonds.

New York, Aug. 31.-It was reported
today that the Union Trust company,
not having received any funds for the
purpose, the interest OIL the Union Pa
cifc land grant sinking fund 8 per cent.
bonds due tomorrow, amounting to $780,
600, would not be paid. None of the
Union Pacific receivers are in town at
present. A story was current that the
difficulty arose partly from the fact that
warrants for the transfer of lands on
which the payment of the interest de-
pended had not been signed for a long
time past,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
IN A STATE OF SIEGE.
Revolutionary Outbreak on Philii-
pine Islands Becomes
ALARMING.

Berlin, Aug 31.-An official dispatch
received here from Manila, capital of the
PHILIPPINE islands, announces that a revO-
lutionary outbreak has occurred there
and that a state of siege has been pro-
claimed.
ship Isla de Cuba has been ordered to
proceed to the PHILIPPINE islands imnle-
6iataly
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
CLARENCE WHITE SET FREE.
Three Men Accused of the Murder of T.
j. Marshall Acquitted.

Chicago, H., Aug. 31-Clarence White
Frank Carpenter and Charles Quincy
were acquitted of the murder of Thomas
j. Marshall Saturday before Judge
Windes, the jury returning the verdict
at 6:15 p. M.
In spite of the stern warning of the
court and the efforts of the bailiffs to-
ward decOrum the enthusiasm of the
spectators showed itself in a tremendous
shout when the verdict freeing White
was read.
The scene in the Jail was even more
dramatic when the acquitted prisoners
were taken back to their cells to be for
mally discharged from custody The 400
prisoners cheered White to the echo and
were answered, cheer upon cheer. by the
hundreds in the alley outside adjoining
the cellrOom
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
BIG GOLD APPROPRIATIONS.

Date is $IS, $50, 900.
New York. Aug. 31-The total de-
posits of gold at the subtreasury this
morning in exchange for legal tenders up
to II 80 a. m. amounted to $4,000, 900.
]. p Morgan 4 Co. deposited 81, 5000
the Hanover National bank, 100000;
Lazard Freres 81 100000, and the Bank
Of Montreal, $50O.000
The total gold for import ordered thus
far aSorecateS SIS 30. 900
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Receiver for an "L" Road.

New York, Aug. 31.-The Kings Coun-
ty Elevated company operating in Brook
lyn has been placed in the hands of a
receiver. Gen. Jourdan, president of
the company. was named as received.
Poor business due to TIE trolley s1's-
tenn is also given as one of the reasons.
The capital Of the company is 4,13G,O00.
The road was constructed 1T Il cost OF
S14. 3O4. SOB and has line Of eight and
nnn-hnlf milnS nf tIncl,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Had n Stroke of PARALYSIS.

Reinhold Kiesslich, shipping clerk of the
Pabst Brewing company, suffered s.
stroke of paralysis at his home on Thir-
ty-ninth and Vliet streets last evening.
His condition is quite serious. Mr.. Kiess-
Itch is 56 years of age and has been con-
nected with the Pabst Brewing company
for many years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
BIG BLAZE AT CHEBOYGAN.

Luln Der DOck anu NedFIy o,UUU, UOU Il Get
of Timber Burned.
Cheboygan, Mich, Aug. 31.-[Special.]
Fire caught in the lumber dock owned
by the Cheboygan Lumber company yes
terday and two or three million feet of
lumber burned. The loss is about $780,
600 on lumber owned by j. and L.
Charlton, TonaWanda. n. Y. The loss
of dock will be very heavy. The wind
was in the right quarter to keep it from
the mill. Part of the loss will fall on
John SDry
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Figures on Names Majority.

Augusta, Me-. Aug. 31-Joseph II.
Manley, chairman of the state Republi-
can committee, states that an actual
canvass of the state shows that the Re
publican majority in the state election
on September II should not be less than
$4,000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
THE RED LION BURNS.
An Historic Hotel at Stockbridge, Mass,
Destroyed.

Stockbridge, Mass, Aug. 31.-The his
toric Red Lion of Stock bridge, the most
popular hotci in the Berkshire Hills, was
totally destroyed by fire today.
Only the front wall, which dates from
1773 was left standing. The house was
crowded there being 1S9 guests, but no
lives were lost The loss is $50, 00O iE
c11ra nip So5 600
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
.Iohn Duff Dangerously Insane.

London, Aug. 31,-It is reported that
John Duff, another of the Irish political
prisoners, has become dangerously in
sane.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02

as truly as there were in the campaigns
for Union and Emancipation.-Re
Theodore L. Cuyler in The Evangelist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
THE INDEBTED FARMER
DEBASEMENT OF THE CURRENCY
WILL NOT HELP HIM.

Poor Wages to the Laborer Would Lead
to a CurtaiIment of the Consumption of
Farm Products-Prices Would Rule
Lower.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-09-02
Sound Money

A currency of which every dollar
is exchangeable at par with the
standard dollar of the country-i1
this country a gold dollar.
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-08-07
NONE THERE.

A Kansas farmer, on reading SEN
atOr Shermah's speech, proposing
to take the last shirt off the backs
of the people, sat YEARLY down and
wrote TO the Kansas Lantern as fol-
lows.
"Tell me, ye Kansas winds that
whistle through my clOthes-dO We
not know some lonely spot where
mOrtals find reposes Some valley,
bright and fair, some island in the
sea +? Where Sherman cannot come .
Wire our last shirt is free! The
wild winds blew gruesOme blast,
as if i'm deep despair, then whisper
ing, eyes, in Heaven above, where
all is love, there'll be no gold bugs
there
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-08-07
Related To Himself too Often
to 1.-Two.

A good man and good citizen
was found dead, evidently having
committed suicide. No reasonable
cause could be given for the rash
act, until finally paper was found
under his hat which read thus
81 was widower | married a
widow with a grown daughter my
father visited us and fell in love
with my step-daughter and married
her, and consequently he became
my sOn-in-law and my stcp-daught-
err became my mother. Later my
wife bore me a son, who under the
circumstances became my fathers
brother-in-law and my own uncle
on account of being a brother to
my step-daughter. My step-daugh-
ter also gave birth to son, who
was certainly my brother and at
the same time my grandson. My
own wife through all this was my
grandmother. / was at the same
time my wife's husband and grand
child, and in consequence the hus-
band of anyonc's grandmother
must be his grandfather. became
my own grandfather, which was
more than 1 could possibly bear"