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The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Serious Charge.

On yesterday officer Moss arrested
John Convey on the charge Of cutting
Jno. Kramer with q knife. he was
locked up and will be given q chsnce
to explain this morninr.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Addressed the Students.

The address to the students of the
National Business College yesterday
morning by the Rev. Hay Watson
Smith WAS excellent Tho speaker
told the students tina riches was a good
thing. and he said he thought God in
tended people to be diligent in business,
but while they were laying up riches 10
be careful how they got them, and be
careful for what they used them.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Bedford's New Po,tmaster.

A. eoyd Olaytor has been recently ap-
pointed postmaster at Bedford CITY, to
tax the place of the presentincumbent,
VIM. 81. Mosley. The position was
holly contested for by Jno. W. john
ston, q prominent citizen OF that town.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22

The entries for the vocal music class
have now closed for this season. Twenty
young men have joined and are now
settling down to hard work urder the
direction OF Prof. P. O. Leary. The next
meeting of the class will be held on Sat-
urjay instead OF Monday. Owing to the
special meeting Of the membership com
mittee and other members of the $780,
citation on Thursday night the meeting
OF the workers. Bible class will be
omitted this week.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22

Ladies' and Misses Black Felt rr,mm.a
Walking Hats and Sailors elk baud .hh
biLdin.;, Csc Kind, cat to 25 Cents.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Local Bits.
News of People
and Events.
Happenings Briefly and Reliably
Put Before You.

Street cars run in Blueheld on Mon
day for the first time.
The d~ullness OF the market yesterday
was much complained Of.
HAVE your children's pictures mad
at Cottage Gallery; II pictures 25 cents.
The Hsgerstown, Nd, Mail says that
Sands Bros. have gone with Mains cir
Gus.
Six members OF "Sowing the Wind"
Opera Company, are registered at the
Ponce de Leon.
The condition OF 8. 8. Shaffer, deputy
commissioners of revenue. was mach i'm
proved yesterday.
Rev J. e. Schoolfeld, the evangelist,
is conducting n revival at the Centenary
Church in %Lynchburg.
A woman in South Carolina has asked
for q divorce because her husband would
not subscribe for a newspaper.
There is considerable complaint from
various psrts of the State of the scarcity
OF water. and the springs and wells are
unusually low.
%Lynchburg has rsised $50 for the
fund to restore the buildings at the
University of Virginia recently de-
stroyed by fire.
Ed. Humphreys, the 1~3-year- old pri-
vate secretary of Superintendent N. D..
Maher, OF Blueield, was in the city yes.
terday. Ed. Is Il former Roanoker and
o bright boy.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Newspaper Changed Hapds. a

Newspaper Changed Hands.
The BlueAeld Daily Telegraph. which
was formerly edited by G. G. BowtHsld,
has beer purchased by II. 1. Shott and
10 now run In the interest of the Be
publican party.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22
Fingers Gut or,

Fingers Gut on.
CT. Hutchinson, an employee OF the
planning mill of the Roanoke Machine
Works. had two fingers OF his left hand
cut of yesterday by a saw. CN..s
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22

Mnrrfsge License Issued.
A marriage license was issued yester.
day by the clerk Of the court to Irwin A
Dunkleberger and Miss Annie 2. Kagey
both OF this city. They will be married
today at the United Brethren Church
at IL o'clock.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-22

SMALL HATS AND BoNNErs.
In Black and Colors tastctully tr mmoa.
Reduced from IS to 81.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

On the other hand there is a proba-
bly, larger number of people equally
Jealous in spreading their views, who
are convinced that the root of all un-
sound money schemes and financial
troubles is to be found in the assump-
ton by governments of what is prop
erly the business of banks.
They regard our present issue
of greenbacks as an unsafe
and costly currency, and urgent
ly demand that they be retired
as promptly as possible. They say
that as the Government does not in
terfere with the use of checks, drafts
and bills of exchange as q means of
paying debts without the use of metal
lie money, neither should it interfere
with the use of banknotes, which are
only another form of credits. They
argue that if the banks were allowed
to issue notes redeemable in gold,
without being compelled to deposit
United States bonds as security, a
much more elastic currency could be
supplied than under the present sys-
tenn. They favor the largest possible
increase in banking facilities in all
parts of the country, believing that in
this way the demand of the rural dis
tricts for more capital, at lower rates
of interest, can most easily be net.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
The southern Farmer and Silver.

The Southern farmer who has been
joining in the cry for free silver on
the groaud that the gold standard has
decreased prices probably has not put
his mind on his own ground. Is 1t
not true that land which was worth So
an acre in the inflated currency OF
1870 is now worth S12 in hard gold?
Il it not true that the $l2 now ID
equal to what S24 would have been in
1870? OF course, the land will not
produce any more now than it would
in 1870. It is the same land, but 1t
is worth more. The man who finds q
$1,000 in gold bullion may not wish to
sell it, but he has that much more
wealth, and so the farmer whose land
ia worth four times what it was in
1870 has that much more in solid
values, available for use in time OF
need or to leave to his family. How
ever it may be elsewhere, in the South
land has steadily gained in value
Greenville News.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
GREENBACKS KEEP BETTER MONEY
AWAY, SAYS CARLISLE.

Secretary Carlisle, in his annual
report, makes clear point that is not
understood by those who oppose the
retirment of our greenbacks. He says:
''There has never been q time since
the close OF the war when the gradual
retirement and cancellation of the
United States notes would not have
been beneficial to the country, nor has
there ever been time when the issue
of additional notes of the same char
acter would not have been injurious
to the country. The amount of money
in circulation will always be deter
mined, if the laws of trade and finance
are left to their natural operation, by
the degree of necessity for its use.
or in other words. by the demand
for it in eHecting exchanges OF
commodities and as q basis OF
credit and if bad money is suppressed,
good money of the extent required
will invariably take its place. Money
will 20 where it can be most proftsbly
employed, and it will retire whenever
the opportunity for profitable use NO
longer exists. If our legal tender
notes were retired there is abundant
reason to believe that o very large
amount of gold which has been ex-
cluded from the country by the e1ces-
sive use of silver and paper in our cir
culstion would promptly return to take
its place in our currency and consti-
tute . permanent part OF our medium
of exchange. A country having such
extensive trade relations with other
nations IS we now enjoy cannot be
deprived of its proper share OF the
worlds stock of money. and. if it
adopts and adheres to sound and
stable currency system at home, 1t
will get the best money the world
has, because no other kind is ever
a ed in international, transactions.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
United States Currency Statistics.

The Reform Club has just issued
what promises to prove one OF the
most valuable reference pamphlets in
its Omitted States Currency
Statistics. It is designed to meet
the needs of those who wish to have
at hand, in compact form, the most
reliable statistics available upon cur
rency topics. It consists of thirty
two pages, crowded with just those
statistics to which students OF cur
rency questions have most occasion to
refer.
While, as its name implies, it is de-
voted mainly to statistics relating to
United States currency, it also in
cludes comparative data as to foreign
countries at every important point.
A number of ingenious diagrams add
interest to the work, and full refer
ences to statistics not possible to be
included offer suggestions to those
making special investigations.
The pamphlet can be obtained for
five cents from the Reform Club, 81
William street, New York City.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

But the complex problems involved
in the establishment OF q perfectly
sound currency system based on the
gold standara~ere mo- SO well under
-.oca Dy the eleven millions OF voters.
There exists the widest difference of
opinion as to the proper nature and
source of the paper substitutes for
coin which all civilized nations agree
IN considering vastly superior TO me-
taliic zconssy IN ali ordinary business
transactions. The use of paper repre-
sentatives Of coin marks as great an
advance in business methods as was the
use of money in trading. instead OF the
primitive system of barter. It is ad-
mitted by all financial authorities that
the worlds supply of gold would be
wholly inadequate for the demands OF
trade, were it not that by modern
banking systems an enormous volume
of commerce is carried on by checks,
drafts, bills of exchange or bank notes.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
Plenty OF Gold.

There is no reason to believe that
the quantity of gold is insufficient for
necessities of business. This is shown
not only by the constantly increasing
production of gold. but by the fact
that the constantly increasing facill-
ties of credit and INSTRUMENTATION
tend to steadily decrease the necessity
for the actual use of gold in business
as q medium of exchange, and more
and more to confine it to the function
of an ultimate measure OF value. AS
a measure of value given amount OF
gold, like yard-stick or bushel.
NAV do an indefinite amount OF meas
nring.--R. Weissinger, in What IL
Money?
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
It is to be regretted that on the i'm
-

1t is to be regretted that on the i'm
portant question as Go how the volume
of paper currency, which experience
has shown to be not only useful but
absolutely necessary. should be fur
nished, there is not the same agree
ment that exists in respect to the is
sue between gold and silver.
On one side there is large and infu-
entail body of men who believe that the
business of supplying paper, or credit,
money, is legitimate function OF gov
ernments, and demand the issuing by
Congress of an increased amount of
greenbacks or Treasury notes. They
claim that government promises-to-
pay are cheap and safe currency, and
that any changes in our financial sys-
tenn should be in the direction OF limit
ing the powers OF banks to issue notes.
And they insist that it is only through
some form of government notes, Is
sued "direct to the people" without
the Intervention of banks, that a salts
factory solution of the vexed currency
problem can be reached.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

The recent great increase in the
yield of gold, the total product
amounting during the past year to
about $500, 900, 900. makes it certain
that there will be an abundance of
that metal to serve as q standard of
value and basis for currency. There
will therefore be NO queLtion that all
substitutes for metallic money must
n the future be redeemable in gold.
The vsgaries of ''money cranks" who
claim that paper money need not be
redeemed at all, or that it should be
based on q multiple standard of one
hundred or more staple commodities,
need not be seriously considered.
They are merely ingenious fads, some
times defended with plausible sophis-
try, but always resting on the most
absurd and unsound premises. In SO
far as the great business and property
interests Of the country are con.
cerned these forms of cheap money de-
lusions are of no account.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
Western Prosperity.

According to one Of the new Con.
gressmen from Mississippi an old
farmer In that state who had been a
strong advocate OF silver was recently
asked which he would rather have,
innocent cotton or free silver. The
answer was prompt and emphatic,
sNine-cent cotton by . damn sight. +"
This is state of mind generally
prevalent in the South outside of Mis-
eissippi, and its existence is recog.
nized by silver men from other SEQ.
tions.
To some extent the people OF
Colorado and Montana sympsthize
with this Mississippi farmer, for Colo.
RADIO has never been more prosperous
than now, while q representative from
Montana is quoted in the Washington
Post as saying that his State is ENJOY
ing as great a degree OF prosperity as
any state in the Union. Montana is
the state which nothing but free silver
could save, but If its people are as
prosperous a. any in the Union the
injury done them by the demonetiza-
ton Of silver can't have been very
serioua-Spring6eld Republican.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
LIVERY GLOUMY KNIGHT.

The Silver knight is Populist Or
gan edited by that renowned hater OF
bankers and rich men. Senator Stew
art, of Nevada. Senator Stewards
paper is like his speeches., only more
SO, for while he talks in long primer
his editorials are mainly large capitals
or italics. The result is that the cring-
ing slaves of the Money Power tremble
each week when they read the Silver
Knight in their luxurious palaces in
Wall street and the Bowery.
In a late issue the Senator from the
silver camp and sage brush patches
thrills an expectant world with re-
citsl of terrible iniquities of the Money
Power, He cells us how that Cruel
Combine "by controlling the Circu-
;lating Medium of the World sucks the
iLife-blood of Civilization Itself" This
Gigantic power ''has brought Misery
to every Household in the land. A
iiHydra-headed Monster with head
quarters in the British Empire, is pro-
,ducing Distress throughout the land
the Like of which has not cursed the
earth For More Than Three Centuries.
The Monarch of Avarice is now gnaw-
ing at the vitals of the Human Race. !"
This is certainv a sad and very seri-
Gus state of affairs. And the worst OF
it is that so few people seem to realize
their deplorable condition. While
their Life Blood is being sucked out,
and their Vitals gnawed, they go calm
~ about their business. and reck not
Of the Hydra-headed Monster which is
bothering them. Though Misery is
getting free lodging in every house,
hold, the other inmates continue to
enjoy themselves in various ways. AL
the branches of industry sre flourish
ing, business is brisk and the great
majority of the sixty-fve million
Americans get good living and are
reasonably contented and happy. OF
course they might be more SO if they
would adopt free silver scheme which
would paralyze industry and unsettle
all the operations of commerce. And
again, they mightn't. At present they
don't want to take the risk of med
ding with the financial system which
has served them SO we'll. But they are
much obliged to the Knight of the
Sorrowful Pen for keeping them post
ed as to the Monarchs of Avarice, the
Hyd1a-headed Monsters and other
creatures of his Imagination.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03


The following varieties of legal ten
der exist at the present time under
the laws of the United States:
/. Gold coins, legel tender without
any express limit.
q. Silver dollars and Treasury notes
Issued under the act of 1890, legal ten
der ''except where otherwise expressly
stipulated in the contract. -.
8. United States notes (greenbacks),
legal tender except for interest on the
public debts and for duties on imports.
Since the resumption of specie pay
ments (1879) these notes have been
made receivable for duties BY Treasury
order, to avoid the trouble of carrying
gold to and from the Cuetom House.
1. National bank notes, legal tender
in payment of any debt or liability to
any National bank also receivable for
ali Government dues except duties on
imports, and tenderable for Ill Gov
eminent debts except interest on
bonds
g. Silver coins smaller than one
dollar, legal tender to the amount Of
ten dollars in one payment. Coins of
nickel and copper. legal tender to the
amount Of twenty-five cents in one
payment. -Horace White. in Money
and Banking.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

With the abundant evidence that a
large portion OF the people still be-
lieve in the idea that money is some.
thing created by government fiat. and
that cheap currency would make every
body rich, it is idle to ignore the fact
that assaults on our financial system
are likely to continue intermittingly
for long period. It is doubtful it
the maintenance of the gold standard
will ever again be so violently attacked
as during the past few. years. The
work of education has been so thor
oughly done in regard to the relative
merits o: gold and silver that public
sentiment is now permanently fixed In
favor of gold.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
Steadily Losing Ground.

While the declaration in favor OF
free silver was carried by decided
majority in the Trans. Mississippi Con-
oress in Omaha, the Omaha Bee points
out that the vote, compared with the
vote on the same proposition at pre-
vious Congresses, showed that rela-
tively the cause of free silver has been
steadily losing ground even among
the representatives OF the ans-Mls'
sissippi States.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
SMALL CHANGE.

Although the crushing defeat OF the
silyerites in the recent elections indi-
Gates the rapid decline OF the free coin
age agitation, it would be serious
mistake to suppose that the deloslons
in which it originated are dead for all
time to come. Error is many formed,
and the cheap money doctrines ex-
pounded by the free silver advocates
will probably spring up again at an
early day.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
GRAVE RESULTS
Would Follow the Refusal to Pay
Gut Gold, Says Secretary Carlisle.

Would Follow the Refusal to Pay
Gut Gold, Says Secretary Carlisle.
In his annual report. made public on
December 16, Secretary Carlisle ex.
poses the grave results that would fol-
low if the treasury department should
refuse to pay out gold, even for one
hour, as some good-intentioned per-
sons would have il do. He says:
"a refusal to pay gold on either
class of our notes, when demanded by
the holders, would instantly destroy
the parity of the two metals, reduce
the currency to q silver basis, unsettle
all values, impair the obligations of all
existing contracts and precipitate .
financial, industrial and commercial
revolution more disastrous in its con-
sequences to the labor snd business
interests of the country than sny panic
or depression that has yet occurred
in our history. The magnitude of the
interests involved and the permanent
character Of tie injury that would be
inflicted by such an experiment for
bids its favorable consideration, even
for . moment, In the present condition
of our affairs. This condition Is
unlike that existing in any other coun-
try, or that ever before existed In this
country, and. 40 already shown. is the
result Of q long-continued policy at
variance not only with the teachings
Of experience bot with the financial
law Of the world.
Remedies which might have
been more or less effective under
other circumstances cannot be IN
the least degree effective now. and
It would be futile and dangerous at
this time to attempt correction OF
our financial disorders otherwise than
by total removal of their causes.
Long adherence to the false system
has to Q great extent undermined our
national credit, so far as it is related
to the maintenance of q sound cur
rency, and il must be reconstructed.
not merely propped up by frail and
temporary supports. It required many
years to produce this result but after
It has been produced it would be idle
to expect Q return to sound condi.
ton with all the causes of our flnan-
cial distress still in existence and IN
more active operation than ever be-
fore.
seNo surplus revenue, however large.
could extricate us from our present
difficulties, or give assurance OF safety
IN the future, unless it should be re-
quired to be paid in gold under 9
system which would exempt the
government from the obligation to
furnish the gold when demanded to b.
used in making the payments; and Il
IL scarcely necessary to suggest thai
such q system is impossible a. long u
the United States notes and treasury
notes are kept in circulation and are
redeemable in gold by the govern
iment itself on presentation. To pay
out gold with one hand and
receive it back with the other woult
Ibs useless expenditure of TIME ant
labor, and yet this is just what would!b'
done If gold should be exacted in pay
iment of customs or other public dues
while the legal-tender notes are out
standing"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
WHY SILVER Is CHEAP.

Table showing worlds production
of silver by years or average for peri.
DDS. commercial ratio of silver to gold
each year and average London price
of bar silver per fine ounce in United
States gold coin:
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

There is scarcely any point in the
economy of national affairs OF greater
moment than the uniform preservation
lof the intrinsic value of the money
unit, Hamilton.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

silver the prior 1872 in
each and the price s32
production had increased to s20 ooo and naturally
gone In 1892 and 9S the
reached the and the
the remarkable
proportion right straight
to increase Of annual production.
these that
the fall but that demonstration
alone produced this resutWm Preston
Hill
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
Will Not Delay tile lnterment.

Joe Blackb burn refuses to recognize
the death of free silver. but this fact
will not interfere with the arrange
ments for the 'erment.
Times Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

The money question that bothsse
the most Of us is how to make ooo
dollar do the work of sixteen; heneo
the popularity Of the quack remedies
for an incursble complaint.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03
COINS Aliases,

Now the author of ''Coin's Finan-
cial School" has resolved himself into
the Patriots OF America He seems 10
feel the necessity of travelling under
good many aliases. That is the habae
Of some people. Herald.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-01-03

Master-''And where is the talent I
gave unto thee?" Servant-'It was .
silver coin, my master, and-and d.
based so rapidly that threw it avsy
for very shame. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer