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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
why Does Not Mr.. Bryan Answer?

Mr.. Bryan tells the farmers that free
coinage of silver will give them cheap
dollars with which to pay their debts.
Mr.. Bryan tells city workingmen that
free coinage of silver will raise the
metal to $1-29 per ounce, bringing the
silver dollar to par with the gold dollar,
thus giving city workingmen another
dollar as good as the present one with
which to buy the farmers products.
That is to say, to the farmer the
Bryan silver dollar is to be cheap dol
lar to pay debts with. To city labor the
Bryan dollar is to be dollar of high
purchasing power to buy with.
Free coinage of silver cannot produce
these two dollars. II can produce only
one of the two. Why do not would be
supporters of Mr.. Bryan ask him which
dollar he really meansf Both the farmer,
who wants to pay debts, and the work
ingman, who must buy farm produce,
are interested in having this question
answered. Chicago Times Herald
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
eIsMARck,s ADVICE.
Il 1t Unprejudiccd, and Can We AfFord to
Follow 1t?


Follow 1t?
Mr.. Bryan appears TO set great store
by the letter which Governor Culberson
of Texas has received from Prince Bis
mark. The peoples friend is will
ing to receive advice from the ''Man of
Blood and Iron," and the champion
of the American farmer" listens to
that famous friend of American agri-
culture who shut the German ports to
American pork in 1884 and to American
potatoes in 1885, and who would gladly
have united all central Europe in a
Customs league aimed directly against
all American produce. Bismarck's
rather diplomatic letter is taken by Mr..
Bryan in his recent speeches to favor
the free coinage of silver by the United
States. The devotion of Chancellor Bis
marck to the cause of silver may be seen
in the following historical fact, which
appears to have escaped general notice:
Under his guidance as chancellor of
the empire and minister of commerce
for Prussia the equivalent of 1885,
100000 marks lover $270, 900, 000) in
silver was demonetized between the
years 1874 and 1881, and over $16O, 00O,-
900 worth of the bullion into which
these were melted had been sold by
1879. In that year, finding that the
price Of silver was becoming democrat
lied, so that his remaining $109, Geo, 900
was depreciating, he stopped sales by
decree issued in May, 1879. These
points were frankly stated by his dele
gates to the international monetary con-
ference of 1881, when Germany like
wise offered to suspend sales for time
in order that the price might not be
further depressed. With these assur-
ances before the monetary powers and
with the decree Of 1879 still in force,
Bismarck saw an opportunity of dump
ing some German silver ON the sly and
promptly proceeded to do so. In 1885
the Egyptian government decided to
change its coinage and invited bids for
contracts to coin its silver piasters. The
German mint secured the contract to
make the coin and incidentally furnish
ed So, f89, 600 of silver bullion to Egypt.
The matter was kept very quiet or es-
oapcu SSHoIoi AOllCc' IeS1SISuCO W ~
will be found, however, in the London
Economist Of Dec. 4, 1886, which saw in
it proof of Bismarck's lack of faith in
silver.
With all his faults, Bismarck is q
sturdy patriot. To help the German
distiller he was willing to see trichin@
in every American pig, and to protect
the German farmer he smelled bugs on
every American potato. Germany has
today $107, 900, 900 worth of silver
whose value is declining. If the United
States could be induced to follow the
example of Egypt and give Germany a
chance to do some more unloading,
where is the harm, from the ex-chan-
cellor's point of view, in writing let
ter of not entirely disinterested advice1
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
FloRIDA AND GEORGIA RETURNS.
~A'"ery state Shows Falling or in
neutrality-suspicious. Gets 36.Ieo.

o"ery state Shows n Falling or in
fiurality-Atkinson Gets 38,Ieo.
Jacksonville, Oct. 9.-The returns to
e'to OF Tuesdays state election, embrac-
ing 49l out of the 632 precincts and all but
epout 1000 of the total vote are: Blox-
nam, Dem, 24,577; Gunby, Rep, 1870;
Weeks, Pop, 1902. Complete returns for
" counties of the 45 in the state show
loss OF Is per cent in the total Demo-
cratic vote as compared with 1892. The
indications are that the total vote of the
state did not exceed 40, 500, of which Blox-
nam received about 27,250, as compared
with S2,06i for Mitchell, Dem, in 1892;
dunby, Rep, about $3.50, and Weeks,
Pop., about 400. Bloxham's majority
over all is about l4,000
Atlanta, Oct 9.-Advices received by
The journal from combined and unofficial
sources fix the total Democratic majority
ct 10, 129. This estimate is based upon the
vote for Atkinson for governor, which Is
IN many cases less than that cast for the
other state officials. 1t is not believed
that the final returns will materially alter
this estimate. The legislature is almost
solidly Democratic in both branches, in
surfing practically the unanimous election
OF ex Speaker Crisp to the senate to sue
coed Senator Gordon
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
SHARP MOVE BY CueANs.
Landing of n Fiiibustering Expedition BE.
tween Two Spanish Forts.

Landing of "A Fiiibustering Expedition Be-
tween Two Spanish Forts.
New York, oct. 14.-A dispatch to
The Herald from Gibara, Cuba, says:
The Herald's correspondent in Bara-
Goa reports the landing of a new fill
clustering expedition in Marivi, in east
ern Cuba. l understand that party
brought / coo rifles and a proportionate
quantity of munition. The men dis
embarked from a Hytian schooner be-
tween two Spanish forts, neither of
which were q mile and a half away.
The war material was all transported
into the interior before any alarm was
raised
Such is the state of suffering among
the classes in Baracoa that the local
Spanish commandant is now permit
ting women and children to so through
the government lines to beg food in
the rebel camps. More than 800 passes
for this purpose are being issued daily.
The women are subjected to rigid
search as they go outside the walls of
the town, to prevent any medicines
being taken to the insurgents, and also
upon their return for correspondence.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Silver Question In a Nutshell.

In every rural town of the country
free coinage advocates are promising
farmers that 16 to / would raise the
price of grain and meat and thus re-
duce the proportions of the produce of
the farm that goes to pay the labor en-
ployed. Of all brazen performances of
the century, the most impudent is that
by which at the same time the wage
earners are invited to assist in cam
paign to make their food more dear to
them and to reduce the wages of the
most numerous class of wage earners in
the country.
There is the silver question in nut
shell. 1t is simply q question as to
whether our wage earners are getting
too high wages They may as well face
the question II our wage earners be.
lieve they are getting too high wages
and that this country IS suffering in
consequence, all they have to do is to
take lower wages If they prefer a
roundabout way, they can favor free
coinage of silver, and they will get their
wages cut down half without any fur
ther trouble on their part.
In the light of our experience with
fat money legislation. from the green
back to the Sherman pig silver certifi-
Gates, this long suffering country will
finally learn that wealth is not created
by fiat, but is made by labor; that the
law can put no dollar into any mans
pocket unless it first takes it from the
pocket of some other man, and that
wage earners are first and most inter.
ested in opposing interference by law.
There has never yet been made law to
put into any laboring mans pocket a
single dollar that he did not earn. He
of all men, therefore, has the best right
to insist that there shall be no law passed
that will ~ q the price Of what he has
to buy, and thus take from him any
portion of what he has earned. -"aOn.
John Do Witt Warner in Present Prob
lens.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Saturday, Oct. 10.

A French steamer which has put in
at Holyhead, England, reports that
she saw a large steamer founder off
Bishop island, Pembrokeshire. 1t is
presumed that all on board of her
were lost.
The morocco factories of Garrett &
Barr, Charles Baird & Co., and Wash
ington, Jones g. Co., at Wilmington,
Del, were burned. Loss, $260,000
A dispatch from Manila says that
q company of native soldiers at Min
danao, an island of the Malay
archipelago and second largest of the
Philippine islands,. has mutinied and
killed its officers.
Herman Cramer. of San Francisco,
has sued the Singer Sewing Machine
company for $5,0OO,00O for infringing his
patents.
Edward c. DeIano, assistant super
intendentfof school district No. g. Chi
cago, has served the board of education
forty years.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Bryan's 'Bimetallism."

Mr.. Bryan still calls himself obi
metallist, +" though he has never even
attempted to answer the question: SIN
the history of this country has there
ever been time when gold and silver
circulated upon equal terms as full legal
tender money, with the minis open to
the free and unlimited coinage of both?"
There never was such time. Free
and unlimited coinage at 16 to has
never, i'll any country, at any time,
given bimetallic currency. Mr.. Bryan
is silver monometallist in fact, what
ever he may think himself to be in the
ory.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
CatarIh Cannot Be Cured

with local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease. Catarrh is blood
or constitutional disease. and in order TO
cure it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack
medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of
the best physicians in this country for years
and is regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed of the best tonics known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly
on the mucous surfaces. The perfect COM
bination of the two ingredients is what pro.
duces such wonderful results in curing ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials free
F. j. CHENEY 81 Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists; price IS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
THE SILVER QUESTION lNANu1s4eLL
Free Coinage OF Bricrss Would Not Raise
Their Price.


Did you ever step to think What
would BIO the result If tic gCscgsi..tnt
should by legislation determine tiat or
binary building bricks . By 4 hy s
inches in size shor y ie I'll tender in
any amount for 81 e>c.i =. could ar
range TO have them 50 iaped in any
quantity free of coss 10 tx persons pre-
senting them?
Under such circcr s:a-ccs the price
Of building bricks would at once advance
to 81, 900 thousand fer if they could
be "coined" without cost tho bricks
"uncoined'' wcuid be worth Just rs
much as the "cCntt" III. kc--$l each.
But did it ever ccccr 70 zen that it
would not be an az nca:lt's value Of
the bricks, but decrease il the value
of the dollars, T...-,L y,c@E llas estab-
lish a new ''pGrity .eccn money and
property - that undtr such system
$1,000 would be worth only 1000
bricks; that that 600 bricks would
exchange for no r.cye commodities or
labor than it does today, and conse-
quently that 81 600 would mean no
more to US than 1000 bricks DO now?
In other words. Cur govl rrment can
determine by legislation What commod-
ity and what amount G .aa' commodity
81 shall be, but it T.. leave il to the
laws of comparative supply and de-
mand, cost of production, etc., TO de-
termine what the value Of that COM
modify shall be. 1t may declare that
brick shall be dollar, in which case
81 will be worth whatever brick will
exchange for. 1t may declare that %. s
grains Of gold shall be a dollar, in
which case 81 will be worth whatever
25.8 grains of gold will exchange for,
or it may declare that 412h grains of
silver shall be dollar, in which case 81
will be worth only what 412la grains of
silver will exchange for, the same to-
day as 50.3 cents in gold, or, "giving
the debtor the option" as to what dollar
he shall use with which to pay his
debts, it may declare that each of these
three shall be dollar, in which case
81 will be worth just as much as the
least valuable of the three, which under
present conditions would be the brick.
Il. Carroll Root.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
One unsettled Point.

An old man who bore evidence of
more work than culture approached q
representative of free silver paper the
other day in the state library.
'Can ask you question:"
Certainly"
well, IL we have free silver coinage,
we'll all have more money. won't WEI"
"Why. yes. certainly That's easy to
answer. T"
well, what l want to know" said
the old fellow earnestly, els whether
they will bring it to me or whether I'll
have to go after it. Nebraska State
Journal
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
Thursday, oct. 8.

Tho Chicago Armenian committee re-
ports that 1t has collected and sent s13, 900
TO the international committee at Con-
stantinople for distribution.
Miss Margaret A. Kolsch has been
awarded verdict of $500 against George
A. Jewell at New York for breach Of
promise Of marriage.
A Chicago firm has purchased the entire
walnut crop of Santa Barbara county
Cal.
Walter NJ Castle, wealthy San Fran
cisco merchant, has been arrested at Lon
don, charged with stealing chinchilla
skins valued at 500.
The Duluth board of trade has decided
to sell no grain to Superior, Wis, mills
except on Minnesota inspection and
weight. Superior mills are shut down for
want of wheat
General Trochu, who defended Paris
until it surrendered TO the German army
In January, 1871, is dead.
The fourth Temple cup game of base
ball, to take place at Cleveland, was post
poned by the weather.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Wheat. Cotton and silver.

While Bryan is tele~raphing the New
York Journal that 1.-THE gold standard
makes. a dearer dollar. dearer dollar
means falling prices, and falling prices
mean hard times" the prices of wheat,
corn and cotton are going up. and the
price Of silver, the supposed barometer
of prices of farm products. is going
down.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
THREE MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.
Fall of Rock in n Pennsylvania Coal Mine
After a Blast.

, Fall of Rock in Pennsylvania Coal Mine
After Blast.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 13.-Three men
were instantly killed yesterday by a
fall of rock in the Latin mine. They
> are Thomas Mitchell, of Mill Creek;
George Puchuski, of Latin, and John
Patruse, of Mil Creek. The men were
opening the gangway at the foot of the
shaft, and after firing a blast had
gone back and found large piece of
rock loose. but still hanging to the
roof. While trying to force it from
such a dangerous position the rock
suddenly fell and crushed them be-
meath it.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16

If merchant marks up his prices
and people refuse to buy, he still has his
goods. If a workingman undertakes to
mark up his wages and employers de-
cline to pay, where is he? What intelli-
gent wage Garner can vote for the higher
prices of cheaper money and trust to
luck to increase his wages proportion
ately?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16

cred his body.
81 was in a hor-
Sfble fix he
says, "and the
more ire t.
ment I receiv-
ed, the worse /
seemed to get.
"A New York
specialist said
he could cure
me, but his
treatment did
me no cd
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
II riday, Dot. o.

The total commerce of the United
States, including imports and exports, for
ten years ended June 30 last was SIG, O13
205, 1888, or yearly average of more than
81, GOO, 100000.
There have been ninety seven fresh
cases of bubonic disease at Bombay since
Oct 2, and seventy-six deaths. A quaran-
tine against Bombay has been declared at
Alden and at the Egyptian ports.
Ii Hung Chang saw Loie Fuller in New
York and was captivated by her dances.
AS a result it is now announced that she
has secured a contract to make tour
of China.
f. G. Bald and Walter Sanger will ride
a match race at National park, Milwau-
kee, on Saturday for purse of 81, 900.
The terrapin season has been open for
several days at New York, but only few
small lots have been received in the mar
ket. These sell at from S. to 81 apiece for
the best and SO to $50 per dozen for others.
Abbie Porter McCully, a 17-year-old
schoolgirl, is dead at her home in New
York after having lived eighteen months
with broken back.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Cut His own Throat.

Kalamazoo. Mich, Ost. 13.-George
Roatch, aged So, a well-to-do farmer
of Lowerfield, was found with his
throat cut in his barn Saturday night,
and will probably live. He brooded
over politics.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Heavy Gale ON the Atlantic Coast.

Loves Del, Oct. ia severe north
easterly gale is raging all along the AT
lantic coast accompanied by rain. About
forty yes @ s are anchored inside the Della
ware breakwater. Some of them are
dragging dangerously near the bar, and
there is every prospect that unless the
storm abates there will be disasters to
shining
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.
Money on call firm at per cent;
prime mercantile paper, 7M0SH per cent;
sterling exchange steady, with actual bust
ness In bankers bills at 4Si 1i8iA for de-
mand and 4Sl4OI8l1a for sixty days; posted
rates, 4s204S3Ia ana 4Sj0iS6; comme rcial
bills, $50.
United States government bonds Arm;
as registered, ll54; do coupons, ll5A; SIS
registered. III; do coupons. lllI1; As reg.
istered l06; do coupons. LOG; Us registered,
92l6; Pacific 6's of 81. l00@
Chicago Grain and Produce.
CHICAGO, Oct b.
Following were the quotations the
Board of Trade today: October, opened
$3.50, closed 69l6c; December, opened 7Ossc,
closed 70J4c; May, opened 74ssc, closed
75hc Corn October, opened 2415c, closed
245zc; December. opened 25Ac, closed 25ssc
May, opened 2Slsc. closed 2SIfc. Oats-Oc-
tober, opened 1910, closed 164e; December,
opened ls1sc ciosei lSac; May, opened Zo,4c
closed gle. Pork - October. nominal, closed
1925; December, opened $3.50, closed $7-27l6.
Lard-October, nominal closed S445.
Produce : Butter: Extra creamery Is per
1b extra dairy. Ice; fresh packing, stock,
607c. Eggs-Fresh stock. 1il1Ol5c por doz.
Poultry : Turkeys, &c per lb.; chickens
(hens), el607c; spring chickens, Z; ROSTERS,
ilSc; ducks. asc; geese. s4.OO0e5O. Potatoes
--Burbanks. 22dD24c per bu.; Hebron. 100
c2c Honey-White clover. l3@l4c ID; broken
combs, e0lOc extracted. 596c Apples-Com-
mon to fancy, 60c l.50 per Dbl
East Buffalo Lire Stock.
EAST BUFFALO, Oct. 10.
Cumming & Stevens. Live Stock Commits
sion M srcbants, East Buffalo. N. Y, quote as
follows:
Cattle Receipts, 2 cars; market steady; all
sold Hogs-Receipts, 10 cars; market active
and l0QDl5c higher; Workers.. S3.s003 IS; mi xed
hackers S3.75n3S1 mediums. S3.7od375;
heavy S3o0a3.70: roughs. 50 l0D3.35; stays,
~ 25013 o. She and Lambs-Receipts. IS cars;
10 of them Canadas: lambs. % off for natives;
sheep steady and firm.
st. Louis Grain.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. -.
Wheat-No 2 red cash elevator, nc;
track 72l1lD73jzc; No. . hari cash 6jc nominal;
December. 70 &c bid; May, nc asked. Corn
No ? cash. PC; December, 23c bid; May,
26I6c. Oats-No. cash lie; May, 2lssc bid.
Rye-39c.
Milwaukee Grain.
MILWAUKEE Oct. 10.
Wheat--No spring. 67y6c; No. / mort bern.
68l6c: December, 69c. Corn - No 3, 23e.
Oats-No. white. 19i6c; No. do. 1910
1sISc. Barlev-No. 2. 23c; samples, 25035c.
Rye-No. Q. 27ISc.
Detroit Grain.
DETROIT. Oct. 10.
wheat--Cash white 73l6c; cash red. 1870
bid; Decen ucT, Zoe; May, 79lxo.
Silver certificates. 66lf265; no sales; bar
silver ei,So; Mexican dollars. 4sN
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
spaldlng seems To BE the Man.

Rome, Oct. 1.-The report cabled to the
United States that Bishop Spalding, of
Peoria, had been nominated to succeed
Bishop Keane. of the Roman Catholic
. University of America at Washington, Is
pronounced by the authorities to be prena-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
II Thirty Pounds of Wheat Made Bush.

would you have any more wheat. or
could you buy any more food, clothes or
implements with the proceeds of your
crop than you do now?
If 90 cents were q dollar, would your
crops bring you any more Of the things
that you need than you get nowP
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16

nR. ANNIS S. II. COOLING, Homeopathic
~ Residence and office, Williams ST., Com
stock Block, Owosso, Mich. ONCE hours--2 70
a P. m. and TO p. m. Calls promptly respond
ed to. Special attention given to Obstetrics
and Diseases Of Women and Children,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16

VIII tie yer. 1 was still ana 1ull OF
pains, my left arm was useless so
that / was unable to do even the
lightest work. This was my condition
when began to take s. s. S., and a
few bottles convinced me that was
being benefited. continued the
medicine, and one dozen bottles cured
me sound and we'll. Ny system was
under the effects of mercury, and
would soon have been a complete
wreck but for s. s. s."
s. s. S., guaranteed purely vegetdble)
is the only cure
for real blood dis "a 40 M@
eases. The ner- AA Wa
curial treatment ~ IN ,%
of the doctors al ~ hu# M1X
ways does more
harm than good. Beware of mercury!
Books on the disease and its treat
ment mailed free to any address ny
Swift Specific Co.. Atlanta. Ga.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
Beware
OF Mercury!

Mr.. Henry Roth, of 1s48 South 9th
Street, st. Louis, was given the usual
mercurial treatment for contagious
blood poison. He was twice pronounc-
ed cured, but the disease returned each
time, he was seized with rheumatic
s3ins, and red lumpo and sores COW
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16

Bryan must demodify his farm prod
uot speeches or he will have to face
such hard questions as "What about
wheat and cotton? Are their prices go
ing up in sympathy with silver or be-
cause of a shortage of foreign cropsi
What connection is there, anyway, be-
tween the prices of farm products and
of silver"
OF course Bryan can answer all such
questions. In fact, they are "dead easy"
for powerful man who can lift the
price of all the silver in the world to
twice its present height, but it is just
as well to avoid all unnecessary embar-
raSsment.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-16
sam Jones Makes It Clear.

"Suppose, says the Rev, Sam Jones
Of Georgia, "the government owned all
the gristmills in this country and con-
gress SHOULD enact a law that all corn
should be ground by the government
mills free and that while corn was
worth but Is cents bushel the govern
ment would stamp the sacks of meal so
that it would bring so cents a bushel
and do this for nothing. 1t is very
hard matter TO keep meal above the
price of corn.