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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
VICTIMS OF CHEAP MONEY.
Macaulay's Description of Those Who
Suffered by Clipped Coins.

Suffered by Clipped Coins.
Free coinage at 16 to 1 is equivalent
to clipping from As to so cents from
the present dollar. 1t would give US
a debased dollar of varying value. The
world has had experience with clipped
coins. Poorly minted coins during
Queen Elizabeth's time made it easy
to clip them. Coin clipping was car
ried on extensively during the rest OF
the 10th and during all of the
seventeenth century By 1895, Macau-
lay tells us, "it could hardly be said
that the country possessed, for prac-
tical purposes, any measure of the
value of commodities"
Speaking of the effects upon the
people at large of this debased coin OF
uncertain value, this great historian
says that "it may well be doubted
whether all the misery which had been
| inflicted on the English nation in
quarter of century by bad kings, bad
| ministers, bad parliaments and bad
| judges was equal to the misery caused
in a couple of years by bad crowns and
bad shillnigs." He describes the work
ings and effects in the following lam
guage:
But when the great instrument OF ex-
change became thoroughly deranged,
all trade, all industry, were smitten as
with palsy. The evil was felt daily
and hourly in almost every place anu
by almost every class, in the dairy and
on the thrashing floor, by the anvil and
by the loom, on the billows Of the
ocean and in the depths OF the mine.
Nothing could be purchased without a
dispute. Over every counter there was
wrangling from morning to night. The
workman and his employer had
quarrel as regularly as the Saturday
came round On fair day or mar
ket day the clamors, the reproaches,
the taunts, the curses, were 1ncessant,
and it was well if no booth was over
turned and no head broken. No mer-
chant would contract to deliver goods
without making some stipulation about
the quality of the coin in which ne
was to be paid. Even men of business
were often bewildered by the confu-
sion into which all pecuniary transac-
tions were thrown. The simple and the
careless were pillaged without mercy
by extortioners, whose demands grew
even more rapidly than the money
shrank The price of the necessaries
of life, of shoes, of ale, of oatmeal, rose
fast.
The laborer found that the bit OF
metal which. when he received it, was
called a shilling would hardly, wheT
he wanted to purchase pot of beer ol
loaf Of rye bread, go as far as six
pence. Where artisans of more thar
usual intelligence were collected II
great numbers, as in the dockyards a
Chatham, they were able to make thei
complaints heard and to obtain som'
redress. But the ignorant and helpless
peasant was cruelty ground betwee1
one class which would give money onl.
by tale and another which would TAX
it only by Macaulay's His
tory of England"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
n-v,n Ac.in,. peet sugar.

In the house of representatives, on
Saturday, January 13, 1894, Hon. VIII
liam J. Bryan, of Nebraska, said:
"There is no reason for bounty on
sugar which will not apply to any other
agricultural product. If the bounty
paid went to the farmer directly, in
stead of the manufacturer, he has as
much right to ask for a bounty on
wheat, oats, or cattle, as upon sugar,
beets, or cane; but so much OF the
bounty as goes to Nebraska finds It's
way, not to the farmers, but to two
factories. If the people of Nebraska
pay their share of federal taxation, the
government collects for the bounty
from all the people of Nebraska about
$3.50, 900, and pays over to two corpora
tions $4,000. 1t is thus seen that the
state of Nebraska pays out twice as
much as it receives, and that, while
everybody pays, only the two factories
receive. I have yet to learn the duty
of a representative if I am under any
obligation to plead for two sugar faa-
tories because they receive large sums
and disregard the rights Of more than
a million people because they pay In
small amounts. If I demand bount1es
for beet sugar in my state, cannot op-
pose bounties and subsidies for indus
tries in other states, and thus. to secure
a special advantage for two factories
in Nebraska, I must subject the people
of that state to burdensome tax upon
everything.
81 dissent, too, from the position
taken by some, that we are compelled
by a moral obligation to allow the
bounty to remain for the period named
in the present law. Such a position Is
wholly untenable. If the Fifty-firs'
congress could pledge the revenues fol
the government for fifteen years, Il
could just as we'll pledge them for fifty
or hundred years, and surely no one
will say that one congress can thu:
give a perpetual bounty and impose
obligations on subsequent legislatures
The present law provided when thu
bounty should terminate, but it coult
not guarantee it's continuance until
that time. If congress cannot properl.
give a bounty directly to the sugar in
dustry, neither can it properly impos
a tax upon sugar for the avowed pur
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
Explains the Eject of Tariff Changes
Upon the Tressurv-A Prophet Not
Without Honor in His Own Country
Has a Dig at Cleveland.

The wisest men Of the republican
party worked for weeks on their st.
Louis platform. 1t is a political Gibral-
tar. 1t is fortified by right and backed
up by experience taught by the disas-
trous failures Of the democrats. The
platform is sound on reciprocity, pro-
tective tariff, pensions, money and the
Monroe doctrine.
What will the democrats do?
Why, they will fight against this plat
form, for they will fight against sound
money, reciprocity and protective tar
iff. The World has commenced its as
sault. 1t says that Cleveland got SSO,-
100000 more revenue his first year than
Harrison did during his last year. Of
course Cleveland did; but to get this
revenue having a tariff 80 per cent
lower than Harrison, he had to ship 81
per cent more goods from Europe than
Harrison did. When Cleveland ship
ped 30 per cent more goods from Eu-
rope. we manufactured 80 per cent less
goods in America. This kept 80 pei
cent of our labor idle, dropped wages
80 per cent, and closed down 80 per cen;
of our mills, and 80 per cent more oi
our gold went to Europe to pay fol
goods that went there under Harrison
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21

From a dollar country we became a
7O-cent country.
Then why did Harrison's revenue fall
off the last year?
1t was because importers stopped i'm
porting. They said: 'We will walt
for Cleveland's low tariff" When
Cleyeland's low tariff came, then our
mills began to cut wages and stop.
Steamships were loaded with foreign
goods, and Cleveland did get bigger
revenue than Harrison, but it was at
the expense of our home manufacturers.
The result was bad times at home and
$3.50 200, 900 in gold has gone out to pay
for this over-importation, while our
own labor has been idle. Democratic
experience backs up republican theory.
Still the democrats jump up and
shrek:
cleveland with free trade shipped
more goods his first year than Harrison
did his last year."
Of course he did; and the more
Cleveland bought in Englasd the poorer
we got at home.
Now, to discern the short-sighted ar
guments which the free-traders are be-
ginning to resort to, l will give the
horoscope Of the future:
The last year of Cleveland will be
just the opposite of the last year of
Harrison. A good tariff prevented big
importations then, but Cleveland's low
tariff will cause big importations dur
ing the last end of his term. Mer-
chants will load up with low-priced
pauper-made English goods.
And when Mckinley comes in. What
then?
Why, for the first six months of Nc
Kiniey Importation will be small. The
merchants will have on hand loads OF
English goods. Mckinley will not get
the old time revenue. Then the free
traders will jump UP and say: 1--WE
told you SOL"
When will the good times commence
They will commence when the Nc
Kinley tariff begins to operate. When
the people begin to use American goods
When our mills start up. When our
workmen all go to work, and the gold
which has been going to Europe to pay
their cheap labor will be kept at home
TO pay our labor. Then the good old
times will be back again. When the
people see this prophecy-see our gold
staying at home, see the balance OF
trade in our favor, they will hold on
to the protection policy for thirty
years-as they did before.
ELI PERKINS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
Sound Sense on Small Scale.

The smallest paper in the United
States is the Bernardsvilie, N C. Times,
published every Monday morning. It's
pages are only six by eight inches, but.
small as they are, they contain such
sound sense as the following:
Give us sound protection, sound
Anne ricanism, sound patriotism. and
place sound sense at the helm, and the
"Old United States will glide merrily
on and continue to be the home of free
men. the refuge of liberty and the
abiding place of freedom.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
a Poor Argument for Free Silver.


The free coinage agitators ask the
people to vote for the 16 to l scheme. on
the ground that the bankers, manu-
facturers and merchants are all in IA
vor OF a sound currency. eff the bank
ing and business interests are opposed
to free silver say the cheap dollar adj
vocates, "the farmers and workers
should support it, There must be
something good for the poor in this
free coinage scheme just because the
TIch people do not want it,
OF all unreasonable and demagogic
1leas for so cent dollars this is the
worst. An exactly similar argument
would be a demand On the part of the
millions who do not own homes or
buildings Of any kind that all houses
should be burned down because il
would hurt property owners. There is
TO doubt but that every man in Amer
lea who owns a building would say. if
asked, that he is opposed to having mis-
property destroyed. But that would be
no reason why the people who have no
homes should favor arson.
The attempt to create a prejudice in
favor of debt reputation because busi-
ness men and bankers believe in hon
esty can never succeed with fair mind
ed, honorable citizens. They will de-
| eide the silver question on its merits
and will not be led astray by appeals to
one class to vote for cheap and trashy
| money merely because it IS facored nv
another class
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
silver Question Brought Home.

Mr.. Retail Salesman! Your salary is,
we will say, SIS per week; you pay 81
for board: a suit of clothes costs you
s12: underwear so cents per garment,
and so on. How would you like it il
Won still got the same SIS and had to
nav nearly So for board, nearly s24 for
a suit, nearly 81 per garment for un-
derwear. and so on? That's what free
silver would mean to you, for some
time. at least.-Dry Goods Economist
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21

Il believe we can make no perma-
nent progress in the direction of tariff
reform until We free from taxation the
raw materials which lie at the founda-
ton of our industries; and l believe in
free iron ore, whether we leave the
tariff at 80, 25, or per cent upon car
pets. VIM. ]. Bryan in Congress.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
A Hundred Millions ros.

The Tariff for revenue only of the
free-traders brought s1O2,275, ,791 less
money into the treasury during the
first twenty-five months of it's opera-
ton than the Mckinley tariff did dur.
ing its first twenty-five months.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
BRYAN for Universal Free-Trade.

when Michigan iron ore is placed
on the free list, Alabama ore is placed
there also; when Pennsylvania coal is
placed on the free list, West Virginia
coal is placed there also; when the
rough lumber of Maine and Wisconsin
is placed upon the free list, the rough
lumber of North Carolina and Georgia
is placed there also."-Hon. VIM. ].
Bryan in Congress.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
London Endorses Protection.

Mr.. McKinley's protective policy
will, of course, check the efflux OF gold,
as no doubt it will cause falling off
in the imports of British and European
goods, and there will, consequently, be
less gold required to pay for them
The Financial Post, London, June 22,
1896.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
Rimetallic
Single Gold
Totals 1881, ,si7 52s s4s1 515o72 s16s, $685. SGT

Totals ...S591 y ,526 S4S1, ,ol5,UlZ Slb3, ,6J3 81
Unclassifed, S2,151, 705.
Our trade and commerce are not only
on "a gold basis" but are on "a single
gold standard" To adopt silver mono
metallism, which Independent free
coinage would surely produce here as
it has everywhere else, would be to
permit Europe to fix the price of our
surplus products on gold basis, while
it could pay us in our own legal ten
der silver dollars coined freely out Of
53 cents worth of bullion. Is this BUSH
ness?
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
Bryan on Free raw Material

"When the tax on raw material is
not fully compensated for in the tax
ON the finished product; in such case
the manufacturer is in worse condi-
tion than he would be with absolute
free trade."-Hon. VIM. J. Bryan in
Congress.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
)NTHLY AVERAGE TRADE FAIL
Democratic
Monthly inc. GAS 50, ,337 ,5t

1t will be remembered that the plat
form of the Democratic party, in 1892.
said: eve denounce a policy (protec-
tion) which fosters no industry SO
much as it does that of the sheriff" I"
With the subsequent records of trade
failures before us it is easy to under
stand why this democratic denuncia-
ton was omitted in the platform Of
1896.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
TRADE FAILURES.

a further Interesting comparison can
be made between the years 1S90-92, un-
der a republican administration, and
1S94-96, under the present democratic
administration. Thus:
TOTAL TRADE FAILURES.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-08-21
Democratic in

crease 3,S73 S56,025, ,371
Under this democratic administra-
ton there have been 3,873 more trade
failures, with S56, 025,371 more of liza
bilities, than occurred during the cor
responding half years of a republican
administration. The monthly averages
compare as follows:
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-02-19

watch will instantly relieve the little su'Ter. II
YOU have bought t before. or buy it anywhere
else now il v.I COS, YOU ---
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Around the World on Wheels.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Preissig, two
New York city cyclists, who started from
Washington, D. c., February 20 last on
a trip around the globe on bicycles, ar
rived in this place April Is.
They follow closely laid out route,
which takes them through a very large
portion OF the United States, SO that they
will have over 10000 covered when they
arrive on the Pacific coast, which
will be about November IL.
They will 60 through Australia, India,
Egypt and Europe, and expect to be gone
about two years and half.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preissig are enthusiastic
cyclists, and have succeeded in keeping
up to their prearranged schedule very
well, being only fOrty-eight hours late,
which is very small loss considering the
bad weather and the condition of our
roads they are obliged to contend with.
They were compelled towalk the entire
distance from New York to Albany, and
since leaving there have been following
the railroad tracks most of the way.
The tourists were in the best of health
although badly sunburnt, and said il
was the result of one days riding OF
rather walking, as they were unable tt
ride their wheels for any great distance
since leaving Cleveland.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
SERAGE, the Shoe Man.

Two hundred and twenty-one cases are
listed on the new bar docket for trial at
the next term of court, which is ia less
than for the February term. This indi-
Gates reform.
At the prize contest in the Detroit
School Of Oratory, Miss Minerva NaylOr,
Of Spencer, of the class Of '92, won the
prize consisting Of a trip abroad and a
few weeks of study in London and Paris.
Miss Naylor sails Saturday, April %, on
the Mobile with party of friends from
Detroit.
In order to enjoy extreme happiness
the scriptures say that we must dispose of
our goods and chattels and give the pro-
ceeds to the poor. The country editer
docs not make such a sweeping demand.
He only requires sufficient amount to be
disposed of to pay for paper and relies
upon the contents of the paper to be the
means Of creating a higher state Of
morals and that being accomplished ex.
treme happiness is within the reach Of
everyone.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

Mrs. Isabel Chapman has returned
from several months visit to friends in
the west.
Mrs. R. D. Mooney spent last week in
Greenwich visiting friends.
E. G. Durand, of 0berlin, was in town
Saturday.
C.N. Christy, of Jackson. Mich, is in
town.
Mrs. D. A. Wager, Of Lakewood, Ohio,
spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. L.
W. West.
Mrs. s. Bailey has returned to Allen,
Kansas.
L. W. Sprague has gone to North Eaton
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. 0rdway, of Cleve
land, spent Sunday with Mrs. Ordway's
mother, Mrs. D. L. WadswOrth.
A. NJ. Willard, Of Cleveland, is il
town visiting old friends.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Congressional Convention.

At the congressional convention held
in Shelby, April Is, Hon. W. S. Kerr was
renominated for congress by acclama-
tion. A. L. Garford, Of Elyria, and j.
Cohn, of Ashland, were nominated as del
egates to the national convention, and
W. S. Cappeller, of Richland, and w. C.
Cooper, Of Knox, as alternates. W. P.
Vaughn, Of Morrow, was elected as pres
idential delegate.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Annsenenta.

The celebrated Blind Boone Concert
Company has been secured by the Con-
gergational Guild for an entertainment
to be given Tuesday, May 1. Blind Boone
needs no introduction to the people Of
Wellington, as he appeared here in the
Congregational church four years ago.
He stands with out peer or rival, the
worlds greatest musical prodigy. He
will be here May 1.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22

The council convened in adjourned
session Monday evening, the officers and
members all present. A bill in favor Of
W. Cushion Jr. for $72.71 was ordered
paid, also one in favor of W. G. Watts for
$1.5o. The clerk was ordered to notify
1877 property owners to build and repair
sidewalks. An adjournment was then
taken until Monday, April 81. to discuss
the propriety of purchasing additional
ground for cemetery purposes.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Ceneterx.

Next Monday evening the city fathers
will convene for the purpose Of discuss
ing the matter Of purchasing additional
grounds for cemetery purposes. A few
years ago 1t was suggested that Court
land avenue be extend south to the pub
lie highway and then purchase the strip
Of land betweeen the west line Of the
cemetery and the east line Of the pro-
posed extension Of the street, also land
on the north side to the pond, but what
plan the council contemplate pursuing
now, we are unable to say.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
sERAGE, the Shoe Man.
A GOLDEN WEDDING.
MIR. and Mrs. c. Il. Mason Celebrate Their
Fiftieth Anniversary.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. Il. Mason Celebrate Their
Fiftieth Anniversary.
Over one hundred and ten persons were
cordially grasped by the hand by Mr..
and Mrs. G. E. Mason and they in turn
received congratulatory greetings from
that number at their home on Barker
street, Tuesday, April 81, 1896.
The occasion was the celebration Of the
fiftieth anniversary of the marriage Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason. Special invited
guests filled the house from early in the
day until late in the afternoon, and in
the evening invited friends from town
began to arrive and continued until ten
! o'clock.
Three generations were represented at
the pleasant gathering in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler Davis, daughter,
Bell Marie, and son, Roy NJ, of
Cleveland and G. A. Mason, Of Chicago,
III. Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Meaker and
family Of Chicago, were unavoidably de-
tanned and number of other invited
relatives and friends were unable to be
present on account of sickness. G. H.
Adams and E. S. Adams and
Jennie McClelland Adams, of
Cleveland; Mrs. Ella Foot Wooster, Of
San Francisco, CAL; W. H. Meaker, of
Auburn, N. Y; Lydia A. Case, Of Orange
vile, O.; Mrs. NJ. A. Searles, Of Nor
walk, O.; Belle H. Adams, of Lakewood,
and Mrs. W. G. Crane, Of Wellington, o.,
were also present.
The parlOrs were tastefully adorned
with daffodils, primrOses, begonias andivy
and on tables about the rooms were
. scores Of valuable and useful presents
received by the host and hostess from
] their many friends. Among the presents
: were seventy-fye dollars in gold, gold
headed cane from the band and VALUABLE
| presents from the G. A. R. and W. Il. C.
d also abeautiful finished picture in gil
y frame Of Mrs. Belts, a sister Of Mr.. Mason
9 presented by Mrs. Abbie French, o
T Cleveland.
Q Only two Of the guests who attende,
$ the wedding fifty years ago were present
9 At half past eight o'clock the band ar
: rived and discOursed some very apprO
T pirate music for the occasion. Nothin,
II was left undOne by Mr.. and Mrs. Masol
/ for the comfort of the invited guests
/ therefore the affair was an enjoyable on
o from beginningto close, and the host an
II hostess were happy and so was everyon
/ present.
% c. E. Mason was born in Shalersvill(
70 Ohio, March A, 1922 and Mis-
IS Mary L. Adams was born i
'e Elyria, o., in 1926. They were unite
le in marriage, April 81, 1916. To them fou
le children were born. One departed thi
3 life at the age of four years. Geo. A
y Mason and Mary Adelaide Meakerresidei
u Chicago, and Laura Isabel Davis i
n Cleveland. Mr.. and Mrs. Mason hay
u been residents of Wellington for forty
one years.
r, This couple will not have the pleasul
sr of enjoying another occasion of the kin;
er but the sweet domestic relations an
g. comfort they have enjoyed for the ha
III century that has just passed and the III
le spotted reputation they have gained
K the community in which they have r
y sided is one worthy to be followed by IL
In present and coming generations.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
We Buy the Best of Everything.

We sell on such close margin Of profit that
our customers feel confident that bottom has
been struck. Hence the active, progressive
look Of things which some people wonder at
Its very simple-this honest shop keeping,
when you know how, and the trading public
will always pin their faith to an establish
ment Of this kind.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
There's Wisdom i'm Economy,

And there are different sorts of economy.
The economy which "saves at the spigot and
wastes at the bung" is worse than no economy
at all. The truest saving is to buy the best
your pocket book will afford at the lowest
price for which it can be sold.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Are You Going

to build or fix up your sidewalk, grape
arbor, barn, shed or anything around
your place this springp II so The Well
ington Lumber Co. can sell you oak
cheaper than dirt. Our stock must be
sold at once.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
DIED..

WADswoRTH. AT the residence Of her
daughter, Mrs. f. E. Powell, in Spring
field, Mass, April IA, 1896, Mrs. Alma
l. Wadsworth, widow Of O. s. Wads-
worth, aged eighty years.
FLENNER. OF bright's disease, at his late
residence south Of town, April 1S,
1895, Jessie Flenner,
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-22
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remain uncalled
for during the week ending April 20:
c.. M. Hunter, Miss Ida Kaufman, 2;
Geo. E. Montgomery, 2; James Taylor.
Richard 7. Wood.
c. W. ARNER, P. M.