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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

used to pay the expenses Of the govern
mcnt." The tariff on some OF the neces-
saries Of life might be reduced, and the
deficit made up by an issue of money"
Or. if this is not deemed advisable, gov
eminent paper can be issued to pay for
special improvements; harbors can be
deepened and rivers improved in this
way" He introduced n bill TO issue
S10,000,000 of United States treasury
notes, with which 10 ~inaugurate the con-
struction Of the Nicaragua canal. He
further suggested that 1--WE can use any
available coin on hand TO take up ma
turcd bonds and replace the coin so used
other bill providing in this way for the
payment of the S2J.O0O.OO0 outstanding
2 per cent. bonds. He did not stop even
at that point. but Grayely proposed that
government paper shoGld he issued in
the place of national bank notes. as they
are retired" His theory of the ultimate
redemption Of government obligations,
as stated by himself. was that the larger
the issue of treasury notes. the smaller
will be the 'coin" reserve required with
which. 10 meet them. by 'coiu'' he ex-
planned that he meant both gold and sill
yer, wilfuliy ignoring the disparity in in
trinsic value betwecn the gold aud silver
dollar.
And this is the fnancier and states
are asKed 20 case their votss, next Mo-
Ycmbcri
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

There is abundant proof that Mr..
Bryan is an insinccre politician and an
unreliable adviser of the people. He
was a boltcr in 1893 and in that year,
too, he made a speech in which he de-
clared that the e~Xchangeahle value of a
dollar depended on something besides a
congressional edict.
When Frank Irvine was running on
the Democratic tickle for judge of the
Supreme court Of Nebraska Mr.. Bryan
supported a P0pulist. In reply to n let
ter from Mr.. Irvine, calling Mr.. Bryan's
attention 20 his unexpected position, the
present candidate for President on the
Democratic ticket wrote a statement Of
his reasons for boiling which contained
the following cool remarks and assur-
ances of personal and peculiar esteem
for the Democratic candidate:
i regret that orr people chose for slaughter
50 deserving a man. They ought 10
have selected some one Of the numer-
GUS Democrats who are responsible
for the falling off OF the Democratic
vote. / have spoken to you thus
frankly and cOntidcntlally, because
! feel that you deserve a better fate
than the one which | fear awaits you
this fan.
During the extraordinary session Of
Congress of 1893, called by President
Cleveland, Mr.. Bryan made Il speech in
which he declared that:
While the government can say that a given
weight Of gold or silver shall cOnSti.
tute a dollar and invest that dollar
with legal tender qualities. IL cannot
hx the purchasing power Of the doll
lar. That must depend upon tho
law Of supply and demand.
II the number Of dollars Increases
more rapidly than the need Of dol
lars--as IL did after the gold discover
les Of S49-the exchangcabIe value OF
each dollar VIII fall and prices rise.
Thus it appears that Mr.. Bryan knew
what the e~xchangeable value of n dol
lar depended on. His change of tune,
therefore, is not because conditions have
changed. but because he shifts his prin-
ciples with the varying political hrcezcs,
and that he is willing 10 do anything for
Office.
In the spring of 1892 Bryan declared
in a speech made by him on the tariff
question that the fall of prices must he
attributed
To the inventive genius that has multiplied
a thousand times, In many instances:
the strength OF n single arm and
enabled us 10 do today with one man
what nifty men could not do fifty
years ago. That Is what brought the
prices down In this country and else
At this time another change has come
over the spirit of his white house
dream. He and his fellow Popnlists
ascribe the fall in the prices of commod-
tiles 70 the fall in the price OF silver.
Mr.. Bryan and his associates declare
that 'the crime Of 1878" which the
News has shown to have been no crime
at all, has pulled everything down with
il.
How can the people believe a man
who thus stultifies himself and puts him.
self on both sides of vital questions,
while, at the same time, he proves un-
true to his party associates?- buffalo
NQVS-
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
G64,06o,375
Cheap Dollars.

Everything is cheap or dear according
10 what we have TO pay for 1t. Sugar is
cheap at 8 cents a pound, but would be
dear at 10 cents.
A cheap dollar, therefore, is one that
the merchant buys with less goods han
he would have to give for a dearer dol
lar. If a merchant now gives twenty
pounds of sugar for a dollar, and the dol
lar which he gets is n 2OO-cent dollar;
and If the 2O0-cent dollar is q dishonest
dollar and ought 10 be replaced by n 100
cent dollar, worth only half as much; in
that case, the merchant will give only
half as much sugar for the cheaper dol
lar as he now gives for the dishonest
200-cent dollar. That is clear, is il not?
This is precisely what cheap money"
means.
Is this what the farmer and the work
ingman really want?
Apply this Illustration 10 labor, il you
please, The workingman buys dollars
with labor. Does he want a cheap col
lar, for which the merchant will give
only ten pounds of sugar? Or does he
want a 200-cent dollar, for which the
merchant will give twenty pounds of
sugar? Cheap dollars would cut his
wages in half. He surely does not want
that.
"Oh, no." says the workingman, "that
is not what / want, bur, if dollars were
cheap, l would get twice as many of
them for a days work"
Would you, indeed? Not on your life.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver, at
the ratio of 10 to 1, is simply a scheme
TO reduce your wages without your know
ing il or having an excuse for striking.
What good would it do o to get twice
as many doliar for n days work IL 81
would buy no more sugar, and no more
of anything else, than 81 will now buy?
Besides, if prices go up, under free
coinage, as they will-we admit that
does not the workingman know that the
first thing to go up will be rents, the
next thing will be food and clothing, and
the last thing will be labor? Under free
coinage, instead of being better off, the
w~orkingman would be worse off than he
is now.
Think this over, and see what it all
means to you and to your little family
Springfield Qll.) Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
FARMERS EGG BASKET
The Mckinley Law Checked In
portation and Gave a
Home Market.
EFFECT OF The WILSON BILL.
The Canadian Farmer Has Protection
but the American Farmer
Has None.

There is no reason why Canada, McXi-
co. China, or any other country should
sunply the United States with a single
egg. Canada does not buy a single egg
from MS. and there is no reason why we
should buy from her. When we do, the
American farmer loses the benefit of part
Of his natural market.
The purpose of this article is 10 show
by Il few figures the benefit which the
American farmer derived from the Nc
kinlCy law: not merely because the
law stopped imports from other countries.
but because under that law he received
an average Of - cents a dozen fer his
egg all the year around. Under the
present Wils0n-Gorman bin. he hardly
averages . cents q dozen; and the people
could better afford TO pay II cents a
dozen in 1892, than they can > cents a
dozen in 1896.
From 1883 to 1890. there was no tariff
upon eggs. The Canadian farmer could
send his eggs across the line from Maine
TO California. Mexico, China. France.
Germany and other countries supplied
us with 15,500.OO0 dozens Of eggs, an
nually, on the average. We paid every
year TO the foreign farmer on this small
product alone. ut 10 GEMS a dozen. s.
100000. This importation Of over l.
oOO.OOO dozen n month or 10000 dozen a
day was felt, in the way of competition.
~ "uI FARMERS cticiN III inc large cltlcS.
Farmers can get the best prices for eggs
and their products in the large cities:
but when New York. Philadelphia. Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Cleveland. Chicago, san
Francisco and many other markets are
supplied with eggs, shipped at cheap
rates of transportation 10y water. how
can the farmer expect to compel who
has to ship his eggs by rail?
The following statement shows impor-
tlflDnS of ppuG hV 1nrr ipC tl,, ,-.,, ~,
fore the Mckinley tariff went into effect.
Tor the year ending June 30. 1889:
lmportAtlons Of eggs, by countries, July1,
1855, 10 June 80. 1889.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

1t would evidently be impossible for
farmers fifty miles in the interior of any
of the states bordering on the Great
Lakes, to compete with eggs shipped by
water from Canada.
The Mckinley tariff imposed n duty
of . cents Il dozen on eggs. This law
went into effect October /. 1890. Dur
ing the year ending Juno 50. 1890. we
imported nearly 900, 600 dozen eggs less
than III the year previous, when there
was no protection. The importation of
Eggs steadily decreased until the repeai
of the Mckinley law in 1894. so that
instead of nearly 10000. 600 dozen eggs
being brought into this country, as here
toforc, in 1901 we imported 100000
dozen; 1000, 600 in 1Sg1-92; 100000
in 1929: 100000 in 1881. BY 1894
nearly S2,000,000 had been taken from
the foreign shipper, which now went into
the pockets of the American farmer.
The following table shows the importa-
lions of eggs since 1888:
Annual importations of foreign eggs, 1883
ISD1
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viduals. A man who has repudiated his
debts is never trusted again and is re-
Earded with contempt by all his neigh
bors. And so is a nation.
A free-coinage law is reputation, and
that it is understood in that sense is in
dicated by such letters as the above.
For if under free coinage the silver dol
lar is TO appreciate TO the value of n gold
dollar how will the farmer get more of
them for his thousand bushels Of wheat?
How can he pay his debt any easier than
he can nowI
No, it is reputation the silver men
want, and reputation is dishonor.-CBi-
cage Times-Herald.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
A Question for Farmers.

If the volume Of silver none controls
prices, as the free coiners would have
us believe that it does, so that the more
silver coin there is in circulation, the
higher is the price of wheat, and the
less silver coin there is in circulation,
the lower the price of wheat; then will
some farmer, who believes in the free
question:
How did it happen that wheat was
lower in price in 1894 than ever before,
while the amount of coined silver in the
world was greater than ever before?-
Illinois State Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
Bryan a

Mr.. Bryan is not SO much a s~ilverite
ms he is n gr~eenbacker. He said, on the
foor of the House of Representatives in
Washington, June 5, 1894:
1.-THE issue of money by the govern
ment directly to the people gives us n
safer currency than national bank bills)
and saves to the people as "a whole the
profit arising from its issue. When a
bank issues money, you must pay the
market ate of interest TO get ii; but
when the government issues money, the
people save the interest, If the money is
afterward called in; and they save the
principal also, If the money is kept in cir
culation."
He asserted that greenbacks "can be
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

Mr.. Tenney's story at Madison Of the
Irishman who swallowed q potato hug
and then n dose of Paris green, in tho
hope of killing the bug, is very pat TO
the political situation. The American
workingman swallowed free trade in
he has suffered ever since, the Populist
auack doctor is trying 10 induce him to
swallow an unlimited dose of free silver.
But II the ~workingman takes il, he win
find, when it is too late, that the cure in
worse than the disease.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

If the Mckinley law had been let
alone, the American farmer in 1886
would be supplying nearly every egg in
the American market. The farmers
crease her stock of poultry, ON which
she depended for pin money TO clothe
herself and her children. When the
Mckinley law was repealed and the tar
if on eggs reduced from ; cents 10 3
cents a dozen, importation increased
100000 dozen in one year. ut an in
creased price of $4,000. Unless the
American farmer can see il 10 be his in
tcrcst to vote for Mckinley and the
restoration of a proper duty on eggs. the
Canadian and other foreign farmers will
soon again ship us 16,0O0.0O dozen a
year and the price Of domestic eggs viii
continue to decline. as they have dom
for the last two years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29

During the last year of the Mckinley
tariff the only eggs we bought were from
Canada. and from China for the Chi
nesc. We bought zone whatever from
European countries, us before. Even mt
3 cents n dozen the tariff would not be
any too high. 1T simply made a differ
ence TO the countries across the Ocean. or
places in Canada. far from the shipping
points.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
Question. why Should Democrats Legis-
late in favor of the Canadian as against
the American Farmer?

Tie American farmer could not sell
in Canada. even if they had no
tariff on American eggs. There are only
a few large cities there, and they are
near TO the Canadian cheap farms. The
half-a-dozen small markets in Canada
have a total population only o~ne-quartcr
Se@sIi Srx.s Gr M ie ma tSSmS, Sss IN
Chicago. afford a better market for
American eggs than the whole. Of Can
ada. Yet Canada imposes a duty of )
cents a dozen on our eggs. while we i'm
pose a duty of only 3 cents a dozen on
her eggs.
The Canadians have protection, but
underline Wilson bill we have not.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
FIGURES FOR FARMERS
Arithmetic for Wheat Growers
Which Neglects Tax and In
terest Considerations.
AFREE SILVER MATHEMATICIAN.
Silver Accountants Concede Double
Expense in Mexico and As
sumo Equal Profits.

Warren, Mimi. Aug. 6-To the Editor:
l enclose comparative slips circulated by
| would like your opinion on. II, Of
course. is intended 10 catch the farmer
who raises wheat. and deductions of this
kind have had their influence in this dis
. wouid IKE Jhe going wages 81 NfeNtco'
and the rates of interest in countries on
silver basis as compared with the gold
standard countries. l.. Lamberson.
The first slip processes 10 show ihe net
profit TO n farmer of raising 5000 bushels
Of wheat in the United States:
5000 bushels, at 80 cents per bushel. SO, 500
Expenses .,,,..,. .....,.,.... 81 900
Freight .,...... ..,........... 500
interest ''.''''.'s..s'., .'.. @b
Taxes ...... 30
- . Ol0
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St,o-t
Reducing this TO gold, as in the original
statement, the net profit of the Mexican
farmer would be S7G0, exactly what that
of the American farmer would be. This
is a fair specimen of the ~illusory and
deceptive statements put forth by free
silver men TO deceive American farmers
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-29
VALUES DECREASED.
Prices OF Live Stock Unde Republican
and Democratic Rule.

and Democratic Rule.
When we resumed specie pay.
ment in 1879 our domestic
animals. horses, mules, cat
tie, sheep and swine were
valued at .............. 81, AS, 423, OG2
During the ensuing six years,
until the election Of Mr..
Cleveland In 1854, the values
increased to-. .............. 2.467, S6S, 1924
A gain during six years Of
Republican rule Of. anna. 81 .022, AS, So
During the ensuing four years
creased from ..'........ e.467. SOS ocf
To..,,.... ........,,., ...... 2,4o9,o 43.4iS
A loss during four years Of
Democratic rule OF. ......... 5s,s25, 50G
During the ensuing four years,
until the second election Of
Mr.. Cleveland I'm 1892, values
again increased from. ....... 2.40o, O43, AIS
To. o............ ........ 2,IGl, 1919, SOS
A gain during four years Of
Republican rule OF. ..,...... 52,712,2s S
During the last two years,
under the second admins
tration OF Mr.. Cleveland, and
under proposed and accom-
plished free trade and sweep
Ing tariff reductions, values
again decreased from 1S93). 2,4S3, SOC, 6Sl
To the comparatively insight
fcant total OF ............. 1870 46, BOG
Showing the enormous loss
in Two years Of Democratic
rule Of .................... G64,0 6o, 375
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Assumed net profit to American
Assumed net profit to Mexican

-
Reduced to gold. 1,2s0
As this assumed profit would be in
silver and the wheat would have TO be
sold upon the gold standard, this skillful
accountant reduces this TO gold, making
the net profit TO the Mexican farmer
$3.50. Blu to produce this result this
accommodating accountant. while con-
ceding that the expense of raising the
wheat would be twice as many silver
dollars as in the United States, as
sumes that the profit on it would be the
same number of silver dollars as in the
United States. AS a matter of fact the
freight rates in Mexico are higher eX-
pressed in the gold standard than in the
United States. but assuming that they
are the same, the American railroad com
panics, as soon ms they cross the border,
require twice as many Mexican dollars
to pay a given freight rate as they re-
quire of American dollars on American
territory, SO that the freight rate in Mex
leo would be $1,000 instead of $500, as
our free silver accountant states il.
Moreover. interest rates are higher in
Mexico than in the United States, if
paid in Mexican silver dollars, and more
over the interest would have to be paid
on twice the number of silver dollars Dor
rowed by the American farmer, so that
even supposing the rates of interest
10 be the same, the amount of interest
would be double, raising il from 5000 TO
$500. Moreover, the equivalent of $40
taxes paid by the American farmer
would be $50 in Mexican dollars. so that
the account of the Mexican farmer, thus
corrected. would stand rs follows:
5000 bushels at SLIP per bushel. !, $1,000
expense ....'......''...' .....2,OO0
TFtiSHt .sss.s
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II, 022.4i5,SG2
2.467,S6e,acf
2.io9,0i3.4lS
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5s,S25,50G
52,TI2,2SO

2.400,043,41S
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A gain during six years Of
Republican rule Of. ........
During the ensuing four years
unstt slststAen Rf y Nh
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-06-30
pnauArE NOTICES.

To alller-ons Interested In either OF the estates
hcrtl nafier named
At q Probate Court. held at Paris IN anu ior
the Csbnty of oxford, on the third Tuesday OF
June, lin the yesr OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred AMI ninety six. Inc iohowins
mntfcI- having been presenter Tor the huoh
therrrlpon hereinafter Indicated, Il hereny
ORprEED:
Thai notice thereof be given 10 all persons In
tcrestl by causing copy Of this order TO be
puhiis bed three weeks successfully IN tue bk'
tori Democrat, newspaper published at south
Parts I'm said County, that they may appear al
prolske Court TO be held at said Paris, on the
thlrri tuesday OF July. A. u. ls.. at nine Of the
clock IL the forenoon, and DC hcard thereon "
they ~ cause:
sA,lAU T. GARLAND, late OF Porter. lie.
oca..sl WIN and petition for probate ~ same
pfeSe }tei by Charles h. Garland. executor
thcrcib named.
DotCAs T.. FLETCHER. late Of Hartford.
drccaIe,i VIII aud petition for probate 81 same
fled b &. C. Fletcher. the executor therein
nsmet.
FAME TUCKER, late Of Paris. deceased.
VIII lInd petition FOR probate OF same nled by
Iiorallo Woodbury., executor named therein.
Lrly 4. oUIST. late Of Lowell. deceased.
finaiI account presented for allowance by -.
T.. ATIircws administrator.
BLtNCH ouINr. of Lowell. minor chill Of
| LucylA Quint, lat. Of Lowell. DECREASED Final
aococLi presented for allowance 10y Chas u.
| AndrIws. guardian
JoiIS DECosTER, Insane. Of Buckdeld. Firs'
| account presented for allowance 10y wilson
shaw guardian.
CHARLES DIAN, late Of Dixfed deceased
! Flrst Recount presented by wymau '. Talntcr
executor.
AMLs 4. HARLOW. late OF Peru. deceased
| Petlt,rn for allowance out OF personal estate
prUscttr,i by Ar,iclia Harlow.
| HoHER CHILD. late OF Peru. deceased
| Pctitln for allowance out OF personal property
prrsoi tel by Martha j. Child.
| Charles u. SPEARS. late OF stoncham
| dcceajcli Petition o. sell and convey real c.
tate VI csented By Geo w. spear. executor.
WILLIAM RECORD. late Of Baokncld. lie
ocassl Petition for -et or OF dover presented
10y MIR J. Record. widow.
| BEIsEY D. GRAY. late Of Paris. deceased
WIN sInd petition for probate Of same presented
| hy Rjbcrt ". Gray. named executor therein.
| CAlyIN HARDEN. late OF sumner. deceased
| VIII iInd petition Tor probate OF same fled and
| for a. appointment OF Ava NJ. Andrews as
admit strator with the will annexed.
JoiiL II. THAYER. late OF Paris. deceased
/ Fir.l Ircouni presented for allowance by Arthur
| T.. fctbcs administrator with the Will annexed
| RFtFCKAHN. sEAVEy, late OF Bruwnfied
4. zeal cd. VIII presented FOR probate 10y Eliza
| beth 1 Rowe. and for the appointment OF m
{. Robe. the executor therein namcd-
AN,tFLINE p MASON, late OF Paris. In said
| Conudr deceased. first acr1unt presented foT
Anow1Dce by Alber, 5. Austin. Administrator.
GEo. 4. WILSON. Judge.
| ALBERT u. PARK. Register.
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MR. eALEoua,s elcycIE.

Mr.. Henry White, formerly secretary
OF the American embassy here, returned
this week on private business connected
with bicycles, so II IL said, anyhow. He
had not been In London many hours be-
fore he proceeded to Downing Street to
the residence of his friend, Mr.. Arthur
Balfour, and there deposi' ed bicycle e
the latest American type, the manufact-
urers Of which have just commenced ad-
vertising extensively In this country.
Mr.. Balfour was ut the House Of Com.
mons when he heard Of the arrival OF the
American bicycle, but he Immediately
threw the business of the state TO the
winds, FASTENED home, and was soon
giving his new machine trial In an ad-
jacent park. Mr.. Balfour Is an enthusi-
astic bicyclist, and has not been over
lucky, for his average, so far, has been
one spill week. The world first heard
Of his passion for the wheel through the
newspaper announcement that he had
been thrown and rather badly hurt 10
the unromsutic region of the old Kent
road. Since then he has been the recipi-
ent Of any number OF bicycles from man
ufacturers anxious to obtain the invalu-
able advertisement Of note OF ap-
prevail from the first lord OF the treas
ury. But no firm has yet succeeded in
drawing from him anything which could
be published, for although it is his Gus
tom courteously TO acknowledge the re-
ceipt of the bicycle. the letter has invari
ably been marked private, and therefore
not for publication.
In fact the whole business Is becoming
somewhat Of nuisance. The house In
Downing Street is the official residence
Of the first lord of the treasury, and wa'
occupied by Mr.. Gladstone during hi
terms OF Office. The cellar, once sacred {,
the Grand Old Mans surplus books anC
furniture, IL now crowded with bicycles
new and used. The custodisps Of IN,
place, though tory 10 a man, admit they
deplore the innovation. They cannot un
derstaud why the Tory statesman should
desire TO ride except on horse or IN !
earrisge. and they can only explain tn
phenomenon BY the pernicious iuiluenc,
and example OF Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain
who, since he became secretary OF stat
for the colonies, has deiied and scandal
ilcd the buieaucrats by habitually Civ
ing news TO the press, and once actually
sent out cigars and whiskcy 10 the re
porters waiting In the small hours of !
memorable morning for the official new
announcing Jsmeson's capture o
Johannesburg. cablegrsms which neye
arrived. London Letter TO New lorl
sun.