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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
Free silver AVID Na"r-.

There is no worse foe 10 Labor ;l,li
silver coinage. The cost of liyiu- vii!
double in il day. Wages viii uruu "a
the 50-cent basis Of the >ilypr-a>iug
countries, Mexico. Brazil. Japan tId
China. AS Mr.. W. VI. WINS. OF Sew
York, showed in detail IN Il recent
interview ON his return from t;raHil.
in the past ten years ,here. under a
deprecated currency. while all other
prices have risen. wages have remain
cl unchanged. This viii be The re-
suit here. The laboring man who
votes for free-silver coinage will vote
away half his wages if his vote j. one
of a majority.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
The Home Market.


Mckinley speaks with wisdom and
truth when he says "the home market is
the best market in the world" 1t is
the home market that opens factories,
furnishes employment for wage-earners,
and fills the land with consumers Of
farm products.
One great cause of the hard times is
the denial of these facts by the tarlff re,
formers of 1894. who undertook to sell
the home market in exchange for the
markets of the world" The result
was that they lost the former and did not
gain the latter. SO that the whole scheme
was a lamentable failure.
The truth is that protection and reci-
procity bave demonstrated their great
value to our home industries and for
eign trade. The former achieved their
greatest prosperity under protection,
while 1892. when the Mckinley law was
in operation. was the banner year of
our exchanges with foreign nations.
Comparing 1899 with 1896, the result
is as follows:
1892 to $500. 2OO.4S7 in 1896. a decrease
S167. OF 1861: and our imports fell from
SS27 .402.4 62 in 1892 to S~179.11O,02f i'll
1896. q decrease of SAT. 500 .43S. The bal
ance of trade favorable to the United
States in 1892 was %2n2, S1J.96S: for the
fiscal year just closed it was only $50
490.463. a decrease of $119.3So.223.
Thus Uncommon experience OF the pco-
pie shows the wisdom Of taking care of
the home market. while the record dem
onstrates that with the market in Il
fourishing condition the foreign markets
take care of themselves. The step to-
ward free trade was a colossal failure,
and an attempt to mend matters by
adopting the free and unlimited coinage,
of silver would be even ii moro stupcn-
dous blunder. - Rochester Democrat
Chronicle.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
In BimetalIic Countries.

Japan began as a bimetallic country
In 1871, coming silver and gold at 16.1r
to l.. In the past ten years she has
glided down to a Silver-specie basis.
Her gold coins are quoted at 195 in
her silver coins. She has $SO,OO0,O00
in gold, $72,O00,O 900 in silver and $751;
0OO,O in notes, against which the
specie reserve is $101, 100000. but the
bad money has driven out the good,
the currency is made up Of the notes,
which are redeemable in silver, and
the paper or silver yen, worth nomin-
ally $1.01 is quoted at 50 cents in
Wall street, while the gold yen is quot
ed at par ($1). Spain Is sliding down
rapidly and surely to a silver basis.
All notes are issued by the Bank of
Spain, which has in its vaults every
gold coin in the country except those
held by numismatiStS. 1t redeems its
notes in silver. The premium on gold
rose from 10 per cent. in 1894 to 30
per cent. in 1895. Spain will settle nat
urally to a silver basis in from three
to five years, or can be dropped to it III
an hour by the Bank of Spain or by a
demand of the government on the peo-
pie for gold in payment of taxes Or du-
ties. Greece, the last to join the Latin
(bimetallic) Union, is now only a year
or two from a silver basis. Gold was
quoted recently at 100. and the paper
or silver drachma % cent 3 mills, at
T. cents In gold.
4 fall to 10 cents or Il rise in the cola
premium to 1913 puts Greece on Il sill
Yer basis. Gold was lSI Jan. /. 1885,.
but a silver basis a. STAYED of for Il
little longer. The currency is S54.oU0.
OOO in paper-noteS iSSued by tire"
banks, redeemable i'll silver or gold.
but without enough metal behind them
10 do it; only the government honor.
which means silver probably. 1t is Il
financial gamble. with > cents invest
ed on Il chauce OF winning { cent, =;
mills.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
The al

..Thcrc was once a man who climbed
= free. and he had in his hand a saw.
And while he was in the tree his enemy
rnme beneath il and lay down to sleep
in The shade. And the nan said to
himself: Behold my enemy asleep and
in my power. | will avenge myself upon
him by saving off y limb Of this tree
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
DEPEW CALLS BRYAN DOWN.
Quotes Henry Ward Beecher and Charges
Misrepresentation.

The most remarkable of the citations
of Mr.. Bryan during his address in
Brooklyn last Wednesday evening was
the one in which he said, referring to
Henry Ward Beecher:
/ only wish that the distinguished divine
whose name has added to the great fame
of your great city were with us tonight,
that he might again champion the cause
of the people in their great fight of today.
Chaunceys NJ. Depew used this rs a
nue. rink this evening. The occasion was
the formal opening of the Kings county
Republican campaign in Brooklyn. Six
thousand persons crowded into the hal.
and cheered the speaker. National
Chairman Hanna was one of the dis
tinguished men on the platform.
In referring TO Mr.. Bryan's statement
Mr.. Depew said in part:
During the fiat money and unlimited pa
per currency excitement of 1877 Mr.. BEECH
er delivered a famous sermon thanksgiving
day on the perils of the day. In ii he used
this language, which is commended to the
study Of the Populistic candidate for the
presidency, since he has called Henry Ward
Heecher as witness:
Wherever. in any nation, there is such
an attempt 10 tamper with standards. that
the moral sense of man is bewildered and
liberty is given to unprincipled men at
large to cheat. to be unfaithful to obliga-
tions, to refuse the payment of honest debts
whenever tnat taxes place, 1t is all tuS
worse if done with the permission of the
law. I hate the devil riding on a law worse
than | do the devil riding without a law
under him. Whoever tampers with estab-
lished standards hampers with the very mar
row and vitality of public faith.
Cold is the worlds standard. Gold Is
the UNIVERSAL measure of value. Other kinds
of money-silver, copper, paper-all must
conform to gold and be measured by It,,
and be interchangeable with it. in fixed and
definite proportion. Gold is king to COM
merce. All other money must represent
gold.
Gold came to its supremacy as a repre-
sentative of property by the long-estab-
lished consent of mankind. Congress cam
not change it for the world, nor even for
this nation. except upon past transactions
1t may give impunity to men to cheat con-
fiding creditors. but it cannot rule the
value of currency in all future transactions.
1.-The crime of paying a debt in Il currency
inferior in value TO that in which it was
contracted, base at all times and every
where, has a deeper guilt and a baser in
fanny in our case. When in our mortal
struggle capitalists were solicited to lend
their money TO us on the faith of the nation
we were too glad to promise to pay. in gold
and were most grateful for their aid. Now,
our dangers past. we reVile them, 1lndlns
no epithets too violent, and strive TO pay
them. not gold for the gold they lent our
misery. but in 4 dishonest measure of an
inferior metal. TO return their aid by Il
base treachery is to deserve an infamy as
deep as the lowest depths of hell."-Chica'
90 TimeS-Hprald.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

TO prove that the circulating me
dunn or money measure of silver coun-
tries has some very significant Sylnp-
tomato relation with their slow prog
resS and poverty, it is only necessary
to call attention 10 the fact that wages
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

ION. Frank s. Black AT Chatham, \. y. .
would ask Tie voters irrespective OF
IaijE, Irrespective OF previous political
aIhilatiohs. to look ont this fall that
they don't put themselves in IA position
."hrr" they say the American people Ike
o he, aud that is where they can ne
n~1lnhuSecl and fooled. The Dcnocr1,ic
party AZ Chicago issued Il new H. If
pF9lhl>es, and the Democratic - -
,"A"s yUu from one premise 10 an"' :,
ii'In on" condition to another. each ir'
49, NOR" UIreasouablc. each con .
moro louluratlr, and if Won accept 4.
|''' WIZ 'aa!Iy place yourselves by -
nuH' and distress in II condition a
wren '"u must find relief.
VOW. ~ Uf'iei!,t' ~ sitycr. PERM, =
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

Senator sherman SAYS: The expert
ence of every nation in the world proves
that the cheaper money will fill the
channels of circulation and the money!
Of higher value will be boarded or ex-
ported. This is a rule a. universal as
the movement of the earth around the.
sun or the flow Of the tides uf the ocean.
No one vii! pay gold Wllea silver ouc
half III commercial value can be PAD
instead. What would he The inevita-
BILE result OF the free coinage Of silver
now. when the silver in tie dollar is
worth only 30 c"utSt Docs any man
need to DO told tlal il Viii be worth
only what it cost? by calrfully lin!lt-
in% ire aluolInt OF Silvr" coins aud
coming only Oh government account
we can maintain silver rDtms mt l"r
wiki gold COINS. Just IS we keep Pave
money by pr":l,>r 20 receive ii 49,
money aui redeem it in 4o5d il g.
banded"
Goverpmc.t Purchase Of liver
The Bland aet. or more correctly tie
NIand-AlIison act passed in 1873. dI-
lCctod tie purchase ana coinage mo
dollars ~ p" government of Silv"r 10
the vain" Of not less dian $2.OU00oO.
nor more than %l.u0o,0o0 per month. {
was superseded ia 1880 by the Sll
uan aet. VII. p detected The purchase,
!Y tine government of l.ItD.UON ounces.
ct silver pee. alun1h. and the isSlei
against 1t OF treasury legal tender no1eS
Ter lis cost.
| void sound. stable currency 10 be'
among the greHtcSi enCouragenlrEts.
Ia industry ana business - ~norally ana
an ulSound ana iiurtiiating nov cX-
pnnIing n now t4tutra ing. so HAT
no honest man cen ! N.iat to do ~
among The greatest U.Scuuti@"mrLiH-.
John {. Calhoun. f%Gt.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

chicken
@ II faut for
led the same
on use cold
NE dressing
be decollete,
varded with
large sam.
III not Il. AZ
Z. II is 200
IN who are
to get right
good,
Il. Wrtin;
you might
Hecessirily
he is crnSg-
Se0 men we
l.ajcht rs 4
must De
ash AT your
foreign sub
to hash.
there Were
1t you were
n the hash
that is pla'''
Dur SyniI'''
II men and
King ilnpof'
5. they will
r a r'emtcl!
now
b,l'
was IN tllf
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
No Issue.

Washington Press: Bryan shows that
he Is a demagOgue in these ways:
!. lie says, to incite prejudice, if you
hUrn down all the cities, but leave the
farms, the cities will spring up as by
magic. The farm is all in all. But
what is the farm without cities, that is,
iharketsf Nothing. One is as necessary
as the other, therefore there is no issue,
can be no issue.
= lie constantly sets employe against
employer, labor VS.. capital. But
capital is as necessary as labor. and la
bor as capital. What can Il workman do
y mere is no one to pay him wages!
"Aat can a producer do without work
nlehE There can be no issue between
TWO equally necessary things.
-. He rubs the ears of the West and
Ho,ith. rs sections, as if they were dogs.
ana sets them on the East as Il section.
and yells, Sic. The East is 200 to 80
t'3rS old. and has saved money and is
.'A' while the South was impoverished
~ "" War she brou@h on herself. and
me Vest Is new. and both need capital.
IN" East IS as necessary to them as
,,'E ar" to the East. yea. more so, for
he lt:ls, could loan her surplus money
,iH'"""r". But to buy and open farms.
lE'N' improvements. get stock. etc, IN"
W'Nt ana South must have caoital. The
last loans it. but want it paid back. III
as good money as it lent. Bryan gets
MAJ al this; wants to pay back half of
ana call it square. and lyingly pre-
,'H1S mat farmers are as mean and dis
hottest as himself. Because the East
.i>I>i$ ON bril" paid only its just dues
u.s. ..'iiriaiei. i'ryan arrays " sections
'S' ,'>i one. That's the breadth Of his
.'"NA''d and .AmerieaniSm. One section
','"> th' Other. the one as much as the
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

Facts for Farmers.


This shows (T.95 divided by >, that
orr average per capita consumption Of
wheat in 1891 and 1899 was Il tritr
under four bushels. This was SO per
cent. below the per capita home on
snulption in 1890 when times were good.
Surely any intelligent farmer ought 10
hr able to understand what that very
low consumption of wheat by our people
meant in 1894 and 1880. lie realized It's
force in the low price OF wheat. Our
people were out of employment under
The Wilson bill and unnhl" to buy and
consume as much as they did in 1890.
With Il consumption in 1894 of only
about 30 per cent. of what it was in
1890, the value Of our home market and
labor fully employed in relation to the
price cannot be overlooked. The value
of the markets of the world" supplied
largely by Argentina and Russia with
cheap wheat are as nothing compared
with our own market. In 1890 wheat
MAS worth 9S cents, in 1898 only 70
cents and in 1894 only 81 cents, the de-
cline in price being in about the same
ratio with the fall in home consumption
per capita. This presentation of facts
ought to be conyincing.--Buffalo News.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
WHO is TO BlAME!
The Free Silver Wolf Says That the Sound
Money Lamb Is Disturbing Business.

Money Lamb is Disturbing Business.
The wolf in the fable blamed the
lamb for stirring up the bed Of the
stream and making the water muddy.
But" said the lamb, ''the water runs
from you toward Inc. | could not have
disturbed your drinking. "Oh, WE'LL"
the wolf rejoined, eff you did not, your
grandfather did" And he s~traightway
dined on young mutton.
The silverite wolves who are bowling
calamity and threatening to overthrow
our sound financial system pretend to
find All excuse for their 16 to 1 schemes
in the unsettled condition of business.
Because loans are being called in and
capital is timidly waiting the result Of
the elections, the advocates of free coin
age say, in the words of their pTesiden-
tial candidate, You are interfering
with business. All unfavorable indica.
tions in trade and industry they loudly
ascribe to the gold standard, and the
manufacturers who are forced to limit
their output by reason of the refusal Of
merchants to buy while there is SO much
uncertainty about prices are accused Of
being goldbugs who are purposely max
ing hard times.
1t should be easy for all intelligent
voters to see through the hypocrisy OF
the silverite claims. Nothing can be
more certain than that instead of being
due to the gold standard any financial
stringency which may now exist is al
most entirely caused by the agitation
for a debased currency. With a large
number Of Office seeking politicians 60
ing up and down the country shouting
for cheap dollars, and promising to cut
the measure Of values in two if they
gain control of the government, how
can business be good? A tight money
market simply means that the owners
of capital are unwilling to make loans.
Does any reasonable man expect that
the threat of enabling borrowers to pay
their debts in so cent dollars is going
to encourage investors to part with their
capital? On the contrary, is it not self
evident that the clamor for a debt re-
pudiation policy is the real source of
business depression?
So long as there remains any doubt
as to the future financial basis of our
great industrial and mercantile opera
tions so long will there be anxiety and
fear in the commercial world. Distrust
will continue to breed failures; capital
will be scarce and interest high; debts
will be hard to collect, and investors
will hesitate to engage in productive in.
dustries. This condition of affairs can
@,l, lo Ax,ol,Al -, n ~ f,r N ,,v "a
standard is concerned, by an emphatic
declaration at the polls against free sill
yer and all other cheap money fallacies.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22
pTiON.
GRATED !,
lent ="

[ent I
|
'o ON is :,
Tex, in CON- !.
I revolution Of
a ~liungarias
p The NOM.
| on four huge
I "' which is
wv thus form.
Is base 81.
|ll.,,f form block,
|rk granite, on
''aceiul Shaft.
!. by bronz,
"a a figure Of
Wings, holdio.
and in ths
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-10-22

e extends the
f the heroes
Pc four long
ia
pal events Of
f. revolution.
portraits
e revolution,
f. in the pie
exam solder
|'nze Of Sam
Milan. Sid
heroes of the
|of the Shaft
Pro Patria
The Washington bee., 1896-01-04
SLAUGHTER AT ZEITOUN.
10000 TCRKs, WITH "a CANNON,
FIGHT sAyAGELY WITH 1900
8RMENIANS.

Both sides Lost FrightfulIy City Was De-
femded by Armenian Revolutiunists and
Attacked by Regular Troops The Sui
tan's Ideas of Reform.
Berlin, Dec PA Constantinoplt
dispatch to the Frankfort Zeituag re
ports that there has beer tiercc Eight
ing at ZeitoGn between the J'.lrkisi
troops. who surrounded the titt anc
the insurgent ATTnenians, who defend
ed it, Both sides are said to have lost
frightfully. The Turks were I000l
strong. and had twenty -four pieces OF
artillery. The ArmenianS nCL.Dered
1o,O00, but they had no artillery.
Boston, Dec. PA detailed a-coun,
of the massacre OF Armenians at Bitlis
has reached this city fror: a correspon-
dent in Eastern Turkey, who wri. 8:
The outbreak began when ths :, lrks
went to the mosque at noon. Contrary
TO custom the Turkish storekt .ers
closed and locked their shops h. :or,
going to prayer This alarmed the Ar
menians (who had been already threat
ened with massacre) and they began
TO close their shops also. The police
interfered to prevent this. Some Arme-
mans ran away to escape. Then a Turk
named Yuiuf fired a gun and the peo-
pie rushed out of the mosque and be-
gan the attack upon the shops. The
massacre which followed was the work
OF officials. The troops were called to
the work by the bugle and they were
stopped by the bugle."
Another correspondent, writing from
Constantinople. asserts:
The massacres, undoubtedly ordered
from the palace, are to be confined,
with some possible exceptions, to the
six provinces embraced In the scheme
OF reform, and unless some change is
made in the Sultan's attitude towards
the provinces in this direction it is not
likely that the dreadful experiences
which have fallen upon the provinces
IN Armenia will be repeated in those
nearer the capital. 1t Is difficult to un-
derstand fully the long period of in
action maintained by the European
powers. 1t is believed here that the
reason for this is that they find il diff
cult to agree upon the question of the
partition Of the empire, in case it is de-
cided to make an end of the Ottoman
rule. Ever since these unhappy nego-
fiattons began hopes of something to
be done in the future have been held
out, but the great effort of the powers
has seemed to be how they could keep
In concert in the business of doing
nothing at ALL"
Lynn. Mass, Dec 24-Several Ar
menians who came from the same part
OF Eastern Turkey. and who are en-
ployed at Ira 8. Franklin's morocco
factory in this city. received cable.
gram yesterday that members of then
families were among the victims of re-
cent massacres.
The Washington bee., 1896-01-04
Salvador's Washington Protest.

San Salvador, Dec. 26.-The represen-
tative OF this country in Washington
has been instructed to complain to the
State Department that the authorities
at San Francisco have permitted the
outfitting Of the boat Golden Barclay
by the friends of Ezeta-. designed as a
filibustering expedition against a
friendly nation, such act being a viola
tion of the neutrality laws. 1t is
claimed that the American Government
should have prevented the vessels leav-
ing San Francisco, and should have
imprisoned Casin and the members of
the Central American Land Company,
who have furnished money to Ezeta
TO carry Out his revolutionary plans.
The Washington bee., 1896-01-04
A Coward's Act,

Jackson, Miss, Dec. 26.-Prof. T. W
Saunders. a deaf mute, and for many
years teacher in the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, was shot and instantly
killed last night by his nephew, c. r
Young. Prof Saunders was to act as
Santa Claus at the Christmas tree got
ten up for the amusement of the deaf
and dumb children in the institute, and
called at Mr.. Young's house in his
Santa Claus garb. His knock at tn.
door vas heard and Mr.. Young, the
only occupant demanded who is
there" anf: receiving no reply, fired
throusf. Ire door at what he supposed
was a burglar. Prof Saunders dropped
xns55e the hall and died in two minutes
The Washington bee., 1896-01-04

Satin hniSh Silken weaves crowd ~.
market. They are equally as pretty ~
satin, but are much less expensive.
A pretty soft crush collar can r.
made of violet velvet cut on the bioo
and lined with crinoline, from the car
tire falls breadth of accordion, plated
chiffon, either white or velvet.
Dresden ribbons are much used and
do make very effective stock collars
but they should be detachable ones
tor they grow very tiresome.
Satin, velveteen and Crepon are we'll
liked as are all the wool material
liked for house wear.
Skirts for the streets are being mad.
much longer.
A black velvet Tam O'Shanter held
up by tuft of three small ostrich tips
and a bunch OF pink roses should be
worn by girl not over sixteen.
Capes will be worn as long as bio
sleeves prevail.
Fur capes, falling three or four inche,
below the waist are very fashionable
and effectlAe.
For all occasions, jet aud velvet
toque, with black tips and coiored
flowers at the back is appropriate.
The well cut skirt of this winter
hangs in free and easy tubular flutes
around the figure, and can be drawned
to either side when seated, so as to
avoid crushing.
There is hint of even of the passing
of the flutes in the newest evening
gowns, where the fullneSS of the back
is box plated and hangs distinctly fiat
A charmingly, simple, and elegant
evening gown, which will serve as a
model for many is of changeable, opal
tinted moire, with garlands of chine
flowers thrown over it.
The silk, velvet, and ribbon poppies,
are one of the greatest novelties in hat
trimming.
A purple velvet toque of unusual
size, being really a soft folded tur-
ban has wreath of violetS, closely set,
which encircles the hair.
Every shade of violet is much worn
in accessories, and divides favor with
turquois blue and geranium pink.
The shops are filled with legions of
pretty fabrics suitable for morning
gowus, but nothing holds general favor
more firmly than the soft, all wool
creponS of fine crinkle.