Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-12
AID FOR AMERICANS.
M'kiNlEY IL FRIEND TO OUR
CITIZENS IN CUBA.
Calls on Congress Il Relieve Those
Who Are Homeless and Destitute
Bill Opposed in the House by a
Democratic Leader.
Capital City Chat.


Capital City Chat.
Special Washington correspondence:
President McKinley's message on the
Cuban question shows that he has a re-
sponsive heart for those who surfer,
and especially If they are American cit
liens. The knowledge that citizens Of
this country were suffering and in
want of food and shelter brought in
mending an appropriation for their
benefit. Ut is understood that the Pres
ident is only awaiting for more detailed
information from special representa-
tives whom he has sent to Cuba before
taking equally vigorous action in re-
gard to other matters there. When ii is
remembered that the first three weeks
Of Mcliinley's administration witness
ed the release of practically all the
Americans who were in Cuban prisons
on the 4th day of March. and that his
action for the relief of those who We're
suffering for want Of food was equally
prompt. the contrast between his ac-
lions and those Of President Cleveland
Is strongly marked. When it is remem-
bered also that the objection of a Dem
ocratic leader prevented the prompt
passage of the relief bill in the House,
the contrast between Republican and
Democratic methods is still more sharp
ly outlined.
Ex-senator Dubois, who has gone
back To Idaho to herd cattle. assures
the dear public, In taking his depar-
ture, that be will be at the front again
with free silver in 1900. The fact that
Peru, Japan and Russia have all gone
TO the gold standard since the cam
puign of 1896. in which Mr.. Dubois and
his c~o-faborers were vainly shouting
for the free coinage of silver IN the
United States. coupled with the further
fact that half a dozen other countries
have adopted the gold standard during
the past two years. does not supply a
very favorable outlook for those who
are proposing to make the free coin
age Of silver an issue of 1900. If the
gold standard continues TO make head
way with the nations Of the earth as it
1880 "'HN ~ ~ HaiSl wv "a VA
Dubois and his associates will find
themselves entirely alone in their ad-
vocacy of the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver when they attempt to
carry out their promise of bringing it
forward In 1900.
Increased Gold Product.
The gold production continues to in
h,tl e., Al. -
were in operation last year and through
the development of new gold fields.
Mr.. Otis 5. Gage, formerly of Wash
ington, ID. c., who has spent the past
two years in Ecuador, reports the gold
fields of that country Surprising in
richness and extent the famous mines
of South Africa" Reports from Mexico
represent that new and very rich gold
fields are being developed there, ad-
vices from Texas indicate that gold
mines are being developed in the Wich-
ita Mountains, while the new processes
which are now being followed In the
mines of Georgia and North Carolina
are making gold mining in that section
extremely profitable. Present indica-
tons are that the gold production of
1897 will exceed that Of 1896, which
vas the largest in any year in the his
tory OF the world.
Peru's abandonment Of the silver
standard proves 10 be Of the most rad
zeal type. Detailed statements of her
action on this subject which have
reached Washington show that not
only does she make gold the standard
Of value, but the act goes SO far as TO
prohibit the importation Of silver coin.
Even the product Of her own minis
which ave gone out OF tla country
cannot be returned except ut one port,
where 1t must be melted into bars.
The assertions Of the silver orators
Of the last campaign read c~uriously
now. For instance, that one in which
they insisted that farm products and
silver kept pace in rise and fall IS es-
p~ecialiy amusing in view of the fact
that farm products have steadily risen
In value in the past eight months, while
silver has gone in the other direction.
Silver has in the last few weeks reach
ed the lowest point in it's history, while
wheat In that same time has reached
a selling price double that which eX-
listed at the very time that these argu-
ments were being most vigorously pre-
scented.