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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Rrief Comment.

The increase in the production Of gold
In all parts of the world is proving very
discouraging to the free silver theorists.
The value Of the silver dollar has fallen
10 cents and the price of wheat has risen
% cents per bushel since the free coinage
orators were insisting last year that
wheat and silver went hand in hand as to
prices.
The 1900 election is likely to find the
world with billion dollars more of gold
than it had in 1896. The wonderful in
crease In the production Of gold in all
parts of the world Is proving very discour-
aging to the free silver theorists.
The friends of the free coinage PROPOSE
tion who have been insisting that their pet
financial theory would, IL put in practice,
increase our sales abroad are not discuss
ing very loudly the fact that in the very
year in which the country refused to adopt
free coinage its exports were the largest
in its history, amounting to $1,032, OO1, :
2O0
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Business still Improyes.

Business conditions continue to improve
and the reports which come from the high
est authorities on this subject are all sat
isfacto-y. The latest issue of Dun's Re
view, commenting on business conditions
the country over, says: Every city re-
porting this week notes increase in trade
and nearly all bright prospects. The
great change in business is emphasized by
the presence of multitude of buyers
from all parts of the country, by their
statements of the situation at their homes,
and, more forcibly yet, by the heavy pur-
chases they are making. But the custom
airy signs of prosperity are not lacking.
The strong rise in stocks, the growth of
bank c!earings and railroad earnings, the
heavy speculation in many products, but
most of all in wheat, have made the week
one Of surprising interest even to those
who best remember the upward rush in
1870. .
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Wool Mt Twenty-Five Cents.

Cadiz Republican,: 1t is with pleasure
that the Cadiz Republican can announce
this week that the price of wool in Harri-
son County is twenty-five cents pound
During the past week Messrs. q. NJ. Hogg
& Son have purchased the clips Of wool
raised by the following well-known farm
ers of Harrison County, $4,000 pounds in
all, paying in each case twenty-five cents
a pound. The clips of Dunlap Brothers,
Cadiz township; John Clifford, Green
township: s. Il. Porter, Green townships
r. r. Cochran, Cadiz township; Joseph L.
Thompson & Son. Cadiz township; Henry
Mckee, Green township; John McDivitt
Stock township; Samuel Hedges, Cadiz
township; Ross Mansfield, Wayne town
ship, Jefferson County; III. Il. Lacey, La.
ceyvile, and Oliver Roob, Green town
ship
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

mirer, the Baltimore Sun, expresses In
this paragraph. clipped from recent edi-
torial:
1T will not be long at the present rate
before we shall have duplicated the cost
or the war In pensions. This would be
readily acquiesced In, however onerous,
II the money all went to the deserving,
but the fact that most OF ii is wasted Is
legitimate cause for criticism"
Waste Is unnecessary or useless ex-
penditure. The Cleveland theory. as for
muiated by the Sun. Is that most OF the
money paid to the veterans, their widows
ana their orphans. has been unnecessarily
or uselessly expended. Mr.. Cleveland be-
iieved that the pension roll was honey
combed with frauds. In order to test that
belief he was supplied with ample facili-
ties to hunt down and punish frauds. He
spent deal of money in that quest, and
the result was complete vindication OF
the substantial honesty of the pensioners.
In his last annual message he presented
Facts and figures by which he involun-
tarily proved that the pension roll was
roll of honor. But although his hunt for
frauds was something very much like
failure, he met with success in holding up
widows pensions.-Washingto Post
Dem).
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Wheat's Valuable Lesson.

The silver leaders are utterly unable
to explain the rise in the price of wheat,
ana at the same time maintain their ar
guinent Of last year. The ablest of them,
including Mr.. Jones Of Nevada and Mr..
Teller, have ventured upon the task, but
all have failed. All are forced to confess
that the natural law of supply and de-
mand does apply in the present price OF
wheat. But such confession could not
have been wrung from them n year ago.
Then they were contending, almost fierce
~, that wheat was low solely because
money was scarce. Increase the volume
OF money. they insisted, and wheat would
go up. But it would not and could not so
up without such an increase. Wheat is
now Mt the dollar mark, and even higher,
and yet there Is no more money in the
country than there was last year. And
free silver meanwhile has not only not
been decreed, but the policy stands re-
jected at the polls.
Now that the problem has been solved.
and by process which all may so easily
comprehend, it seems strange that so
many people last year should have be-
lieved so implicitly in Mr.. Bryan's con-
tentions about money and prices. The
Nebraska leader and his lieutenants
would allow nothing whatever to the law
of supply and demand. Silver had been
struck down. BY that act half of the
money of redemption of the world had
been destroyed, and hence low prices fol-
lowed for everything. They picked out
wheat for illustration, and now wheat,
obcying tie spurned law of supply and
demand, goes to the dollar mark. Short
crops abroad, which create demand for
the American wheat supply, knock the
spots out CT the illustration, and force a
confession from the silver leaders which
completely disjonts all of the fine-spun
theories upon which they tried to put Mr..
Bryan into the White House.-W Washing
ton Star
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Is Pension Money Wasted ?

The outcry against the increase Of tbe
pension list since the Mckinley admins.
trotion came in still continues. and we
have little doubt that 1t will go on as lonp
os now names are added to the roll II l.
not n popular clamor, for a great ma ioritv
of the American people, irrespective OF
marty. are in favor of the pension laws ms
they stand and desire their impartial on.
forcement. One Of our contempora rios
thinks II unfortunate that some plan can.
not be devised to stop the growth of the
list Death is doing a great deal i'm that
direction. 1t clipped off $4,000 names las
veor and it will continue to clip Mt nm
;pcreo sing ratio as the years wear on. for
even the youngest Of the surviving vet.
Grams are getting to be old men.
We have, in a recent issue of the Post
exnlained the increase of the list since
the 4th of March by showing that Il was
due IN the Cleveland hold-up. Nearly Mi
tho publications granted under the present
odmjnjstratnnrame ever from the Cleye.
land regime. 1t was the settled policy OF
Mr.. Cleveland to hold up claims and pass
them along to his successor. There was
NO saving to the treasury in this In the
long run, for a pension dates back to the
time OF tne hpphSnuoh' "ost VI the heiu'
up claims were those of widows, clearly
proven and sure to be allowed. The
Cleveland administration deliberately
halted the work of the pension bureau
and kept thousands of poor widows out OF
the money that belonged to them. II any
one doubts this the records OF the bureau
will prove 1t. And 1t is in perfect har'
mony with the whole course of Mr.. Cleve-
land on the pension question. His views
are Just about those which his ardent ad
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
It Was Not True. of Course.

"No man in public office owes the public
anything"
The calamity organs are publishing the
above and crediting the statement to Sen
ator Hanna. The Senator is said to have
written the startling sentiment in n letter
to Attorney General Watson. 1t must be
classed, says the Times-Star, among the
things that are important if true. But it
will hardly prove useful to the silver Dem
ocrats as n campaign issue. Its virtue in
this respect is badly damaged by the dis
covery that it is pure invention. Mr..
Watson declares that no letter ever re-
ceived by him from Senator Hanna con-
tanned such statement. This early ex-
posture Of the fraudulency of the cam
paign efforts of the McLean-Chapman
crowd is stunning blow to the rampant
apostles of free silver.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

for public and private debts, or which 10
receivable for duties to the United States.
shall be Issued by the Government OF the
coin.
This means that all the paper money of
the country shall be issued by the Govern
ment, and would thus be either FIAT
money or must be sustained by keeping
In the treasury an enormous metallic re-
serve, much larger than the one which
now exists and which causes so much dis
satisfaction to the Democracy and its fiat
associates Of Populistic and socialistic
tendencies.
=, In support Of these principles we invite
the cooperation OF all men who love liberty
ana nate corruption, oppression ana tyranny
combination of high sounding words,
intended only to mislead and inflame un-
thinking people, and coming with extreme
~ poor taste from party whose entire
record up to the time of its removal from
power In 1861, was directed against the
love OF liberty" and in favor Of "oppres-
sion and tyranny"
We barely declare all trusts and monop-
olies hostile and dangerous to the people. 8
interests . and demand vigorous
enforcement of all antitrust laws. etc.
All Of which sounds well. But the peo-
pie are naturally suspicious Of such de-
ciarations coming from party which neg
iected during Its four years of power to
enforce the existing antitrust laws, and
which framed it's tariff law in the inter-
ests OF the sugar trust, the greatest trust
OF the land with the single exception of
the one which 1t is now attempting to
place in control of the nation, the silver
trust.
, we demand the Immediate recognition of
Cuba. etc.
Which it is generally conceded would
be OF little practical value to the Cubans,
ana would probably destroy the opportu-
NIFTY of bringing about, through the peace
ful and proper methods of diplomacy, the
results for which the people Of that island
are now struggling.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Mexican w orkingmen in Hard Luck,

A special commission sent to Mexico by
the Trade and Labor Assembly ut Chi
cago last fall reported that teamsters got
81 per day in Mexican money in the City
OF Mexico, while those in the city Of Chi
cago get $1.75 per day in American dol
lars, which, as indicated, are worth near
~ ~ times as much as the Mexican dol
lar. Street car drivers get 20 cents per
day In the City Of Mexico in deprecated
money, and in the city of Chicago S2.2o
per day in good money. Printers in Mex
leo, $1.25 per day; in Chicago, 50. Press
men in Mexico, 100 per day; in Chicago,
$3.50. Shoemakers in Mexico, $1.2o; in
Chicago, $3.50. Carpenters in Mexico,
S1.25 per day; in Chicago, $3.50. Brick
layers in Mexico, SIPS; in Chicago, 81
per day. Laborers in Mexico, 371a cents
per day; in Chicago, SIPS. When it is re-
membered that these wages quoted in
Mexico are now being paid in alleged dol
lars which are worth but about AZ cents
as compared with our dollars, which are
worth 100 cents, the contrast in earning
capacity Is something appalling.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
M'LEAN'S GOLD BOND.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT AND
SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY.
Man Who wouid Pay workiugmen
In Accent Silver Dollars Demands
Gold, and Gold Only, for Him
self.
omciaI Records Show II.

The demand for information about John
X. McLean's gold bonds continues so
strong that we reproduce this week the
bond in full with brief statement of its
history. 1t Is its own comment upon the
candidacy OF n man who advocates a
cause OF paying workingmen In Accent
silver dollars and demands good gold dol
lars, and gold dollars only, for himself
The transaction in question is that Of
contract made by him with the Columbia
Athletic Club Of this city In 1889, in
which he requires that organization TO
make sundry obligations, amounting to
$4,000, payable to him individually In
gold coin, both principal and interest.
The transaction related to the construc-
ton Of n club house for this organiza-
ton. the Columbia Athletic Club of the
District of Columbia. In that year he
made an agreement with the club by
which he sold to it certain lots in the
fashionable northwest part OF Washing
ton, near the War, State and Navy De-
partments, and erected thereupon COM
modious and costly club house, the price
of the land and the club house being $1O,-
700. This money the club agreed to pay
on or before the LIST Of March, 1909, and
issued bonds payable to John X. Mclean,
bearing his name upon their face. These
bonds he required the club to agree to
pay In gold coin of the United States OF
the present standard of weight and fine
ness also requiring it to pay the Inter
est thereon in like gold coin"
There can be no doubt about the accu-
racy Of this statement. The bonds were
prepared and signed by the officers Of the
club and turned over to him. and some OF
them have since passed into the hands OF
other parties who now hold them. Not
only are these bonds still extant and
readily obtainable by those who desire
to verify this statement, but n still more
permanent and unimpeachable record of
this transact is found upon the official
records of the District of Columbia. The
details Of the entire transaction between
Mr.. Mclean and the Columbia Athletic
Club are set forth in copy Of a deed or
trust given in connection with this trans
action. Among the details Of this trans
action, which are found on the official rec
ords, are copies OF the two series OF bonds
which the club was required to give as its
form Of agreement to pay MIR. Mclean
the gold which he required from it. There
were 70 be two classes of bonds, one class
amounting to $4,000, each bond to be
for the sum Of 81 900, the second class OF
bonds being for $4,000, also payable IN
gold and bearing higher rate of interest
than those Of the first class. copy OF
which is herewith appended:
<,anx- IN, u,Yrr, nAxyn
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
What Would Happen.

IF the Democrats should gain control
of Ohio they would send to the Senate a
man who would support the vicious prin-
cples of the Chicago platform. The State
would be gerrymandered, and fifteen or
sixteen men, instead of FIVE, as at present
would be sent to Congress to support
these same vicious principles. Chair
man Geo. X Nash.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
Nfexico's Prcdioament.

The recent enormous fall In the price Of
silver is driving Mexico to consider the
advisability of going to the gold standard.
The example Of Japan, Russia, Peru and,
in fact, all the intelligent nations of the
world, is having its effect upon the states
men Of that country. and, followed, as 1t
is, by the business troubles growing out
Of the great fail In the value Of silver,
warns them that they must fall In line
with other civilized nations IL they expect
TO maintain their business and financial
standing.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

Business must indeed be bright when
the New York Journal. which year ago
was insisting that nothing but the free
coinage Of silver could bring prosperity to
the United States, has published a full
page article showing a prosperous condi-
ton In New York and the country over.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

Miss Genevieve Griffith, engaged in
raising Chinese pheasants in the Waldo
hills, eight miles east of Salem, Ore, has
about 200 young phensants that are now
taking on plumage. They are yet running
mt large, and it is hardly possible to dis
tinguish domestic from wild birds around
the Griffith place.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

The continued rains of the past few
days have caused serious loss to the coal
dealers who have boats moored near Ba-
ton Rouge. Ia. The feet OF W. q. Coyle
Il Co., about fifteen boats, filed with
water and sank.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

DIR. James b. Angel, the new United
States minister to Turkey, has arrived at
Constantinople.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11
COPY OF THE BOND.
THE COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
FIRST MORTGAGE FIVE PER CENT. GOLD BOND

For value received the Columbia Ath-
letlc Club OF the District OF Columbia
hereby acknowledges Itself indebted, anu
hereby agrees to pay, to John X. Nc
day OF March. 1909. One Thousand Dol.
lars, In gold coin OF the United States. or
the present standard weight and hne.
ness. at the Citizens National Bank or
Washington. at the City OF Washington,
and Interest thereon In like gold coin at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, on
the first days Of September and March OF
each and every year. on the production
and surrender of the proper coupon here
to annexed.
This is one of series of forty.hve
bonds each OF like tenor and effect
numbered consecutvely from l to 45 In
elusive. and secured by first mortgage
deed OF trust bearing even date herewith,
executed and delivered by said obllg6r
to said George w. Swartzel and A. T.
Brltton as trustees. for the holders OF
said bonds, conveying the said estate
therein described and the buildings, bet
terments and improvements which may
he erected or placed thereon and duly re.
corded In the office Of the Recorder OF
Deeds Of the District Of Columbia.
these bonds is made and continued for co
days after due demand. the principal
thereof. at the option Of said trustees,
subject to the control or the majority In
interest OF said bonds. shall become due
obligor hereby expressly valves all, any.
and every benefit or privilege OF any ex-
tension. stay or appralsement law now
existing or which may hereafter be en-
acted and Of all right or equity OF re-
demption In case of sale or foreclosure
under the terms and provisions OF said
deed of trust.
This bond Is subject to redemption on
the first day Of March, 1894, or on the
first day OF September or March OF any
year thereafter Mt the option OF said
obligor, provided proper notice Of the In
tenton to redeem and pay for same be
given In writing to the holder hereof per-
sonally or by publication In newspaper
OF general circulation In said city Of
Washington, and In either case not less
than 60 days previous to the date named
FOR said redemption.
In witness whereof, the said Columbia
Athletic Club Of the District OF Columbia
has issued this bond to be signed In ITS
name by the President. sealed with the
corporate seal, attcsted by Its Secretary,
this first day of March. A. d. 1880.
(Signed)
COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
OF the District OF Columbia.
CHARLES A. BRADBURY.
President.
HOWARD PERRY. Secretary.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

$500
ON the frst day Of September, 1850, the
Columbia Athletic Club OF the District
Of Columbia will pay to the bearer TWEEN
tv-dye Dollars In gold coin Of the United
States ut the Citizens National Bank Of
Washington, ID. CO being six months In
terest on It's first mortgage bonds, Class A.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-09-11

INC interest coupons attached to the
bond read AS follows:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
Father Sebastian.

But when the smoking and orange
fiamed torches filed the place below
HIM with an Internal radiance and
great motli-like shadows, t,r~talized
that he had a drunken mob 70 deal
with. They reeled befo . him fresh
from the plunde- of some wine-shop,
waving empty bottles above their
heads.
"Come down." they cried. ..and
we will let you keep your skin, but
we must nave the church. 1t will
make a pretty fire."
lie pleaded with them as he stood
with outAupg arms, an NJ
yearning figure. Oh, the marvellous
voice and it's awakening power .
Some hesitated, vaguely touched. 4
few terrorized by his picture Of
Gods wrath, drew back, shedd;no
maudlin tears. But the mass swep !
on relentlessly. Father Sebast.n
had fiends to deal with, and som
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
wv YWWWfW lIf wv W VIZ
KyIe'S Election
GSoooo
AS Viewed by the :
Press 2

The not altogether unexpected
has happened, and Senator Kyle OF
South Dakota has been reelected
by a mastery flank movement on
the part of the Republicans, which
has cast the ranks of the opposition
into hopeless confusion and has adj
ministered to Senator Pettigrew the
most singing rebuke which his po-
litical methods have ever provoked.
Politically speaking, it was the best
thing the Republicans could have
done. There has never been any hop
Of the election of any of their mum
Der, because the fusion forces in the
Legislature have been anti Republican
above all else. The next best result,
therefore. was to save the credit OF
the state by preventing the choice Of
any one of the many radical candi.
dates which the unexpected success
of the populist party last fall bros
to the surface as thick as toads after
a shower.-Mpls Tribune.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
Canton News.


The unblushing attempt of Gov
ernor Lee to bride members OF the
legislature to vote against Kyle by
promise of political pap, and his
attempt to intimidate them by the
information that no supporter OF
Kyle need expect any fayors at his
hands is the most fragrant abuse OF
official position ever seen In our
state, and still it is claimed our
Andy is a Cuisines" governor and
proposes to give u state a ''busl-
ness administration" The high
way robber conducts bis business
on the same plan.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04
A Word for the Cow.
Dell Rapids Tribune.

Dell hdplus iTloune.
South Dakota is forging to the
front as a dairy state. There are
now ninety creamerles in the state,
and it is reported that in two weeks
they turned out 2SS, 600 pounds of
butter, for which thev received
s3S, 200. Figuring on this basis,
the creamery business Of the state
for a year would amount to about
$1,000, 900, without taking into
consideration the fact that the
creameries turn out double or treble
the amount of butter In the sum-
mer that they do in the winter.
This is a good showing, but the
state needs more creameries and
cheese factories.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-04

Pictures taken in the vicinity OF
Webster, this state, showing the snow
blockade have been on exhibition
in the Argus Leader Office for sever
al days, and they have attracted
great attention. People in this part
of the state are just beginning to
appreciate the wonderful amount of
snow on the ground in hat part of
South Dakota. When the spring
thaw comes, the water will fill every
lake and run to the brim, and hot
winds and droughts will be almost
an impossibility for the coming sea.
son. Not in ten years has there been
a finer crop prospect than the one
now before South Dakota people,
nor has there for several years been
the outlook for better price for our
chief staple of wheat. However dis
couraging the general conditions
may be, South Dakota people GER
tainly have no good reason to feel
blue.-Soo Falls Argus Leader.