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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
"PROvIDED" AND "IF,"
Stand in the Way of that Silver and
Bank of England Story.

Stand in the Way of that Silver and
Bank of England Story.
What the Bank of England proposes to
do about silver was formally and authori-
tatively stated yesterday at the semi-an-
nual meeting of the bank by the Governor,
who read letter he had written to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, stating, in
substance, that the bank was prepared to
do what it was permitted to do by the
bank act of 1914, that is, to carry one
fifth of the reserve against its notes in
silver, provided, however. that the French
mint is again opened to the free coinage
of silver land that the price at which sill
yer is procurable and salable is satisfac-
tory. The Governor went on to say that
the bank had bought no silver, and all that
it had agreed to was to do what is per-
missble under the act Of 1874, on the con-
ditions he stated. This is some slight en-
couragement to bimetallists, but not
enough to excite them.-Louisville Com
mercial,
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Not Controlled by Silver.

Russia's exports of grain, according to
the latest advices, have amounted to only
about G5 per cent this year Of those of
1896, the total Of all kinds of grain
amounting to 143,O0O,000 bushels during
the first eight months of the present year.
When there is added to this fact the ex-
treme shortage in the crops Of this year,
it is apparent that Russia will do little if
any exporting and supplying the markets
of the world, to which India, Australia
and Argentina will contribute little, if
anything, thus leaving the United States
the chief food supply of those sections
which have to go outside their own terri
tory for grain. This accounts for the ad-
vance in the price Of wheat, and sustains
the claim of the Republicans in the last
fall campaign that the prices Of wheat de-
pend upon supply and demand, and are
not controlled by or related to the use of
silver.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
straws from the Pos,office.

The records of the New York postof1ice
show that nearly ten thousand more do
mestic money orders were paid at the
general office in the first two weeks of
August this year than in the same time
last year. These money orders have,
without doubt, in most cases been sent
to pay for goods ordered from New York
merchants by persons living elsewhere
This means that nearly ten thousand peo-
pie who were not buying goods from New
York dealers in August last year are buy
ing this year. Straws show which way
the wind blows, and this is one of the
straws which mark the coming of what
promises to be hurricane which will
sweep the country into such prosperity
as will give the devoted band of free
traders bad dreams for many a day.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
The Bopansyille Affair.

1t is said the attempted assassination
of Isaiah H. Loftin, the colored postmas-
ter of .Hogansville, Ga, will be made the
basis of an immediate and vigorous pros
ecution of all who are connected with the
affair. This much is due to the enforce
ment of law, but in addition the admin
istration should take firm stand against
the movement to boycott colored once
holders in the South. 1t is not likely there
will be many such appointments, but
wherever they are made the incumbents
should have ample protection. The Gov
ernment should not allow itself to be CO.
creed or dictated to in the smallest matter
by any party, faction or class of men, ana
If any community attempts to draw the
color line against postmaster otherwise
qualified it should be made to understand
that the Constitution and laws OF 1he
United States are supreme in every part
of the national domain.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Pettigrew and Mantle,

Nobody has called attention to any great
anxiety. on the part of the public to know
the result >of the interview of Senators
Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado of
Japan on the true cause of the demoneti-
zation of silver. The fact is, everybody
except Pettigrew and Mantle understood
all about it before they left or it they did
not they could easily have learned it by an
examination Of the official report of the
director of our mint, which shows that the
japanese silver yen, which in 1887 was
worth 1873 cents, had, by July, 1897,
dropped to 47.S, while the gold yen had
not changed particle, the prices of 1855
and 1887 being precisely the same, 99.7.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
The Shipping Question.

Shipping is the one industry that Eng
land protects; shipping is the one indus
try that the United States does not pro-
tect. Last year the total tonnage of new
vessels launched by Great Britain was
over million tons; the total tonnage OF
new vessels launched by the United States
was less than one-tifth Of that of Great
Britain. No wonder England is mistress
of the seas. 1t certainly is high time for
us to take lesson from England and to
protect our merchant marine, and so dis
pute with England her control of the
carrying trade Of the world, as we are
already beginning to dispute her supren.-
acy in the markets of the world in the
sale of manufactured products.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08

preaching State campaign. Despite the
air of ingenuousness given to the commit
tees discovery that it was clearly with
out authority to write party platform,
it's failure to express last Wednesday even
the smallest opinion on public questions
bears all the earmarks of deliberate and
studied policy. Moreover, the plausible
excuses for lodging a reaftirmation of the
Chicago platform so obligingly furnished
to Senator Murphy by Chairman Jones of
the Democratic National Committee fail
wholly to obscure the main fact that the
Democratic organization in the foremost
State of the Union practically hauled
down the silver flag when, by policy of
inaction and silence, it committed itself
to conducting State campaign on lines
which virtually ignore the declarations ac-
cepted year ago as Democratic faith by
the national convention at Chicago.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Have a New Opportunity.

Democratic orators who last year We're
trying to convince the public that the
clique of fnanciers in Europe whom they
vaguely denominated money power"
were responsible for the adoption Of the
gold standard by all the intelligent ma
tions of the earth, will now have an op-
portunity to make an equally interesting
and equally reasonable assertion by
charging up to the gold power the failure
Of the crops all over the world. 1t is
just as reasonable to charge the destruc-
ton of Argentine crops by grasshoppers
to the money power as it is to assume that
the money power could influence the leg
islation of a great nation on that most
important question of it's policy, the cur
rencN.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Iowa Democracy and Gov. Boies.

The Democratic party in Iowa is not
content to lose the alliance of the other
anti-Republicans Of the State, but by it's
latest move it has ostracized the Boies
element. The venerable "Uncle Horace'
saw fit to advocate the adoption of the
commercial ratio between gold and silver,
and base free coinage thereon, instead of
16 to 1. He insisted upon it. There
upon the leaders ordered him to- the rear.
He is no longer allowed to go to and fro
up and down the State preaching the gos-
pei of free coinage at 36 to 1.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
An Object Lesson.

Inc financial situation in the Southern
hepupllc presents an object lesson which
siiouid not be lost upon our friends. the
lree M silver lunatics. Advices from the
Clty OF Mexico, in the words of recent
arrival from that unhappy place, paint "a
gloomy picture Of the future" A Young
californian who has resided there for
thfee or four years, and who has held a
conspicuous position in large business
concern, states that the decline in the
price of silver has practically driven him
out of business. He says that everything
has gone up threefold--except wages. Ow-
ing to the tremendous discount on that
meta! working people are now scarcely
able to earn sufficient to procure the nee
essaries of life.
All branches of business are paralyzed
and Americans are leaving the country in
droves. Merchants who have outstanding
accounts and who are compelled to collect
them in silver are being put to tremen-
dous loss. When this young man left
Mexico it took $3.50 to buy 81 in cx-
change, condition which has practically
DESTROYED the importing business, and
which is gradually crippling the Govern
ment; for as imports decline the revenues
OF the republic are obliterated.
Ihe evolution Of a free silver basis in
Mexico substantiates everything alleged
9y the opponents of Mr.. Bryan in the last
presidential campaign in this country. 1t
was then said that wages were the last to
go up, and that currency imitation of every
KIND was injurious to the masses. This
is always the fact. Capital takes care of
itself, but labor is always the victim of
prevailing circumstances. Yet it is n
strange coincidence that of the several
millions Of people who voted for William
j. Bryan, probably Is per cent were men
who, had his financial theories been nut
into effect, would have suffered the most.
In Mexico the masses are not RESPONSE
Bile for the financial crisis. The Gov
ernment maintains its silver basis with
out consulting them. But in the United
States, had the free coinage Of silver been
adopted, the people themselves would
nave wrought their own ruin. No reason
ing man can contemplate the possible re-
suits of the presidential campaign Of 1896
without shiver. Bryan was defeated,
after all, by narrow plurality. Had he
succeeded and had his demagogy and
crude theories been put into the form of
laws, fifty years Of good government and
prosperity would not have wiped out the
damage he would have inflicted upon the
nation.
If there are any free silver lunatics in
this country who still believe that it is
safe to adopt free coinage of silver with
out the consent Of any other nation. they
should be sent to Mexico and compelled
there to study the frightful results of a
deprecated currency upon the welfare of
the common people.-San Francisco Post.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08

1orman law was in force and cotton ties
y, we're re on the free list, but the price was
%n'oo per bundle at wholesale. This year
ven we nave the Dingley bill and a protective
arln IN on cotton ties and they are offered
at ~ cents bundle at wholesale. These
Iacts Ia, do not seem to work in with the
cleveland parrot cry that "the tariff is a
1aS. These facts, too, are of themselves
u suhiclent refutation of the other free
trade falsehood scattered so broadly and
SO constantly, that protective tariff fos-
te tefs trusts. Last year, under free trade,
s sllere was cotton tie trust; this year, un-
uef protective tariff, the trust is broken
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
The Price of Cotton Ties.

y dispatch from Charlotte, N. c., states
that an Illinois manufacturing company
offers to furnish the regular flat cotton tie
at 10 cents per bundle at wholesale IN
carload lots, or at rs cents at retail, ana
that several carloads have already been
ordered for that immediate section. Inc
dispatch goes on to say that last year the
price was S1.50 per bundle at retail ana
%l.3o at wholesale. Then the Wlison-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
THE MODERN FARMER.
His Lot Is Improving Faster than
That of Other Men,

His Lot ls Improving Faster than
That of Other Men.
The old-time farmers boy was not seri.
onsy to blame for striking out for the
city. His pathway of life was not strewn
with roses, nor were his days succession
of joyous picnics. He was compelled to
rise early in the morning, long before the
lark had ceased from slumber, and bring
the cows from the dcwy pasture. He was
expected, before he had Il chance to sat
isfy his morning hunger, to "pail' six
cows; be kicked over ut least once; feed
and groom four horses, and carry food
and drink to at least twenty-five head OF
open-faced swine.
In the summer he was expected to hold
the handles Of bull tongue plow and
tramp adown the rows of corn until long.
after the chickens had gone to their night
ly rest. In the fall, when the old horse
power threshing machine came around, he
stood at the tail end and forked away the
straw, while ragweed dust filled his lungs
and clogged the pores Of his skin. In the
winter he was sent out to pick stones from
the rocky field, and as he picked, fresh
stones sprang up like dragons teeth to
take the place of those he had gathered
He had no time to read, and mighty little
for rest. 1t isn't any wonder he got tired
Of the business and struck out for the city
Now it different. The farmer no longer
comes to town in his road wagon, sitting
on two-inch plank laid across the top of
the wagon, but he rides in his surrey, his
horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness.
He sits in carriage seat to plow his
ground, and after his days work is done
takes walk for exercise. The oldfash
ioned horse-killing and Misunderstanding
threshing machine has given way to a
modern invention run by steam, automat-
ically fed, which stacks its own straw,
and measures, weighs and loads the grain,
while the farmer, seated in the comforta-
BILE shade, may watch the operation. His
hay is stacked by machinery, and baled
by machinery. His water is pumped by
machinery. His stock will soon be fed
by machinery. He is beginning to put in
telephones and order his groceries over the
wire.
The time is near at hand when, instead
of being the slave Of toll, the farmer will
be the man of leisure as we'll as the man
of capital.
When that time comes it will be found
that the ambition of young men will lie
in the direction Of becoming landed coun-
try gentlemen instead Of hard-driven
overworked and smothered-for-air resi-
dents Of the cities.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Protection in the SCUM.

The growth of protective sentiment in
the South, shown by the election of Sen
ator McLaurin in South Carolina, is no
surprise to those who have studied the
situation in that section. The New York
Sun, whose editors scan the political hori-
zon pretty closely, in recent article
points out the growth Of Republicanism
in that section, and says it is to be an in-
portant fieiG for the party in future.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Why They're Paying Mortgages.

1t seems now that it is the poor farmers
who are being 'intimidated." Last fall
the Popocrats assumed that the working
men We're processing friendship for the
Republicans because they feared dismissal
if they did not, but the election showed
that there was no foundation for this as
sertion. Now Mr.. Bryan says it is last
years threat of foreclosure that is lead
ing the farmers to pay off their mortgages
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Making Our Own Tin Plate

The free trade theorists are not hunting
up just now their assertions made when
the Mckinley law was enacted, that no
amount of protection would enable the
United States to make it's own tin plate.
Not only is the bulk of our tin plate now
being manufactured at home as a result
of that protection thus given, but our
manufacturers of that article are actually
invading foreign markets
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Get Good Money for Wheat.

The farmers are now getting just two
and half times as much for wheat as Mr..
Bryan and his followers promised them if
they adopted free coinage. They prom
sed 81 per busbel for wheat in silver dol
lars, and admitted that they didn't know
what the silver coins would be worth.
They are now worth 40 cents under free
coinage, while the farmers are getting two
and a half times that in good American
lOO-cent dollars.-Exchange
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Absurditx Is Made Clear.

The recent statements Of Statistician
Mulhall. in which he shows that the prai-
re States are the most prosperous spot
upon the face of the earth, make clear the
absurdity of the effort which was made
by the silver orators last year to induce
the people Of that section to adopt cheap
money as basis of further prosperity.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Had to Have an Issue.

peoplc who are surprised that the three
,nti-Kepublican conventions in Nebraska
decided to again advocate free silver
should remember that they had to have
something for an issue. OF course the
democratic tariff theory was too unpopu,
l,r 10 trot ont again. as also the other di-
l"n:datt' rads Of the Democracy.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Not a Safe Money Metal.

A fall of 20 per cent in value in a money
metal in ten months would seem to war;
rant the belief that it is not very safe as
a money metal. Yet that is just the fall
in the value Of silver since last November
1t was worth 65l3 cents per ounce in New
York on Nov. 3, 1896, and is worth only
81 cents to-day.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Wheat to Bring Golden Dollars.

While our wheat production is very
large this year, our home consumption is
increasing with returning prosperity and
we will have to hold the major part of it
for our own people. 1t is estimated that
we will have in the neighborhood of 200,-
100000 bushels for export, which means
not far from 200,000,000 golden dollars to
be distributed among the farmers.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Threats Not Carried Out.

1t is not observed that the countries
which were making that terrific protest
against our new tariff three months ago
are putting any Of their implied threats
into execution. They know now what
they knew then, that the balance of trade
was in their favor, and that they could
not afford Ito carry out any Of their
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Sick of His own Medic inc.

The Ohio-man-afraid-of platform is
now presenting curious spectacle. Two
months ago he crammed free silver, and
free silver only, down the throat of the
Democratic party, and now he is as sick
of the dose as were the other people. But
he can't get rid of it now. He has made
his bed, he must lie in it.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Failures Have Decreased.

Business failures in the United States:
Second week September, 1897. ..... 1853
Second week September, 1896. .315
Second week September, 1896. ..... .21S
Second week September, 1894. go. .21S
Second week September, 1893. ... .346
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08
Hauling Down the silver Flag.

More than local significance attaches to
the refusal of the Democratic State Com
mittee Of New York to revive the free
silver cottage issue for use in the ap-
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-08

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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-02-13
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Picking ducks are good market fowls.
For large, heavy fowls have the roosts
low.
Dampness causes leg weakness in
ducks.
The good layers are active and gener-
ally on the move.
Dry earth is good material TO scat
ter under the roosts.
When a thrifty bird is fully matured
it is easily fattened.
Early Matched, well developed pullets
make good winter layers.
Stale bread. soaked in milk, is a good
feed for young poultry.
Thrifty, vigorous one-ycar-old hens
make reliable winter layers.
Cleanliness and good feeding are the
secrets of success with poultry.
On the average IL will cost one dol
lar to keep laying hen one year.
Leghorns and black Spanish lay eggs
with the whitest shells of any breed.
Soft food is an excellent inyigorator
when fed warm on a cold winter morn
ing.
In finishing turkeys for market shut
them up and feed them literally for a
few days.
There is a good profit in keeping the
hen laying in the winter, even though IL
takes little extra work to do Il.
Oil meal, sunhower seed, hemp seeC
and buckwheat can all be used TO goor
advantage in feeding fowls intended for
exhibition.
Scald and allow them 10 stand over
night in a place where they will not
freeze; this Ia one OF the best way. OF
feeding oats TO poultry.
1t is natural FOR some breeds OF poui-
try to moult lighter each year, and
hence what are often taken for defects
are only natural TO the brecd.-St. Louis
Republic.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-02-13
USEFUL AFTER DEATH.
Part Played by the Carcass OF a Horse In
tho Commercial World.

Part Played by the Carcass OF a Horse In
tho Commercial World.
The leg bones are very hard and
white and are used for handles of pocket
and table cutlery.
The tail and name are especially val
liable and from these are made the hair
cloth of commerce.
The ribs and head are burned TO make
bone black, after they have been treat
ed for the glue that Is in them.
The phosphate of lime, acted upon
by sulphuric acid and calcined with
carbon, produces phosphorus for luci-
fer matches.
The short hair taken from the hide
is used to stuff cushions and horse col
lars; thus the dead are made to minister
to the comfort OF the living.
The hide furnishes waterproof
leather known TO the trade as cordoyan,
and is used for the manufacture Of
high-class hunting and wading boots.
There Is an animal oil yielded in the
cooking process which is deadly pois-
Oh, and enters into the composition OF
many insecticides and vermifuges.
In the calcining of horses bones the
vaIors arising are condensed and form
the chief source Of carbonate OF am
monia, which constitutes the base of
nearly all ammoniacal salts.
The hoofs of the animal arc removed
anc after being boiled to extract the
oil from them the horny substance is
shipped to the manufacturers of combs
and what are known as Mikado goods.
The bones TO make glue are dissolved
in muriatic acid, which takes the phos
phate of lime away, the soft element
retaining the shape OF the bone is dis
solved in boiling water, east into
squares and dried on nets.