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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
Tho 1nalanapoll. Stree. Car Conaiot.

ANU AAAAAoA9FS 80 80 80 0N-'AAHNN'
The course of an indianapolis street
car corporation last week in violently
resisting the operation of a State law
reducing fares to three cents is full Of
suggestion. Not content with apply
ing for an injunction, it ordered its
conductors to eject passengers who re-
fused to pay the old fare, and this law
less edict resulted in a series of person
al assaults, as in most cases the citi-
zens stood on their rights under the
law.
A corporation exists solely by crea-
ton of the law, and it should be the
last to violate the law, by virtue of its
own theory of existence, as well as by
consideration of the ultimate results
which the argument of force is certain
to entail. Were it not for respect for
the law on the part of the people, the
action of corporations, which intrench
their interests behind legal enactments
so easily invoked for their support,
would be terribly embarrassed. Where
there is now one attempt of the people
the working classes in especial, to re-
claim some of their rights, there would
then be a score. When there is a
movement of those oppressed by the
corporate action to make resistance
which has the color of violence, the
assistance OF the police and frequently
of the militia, State or Federal, or
sometimes both, is sharply invoked,
and as promptly granted. When the
law is on it's side, the corporation is
Mortified at laWlessness.
When the case is reversed and corpo-
rate greed discovers itself opposed by
law, we find it proceeding in the case
at issue to the same mode of natural
redress, which, If pursued by its oppo-
nents, it would stigmatize as mob VIC
lence and anarchy. 1t makes the essen
tial difference which OK is gored. Pre-
cisely the same right of the people ex-
lists to call on Government to suppress
the anarchy of corporation as in the
case of the corporation to subdue the
violence of mob In setting the ex-
ample of lawlessness corporations pave
the way to their own destruction, for
they dispense with the only buttresa
which gives them strength. New York
Journal.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
More Gold Exports.

The Constitution remarked some
time ago that whenever there is de-
mand for gold in any part Of the world
the pressure of that demand will ulti-
lnately fall on the United States treas
ury. This demand comes just now
from Austria aud Japan. Austria is
carrying to conclusion the system in
augurated few years ago. but Japan
is a new factor in the gold market, hav-
Ding been induced to make gold the unit
1 OF value by the arguments of the Euro
pean money lenders. Having once
)taken the step, Japan has gone about
the matter with the extraordinary &C
aivity that marks all her adventures
and enterprises, and has succeeded in
sending the yellow metal to premium
10 London.
Ostensibly the Bank Of England has
been supplying the demand, but now
Il is falling on our treasury. By next
Tuesday night about 5000, 900 of gold
will have gone abroad, and the outflow
win be limited only by the amount
that Austria and Japan need for their
purposss. The European banks will
not SurtenGer their gold for export to
Japan, except in so far as they can Sc
cure It from the United States treas
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Thousands-yes, millions of honest
people believe with all the force ofhon
est natures that ''interest-paying" and
''interest-collecting" is, in the nature
of things, right. They believe that
the system is the survival of the fit
test" mode of doing business, and there
fore right in the order of nature. Mil
lions more were just as honest fifty
years ago on slavery. Other millions
believed they were serving God best
when burning witches at the stake. In
each case it was the result of erroneous
education, 1t will not do simply to
"denounce" the practice Of interest
taking and paying, but we must sys-
tematically show why it is fundament'
ally wrong, and thus arouse the public
conscience to such a point as will lead
individuals to stop the pleasurable pas
time of burning witches, or to deny to
themselves the profitable business Of
holding black chattel-slaves, or white
and black interest-slsves.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

tits stated with fine humor that
there is NO alarm felt by the treasury
officials at these exports. This is M
doubtedly true The treasury officials
do not hold office for the purpose of be-
ing alarmed. 1t is also stated that the
colder officials" attribute the outflow
to the large imports on account Of the
tariff. If this statement is true, Mr..
Mckinley and Mr.. Dingley should look
after these colder officials" To at
tribute gold exports and their probable
results to the republican tariff bill is
TO give that party large black eye.
The diagnosis of the treasury officials
we are sorry to say, is not sustained by
facts If gold exports were caused by
imports of merchandise, the rates of
sterling exchange would register that
fact. But there is no scarcity of bills
in the exchange market and the high
est quotation is $3.50, which is not
sufficient to yield any profit on gold
shipments
But the heavy imports of goods as
the result OF the tariff bill will I'M
doubtedly have their effect after
awhile, and will add seriously to sit
uation that is already felt by business
men to be serious. There are symp-
toms in the New York papers that go
to show a very nervous and anxious
feeling as to the business outlook.
For while the commercial agencies
were induced to add dab Of rosiness
to their reports, but these agencies
cannot afford to add too much color to
their information, and we now find
them presenting the situation as it
really is.
All hands have done their best to
play the game of make-believe-the
glib orator and the gifted editor.
1t is said there is to be great reviv-
al when the tariff bill becomes a law.
But it It will be the game of make-be-
lieve over again. The manufacturers
who have had their interests cared for
in this monstrous measure will make a
great hurrah in the matter of putting
their machinery in operation. Enthu-
siasm will be kindled in various quar-
ters as the roar and racket of the mills
fall on the ear
But the end of it all will be unsal-
able stocks piled up in the warehouses.
The result is as certain as if it had al
ready happened, and the reason simple
enough to be comprehended by an
eiRht-year-old child. The tariff may
enable the manufacturer to put a high
er price on his goods, but it does not
give purchasers a cent more than they
have now. Therefore, if consumers
have no money with which to buy goods
at present prices, where will they gel
it when prices are higher?
What will the republican party dc
about it? How will it escape the re
suits of the fraud it is perpetrating on
the people? And how will the gold
men convince the people that theil
standard of value is either honest or
desirable? ATLANTA Constitution.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
Must R.mOnet izo silver Ourselves.

The money power" of Europe will
never consent to the re-establishment
of bimetallism until it is forced to, and
the only country in a position to do
any forcing is the American Republic.
In its ability to deal with this question
the United States is fully equal to any
two European states and probably to
any three. When we consider its vast
territorial extent, its practically un-
limited opportunities for development
and its prospective increase of wealth
and population during the next half
century, it may we'll be doubted
whether all of Europe would be more
potent in the settlement of this prob
lem.
Whatever the effect of free coinage
in this country upon the. relative value
of the two metals, it is bound to inure
to our advantage and ultimately end
the blmetallic controversy. If it bring
gold and silver to parity at our ratio,
and keep them there, it will make the
whole world practically bimetallic.
The entire mass of both metals will be
linked together at that ratio and be
the same in effect as one metal, For
currency purposes some countries may
use gold alone and others silver alone,
but each will get just its share of the
aggregate mass, and no more. The eff
feet on prices and business will be eX-
actly the same as il instead of having
"a, 900, 900, 900 in silver and 81, 900, 900, 900
in gold, we had So 900, 900, 900 of either
one alone.
Trade between gold standard and
silver standard countries will no long
er be distributed by the fluctuations in
the relative value of gold and silver,
for being at par in the United States
they will necessarily be at par every
where. Under such circumstances no
country would have any advantage
over another growing out OF the differ
ence in exchange-that Is, the differ
ence in the relative values of their cur
rencies.
To do this, 1t would not be necessary
for the United States to take "all the
silver in the world" as we hear it so
broadly declared. Nothing but the
surplus stock could possibly come here.
This ought to be obvious to anyone
who thinks for moment The silver
coin of the world Is already in use, and
it is of more value to the owners right
where it is than it would be if sent to
America. II we take care of the sur
plus bullion, that fixes the value of the
entire stock Of silver in the world, and
there would be no motive in transport
ing it from one country to another.
If, on the other hand, this surplus
stock should prove to be larger than
we could absorb and use at the ratio
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

We shall expect presently to see the
republican newspapers pointing with
pride to the fact that from the moment
president Mckinley took Office the rev.
enues began to increase. Within the
first month the average deficit in the
revenues of 50, 900, 900 was as by magic
changed to surplus of so,OOO,OOO 1t
will be claimed-and it cannot be de-
nied-that this is all due to the pro-
posed tariff. 1t is mainly due to the
efforts of American manufacturers to
get their raw material before the new
tariff shall deprive them of all chance
of profit. But that fact will be sedu-
lously concealed. New York Times.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

When the true history of the strug-
gle for bimetsllism, after it shall be
achieved, is written, it will be known
that populists were first at the birth Of
the silver babe, that they nursed and
cherished it for years after it was de-
serted by all others, that they guided
its footsteps until it reached the track
Of manhoon, and were the closest by
its side when its final great battle was
fought and won. All honor to the
stalwart virtues of the populist mass
es!-Rocky Mountain News.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Add now gold is going out again.
What? Going out with all this restor-
ed confidence lowering around? Yes,
going ont at the rate Of about 81, 900, 900
a week and no prospect of cheap sill
yer basis coming to curse us What's
the matter with this Sound money"
administration Rnyway.-Farmers Tri-
bune.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
rnIlrondu and 6 Government.

James A. Garfield once said in con-
gress: "Since the dawn of history the
great thoroughfares have belonged to
the people, have been known as the
kings highways, or the public high
ways, and have been open to the free
use of all on payment of small uni
form tax or toll to keep them in repair.
But now the most perfect and by far
the most important roads known to
mankind are owned and managed as
private property by a comparatively
small number of private citizens.
These corporations have become con-
scious of their strength and have enter
ed upon the work of controlling the
states. Already they have captured
some of the oldest and strongest Of
them, and these discrowned sovereigns
now follow in CHAINS the triumphal
chariot of their conquerors. And this
does not imply that merely the officers
and representatives of states have been
subjected to the railroads, but that the
corporations have grasped the sources
and fountains of power and control the
choice of both officers and representa-
tives.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Who do the Republicans object to
ridicule of their Munchausen idea of an
international bimetallic agreement?
Because there is no record that mon
keys ever enjoyed the laughter of the
multitude, and they are in favor of
burlesque and ridiculous performances,
but are opposed to the laughter and
fun it produces.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
National Crises.

A national crisis will be upon IL
within the next twelve months, The
failure of any kind of a Mckinley
tariff and the impossible position Of
the present administration on the
money question to bring relief, will be
then apparent to all men of intelli-
gence. The business crashes which
will follow will be terrible. The
smash OF both old parties will be COM
plete. No other party can gather in
and organize this vast harvest of dis
content except the Populist party who
have prophetically pointed out its
cause and heroically prescribed the
remedies. Let us organize our state
and be prepared for this emergency.
The Populist party is the half way
meeting ground for republicans and
democrats. 1t is :he middle of the
road to prosperity.
Let us organize! Principles are
everything; individuals are nothing,
unless they stand for principles. Let
us put brainy men to the front as lead
ers tried in the fire of fusion and
found to be of pure reform metal
Free Republic.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Why do the Republican members of
the finance committee of the Senate
take so much time on the Dingley bill
after the Republican members of the
ways and means committee of the
House had spent four months in per-
fecting it? Because they are afraid
the rush of prosperity would overwhelm
the country if they let the bill pass
without delay.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Why do the Republican goldbug pa
pers protest against any ridicule of
McKinley's little international bime-
tallic side play? Because they are
afraid the American people will catch
on and see what hoax and fraud it
is. They know very well the only good
It can do is to deceive the American
people, and they will not be deceived
unless they think the movement is in
earnest
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Why do the bimetallic commission
propose to convert England and Ger
many to the American view of the IL
nancial question? Because England
and Germany converted this country
from bimetallism to the single gold
standard, but England and Germany
did not let the United States know
that they were going to demonetize
silver until after it was done, and it is
admitted by all hands that if the Unit
ed States had found it out before it
was done England and Germany could
never have accomplished it.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

VIII the negotiations for an interna-
tional monetary agreement ever stop?
Never as long as Uncle Sam will foot
the bills, aud there is nobody left in
this country who can be fooled by the
sham,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
Why Is 1t?

How will the international commits
sioners keep up the spectacular per
formance after the $780, 900 appropriat-
ed for that purpose shall have been ex-
hausted? With another appropria-
ton.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

As result of Gen. Wayler's orders
compelling all pacificos to remove into
the Cuban towns, thus destroying all
opportunity TO produce from the land,
10000 peasants have persisted and =
quarter Of . million more are starving.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

The trouble with complaining farm
ers is that they do not manage their
farms in a business way. They keep
in the old rut of growing the ordinary
farm crops, while they should plant
taxes, banks. railroads, official salaries
and all such things as are constantly
advancing in value -Sledgehammer.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Why cannot Wolcott's commission
play some underhand game in England
and Germany and cheat them out Of
their monometallic law and make them
adopt bimetallism before they know it?
That may be the idea and there may be
something in it. If they play fair
game it may be that our commission
can cheat them out of not only their
laws, but their money. We hope that
is the case, We haye no faith in the
generosity of European goldbugs il
they would give up the advantages
that they got voluntarily, and we have
no objections to Wolcott's commission
playing them for all they are worth
while the 500, 900 lasts. Silver Knight.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

The devastation caused by Gen. Sher-
mans march to the sea" covered a
territory about sixty miles wide, but
the desolation caused by his brother
John reaches from ocean to ocean. =
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Why will the bimetallic baby COM
missioners be treated witch courtesy
and dined and wined in Europe? Be-
cause they have plenty of Uncle Sans
money to dine and wine Europeans.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13

Will Wolcott's commission tell the
Rothschilds what they are over there
for? They had better not. They had
better lay low until they get a win
ming hand. But if Wolcott can bluff
Rothschilds without even a pair of
deuces, he can take both continents as
a jackpot.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
INTEREST AND USURY.
WHAT A DOLLAR WILL BRING AT
COMPOUND INTEREST.

The Logical Result OF Interest IL that the
Borrower Must Eventually Become
Bankrupt and the LOaner Acquire the
Property. What Is Fair Rate?
A system that produces injustice, is,
n and of itself, unjust.
If the taking of interest on money is
fright, the is the taking of compound
interest right also, for it is simply in
terest on the interest that is due and
unpaid.
If interest" on so-called money cap
ital is fright" then is interest on other
property investments fright" also, and
it follows that compound interest is
right land if fright" should be univer-
saD when applied not only to money
loaning or money capitaP-so-called
but also when applied to all forms Of
invested capital, whether it be stocks,
bonds, mercantile investments, shops
and factories, or whether it be the in
vestment of farmer or of gardener.
But here is table showing what in
terest on S1.OO will do when turned
loose for only one hundred years. 1t
will amount at
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-13
RAELROADMAIL SERVICE.
EXCESSIVE CHARGES PAID BY
THE GOVERNMENT.

Be6ldes Faying for Carry. nE the Ma /,
the Government Pays Yearly Rent for
MAIL Cars Eq al TO and More than the
First Cost OF the OaFss
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
Postmaster,s Report.

When it was first arranged for
postmasters to send in quarterly re-
ports, many queer documents were
furnished. One of the funniest came
from Waterford, Fulton county, ILL.,,
and is q model Of comprehensiveness,
if not of grammatical precision. 1t
is on file at the postotlice department
and reads as follows:
waterford, fulton C. lis.
July the 8 1856.
mister james buckanin, president
of United States.-Dear Sur Bean re
uuired by the instructions Of the
postofiice to report quartly, | now
foolfill that pleasin duty by reportin
as follows The Harvestin has been
goin on pretty well and most of the
nabors have got thur cuttin abought
dun, wheat is hardly a average crop,
on rollin lans corn is yellowish and
wont cut more than ten or fifteen
booshls to the aker the health of
the communities is only tolerably
meesils and colery have broke out in
abought and half miles from hear,
their are a powerful awaken on the
subjec of religuu in the potts nabor-
hood and many souls are being made
to know their sins forgiven miss
nancy Smith peer nabor had twins
day before yisterdoy one of them is II
poar scraggy thing and wont live half
its days this is about all know and
have to report the present quarter
give my respects to Mrs. Buckanin
and subscrib miself yours Trolley,
Abigail jenkins.
pm at fulton Co ills.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
CornStalIl Possibilities.

Mr.. Prater, of st. Louis, who is
connected with a cornstalk enterprise
at Owensboro, Ky, and has given
the product careful scientific study,
was in New Orleans the other day
and talked entertainingly to a Pic
ayune reporter with regard to the
possibilities Of the cornstalk. 1t is
his candid opinion that within a few
Years the farmers of the country will
be receiving from So 70 $25 per acre
for their cornstalks. Mills will be
established in the South and other
parts of the country, lie says, and
pretty nearly the whole crop of corn
Stalks-;it any rate, that part of the
crop which is grown on farms con
tiguous TO railway lines-will be used
in the mills The market for the
manufactured products is already
made as the products will be staple
articles in constant demand.
Ottbe products that may be evolved
from the matured cornstalk-the stalk
which has borne its grain-Mr. Prater
enumerates celluose, celluloid, smoke
less gunpowder, lacquer, cattle feed,
roofing material, ana a material that
wilLanswer every purpose OF papier
mache Green stalks, he says, are
rich in glucose, and will yield IA
better quality and I, finer sugar with
! less expense that can be made from
the cane of Louisiana.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
Truckers Change OF Base.

We were informed Yesterday by a
prominent trucker Of Norfolk county
that an entire change of their method
of shipments is being advocated in
his vicinity, by which their products
are TO be shipped direct to the con-
sumers, and distributed generally
throughout the country, instead of
forwarding them to central points
like New York, Boston and other
large cities, when they are re-ship-
ped by the commission men and
others to the consumers.
This position on the part of the
truckers has been caused by the very
low prices obtained OF late for what
they grow, the necessary reduction
Of expenses in every direction, and
the failure of the transportation lines
leading to the large cities to proper
tionately reduce freight charges, so
that the conclusion has been reached
that for the future the only way
open to the trucker to earn livli
hood is by careful shipments direct
to the consumers and save the COM
mission of the double handling and
extra freight charges paid under
present NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Virginian,
,rd
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-03-06
Dangers Of the Grin.

The greatest danger from La
Grippe is of its resulting in pneumo
mia. If reasonable care is used,
however, and Chamberlain Cough
Remedy taken, all danger will be
avoided. Among the tens of thous-
ands who have used this remedy for
la grippe, we have yet to learn of a
single case having resulted in pneu--
monia, which shows conclusivrly that
this remedy is a certain preventive
of that dread disease. 1t will effect
Il permanent cure in less time than
any other treatment. The % and sc
cent sizes for sale by Blackstone &
Bell, Accomac G. H., Va, and w. II
Parker, Onancock, Va.