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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
per LCapitRN

1t is moro money the Bryanites want.
Now, which nations have the most
money-those with the gold standard
or those with the silver standard?
The slper5tes are fond of talking
about per oaptta circulation.
Under free coinage of both gold and
silver the United States had q per cap4a
circulation IN ls0O of $4.99, IN 1883 of
$500, In 1883 of S14.e3, In 1872 Of S1s.19.
In 1894 We bod per capita OF $24.2si in
1893 we haRs one of S21.I0.
The Per capita circulation of the
world is ebout S5-15.
The per capita of the gold standard
countries Is SIS.
The per capita of the silver standard
countries Is nearly S4.30.
The gold standard countries have a
Per capita Of silver alone Of $40.
The silver standard countries have q
per capita of silver of S2.32, the rest of
their small circulation being mainly de
preciated paper.
The gold standard countries, with
less than ons-third of the worlds popn
lation, have very nearly two-thirds Of
the worlds currency circulation
And yet Mr.. Bryan would take the
United States from the gold standard
and place it upon the silver Standard
louisville Courier-,TOurna1.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Where Are the Benefits?

If 5O-cent silver dollars should double
the prices of farm products, it is quite
as certain that the prices of oil the
products which the farmer consumes
would double in the same way. In that
case it is not easy to see how the farm
er would gain anything by ths free
coinage of silver. Even the wages Of
labor. the last to rise in an epoch OF do
Pfeciatsd currency end inflated prices,
would finally, after much distress ok
the workingmen, struggle up TO the
common leyel.
But whether the farmer should ee-
naise 500 for LOO bushels of wheat and
pay out 500 for tbs neoessaries of living
or should receive 500 for the same
wheat and pay out $50, In both cases
the balance ON band would have just
the same purchasing power. But IN 90
complishing the degradation OF the
monetary standard, which could do
neither the farmer nor the wage-eerDeP
any good, an enormous depreciation of
values and -condscation Of accumulated
earnings, involving public and private
credit in maelstrom of destruction,
would inevitably ensue. Are the farm
ers and workingnen of the country
willing to invoke such catastrophe? :?
Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
The Pensioners Dollar.

you say you want 30 hear little
about the old soldiers. Well, ICY friends,
the crisis which is approaching TOW, the
question before the country now. ap-
peals to the old soldier as much as it
did in 1861. / am not afraid that any
man who risked his life in his nation'a
behalf is going to be influenced by the
arguments that are addressed to the SOL
diers now by the financiers," etc.-Mr.
Bryan at Milwaukee, September 5.
Not one word in answer to the ques-
ton whether the purchasing power Of
the monthly pension payments to 970-
coo pensioners would be reduced by the
free coinage of sixteen to one silver dol.
lars. Not word as to the effect upon
pension payments hereafter of the Sex
Termination" of the ''2O0-cent dollar"
because it is worth too much and buys
too much.
We do not assume that the veteran sol-
diers are thinking of nothing but PEN
sions, but they should compel Mr..
Bryan to say frankly what would be
the effect of free coinage upon the PEN
sicner's dollar.
Make him Answer the question rhe
way or the other.-Exchange
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Bryan's Rotten Egg Arsune..

As a contribution to financial and
economic thought the following utter
ance of Mr.. Bryan, made in Kentucky,
is the most remarkable yet offered even
by him:
"1f any man in this community would
offer to buy all the eggs produced at 25
cents dozen and was able to make
good the offer, nobody would sell eggs
for less, no matter what the cost of pro-
duction, whether one cent or five cents q
dozen. So with silver. Free coinage
would establish the market price of sill
yer at S1.29, and nobody would sell .
for cent less"
Why limit the price of eggs to 25 cents
and of silver to s1.9a? Il tLc -cason-
ing is sound, the price in each casa
might easily be doubled, and the conse-
quent benefit to the human race corre-
spondingly increased. And why stop
with eggs and silver? Why not mark up
the price of everything you wish to
buy-offer 10 pay double or treble what
is asked for it and keep on paying that
price to all comers-hold it therer
That's all you have to do--hold it there.
Nobody would sell it for a cent less"
says Bryan, so long as you held it. $50
with silver" And the man who is put
ting forth such thought as that is a can
didate for the presidency of 10000, 900
Of people in the closing years of the
nineteenth century,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Free pills.

Send your address to H. E. Bucklin
& Co., Chicago, and get a free sam
pie box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
\ trial will convince you of their
merits. These pills are easy in action
and are particularly effective in the
cure of Constipation and Sick Head
ache. For Malaria and Liver troubles
they have been proved invaluable.
They are guaranteed to be perfectly
free from every deleterious substance
and TO be purely vegetable. They do
not weaken by their action. but by
giving tone to stomach and bowels
greatly invigorate the system. Reg
ular size DC. per box. Sold by W.
C.Haman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
British Silver.

Edward Atkinson calls attention to
a fact apparently overlooked by Mr..
Bryan in his denunciation of british
gold"-that British owners now hold 4
large part of the silver stocks Of this
country and nearly all the productive
silver mines of the world elsewhere
Mr.. Atkinson quotes the report of one
British mining company which has paid
its shareholders in the past eight years
over S4O.OOO,OOO profits on n capital of
less than S2,eOO.OOO, in spite of the pre-
vailing low price of silver. Such 4
company could afford to pay handsome
ly to have its profits further increased.
But of course there are no contributions
of British silver" to this. canpaign.-
Philadelphia Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
New Firm.

Charley Stehr has purchased the in
terest of Henry Nussbaum, Sr., in the
Nussbaum store up on Good Hope
street and he took charge to-day. The
store will now be under the firm name
of Nussbaum & Stehr, Henry Nuss-
baum, Jr., and Charles Stehr. Mr..
Stehr has been connected with the Bee
Store Company for many years. He
is therefore familiar with the mercan-
tile business, and being a young man
Of progressive ideas he will be val
liable man to the business in that bus
mess part ofthe city known as Haarig.
We wish the new firm abundant sue
cess.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Financial Folly.

Here are a large number of fuu-gnown
men. supposedly versed in public affairs.
trusted by multitude of citizens with
The power to express a public policy for
the guidance of the republic, who DELHI
erately announce that they are opposed
tomoDometallism when it is well known
throughout the world that there never
has been and reyer can be anything
other than monometallism. We have it
now. we have always had it. and we
shall always have It. ard the only ques-
ton at issue is whether it shall be gold
:nonOmetallism, which we now have. or
silver recommendation, which the free
coinage of unlimited quantities Of SIX
teen to one silver will give us. We can
not have both. yet the democratic party
is going to declare itself unaltHrably
opposed to either. Trul,T, is rot tl2.:t
1emarkable?-Nohi!a (A!al Register.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
\ New Version.

Mary had little lamb:
That lamb has passed away,
No lamb could follow up the pace
Our Mary sets to-day.
For now she rides the air shod whee
In skirts too short by half:
No lambkin shares her airy fight
But you can see her calf.
Forsooth, our Mary never does
The things she does by halves,
So, on her bike, where'er she goes.
She shows TWO shapely calves.
mo, Advertiser
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
watterson on George.

We see the free silver extremists
everywhereinclining to George, though
George says he is not for free silver,
in spite of the fact that he stands on a
free silver platform and represents
not a regular nomination. but a bolt.
What does this mean: 1t means sim
ply that, failing to get free silver, the
next card to be played by the free sill
verites is fiat money. Back OF fiat
money stand the rest of Mr.. George 5
Utopian theories-the abolition OF
property in land through the single
tax theory: the public ownership CT
railways, telegraphs and benevolent
institutions: free trade by agrarian
process, and complete centralized,
paternai government. willie
Courier Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
''EarIy to Bed, Early to Rise"

IN view OF the many changes which
have been rung on the early-to-bed.
early-to-rise idea, the following
opinion from an eminent medical au-
thority ought to be of interest. He
takes up the old statement that an
hour before midnight is worth two
hours after, and gives his opinion as
follows: Il had an opportunity 10
make some study of this subject in my
naval service during the late war. On
shipboard. as is undoubtedly known
to most of you, the ships company
officers and men alike-stand four
hour watches day and night, and to
get the required amount of rest are
Obliged to get their sleep irregularly:
to so arrange it that the same man
shall not be obliged to take early or
late watches continually, the dog
watch of two hours is interpOlated,
thus adding to the irregularity. In
watching the results for over two
years, | could never discover that the
watch, officers and men. were not as
fullp refreshed by their sl7ep as wer
the medical and pay officers, who
stand no watch and have hours as
regular as those of any householder.
1t seems to make but little difference
to those ewho have given careful at
tention to this subject whether people
sleep at one time or another, so that
they get sufficient amount of sleep.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
FUSION IN MISSOURI.
Weakness of the Democracy Pointed
Out by state Chairman Cook.

MEXICO, Mo-, October 12.-"What
about fusion in the future:" seems
to be the question agitating some of
the leaders of the state Democracy,
among them S. B, Cook, chairman OF
the State Democratic Committee. This
is what the chairman says:
THE question is full of deep con-
cern for the Democracy. and for the
silvery forces of all parties. 1t is a
specially delicate and difficult UNDER
taking to maintain fusion through
successive campaings, except between
, minority parts. The silver forces Of
Missouri, whose interests are so thor
oughly mutual, ought to be held to-
gether, and can be if the intelligence,
unselfshness and patriotism of the
last campaign dominate the anti
gold standard forces in the future.
It is apparent now that hese former
Democrats who voted for Mckinley
and the small remnant who supported
Palmer will cooperate with the Re
Republicans in the future campaigns.
There were from 100000 to $1,000
Populists and free silver Republicans
who voted the Democrtic ticket in this
State last yerr. There were 30, 900 for
mer Democrats who voted for Mckin-
ley. Should half of the free silver
Republicans return to their original
party and the Populists run a sepa
rate ticket in Missouri next year the
Democracy would be confronted with
a more critical condition than it has
had to face since the days of disfran-
chisement. -
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
BoiES AND HIS HIRED MAN.
The Laborer Showed Himself to Be Worth
His Wages in Good Money.

The LabOrer Showed Himself TO BE worth
His Wages In Good Money.
Hired Mani heard that in your Dei
Moines speech you said prices are SO
low that you have either got to get
more for your oats or else cut my
wages.
Boies-You are right.
Hired MAXWELL, which are you go
ing to do?
Boies-I am going to get more for my
oats.
Hired Man-How?
Boies-By lessening the purchasing
power of money. Free coinage will
give us q dollar which will only buy
five bushels of oats instead of ten BUSH
els, and that will be the same as get
ting 20 cents for my oats.
Hired MAXWELL, what are you going
to do about my wages?
Boies-Oh, I'll pay You just the same
as I'm paying you now, $50 a month.
Hired Msn-Are you going to pay me
in these new dollars?
Boies-Certainly; the same kind of
dollars that get for my oats.
Hired Man-These dollars that can't
buy only half as much of anything as
the old dollars?
Boies-Yes. yes; the same sort of dol
lars.
Hired Man-Then, as understand it,
you propose to get twice as much for
your oats and pay me only half what
I'm getting now?
Boies-Why, no. I'll still pay you $40.
Hired Man-But this $50 won't buy
only half as much stuff as now, you
say, for the purchasing power is to be
lessened oDe-half; so with my $50 I
can only get $40 worth of stuff. Your
scheme would bring you twice as
much for your oats and bring me only
half as much for my work. Is this
fair, do You think?
Boies-Wen, every man has to look
out for himself.
Hired MaIs-So see, and think I'll
look out for myself and vote for an
honest dollar for an honest days work.
Council Bluffs ia Nonparel.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Farmer Dead; stepson Arrested.

DEXTER, Mo-, October l0.-The dead
body of Sam January, farmer living
near Bernie, nine miles south of DeX-
ter, was found 100 yards from his
home yesterday evening. He had evil
IDENTIFY been shot from ambush at close
quarters, as the entire top of his head
was blown off. To-day Charles Crow,
a stepson, was arrested, charged with
the killing. There had been i'll feel
ings between the Crow boys and jan
nary since the latter's marriage to
their stepmother nearly year ago.
at Bloomfield this afternoon to await
examination there next Wednesday.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
SILVER QUESTION IN NUTSHELL
Are Our wage-Earncrs Getting Too High
Wages?

haStSE
In every rural town in the country
free coinage advocates are promising
farmers that sixteen to one would raise
the price of grain and meat and thus
reduce the poportions of the produce
of the farm that goes to pay the labor
employed. Of all brazen performances
of the century, the most impudent is
that by which at the same time the
wage-earners are invited to assist in a
campaign to make their food more dear
to them and to reduce the wages of the
most numerous class of wage-earpers
in the country.
There is the silver question in q nut
shell. 1t Is simply a question as to
whether our wage-earners are getting
too high wages. They may as well face
the question. If our wage-earners be-
lieve they are getting too high wages
and that this country is suffering in
consequence, all they have to do is to
take lower wages. If they prefer a
roundabout way, they can favor free
coinage of silver, and they will get their
"dSCS CuO OO"l udLl "IlllOul
further trouble on their part.
In the light of our experience with
fat money Legislation, from the green
back to the Sherman pig silver certif-
Gates, this long-suffering country will
finally learn that wealth is not created
by fat, but is made By labor; that the
law can put no dollar into any mans
pocket unless it first takes it from the
pocket of some other man, and that.
wage-earners are first and most inter
ested in opposing interference by law.
There has never yet been made law to
put into any laboring mans pocket
single dollar that he did not earn. he
of all men, therefore, has the'best right
to insist that there shall be no law
passed that will raise the price Of what
he has TO buy, and thus take from him
any portion of what he has carried
Hon. John De Witt Warner, in Present
Problems
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

If the United States can double the
price of silver without the aid or con-
sent of any other nation, why couldn't
it double the price of corn? The corn
crop is worth more than the silver crop
many times over, even at low prices.
Wheat is being taken care of by the old
law of demand and supply. But the
populists ought to make the demand
that congress fix the price of corn by
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Great Music Offer.

Send us the names and addresses of
three or more performers on the piano
or organ together with ten cents in
silver or postage and we will mail you
ten pieces full sheet music, consisting
of popular songs, waltzes, marches,
etc. arranged for the piano and or
gan. Address,
POPULAR Music PUB. Co..
Indianapolis, Ind.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

Mr.. Bryan still! calls himself -
T.:ctallist," though he has never ever,
attempted to answer t!i2 question: III
tn" history of this country lis thcr"
cy-r been t:r:e whcn gold and siiver
circulated upon equGl terms IS full .egs,
tender rIar::. with nc minis open TO
IL" fro an! ;.:.:iI1:tSs, coinage 0f both o.
EI-rc never Vs. :;:ch 4 time. Free
AID unlimited CciHG=e q sixteen to one
has never. in any country. ii any tine,
given himct2llic currency. Mr. Bryan
is { silver rio2cr!"-:.'.r; in fact. y l."+
Co. = ~ :l:E '-.~'reif n - -
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
One Unsettled Point.

An old man who bore evidenc~ o.
more work than culture, approached a
representative of free silver paper the
other day in the state library.
"Can I ask You n question:"
Certainly"
well, if we have free silver coinage,
we'll all have more money, won't we?"
why, yes, certainly. That's easy
TO answer"
''Well, what l want to know" said
the old fellow, earnestly, sis whether
they will bring it 70 me or whether III
have to go after it?"-Nebraska State
Journal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Wages Go Up Slowly.

Every cheap money experiment ever
tried in this or any other country his
demonstrated that,while prices respond
quickly to changes in the value o.
money, wages respond but slowly.
Hence, though wages appear to rise
when currency is depreciating. they are
in reality falling. The difference in
rapidity with which wages and prices
go up has been illustrated by pr;c25
going up in elevators, while wages wax
up the stair steps. 1t is certain than
wage-earners always lose and never
gain by being paid in deprecated ~
dEpreciating currcncv-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
A Card to the Public.

l was refused seat in the Jackson
hack Sunday from Jackson to Cape
Girardeau, regular hack line owned
by Henry Gockel. This is public
hack line and l wish to inform the
public and especially the travelling
men that l was refused transportation
on account as, Mr.. Gockel said, my
trade was not worth looking after.
MIR L. F. Klosterman, Commander of
Justi Post No. l73. will please read
this card at the next meeting OF the
Post and oblige.
e. r. ULRICH,
Member of Muemann Post, No. 1876, G.
A. R., st. Louis. Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
To Consumptives.

AS an honest remedy, Foley's Honey
and Tar does not hold out false hopes
in advanced stages, but truthfully
claims to give comfort and relief in
the very worst eases. and in the early
stages to effect cure. W. H. Coerver,
DruUoiSt
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
1t Hits the spot.

When suffering from a severe cold
and your throat and lungs feel sore.
take a dose of Foley Honey and Tar.
when the soreness will be at once re-
lieved, warm grateful feeling and
healing of the parts affected will be
experienced and You will say: 1T
feels so good, 1t Hit The Spot 1t
is guaranteed. w. II. Coerver.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Dollar Wheat.

dollar wheat before Christmas" is
the cry in Chicago now, und between
speculation and legitimate demand it
may turn out to have been prophetic.
But the ante Christmas present which
The country most wants Is the dollar
that shall always be as good as wheat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
80 to s"-Nothing to Ate.

Pat-How do you sthand ON the silver
question, Moike?
Mike-Me? Sixteen to wan is moi
platform.
Pat-'Tis, is it? Well, me laddybuck,.
IL you and the long phiskered cranks.
win I'm thinking that by next winter
ivrybody's platform will be: Nothing
b ate."-DetroitJ Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Rev, &. +. Brooks

says that his little girls troubled.with
malaria very severely, and that since
he gave her Sulphur Bitters, he never
thinks of leaving New York for his
summer resort without few bottles.
for they always cure his family, and
are far superior to quinine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
.syye don't want any 53-cent 4

I'VE don't want any 53-cent dol.
lars in this town" was the emphatic
greeting of a workman to the presiden-
Itial candidate of the populists and sii-
verites as he passed through Hunting
don, Pa. If the American workingmen
are wise they will see to it that every
town and city in the United States gives
the same answer to the free coinage ap-
peals for votes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

THE Bryan free coinage party
wishes 20 destroy our present none
tary system. It wishes to replace it
with a standard money of silver dollars
where every dollar would beworth only
the silver it contains-namely, so cents.
Do you prefer our present dollar worth
leo cents or silver standard dollar
worth only 80 cents?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
uoes vour dollar buy too much? |

....Uoes your dollar buy too much?
Has the money which the farmer gets
for his crops too great a purchasing
power? Is there anybody who prefers
dollars which will buy few things to
those which can be exchanged for many
things? If so, you can easily be ac-
commodated with cheap Mexican dol
lars. Now, don't all speak at once.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
smokers Hearf-Burn.

HEARTBURN from excessive smoking,
or from any other cause, is relieved
by the first dose of No. 10, DIR. Hum
phreys' Specific for Dyspepsia. 25c-
all druggists.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

Nocountry can prosper that habituai-
~ tells lies. If the United States stamps
the lie This is one dollar" on pieces of
silver worth SO cents, it will have taken
the first step away from the straight
path of national truth and honor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
.Assfgnee's Notice.

Notice is hereby given that l, the
undersigned, am now ready at
my Office in the Cape City Mills. to
pay off the first per cent on claims al
owed against Stein Brothers
WILLIAM SEGENHARDT,
Assignee.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
Veterinary RoOS Free

DR.. Humphreys Manual on the
treatment of Horses, Cattle, Sheep,
Hogs, Dogs and Poultry, mailed free
uponrequest. Address the Humphreys
Company, New York.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
wfedemann's Comedians Are All
Right.

Wiedemann's Comedians opened a
weeks engagement at the Broadway
Theatre Monday night to packed
house. The Company is first-class in
every respect. 1t is made up of art
lists of ability. Every one is a star in
his or her place. The orchestra is the
best We have had in this city for a
long time and it alone is worth the ad-
mission price. 1t is seldom we get a
company as good as Wiedemann' S
Comedians in this city and those who
miss the entertainments at the Broad
way Theatre this week will certainly
regret it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

~" for Grip and Colds: No. 10 for
Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Weak
Stomach: 25c each at all druggists.