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The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

CAsCARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; l0c.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

There Is not always a high boundary fenc
between fun and disgust.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

We are all apt to discriminate betweel
what we believe and what we hope for
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

That man who can afford to make enemies
Is certainly rich in expedients
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

When bilious or costive, eat q Cascaret,
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; lOc., Soc.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

When 1t comes to making mistakes, nearly
all men are found to be artists
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

st. vitus' Dance One bottle DR.. Fenner'5
Specific cures. Circular. Fredonia. N. Y.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

Ifaffiicted dwithsoreeyesuseD DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sellat 2jc. per bottle.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

Just try lOc. box of Cascarets, the finest
lyer and bowel regulator ever made.
The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-09

Sarcasm Is a rhetorical flower containing
a bee
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Cotton's Best Year.

This butchery is sickening. There is
no hedge, nor bush, nor rock on all the
stricken field in whose slim shadow some
shuddering silverite may not be found
hiding from the statistician's steel. They
are thickest behind the refuge of foreign
crop failure. A poke in these sets all
sorts and sizes to wriggling, Grandpa
Bland and Boy Bryan, and Teller wall
ing, now that christianity and morality"
depend on more business for Nick Hills
smelter. And as they wriggle they squeak:
Famine, you brutes! You are gloating
over, famine. You are exulting in the mis-
cries of the victims of the gold standard
in India and Austria and England and
France. There is nothing in this wave
of prosperity withdrawals giving us
some temporary embarrassment but for
eign shortage in wheat"
Let stir up, the wrigglers little
further. There has been no foreign short
age in cotton. If there had been, it would
not matter in the sense that wheat
shortage matters, for we supply 20 per
cent of the worlds cotton anyway. and
never more than 25 per cent of it's wheat
Yet we are getting an extra 10 per cent
this year-say, 100000 on $3OO,00O,-
000-for our cotton. These are the fig
ures, just compiled by the secretary of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange, Mr.. Hes
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Work of the Dingley Law.

Reports from the little State of Rhode
Island are full of cheer. "The mill situa-
ton is better than it has been for five
years. says special dispatch to the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The Lonsdale
company has started on full time opera
ton, employing 5000 men and women.
In the Woonsocket worsted mills, the
200 employees had their hearts gladdened
by the restoration of wages to what they
were in 1893, which is virtual increase
of IA per cent. But more than this,
ground has been broken for the erection
of new mill in the Olneyville district,
and plant near Blackstone, which has
been idle for almost FIVE years, will be
purchased by new company and started
into full operation. 1t will not require
a microscope to observe that the develop
ment in the mill situation is the direct re-
suit of the Dingley tariff law. 1t means
prosperity.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
1t Cannot Be Concealed.

Once in a while we meet a man who
says that while he sees a good deal IN the
newspapers about a revival of business he
finds no improvement in his own condi-
tion and cannot see any in that OF MS
neighbors. 1t is true that the marked i'm
provement which has been so strongly felt
in the East and in the Southwest has not
yet reached the Northwest in full volume,
simply because our harvest is later. Our
wheat crop has only just begun moving to
market. The $100,000,00O which this
years crop will fetch into this region has
only begun to be distributed. Neverthe-
less, if the person who complains that
prosperity has not yet reached him will
look around over the whole city and State
he cannot fail to perceive very marked
improvement. The banks are in better
shape and are loaning money more freely.
The merchants are full of hope and conf
dence, and manufacturers are making ar
rangements for full output. Less idle
men are seen, and, in fact, it is claimed
by employment agencies that no person
who is able and willing to work need now
suffer from lack of employment. The in
crease in the volume of business through
out the country is unmistakable. 1t is
revealed in the statement of weekly bank
clearings, which show gain of 45.6 per
cent, as compared with the corresponding
week of last year. Minneapolis gain is
49, per cent, which may be taken as an
indication that from this-time on the re-
vival will be felt here in full force.-Min-
neapolis Tribune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
BRYAN AS A DEADBEAT.

He Attacks the Corporations and Then
Asks and Accepts Favors from Them.
The more Mr.. Bryan tries to explain
away his foraging expeditions on railroad
passes the more he convicts himself of
demagogy and willful deception. When
the San Francisco papers made public
the fact that Bryan had solicited and ac-
cepted favors from Huntington's South
ern Pacific Railroad in the shape of rail-
road passes, Bryan's friends at first de-
MED the charge. They backed their de-
malls by producing the requisition written
by Bryan in which he applies for the free
ticket over the Southern Pacific on ac-
count of the Omaha World-Herald.
Upon inquiry at Omaha it developed
that Bryan had severed his connection
with the World-Herald year previously
and furthermore that the World-Herald
had no advertising contract with the
Southern Pacific and was not entitled to
any transportation for any advertising
done for that road. To parry this ex-
posure Bryan retorted over his own name
that he was still stockholder in the
World-H Herald. By this, matters were not
much mended for the reason that as
stockholder in a newspaper he could have
no claim upon any railroad for free rides
and Furthermore that under the interstate
commerce law interstate railroads are for
hidden from giving free transportation ex-
cept to railway employees.
The Southern Pacific is not, however,
the only railroad on which Bryan has
been foraging. Mr.. Bryan travelled to
St. Louis some ten days ago over the, Wa
bash and dead-headed his way with an
1897 annual pass. The pass is ostensibly
issued on account of the World-Herald
but bears on its face the fiat contradiction
of the pretense thatit is business trans
action. Railroads do not issue annual
passes in exchange for advertising. In
the nature of things they could not know
how often they would be used, for what
distance and how much advertising value
they would represent.
The discredita BILE part of Bryan's dead
heading over the railroads arises not
merely from the fact that he poses as the
champion of the anti-monopoly forces and
denounces the railroads for discrimina-
ton in favor of influential non-producers
as against the common people who must
pay their way, but also because while
amply able to pay his fare he is resort
ing to deception to cover up his accept
ance Of railroad gifts.-Omaha Bee.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Causes of Good Times.

Advocates of the theory that the revival
of business throughout the country is due
to the wheat crop instead of the tariff
found something to ponder over in the
trade reports of Dun and Bradstreet's s
for last week. From these it appears that
the farmers have not yet marketed one
tenth of their wheat, but are holding it for
the higher price which the foreign demand
implies. Hence 80 per cent of the cash
returns already credited to them in Dem
ocEatic estimates has not yet gone into
American circulation, and cannot possi-
bly, have caused or Influenced the general
reopening of iron, steel, rubber and tex
tile industries and the increase in the pro-
hts of all privatesabu business which have
been in evidence since July. The special
points of interest aside from this in the
trade reports are: An increase since one
year ago of "a per cent in the employ
ment of members of trade unions; a gain
of II per cent in one month in the output
of pig iron, implying an increased con-
sumption of 100000 tons: rise of cents
in the price of wheat; an advance for Au-
gust in prices of more than 100 staple
farm and manufactured articles of "a
per cent, following a 81 per cent advance
in July, and a marked decrease in failures,
both in number and the average amount
of liabilities. In this chapter the tariff
plays a leading partisan Francisco
Chronicle.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
UNAM ERICAN.
The Principles of Debsism Will Not Be
Welcomed by Patriots.

The Principles of DebSism Will Not Be
Welcomed by Patriots.
The ferocious hatred for the rich felt
by men like Mr.. Debs and his Social Dem
ocracy is utterly un-American. 1t argues
in the men who feel and express it an
estimate of the Importance of wealth so
inveterate that it has destroyed their self
respect. Apparently they cannot breathe
freely-can hardly live, so miserable are
they-so long as they see other men far
richer than themselves-that is to say, DOS
sessed in far larger measure than they
of the only thing that they think of impor-
tance. To them, the men who have wealth
belong necessarily to different class from
the men who have not. Not brains. nor
learning, nor character, marks the differ
ence between men, they think, but wealth
only. No men have expressed a more alb
ject Difference to wealth than these So
cial Democrats. who wish to kill all who
possess more than a little of it. They
cannot, apparently, conceive of a poor
man being as self-respecting, as respected,
as happy and as useful as rich one.
1t is fortunate thing for the country
that the Social Democracy speaks out
it's mind frankly, and government will be
very unwise if it does anything to sup
press its spirit by putting penalties on it's
eXcesses. A few weak-minded or vicious
men, it is true, may be misled and even
rendered dangerous to society, but the
best arguments against the semi-socialis-
tic, semi-a narchistic purposes of the So
cial Democracy that can be addressed to
the masses Of the American people are the
utterances of the Social Democrats them
selves.-New Orleans Picayune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22

same sensitiveness to the market. This
proposition was brought out with special
force by Gov. Tanner in an interview
given to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
At the time the Governor spoke the ad-
vance in wheat had been 80 cents per
bushel, and he added:
But railroad stocks, manufacturing stocks.
and all other stocks of character to feel the
effects Of prosperity have increased all the
way from 80 to 80 per cent. on the former
values at the same time that wheat has
been making this gain Of 20 cents bushel;
cattle, hogs, corn, oats, redtop seed; all
farm products. have gone up almost. If not
quite. In the proportion that stocks and
wheat have. Bonds and mortgages have en-
hanced. Taking the vast interests repre-
sented by stocks and uonis, you will ma
that the increase in the total value made
during dur the past three months Is $1,000. Ooo.
Ooo. The advance on other things, cattle,
hogs, corn, and SO on, has amounted to more
than S300,000,OOO There is grand total
OF 81 ,3OO. 100000 added to the wealth of this
country. 1t has been done by the adoption
OF wise and encouraging economic policy
which has restored the confidence of our
people.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Labor and Free Silver.

The Illinois Federation of Labor has re-
adopted, as part of its platform, demand
for the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1. But on this, as on previous
occasions, the advocates of the plank fail
ed to point out wherein labor would be
benefited by the granting of such a de-
mand. No attempt was made to contro-
vert the specific statements as to where
free coinage would do irreparable harm to
labor.
The workingmen of Illinois have eighty
million dollars invested in building and
loan associations. A change to the mono
metallic silver standard of a free coinage
371A-grain dollar would reduce the value
of these investments about so per cent,
and labor would lose forty-eight million
dollars on one item.
The working people of this State have
loaned 251a millions in gold value dollars
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
The Iron Barometer.

Among the proofs of reviving prosper
ity, which some people are trying hard
not to see, must now be included the in
crease of II per cent in the output of pig
iron within about one month after the
new tariff was enacted. For many years
there have been not a few among the fore
most practical business men who have re-
garded the production and consumption or
iron as the surest barometer of the con-
ditions upon which depends increase or de-
crease of general prosperity. This is In
part because the production is of necessity
months ahead of the final consumption IN
finished forms, and is based upon all that
some of the shrewdest practical men In
the country can foresee of the future de-
mand for rails, car materials and other
railway supplies, for freight vessels along
the lakes and on. sea coasts, for business
buildings and the structural shapes of
which their skeletons are framed, for ag-
ricultural implements and the iron and
steel entering into their construction, for
extension and improvement of farms, and
so for fence wire and wire rods, and Tor
erection of residences and other build
ings, and so for nails and hardware OF all
kinds. When evidence points to material
ly increased consumption in so many
forms trained business men calculate tnat
better times are coming.
The production of pig iron started this
year with a weekly output of about l6o,-
900 tons, having enlarged to that extent
from 112.7S2 tons last October, gain
of more than 40 per cent. There was
little further advance to about lloooo
tons in March and April, but as the. pass
ing of the tariff bill came to be considered
more remote or uncertain and stocks OF un-
sold iron accumulated the production was
diminished to 164, 900 tons at the begin
ming of July, showing a conservative de-
termination to defer further increase of
output until the conditions necessary for
future prosperity were more positiSely as
sured. This assurance came with the
passage of the tariff bill late in July, and
the weekly output was slightly raised
Aug. l, and increased 2O,12S tons weekly
during that month. But the output Sept.
l was already the largest ever known for
that month, excepting in 1S9o-when
sudden furry lifted prices about to those
of 1S9O-and it was $4,000 tons larger
than Sept. 1. 1892.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
to the savings banks/ II the currency
were denreciated 60 nor cent as IL would

to the savings banksI II the currency
were deprecated 60 per cent, as it would
be were silver coined free at the ratio of
16 to l, the depositors would lose Is 1-3
millions. No friend Of the free coinage
plank mentioned that fact or argued that
building and loan association investments
would be affected injuriously.
The constant experience of the world
has been that when there is a change for
the worse in the money standard the
wages of abor are slow to adjust them
selves to it. The price of commodities ad-
vance rapidly. The price of labor lags
behind. Thus there is real reduction in
wages. Though they may be nominally
a little higher, their purchasing power is
decreased.-Chicag Tribune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Yens of Silver and xens of Gold.

1t was very unkind on the part Of the
Director Of the Mint to delay his recent
statement about the comparative value of
the coins of the world until the departure
of those silver patriots who recently has
tened to japan to learn the true cause of
the demonetization of silver there. Had
they had opportunity to study Director
Preston's little table they might have
stayed at home and devoted their ener-
gies to explaining to the farmer why
wheat has gone above dollar a bushel
while the, free coinage dollar has fallen
below forty cents. Director Preston's
table shows the comparative value of the
silver and gold yens of Japan during the
past decade. One minutes study of these
figures would have been sufficient to show
these peregrinating patriots the true cause
of Japan's action. Here are the figures
read them for yourself:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
No Time for Crpakinp

The propensity of the calamity bowler
to predict misfortune for this country and
to emphasize the dark side of life. will find
little encouragement by contrasting the
present condition and prospects of the
American people with those of the rest of
the world. For such comparison will re-
veal the fact that we are vastly better off
to-day than most peoples. While other
countries are threatened with distress ow
ing to short crops, we Americans have
been blessed with one Of the most abun-
dant harvests in our history. While the
far East is suffering with famine and
while the harvest in Ireland is reported
ruined by unpropitious weather, we in
America are chiefly concerned with the
problem of transporting to market the
surplus products of the farm. While ris-
ing prices will bring dismay to those
parts of the world which are under the
necessity of buying, the American farm
er, with granary overf1owing with wheat
and corn, looks with complacency upon
the steadily climbing grain markets. The
great laws Of supply and demand are
working in our favor, and are bound to
bring renewed prosperity to our country.
Detroit Free Press.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
COME. Mr.. BRYAN.
Try to Be Consistent in Your Theories
and Assertions.

and Assertions.
At Atchison, Mr.. Bryan made a speech
from which the following are detached
sentences: Last fall the Republicans
said we were repudiationists because we
wanted to lessen the purchasing price of
the dollar. The price of wheat
and corn is governed by the law of supply
and demand solely. The law of supply
and demand governs the value of a dollar.
If there is a short crop of money dollars
will rise. Nature makes short crop Of
wheat. Man makes a short crop of dol
lars by law"
A year ago Mr.. Bryan asserted that the
value of a dollar was not Influenced by
any power whatever except the declara-
ton by the Government that it was dol
lar. He asserted in season and out Of
season that such a declaration was sufi-
cient not only to make every silver dollar
worth gold dollar, but also to raise every
ounce of silver bullion in the world to the
value of gold at ratio of 16 to 1. With
such record as this, how can the man
have the audacity to now come babbling
about the value of the dollar being gov
erned by the law of supply and demand?
He says the dollar has grown too yalua-
BILE because it has not kept pace with the
law of demand. The more money there
is in the country, he contends, the less
the dollar will buy. Does history bear
out such claim? In one of his lectures
Mr.. Bryan presents a table to show that
since the crime of 1873 there has been a
steady diminishment in the price of pro-
ducts. To make his theory good he must
also show that there has been a diminish
ment in the number of dollars. On the
contrary, there has been a steady and
rapid increase in the number of dollars
since 1873, until now we have per cap
ita circulation of $2430, whereas in 1873
we had but $1S.04.-Kansas City Jour
nal
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Southern Cotton Mills,

One of the most encouraging features
of the business season ended on the first
of this month was the showing made by
Southern mining and manufacturing en-
terprises. Reports from reliable sources
indicate that all of them were fairly pros
porous, even while similar Industries were
depressed in other parts of the country,
the result being due in great measure to
the advantages of the proximity of the
raw material to points of consumption or
manufacture. and to the favorable climat-
ic conditions. This was especially true of
cotton manufacturing, which evidences a
growth both continuous and of remarka-
Bile extent. For the first time the con-
sumption of Southern mills exceeded a
million bales.-Memphis Scimiter.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Breidentha1 Admits 1t.

One of the most recent and conspicuous
examples of Populist who has discarded
the calamity howl for the prosperity
whoop is ]. W. Breidenthal of Kansas.
He is the Bank Commissioner of the
State, and less than one year ago he was
a Bryanite, who could see no prosperity
and no salvation for the country unless
the Boy Orator of the Platte was elected
and silver given free coinage at the heav-
en-ordained ratio of 16 to 1. But Breiden-
thai has changed since then. He has
seen great light, and this is what he
has to say to-day:
Never in the history of Kansas has there
been as much money with which to pay debts
as we find in the State to-day. The State
has struck a wonderful streak of luck. Con-
ditions brought good wheat crop; the prices
advanced; cattle are plenty and command d
good price. These conditions found Kan
sas In good position to profit immensely
thereby, and We are doing 1t.
There never has been time In the history
OF the State when the farmers have not
raised enough to live on. Now comes this
magnificent year, with immense crops and
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
Due to Republican Policy,

1t is only little while since the Demo
Gratis of the country We're taunting the
Republicans with the slowness of pros
perity in returning. Where now, they
said, are the signs of its coming? The
new tariff had hardly been signed and
Congress adjourned before the boom was
on in such force as to be undeniable. The
blindest pessimist in the Democratic par
ty had to admit it. Then came the claim
that the shortage of wheat abroad was
the cause of it all. That was the burden
of Mr. Bryan's Iowa speech.
No doubt the shorta ge in the wheat and
rye crops of the other grain-exporting
countries has advanced the price of wheat
in this country, but the great central fact
in the case is that there has been sub
stantially the same healthy advance in the
prices of other properties of about the
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-22
The Tariff and Farm Prices.

Our free trade friends assert that the
sole reason for the rise in the price of
wheat is the grain shortage abroad. They
are vociferous in declaring, in season and
out of season, that the enactment of
Republican tariff has had nothing to do
with the farmers increased prosperity
Let us look into this claim for a moment
1t is not true, as many of the anti-protec-
ton organs imply, that wheat, of which
we export vast quantities. is the only agri-
cultural staple that has risen in value.
There has been a marked increase in the
price of corn, oats, rye, pork, butter,
cheese, hops, hides and potatoes. Lambs
for slaughtering are worth $1.25 per head
more than they were one year ago. The
value of sheep kept for wool has also risen
significantly since the passage of a tariff
that protects American focks. These as
sertions are not made rashly. They are
based upon the official statistics of the
Department of Agriculture. 1t will be
seen at glance that products of which
we export comparatively moderate
amounts have kept close to wheat in it's
upward movement. In our estimation the
tariff has had great deal to do with this.
Since the Dingley bill became law huge
army of previously idle men has been set
to work throughout the United States.
Wage earners who had been employed
only part time are now working full time.