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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

for public and private debts or which is
receivable for duties to the United States,
snail pc Issued by the Government OF the
United States and shall be redeemable in
coin.
This means that all the paper money of
the country shall be issued by the Govern
ment, and would thus be either fiat
money or must be sustained by keeping
in the treasury an enormous metallic re-
serve, much larger than the one which
now exists and which causes so much dis
satisfaction to the Democracy and its fiat
associates of PopuEstic- and socialistic
tendencies.
the cooperation Of all men who love liberty
and ndhatecorruption, oppression and tyranny.
A combination of high sounding words,
intended only to mislead and infiame un-
thinking people, and coming with extreme
ly poor taste from a party whose entire
record up to the time of its removal from
power in 1861, was directed against the
love of liberty" and in favor of "oppres-
sion and tyranny"
T We hereby declare all trusts and monop-
interests 1te ana ng TO tae Eigorou
enforcement of all antitrust laws, etc.
!, All of which sounds well. But the peo-
pie are naturally suspicious of such de-
clarations coming from party which neg
lected during its four years of power to
enforce the existing antitrust laws, and
which framed it's tariff law in the inter
ests of the sugar trust, the greatest trust
of the land with the single exception of
the one which it is now attempting to
place in control of the nation, the silver
trust.
We demand the Immediate recognition of
the belligerent rights of the Republic of
Cuba, etc.
Which it is generally conceded would
be of little practical value to the Cubans,
and would probably destroy the opportu-
nifty of bringing about, through the peace
full and proper methods of diplomacy, the
results for which the people of that island
are now struggling
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Is Pension Money Wasted ?

The outcry against the increase of tho
pension list since the Mckinley admits
tration came in still continues. and wo
have little doubt that it will go on as long
as new names are added to the roll. II IS
not popular clamor, for great majority
of the American people, irrespective of
party, are in favor of the pension laws 3
they stand and desire their impartial on.
forcement One of our contemnora rios
thinks it unfortunate that some plan can
not be devised to stop the growth of tbe
list. Death is doing great deal in that
direction. 1t clipped off $4,000 names las
year, and it will continue to clip at an
increasing ratio as the years wear on. for
even the youngest of the surviving VET
Grams are getting to be old men,
We have, in a recent issue of the Post
explained the increase of the list since
the 4th of March by showing that it was
due to the Cleveland hold-up. Nearly all
the applications granted under the present
administration came over from the Cleye-
land regime. 1t was the settled policy of
Mr.. Cleveland to hold up claims and pass
them along to his successor. There was
no saving to the treasury in this in the
long run, for a pension dates back to the
time of the application. Most of the held
up claims were those of. widows, clearly
proven and sure to be allowed The
Cleveland administration deliberately
halted the work of the pension bureau
and kept thousands of poor widows out OF
the money that belonged to them. If any
one doubts this the records of the bureau
will prove it. And it is in perfect har-
mony with the whole course of Mr.. Cieve-
land on the pension question. His views
are just about those which his ardent ad-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
M'LEAN'S GOLD BOND.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT AND
SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY.
Man Who Would Pay Workingmen
In 43-Cent Silver Dollars Demands
Gold, and Gold Only, for Him.
self.
Official Records Show It.

The demand for information about John
r. McLean's gold bonds continues So
strong that we reproduce this week the.
bond in full with brief statement of its
history. 1t is its own comment upon the
candidacy of a man who advocates a.
cause of paying workingmen in 40-cent
silver dollars and demands good gold dol
lars, and gold dollars only, for himself.
The transaction in question is that of a
contract made by him with the Columbia
Athletic Club of this city in 1889, in
which he requires that organization to
make sundry obligations, amounting to
$4,000, payable to him individually in
gold coin, both principal and interest.
The transaction related to the construc-
ton of club house for this organiza-'
ton, the Columbia Athletic, Club of the
District of Columbia. In that year he
made an agreement with the club by
which he sold to it certain lots in the
fashionable northwest part of Washing
ton, near the War, State and Navy De-
partments, and erected thereupon a COM
modious and costly club house, the price
OF the land and the club house being $780,
ooo. This money the club agreed to pay
on or before the list of March, 1909, and
issued bonds payable to John r. Mclean,
bearing his name upon their face. These
bonds he required the club to agree to
pay in gold coin of the United States of
the present standard of weight and fine
ness, also requiring it to pay the Inter
est thereon in like gold coin.''
There can be no doubt about the accu-
racy of this statement. The bonds were
prepared and signed by the officers of the
club and turned over to him, and some of
them have since passed into the hands Of
other parties who now hold them. Not
only are these bonds still extant and
readily obtainable by those who desire
to verify this statement, but a still more
permanent and unimpeachable record Of
this transa ction is found upon the official
records of the District of Columbia. The
details of the entire transaction between
Mr.. Mclean and the Columbia Athletic
Club are set forth in a copy of a deed of
trust given in connection with this trans
action. Among the details of this trans
action, W hich are found on the official rec
ords, are copies of the two series of bonds
which the club was required to give as its
form of agreement to pay Mr.. Mclean
the gold which he required from it. There
were 70 be two classes of bonds, one class
amounting to S45,O00, each bond to be
for the sum of $1,000, the second class OF
bonds being for $25,000, also payable IN
gold, and bearing higher rate of interest
than those of the first class, copy OF
which is herewith appended:
COPY OF THE BOND
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Wool at Twenty-Five Cents.

Cadiz Republican: 1t is with pleasure
that the Cadiz Republican can announce
this week that the price of wool in Harri-
son County is twenty-five cents a pound.
During the past week Messrs. q. NJ. Hogg
& Son have purchased the clips of wool
raised by the following well-known farm
ers of Harrison County, $4,000 pounds in
all, paying in each case twenty-five cents
a pound. The clips of Dunlop Brothers.
Cadiz township; John Clifford, Green
township: S. B. Porter, Green township;
R. R. Cochran, Cadiz township; Joseph l..
Thompson & Son, Cadiz township; Henry
Mckee, Green township: John McDivitt,
Stock township; Samuel Hedges, Cadiz
township; Ross Mansfield. Wayne town
ship, Jefferson County; H. B. Lacey, La
ceyville, and Oliver Roob, Green town
shin
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Brief Comment.

The increase in the production of gold
in all parts of the world is proving very
discouraging to the free silver theorists.
The value of the silver dollar has fallen
10 cents and the price of wheat has risen
25 cents per bushel since the free coinage
orators were insisting last year that
wheat and silver went hand in hand as to
prices.
The 1900 election is likely to find the
world with billion dollars more of gold
than it had in 1896. The wonderful in
crease in the production of gold in all
parts of the world is proving very discour-
aging to the free silver theorists.
The friends of the free coinage PROPOSE
ton who have been insisting that their pct
financial theory would, if put in practice.
increase our sales abroad are not discuss
ing very loudly the fact that in the very
year in which the country refused to adopt
free coinage it's exports were the largest
in it's history, amounting to 81 ,032, ,0O1,-
300.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Business Still Improves.

Business conditions continue to improve
and the reports which come from the high
est authorities on this subject are all sat
isfactocy. The latest issue of Dun's Re
view, commenting on business conditions
the country over, says: Every city re-
porting this week notes increase in trade
and nearly all bright prospects. The
great change in business is emphasized by
the presence of multitude of buyers
from all parts of the country, by their
statements of the situation at their homes,
and, more forcibly yet, by the heavy pur-
chases they are making. But the custom
ary signs of prosperity are not lacking.
The strong rise in stocks, the growth of
bank clearings and railroad earnings, the
heavy speculation in many products, but
most of all in wheat, have made the week
one of surprising interest even to those
who best remember the upward rush in
1879
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
1t Was Not True, of Course.

No man in public office owes the public
anything"
The calamity organs are publishing the
above and crediting the statement to Sen
ator Hanna. The Senator is said to have
written the startling sentiment in a letter
to Attorney General Watson. 1t must be
classed, says the Times-Star, among the
things that are important if true. But it
will hardly prove useful to the silver Dem
ocrats as campaign issue. Its virtue in
this respect is badly damaged by the dis
covery that it is pure invention. Mr..
Watson declares that no letter ever re-
ceived by him from Senator Hanna con-
tanned such a statement. This early eX-
posure of the fraudulency of the cam
paign efforts of the Mclean Chapman
crowd is a stunning blow to the rampant
apostles of free silver.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

mirer, the Baltimore Sun, expresses in
this paragraph. clipped from recent edi-
torial:
1T will not be long at the present rate
before we shall have duplicated the cost
OF the war in pensions. This would be
readily acquiesced in, however onerous,
II the money all went to the deserving,
but the fact that most of it is wasted is
legitimate cause for criticism"
Waste is unnecessary or useless ex-
penditure. The Cleveland theory, as for
mulated by the Sun, is that most of the
money paid to the veterans, their widows
ana their orphans, has been unnecessarily
or uselessly expended. Mr.. Cleveland be-
heved that the pension roll was honey
combed with frauds. In order to test that
bellef he was supplied with ample facili-
tles to hunt down and punish frauds. He
spent a deal of money in that quest, and
the result was complete vindication of
the substantial honesty of the pensioners.
In MS last annual message he presented
facts and figures by which he involun-
tarlly proved that the pension roll was
roll of honor. But although his hunt for
frauds was something very much like a
FAILURE, he met with success in holding up
Widows pensions.-Washing Post
Dem.).
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Mexican workingmen in Hard Luck.

A special commission sent to Mexico by
the Trade and Labor Assembly at Chi
cago last fal reported that teamsters got
81 per day in Mexican money in the City
of Mexico, while those in the city of Chi
eago get $1.75 per day in American dol
lars, which, as indicated, are worth near
~ 2z2 times as much as the Mexican dol
lar. Street car drivers get rs cents per
day in the City of Mexico in deprecated
money, and in the city of Chicago $2.25
per day in good money. Printers in Mex
leo, $1.25 per day; in Chicago, So. Press
men in Mexico, $1.2O per day; in Chicago,
$3.50. Shoemakers in Mexico, $1.25; in
chicago, $3.50. Carpenters in Mexico,
$1.25 per day; in Chicago, $3.50. Brick
layers in Mexico, $1.25; in Chicago, 81
per day. Laborers in Mexico, 371a cents
per day; in Chicago, $1.25. When it is re-
membered that these wages quoted in
Mexico are now being paid in alleged dol
lars which are worth but about 43 cents
as compared with our dollars, which are
worth 100 cents, the contrast in earning
capacity is something appalling.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
What Would Happen.

'If the Democrats should gain control
of Ohio they would send to the Senate a
man who would support the vicious prin-
ciples of the Chicago platform. The State
would be gerrymandered, and fifteen or
sixteen men, instead of FIVE. as at present.
would be sent to Congress to support
these same vicious" principles. CHAIR
man Geo. K Nash.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
NIexico.s Pretic ment.

The recent enormous fall i'll the price of
silver is driving Mexico to consider the
advisability of going to the gold standard.
The example of Japan, Russia, Peru and,
in fact. all the intelligent nations of the
world, is having its effect upon the states
men of that country, and, followed. as it
is, by the business troubles growing out
of the great fall in the value of silver,
warns them that they must fall in line
with other civilized nations if they expect
TO maintain their business and financial
standing.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
THE COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
FIRST MORTGAGE FIVE PER CENT. GOLD BOND

For value received. the Columbia Ath-
letic Club Of the District of Columbia
hereby acknowledges itself indebted, and
hereby agrees to pay. to John Il. Nc
day of March, 1909. One Thousand Dol
lars, in gold coin of the United States, OF
the present standard weight and fine.
ness, at the Citizens National Bank Of
Washington, at the City of Washington,
and interest thereon in like gold coin at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, on
the first days of September and March Of
each and every year. the production
and surrender Of the proper coupon here
to annexed.
This Is one of a series of forty-fve
bonds each of like tenor and effect,
numbered consecutively from 1 to As in
elusive. and secured by first mortgage
deed of trust bearing even date herewith,
executed and delivered by said obligor
Britton as trustees. for the holders OF
said bonds. conveying the said estate
therein described and the buildings. bet
terments and improvements which may
be erected or placed thereon and duly re-
corded in the office of the Recorder Of
Deeds of the District of Columbia.
If default. of payment Of interest on
these bonds is made and continued for go
days after due demand. the principal
thereof. at the option of said trustees,
subject to the control of the majority In
interest of said bonds, shall become due
as provided in said deed Of trust. The
obligor hereby expressly valves all, any,
and every benefit or privilege of any ex-
tension. stay or appraisement law now
existing or which may hereafter be en-
acted and of all right equity Of re-
demption in case of sale or foreclosure
under the terms and provisions of said
deed of trust.
This bond is subject to redemption on
the first day of March, 1894, or on the
first day of September or March Of any
year thereafter at the option of said
Obligor. provided proper notice of the in
tention to redeem and pay for same be
given in writing TO the holder hereof per-
sonalIy or by pubicati-l in newspaper
of general circulation in said city of
Washington, and in either case not less
than 60 days previous to the date named
for said redemption.
In witness whereof, the said Columbia
Athletic Club of the District of Columbia
has issued this bond to be signed in its
name by the President. sealed with the
corporate seal, attested by it's Secretary,
this frst day of March. A. D. 1889.
(Signed)
COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
of the District of Columbia
CHARLES A. BRADBURY,
President.
HOWARD PERRY. Secretary.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

Business must indeed be bright when
the New York Journal, which year ago
was insisting that nothing but the free
coinage of silver could bring prosperity to
the United States, has published a full
page article showing prosperous condi-
ton in New York and the country over.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
Myers and Mclean.

At the recent democratic State cOnven-
ton. Allen o. Myers was the personal
representative of John r. Mclean. AS
such he not only carried out the wishes of
his chief, but was, in fact, the most inf1u-
entail Democrat in all that gathering. He
dictated the platform, and on the Sunday
before the convention, which met on We'd
nesday, told Blade representative exact
ly what it would contain, and he told it
straight.
Myers knows Mclean well. He was
connected with McLean's newspaper for
years, and each trusted the other to the
exteot that he dared For time there
was enmity between these two men. My
ers was not drawing a salary from Nc
Lean. At this time Myers wrote book
1t was labeled BOSSES and Doodle in
Ohio Politics." On page 213 of this book
Myers had this to say of Mclean:
He has no morals. He is a stranger to SEN
timent. He Is not deferred by scruples. If
he has an object in view and has the money
no community has a right to question his
act. He believes every man has his price
He goes straight to results and cares moth
ing about public opinion, methods or the
rights Of Others When he can get or has got
what he wants he pays promptly and liber-
ally. 1t doesn't seem possible that such
character can exist in an enlightened age
But John r. Mclean Is fact. His exist
ence must be acknowledged.
And now this same Mclean is boss of
the Democratic party in Ohio, and cam
didate for United States Senator. while
this same Myers is his chief henchman-
Toledo Blade.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

Miss Genevieve Griffith, engaged in
raising Chinese pheasants in the Waldo
hills, eight miles east of Salem, Ore. has
about 200 young pheasants that are now
taking on plumage. They are yet running
at large, and it is hardly possible to dis
tingush domestic from wild birds around
the Griffith place.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

The continued rains of the past few
days have caused serious loss to the coal
dealers who have boats moored near Ba-
ton Rouge, La. The fleet of w. c. Coyle
& Co., about fifteen boats, filled with
water and sank.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

DIR. James B. Angel. the new United
States minister, to Turkey, has arrived at
Constantinople.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17
wheat's VaIuabIe Lesson.

The silver leaders are utterly unable
to explain the rise in the price of wheat,
and at the same time maintain their ar
gument of last year. The ablest of them,
including Mr.. Jones Of Nevada and Mr..
Teller, have ventured upon the task, but
all have failed. All are forced to confess
that the natural law of supply and de-
mand does apply in the present price of
wheat. But such a confession could not
have been wrung from them year ago.
Then they were contending, almost fierce
ly, that wheat was low solely because
money was scarce. Increase the volume
of money, they insisted, and wheat would
go up. But it would not and could not go
up without such an increase. Wheat is
now at the dollar mark, and even higher,
and yet there is no more money in the
country than there was last year. And
free silver meanwhile has not only not
been decreed, but the policy stands re-
jected at the polls.
Now that the problem has been solved,
and by process which all may so easily
comprehend, 1t seems strange that so
many people last year should have be-
lieved so implicitly in Mr.. Bryan's con-
tentions about money and prices. The
Nebraska leader and his lieutenants
would allow nothing whatever to the law
of supply and demand. Silver had been
struck down.. By that act half of the
money Of redemption of the world had
BEEN destroyed, and hence low prices fol-
lowed for everything. They picked out
wheat for illustration, and now wheat,
obeying the spurned law of supply and
demand, goes to the dollar mark. Short
crops abroad, Which create a demand for
the American wheat supply, knock the
spots out Of the illustration, and force
confession from the silver leaders which
completely disjoints all of the fne-sppn
theories upon which they tried to put Mr..
Bryan into the White House.-Washing-
ton Star.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

$500
On the first day of September, 1889. the
Columbia Athletic Club of the District
of Columbia will pay to the bearer Twen-
ty-five Dollars in gold coin of the United
States at the Citizens National Bank of
Washington, ID. c.. being six months in
terest on its first mortgage bonds, Glass A.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-17

COPY OF THE BOND.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-16

Matthew'S witness fees in full. s3s. 40:
6sR Y sP5 wi5nsss fees fees in in full full 81:
David Howard. witness fees in full.
$50 $50 faJJoohn ~ Armst qHng .wii65.
r. Lacey witness fees in full $40; JACOB
Yocum. witness fees in full. $40; w. r.
Dooley. witness fees in fun. s4,2O; h.
Swickart. witness fees in full. $40; Pro-
any of nhe persons herein named have
been paid any money out of the state
he shall deduct it from the amount here
in appropriated to such person
1O5. The senate committee on penal in
situations for visiting the Hutchinson Re
formatory and the state penitentiary at
F. c. Field, S1S.75 John Armstrong, SIS 75:
W B. Crossan, s1S,15; B. F. Wallack.
S1 10 To the ea foifowing named persons
for extra services and work after the
expiration of the session of the legisla-
ture of 1897: L. Shamleffer. docket clerk
of the senate, $50: Daisy Shamleffer, as
sistant docket clerk of the senate. $50;
Stewart. assistant Journal clerk. $50: A
A. George. assistant secretary, $780, L. A.
Hanshew. readin clerk $50; Scion Gray,
sistant sergeant-at-arms, $50; Fred A.
Sewers, clerk of the ways and means
Ill For balance of expenses in the con-
test case of Hunter VS.. Bradley, house Of
representatives 1897; to each of the con-
torney's fees. SIS each To the following
ment s5e W H seile 9@aF $3.50: r as n
Gibbs IS. 80: j. ". Tout. $50: Grant Ran
ey. $780, S. Myrick. So. 80: NJ. a. Gordon
$3.50; W. a. Hendricks, $3.50.
112. To the board of Managers of
the state soldiers home. for the hire of
extra teachers for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898. $3.50 for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1899 $3.50.
Section .. The above amounts are in
full for all claims against the state
Section g. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publ
7 hereby certify that the above bin
originated in the senate, and passed that
body March Is, 1897.
A. NJ. HARVEY.
President of the Senate.
NJ. WATSON,
Secretary of the Senate.
Passed the house March 10. 1897
w. d. STREET.
Speaker of the House.
A. d. GILPIN.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Approved March Is. 1897.
j. w. LEEDY,
Governor
State of Kansas.
Office of Secretary of State.
7. W. E. Bush. secretary of state of the
state of Kansas. do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is correct copy
of the original enrolled bill now file in
my office.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed my Off
w. f. BUSH,
Secretary of State.
BY c. NJ. ROSS,
(Seal) Assistant Secretary OF State.