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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
ALTGELD ON THE ADVANCE IN WHEAT.

The present advance in wheat, being
due to temporary cause, cannot give
general or lasting prosperity; besides
only small portion of the farmers of
America raise wheat. Should the Klon.
dixie discoveries or any other cause so
greatly increase the volume of the
worlds money as to produce prosperity
it would be demonstration of the cor.
rectness of the Democratic position-viz =,
that an increase in the volume of money
gives prosperity, while reduction in the
quantity of money produces paralysis.
The country has now enjoyed more
than nine months of "restored conf
dence," and as a result the great cotton
mills of New England have shut down,
because they could not sell their pro
ducts; the coal miners of America are on
strike against hunger and nackedness,
and the Chicago CITY Railway company,
which last winter helped to debauch the
legislature of Illinois and got advantages
worth millions of dollars, has just given
notice to its men of reduction in
wages.
The condition of debtors and honest
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
A WORLD OF LAW

"No man may put off the law Of God, "
was resding line in the old United
States spelling book in use early in this
century. It was also used as a copy line
for writing, when pens were made from
goose quills and the writing paper was
ruled by hand.
This thing of law applicable TO the in
dividusl is equally so TO aggregations Of
persons and to nations, for this is world
of law and not of chance or accident.
This earth world of ours, part Of the
universe, though very small part, is
itself governed by law, held in place by
law, otherwise we could not count on tie
rising and setting Of the sun, moon and
stars, or returning seasons or the tides
Of the sea.
We're this not universe of law, science
could not calculate eclipses. In reproduc-
ton too, is law each after its own kind.
Hybrids may be got, but do hot continue
In such cases the penalty Is extinction,
for violation Of law invariably requires
the penslty. OF this we may be assured.
So is 1t ais, In the moral world Tonly
righteousness really and truly prospers.
All Is wrong, save the just and right
thing. Violstel law requires the penalty
here also. There Is no escape. Poison
taken into the human system, accident
ally or purpOsely, has the same effect.
So wrong in the moral world is the poi
son there. Truly, Righteousness ex-
alteth nation" aud So an individual.
In this world then, it is law, cause and
quence, faotor or factors and result.
Forget it not
History confirms oil this In the Istories
Of the nations. Possession and power on
the part Of the few who rule and riot and
enslave the masses Of the people, thus In
flicting untold suffering. We see too In
most lands, the masses enrolled in stand
ing armies, ready to war upon neighbors
or protect their masters and keep them 10
power. Equality of rights and equal op-
portunities are not considered
Our constitution prohibited congress
from granting titles of nobility, the idea
being that no privileged class should be
allowed here. But under Republican rule,
tax laws ara enacted favoring certain
classes and trusts, makipg these rich and
plnnderlng The people into poverty. In
this same lire, gold has been made the
standard Of value.
Let 1t not be imagined for a moment
that nobility, aristocracy or millionaire
class secure happiness and safety,by this
grasp Of power and plunder. History
sgain In this tells different tale. Grasp
ing selfishness is violence, and violence
be gets violence, wrong begets wrong, and
ruin and desolation are the ultimate re-
suits. We cannot do evil and secure good
results thereby. Commotions, wars, rev.
olutions, as r lated in hisory, tell fright
full tales of human wrongs disaster, woes
and suffering,
The condition of our own fair land of
late, the suffering and frequent distur-
bances, are known to all and appeal to
oil.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
CHECK NUMBER I43.

The check given to Hugo Preyer by
Major Dick was numbered l43. o.
course l42 checks out of the same book
and on the same bank had been previ
ously issued. Who got those checks!
Let US reason little.
Major Dick had but recently been in,
stalled, and not many days had tran.
spired since he opened quarters in Cleve.
land. Undoubtedly the first work he
had tc do was to see to the Populist
convention, and in this Mr.. Hanna s
man lost no time, for he knew the inn
portance of the work and his master
doubtless had so advised.
1t is fair, therefore, to conclude that
the 14l checks, tor Mr., Taylor got one as
he testified which Mr.. Dick cashed him
self, were all given for the same purpose
as the two given to Taylor and Preyer.
This is fair and logical conclusion. 1t
is probable, too, that some checks were
large enough for the recipient to use
to influence others and have them on
hand to help at the Populist conven.
ton.
These conclusions are perfectly legiti-
mate and fair. "What can we reason
but from what we know ?" Is it any
wonder that Allen Cook, as the Hanna
leader, opposed permitting the testi-
mony to come before the convention
He preferred placing the matter in the
hands of packed committee, a major.
ity of whom were there in the same in
terest that Mr.. Cook himself was. These
gentlemen were faithful to the trust re.
posed in them and cleared Major Dick
and absolved the convention.
But Mr.. Kirch d Co.'s report will not
cleanse that badly smirched Populist
convention. They cannot rub it out,
blow and rant as they may. Check l43
is public matter and will stay to bother
those gentlemen. Mr.. Taylor's check
is also matter of publicity, and as to
the others, al, we may infer.
Oh, what a tangled web they weave,
When first they counsel to deceive.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
THE TAX REFORM MEETING

In the Assembly hall Saturday after.
noon was not largely attended and of
those who came many did not seem to
take interest enough to remain.
Not one of the speakers seemed to be
prepared with facts to show the wrongs
that could and should be corrected and
only one gentleman referred to the
Dirgley tariff law lately enacted by
Congress which largely increases the
taxes upon the people.
Tax reformers are not really reformers
unless they favor tax reform in the
general government as well as in local
affairs. The general government ex-
pending about five hundred millions a
year, six dollars or so for every man,
woman end child, is matter for serious
consideration, especially where these
taxes are not levied on the property
held.
Our state, county, municipal and
school burdens need looking into, these
hard times, and surely it it so as to
general government taxation. I'm
doubtedly things need equalizing and
adjusting. The opinion is very general
that it is mal.administration in the
general government and its evil legisla
ton that has mainly caused these hard
times.
Our people should take more interest
in these matters and should look into
and consider the whole question. In
fact 1t is our duty as good American
citizens.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST MIR.
SHERMAN.

All Of Secretary Sherman's friends
agree in saying that he is well qualified
In every way to discharge the duties OF
the high office to which he was called by
President Mckinley and nobody but his
enemies would intimate for an instant
that his powerful mental forces had been
weakened in any way.
The Leader believes conspiracy has
been formed to drive Mr.. Sherman from
the cabinet. Those who are in this con-
spiracy are not particularly unfriendly
to Mr.. Sherman. Their sole object is to
embarrass Presid snt Mckinley and an.
noy Senator Hanna Cleveland Leader.
Through the balance of the article the
Leader piles it on to the Popocratic
newspapers and "Popocratic liars -
This foul sheet knows that if con.
spiracy exists it is Republican affair.
None others could have any influence
Certainly "Popocratic" papers would
have no influence upon the administra.
ton in the premises, And then Mr..
Sherman's successor would be Repub-
lican, assuredly not a "Popocrat." This
foul Leader is much given to falsity, not
even, as in this case having regard to
probability.
Lest folk suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
DETERMINATION OF SEALS.
DIR. Jordan Brought Back Disastrous h,
ports From the North,

Or. Jordan Brought Back Disastrous Re-
ports From the North, -
PORTLAND, Or, Aug. 23.--Dr. David
Starr Jordan, commissioner-in.ch chief of
the fur seal investigation, has passed
here on the revenue cutter Rush enroute
for San Francisco. DR.. Jordan reports
the satisfactory completion of the sum-
mer's Investigations by the British and
United States comm issiOns.
1.-THE breeding grounds show shrink.
age of about 10 per cent over the con-
ditions of last season; the hunting
grounds q shrinkage of 33 per cent.
This is about what was predicted by
the American commission last wear and
the conclusions are fully indicated in
all important regards.
"The primary cause Of shrinkage of
females on the breeding grounds is the
pelagic catch of last fall and this
spring, To this is added the loss due
to starvation of orphaned pups in 1894,
which should this year have lived to
give birth TO their first pups. This
starvation in 1894, effechng as it did
in like measure the male herd, is the
cause of the diminution of killable
seals on the hunting grounds.
The decline of the herd is every
where more distinctly marked than it
was last year, owing TO the effects of
the resumption of pelagic killing in
Bering sea after the modus vivendi of
1893. For 1898 the shrinkage will be
still greater through the destruction in
1894 OF unborn pups with impregnated
females killed
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

When Mr.. Dingley tires of the other
pleasures of his vacation he can just sit
down and put in his time guessing what
his tariff law will do next Chicago
Record (Republican).
A prominent citizen Of Canton just re-
turned from business trip to Chicago
informs us that he was greatly surprised
to see so many empty business rooms
wherever he went. On mentioning the
matter to an old and prominent citizen,
the latter said there were over twenty
thousand empty business rooms in the
Windy City. This certainly does not
look like prosperity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

toilers is getting steadily worse. Con.
gress has just given the sugar trust q
tribute in excess of what they formerly
got from the sweat of American indus.
tries in order that these patriots may N OF
amass fortune themselves, but may con-
tribute millions to carry elections. The
newspapers are persistently calling this
prosperity, but the American people are
not fooled by it, and the Democratic
party is not being weakened by these
proceedings,
Nearly all of the events since the elec-
ton have tended to show that the Demo
cratic party was right in the last cam.
paign, and that the gold standard cam
paign was colossal fraud managed by
the INSCRIPTIONS agents of the trusts,
which are beginning to see that their
party never can rescue our institutions
from the corruption which is overwhelm.
ing us, and that this rescue must be made
by the great mass of the common people
who have saved our country in every
past crisis, and Who will rally round the
standard of true Democracy.
JOHN p. ALTGELD.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Democrats have always taken the
position that the basis of prosperity
must come from mother earth, and we
now begin to see signs Of promise, This
years wheat crop is good in this coun.
try, estimated at 500, 100000 bushels,
and last years crop held over
is put at 90,0O0,OOO, 1t is claim.
ed the actual advance in year has
been about 25 cents bushel, and
this will improve business in time, for
the short crop In other lands makes the
market for our farm productions a GER
tainty, With our good crops at better
prices Improvement will come in due
time, Dingley tariff or no Dingley tariff.
These crops sold will bring money, and
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
BERMUDA TO BE SOLD.
British Authorities Determined to SboV
the SLenmnr,. EiIIhn.lerInu.

British Authorities Determined to SooT
the Steamers Fnibustering.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 23.-The British
steamship Ethelwold, Captain List, has
arrived at this port from Port Antonio
Jamaica having on board as passen.
gers, in addition TO Commissioner OF
Navigation Eugene Tyler Chamberlain
and DR.. Walker of Washington, ~ OF
the crew of the alleged flibustering
steamship Bermuda, which has been
seized out there by the British govern.
ment.
1t was learned from Mr.. Chamber
lain that Captain Murphy of the Ber-
muda has been adjudged guilty of vio-
lation of the quarantine laws and sent.
enced TO pay fine of G100 or to
undergo 30 days imprisonment. He
choose the latter and is now serving his
time. The Bermuda will be sold by
the British authorities.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
DUTY OF MlLlTIAMEN.
AtkiDson's Organ Says They Should Not
Serve Against strikers.

AtkiDson's Organ Says They Should No,
Serve Against strikers.
PARKERsBURG, Aug. 23.-The Sun.
day News, Governor Atkinson's organ
here. editorially commenting in Sun.
days issue upon the recent order di'
recting the state militia to hold thsm
selves in readiness to aid in the sup.
preston of disorder among the miners,
says:
THE power to suppress trouble among
the miners, should there be any, has
gone out from the state, and none but
the United States troops must be called
in. Every patriotic national guards.
man should refuse pointblank and EN-.
phatically to take the field in this
struggle in West Virginia. The edi.
torial is believed to have been INSPIRED.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
FIVE YEARS
An Invalid Languishes Without Hope.

Gottlieb Schlieske, Sebewaing, Mich.
writes: 81 wish to thank you for the
help my wife received through you
medicines, Pe.Iu.na and Man.a-lin. My
wife had been very sick for five years
she took all kinds of patent medicines
but they DID not hep her. l also had
her to doctor with several physicians
but they did not do her any good. We
then read in the paper about many
people being cured by the use of your
medicines. wanted her to try your
medicines, but she did not want to, as
so many medicines failed to do her any
good and the money was all spent for
nothing. But after read your next ar
ticle concluded to write to you. You
said that she should take Peru ma and
Man-a.lin, which she did, and it cured
her. We will never be without Pe.ru.na
and Man.a.lin in our house."
DR.. Hartman has lately written book
devoted TO the ailments peculiar to the
female sex. 1t is profusely and beauti.
fully illustrated, and every woman
shoud possess one. 1t will be sent free to
women only, for short time, by The
Pe-ru.na Drug Manufacturing Co., Co.
lumbus, Ohio.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

1t is estimated that the wheat crop
will bring $l50,000,000 more than last
year. We fear the spectators in grain
will get considerable share when the
farmers ought to have it. Corn also
will be in demand this year owing to the
short crops in Europe. The use of corn
has increased rapidly in Europe within
few years, as the people there have
been learning how to cook it. The
amount shipped each week during 1893
averaged 100000, and so far this year
the average is about 100000 bushels
Its cheapness may account for this in
crease In a measure. Two hundred mil.
lion bushels of corn shipped abroad in
a year is not as big an item as billion
and half bushels fed to cattle and hogs,
especially when these command good
prices. The value of this years crops
over those of last year are estimated at
$500, ,000, 900 or more. If this turns out
80, it certainly should start prosperity;
but in that case we need not thank the
Dingley tariff.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

sour rulers" say some papers, our
agents rather our representatives. The
people Of these United States have a
constitution which constitutes the
government and defines the powers of the
three departments, legislative, executive
and judicial and each official takes an
oath to support and obey it.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

1t is always gratifying to receive testI,
monials for Chamberlain's 8 Collie, Cholera
and Dirhoea Remedy, and when the
endorsement is from a physician il il
especially so. "There is no more salts,
factory or effective remedy than Cham.
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy" writes DR.. r. e. Robey, phys.
ician and pharmacist, of 0lney, Mo.
and as he has used the Remedy in his
own family and sold II in his drug store
for six years he should certainly know.
For sale by Q. N. Nye, Corner Barnett
House; Schlabach's drug store, 225 North
Market street; e. L. Janson, 200 West
Tus arawas street.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Carroll d. Wright, commissioner OF
labor at Washington and one of the
gold humbugs of the age, maintains that
laboring men are better of now than
ever before. His mind text is, "Ser,
wants, be obedient to your masters
Let him preach his falsities to the starv,
ing miners and to the two millions or so
of idle workmen who are seeking work
in "this happy land of freedom"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
Voted Aid 60 Miners.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20. Tine United
Labor League, by vote of 21l to O.,
passed resolution voting financial and
moral support to the coal mine strikers
Typographical union No. notified the
league that 1t had already sent con-
tripution of $500 to the strikers. The
request of the Universal Peace union
for representation in the league was re-
fuaal
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Small precautions often prevent
great mischiets. DeWitt's Little Early
Risers are very small pills in size, but
are most effective in preventing the most
serious forms Of liver and stomach
troubles. They cure constipation and
headache and regulate the bowels. f. p.
shanafelt q Co., q. N. Nye, Fischer
drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

will get into circulation and ultimate.
ly set million or two of idle men at
work. So mote it be. By industry we
thrive. Useful occupation leads to
virtue and happiness, while idleness is
quite the reverse as to results.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
NEVER FORGET THIS,
1t Will Repay the Reader to Store
This Information Away In the
Corridor Of His Brain.

The readers of this newspaper since
ever medicinal preparations were adver.
used, have always been accustomed ia
see statements published in these col
umns from here, there and everywhere
except from Canton. Read what follows
and mark the difference between such
evidence and that usually supplied, say
from Woonsocket, X. l. Doan's Kidney
Pills are endorsed by Canton's best citi
zens. Read this case: Mr.. J. w. Barrick,
OF No. l3S w. South street, says: 81 was
fireman on a railroad for three wears,
and the jarring of the engine had such
an effect on my back that | had to give
1t up. Before / went on the road had
some bother with my back, 1t ached
sometimes dull and steady, sometimes
stitches caught me when | stopped or
made an awkward movement, and after |
left the road | was subject to attacks of
1t. If caught cold il went to my loins
and settled there and as | was getting
no better year after year | thought it
high time to check it. | am not much
on reading advertisements but Doan's
Kidney Pills attracted my attention. |
was impressed with them so much that
lgot a box at Durbin Wright Co. 8 drug
S'oiC, lucy uiu me great ueal Ol gOOu
and | bad no trouble after taking them.
My mother had also been taking them
and found them very good She lives
on South Court street. am thoroughly
convinced of the curative properties Of
Doan's Kidney Pills, and can endorse
all their claims,
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers, price so cents. Mailed by
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's, and take
no substitute.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

A steel company in Cleveland has
just got contract to furnish 10000 tons
OF rails for electric roads in Ireland.
English mills were underbid, and YET
the Dingley law puts 81 a ton duty on
steel rails to "protect American labor
from the pauper labor of England"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Running sores, indolent ulcers and
similar troubles, even though of many
years standing, may be cured by using
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. II soothes,
strengthens and heals. 1t Is the great
pile cure, +. p. shanafelt & Co., Q. N.
Nye, Fischer drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Farmers have not as yet got to dollar
wheat, if the gamblers in grain have.
The profits thus far in the advance of
the price of wheat have gone into the
pockets of these operators. We read OF
some clearing as high as 100000 and
others less of course.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
On the Wrong Side Of Wheat.

TIFFTN, o., Aug. 23.-George Raj
ston, living near Bradner, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the brain. Ralston has been specu-
lating in wheat on the bear side and
selling wheat from 20 cents up. He
was considered quite wealthy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
MINERS SAIL FOR kLoNoYKe.
An Express Company Organized For
Service to Alaska.


Service to Alaska.
VICTORIA. B. G., Aug. 93.-The
steamer Danube has started on her voy.
age to Skaguay bay with another large
crowd of miners for the Kloudyke and
a full cargo of freight.
The steamer Coquitlan has returned
from Dyea and Skaguay. She brings
word that a man has been banished
from Skaguay by prospectors for at.
tempting to collect toll of 80 cents
from each person crossing a tree which
he had felled across a creek on the
trail. He was given ~ hours to get out.
The day the steamer left five men
arrived with $4,000 in gold dust.
TACOMA, WASH, Aug. 28.-The Alas.
kan Pacific Express company has been
organized by the Pacific Coast Steam.
ship company. This is the first express
company giving service to Alaska,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

Certainly you don't want to suffer
with dyspepsia, constipation, sick head
ache, sallow skin and loss of appetite.
You have never tried DeWitt's Little
Early Risers for these complaints or you
would have been cured. They are small
pills but great regulators. II. p. Stana-
felt 4 Co., o. N. Nye, Fischer drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

To heal the broken and diseased It's
sues, to soothe the irritated surfaces, to
instantly relieve and to permanently
cure is the mission OF DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. F. z. Shanafelt, N. O. Nye,
Fischer drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26

BosTON, Aug. 23.-Edward Parker
Deacon has been committed to the Nc.
Lean hospital at Waverly, insane. He
belongs to an old and distinguished
family of this city. On Feb. II, 1892,
he killed Emile Abeille in Mrs Dea.
cons apartments at Cannes, France.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-26
Prominent Men Suspected of Murder.

SHEPHERD, Mich. Aug. 23.-It is
thought that three prominent men in
this vicinity are tho murderers of
cashier Strubles, but officers will not
divulge names. They are watched
every moment, day and night, and
cannot escape Arrests are likely to
take place at any moment now. There
Is great excitement among the people
here and at MI Pleasant and lynching
Struble in the bank vault Saturday and
robbed the bank