The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-11-05
PARAGRAPHS WITH POM.
Short and Timely Commentou:
Men and Even& 1es

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Men and Events. on
There will, it is announced. he s;x
tial eclipses in 1898. But there ~ wu ines
other eclipses, too. VIII be
The silver ENJOYS who went to .1,n,a
see why silver was demonetized PAU da, 10
seem to be in any hurry to report T;l TTn I
is passing, gentlemen. l'''e
Under President Cleveland tho NO..
ita circulation in the country fou zap
$21.lO. but it has increased nndor D 10
dent Mckinley to 500 80. 'es'-
Even the Tammany Democrats No.
snubbed Mr.. Bryan. He wrote them '"se ,r.
ing that they should put silver into tha:-
platform and they promptly RESPONDED ~.
keeping it out.
Nobody has been heard to hint for ,ho
past two months that William McKinlor
made any mistake last fall when ba 70.
marked that he thought it better to onen
the mills to American labor than tb,
mints to the worlds silver.
1t is limited that the Democratic t;c,o,
of 1900 may be Henry George, of New
York, and Tom johnson. of Ohio on a
platform of single tax. The party must
have an issue, you know, and as free trade
and free silver are dead there seems to he
nothing else left.
The year ending Sept 1, 1897. was -
bad one for the wheat-and-silyer-ha
hand theory. One ounce of silver ON Sent
l, 1896, was worth just as much as one
bnshel Of wheat in New York. On Sent
l, 1897, it took just two ounces of silver
to buy n bushel Of wheat.
1t is understood that Mr.. Bryan will
issue another book shortly, to be entitled
'"The Complete Letter Writer" and that
it will contain full instructions on the art
bf getting private letters into print with
out waiting for the aid and consent" of
the party to whom they are written.
The earnings of the Dingley law in the
second half Of August were slightly in ex
cess of $4,000, 600; those of the first half
of September were over $40, 100000, and
those Of the last half Of September were
in excess of $11, 900, 900, showing steady
and gratifying increase in income under
it,
"The true story of Mr.. Hanna's attitude
to his workmen and toward union labor.
as far as his mining interests in Western
Pennsylvania are concerned, is that he is
the best nan in the whole district to work
| for.'-F"om statement of William War
ner, Secretary United Mine Workers of
Pittsburg District.
| The treasury receipts under the Dingley
law are steadily increasing. The receipts
of its second month are greater than those
of the second month under the Wilson
| law. despite the fact that the Dingley law
| fnnnG ho
| goods, while the Wilson law found many
millions dollars worth of goods waiting
to enter and contribute to its earnings
| The Tammany Democrats evidently
| thought q live national chairman better
than dead presidential candidate Chair
man Jones advised them to give silver the
cold shoulder in their platform. Ex-Can>
didate Bryan urged them to embrace it.
AS Jones will remain chairman until the
| national convention OF 1900 is fully organ
ized, the willy Tammanyites stood by
Jones.
| The Philadelphia Press has made a.!
| careful canvass of the State of Pennsyl-
vania, sending out 1O2 inquiries into the
67 counties of the State relative to the
! business and industrial conditions The
result is most gratifying and the reports
unanimous to the effect that times have
greatly improved, factories started up all
over the State, orders are coming in and
labor finding employment everywhere.
The leaders of the calamity party are
overjoyed at the slight fall in wheat late
ly. They are expectantly watching quo
tations, in the hope that something will
conduce to further depreciation of its,
value. SO that they can say, 1--WE told you
so" to the farmers. The fact that an
ounce of silver a year ago was equal in
value to a bushel of wheat, but now buys
only half a bushel, has knocked the wind
out of their specious arguments.
A couple of months ago the free traders
looked complacently at the large eAporta-
tions Of manufactures under the Wilson
law. and were only waiting to point exult-
, ingly to the falling off of these exporta-
tions under the new law. 1t seems, how
ever. that they were wrong, as usual. The
first month of the operations of the Ding
ley law showed a larger expectation Of
manufactured articles than for any corre-
spending month of preceding years. So
much for their statements that the enact
ment of protective revenue law would
cut off our market abroad for American
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