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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
They Would Ruin Us,

1t is a pity that this country should be
so completely at the mercy of the gold
power of England. Gold has been pour
ed into the United States, at San Fran
cisco, New York and all the great ports,
until our gold circulation is fifty million
more than it was a year ago, while the
total increase in circulation is nearly a
hundred million. There really seems to
be no way to stop these schemers in the
old countries from flooding us with their
gold and sweeping away the underpinning
of the Chicago and other free coinage
DlankS
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
facture tin plate successfully in America :?

facture tin plate successfully in America
Treasury officials now have no doubt
that the Dingley law will produce ample
revenues after it gets fairly at work. The
earnings of its second month exceeded
those of the second month of the Wilson
law, and are steadily growing.
Secretary Wilson says the beet sugar
manufa ctories in the United States will
be quadrupied in number in the = next
year. Is this due to famine abroad
OF course the sDingley law must not be
credited withit.t - :
Prof. Wilson is so busy with his new
duties that he hasn't had time to explain
why farm products and prices of labor in
creased as soon as the Dingley law went
into operation.
The Democratic New York Journal says
that "gold is ON its way to New York and
the tide of domestic manufacturing inter-
ests rises higher each day. The railroads
are blocked zip with the crush of business
all along, the line" = :.
1t will be noticed that the total loss on
the e'va1ue OF the farm animals of the Unit
ed States during efhe years 1898, 1884,
1895 and 1896 reached the enormous ag-
gregate of $500, ,422, ,96S! That is ytlie
loss in the value OF farm animals alone
during the past four years.
These are tally,important facts to the
farmers of the nation, and they are only
another link in the chain of official proofs
prepared by free trade officials-that the
farmers Of the United States lost over
five billions of dollars by the decreased
consumption and decreased values of their
crops during the four years of free trade
government and free silver agitation. The
readers should constantly remember that
the statistics given here are not Register
LES but are taken from the official re-
ports of the free trade Secretary of the
Treasury and the free trade Secretary Of
Agriculture of President Cleveland's last
administra tion.-Des Moines Register. =
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Trade Revival Not Threatened.

The same sort of reaction which has
occurred in the stock market in the past
two weeks took place in the latter part of
1879, the year Of gold resumption, and
many persons predicted then, as they do
now, that the ''boom has burst" The
very same influence which caused the re-
action then causes it now-wild specula-
ton. Prices went up too fast at the be-
ginning of the trade revival then, as they
have done in the past few months. Busi-
ness expansion was not checked in the
slightest degree, however, by the tempo
rary drop in stocks in 1879, nor is it in
1S97.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
in that. State. German is candidate for

in thatsState Gorman is candidate for
reelection to the Senate, and the Legis-
lature chosen this year will elect his sue
cessor. A few weeks, ago German an
nounced that he was not seeking another
term. That was the first confession of
weakness on the part of the Maryland
Democratic mana gers, for Gorman's can
didacy, as both Democrats and Republi-
cans well know, will take away thousands
of votes from the Democratic State and
legislative tickets. Germans conditional
offer now to abandon the leadership of
his party and cut loose his official connec-
ton with it means that he and the other
mana gers believe that the party's chances
in the campaign are hopeless.-St: Louis
Globe-Democrat -
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
CAN'T MAKE TIN. cAN,1wEa.
Old Free. Trade AreH4nefft Knocked
Z. -: into a C6cked7 Hat.

Old Free Trade Argument knocked
Z. -: into a 'C6cked7 Hat.
Everybody remembers how the free
traders scoffed at the idea of making tin
plate in this country, aAdshow long they
denied that it was being made at all. Now
we are making tin plate eHqugh to. supply.
our own markets and Ship some abroad,
and we are making itlbettsr and cheaper
than the Welshmen did. eIrondon Hard
ware of Sept. 16 says, referring to the
Welsh makers: "Itis not their fault if the
American works, brand new in all their
appointments, turn out plates little
cheaper than the Welsh mills. Besides,
the Americans get their tin bars theaper.
OF course the loss of the .Ameri-
canttrade' is great disaster, buteit came
in the natural order OF thinigs, and must
be accepted. ,natientfy..' There never. was
a greater; triumph for Interpretation prin-
4iple, or ..pfa: me. :le.heastxation Of It,
effectiveness, than the establishment OF
the tin plate industry in this country, and
apprecia ton of that fact; was. one, reason
why the flee traders fought it so maligs
lignantly. y.-Louisvii1e9 COMMERCIAL. ;.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
PopuIists Dr,ppins 1t.

The Populist party is rapidly abandon
ing the free silver proposition. The To
peka, Kan, Advocate, recognized Off
cial organ of. the Popplist party, in re-
cent editorial, says: "The principal differ
ence between the orthodox Populist and
the Republicans and. Democrats on the
money question consists in.the fact that
he believes paper money Of the right sort
is as good as gold or silver, and does not
need to be-redeemed in either metal. =
He knows that the fat or the law written
on the coin Zone dollar) is it's commission
and gives it its legal value, and he cares
nothing about the value of bullion. y
There is no more room in the bimetallic
theory for the fat idea than there is in
the monometallic theory"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
"Money Power" Again.

: Is it that terrible money power" that
is. destroying the crops all over the world
for the purpose of giving American farm
ers higher. prices and thus showing them
the falsity of the wheat-and- silver theory
There is just as much sense in assuming
that the money power could control the
wind and weather and grasshoppers and
other causes of foreign grain shortage
as it was to assume last fall that hand
full of financjers located in some mysteri-
Gus: secret, chamber in London or else
where could control the legislation of the
grea test and most intelligent nations of
the world in behalf Of the gold standard,
as was asserted from day to day and
week to week during the entire campaign
of 1896.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
GEORGE MELVILLE.


How do the free silver and free trade
theorists who are charging up the advance
in wheat to the shortage abroad account
for the advance in all other farm products,
corn, rye, beef, pork, wool, cattle, horses,
sheep. hops, tobacco and potatoes? The
fact is that it is due to the increased con-
sumption at home. People who earn little
economic in eating; those whose earn
ings are increased spend far more for
food and get that of better quality.
When the working people of the United
States are employed at good wages they
buy more food and clothing than when un-
employed or working for half pay. 1t is
protective tariff that does the business.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Another Evidence.

An evidence of the improvement in bus
mess since the people of the country de-
cided in favor of protection and sound
money is found in figures in the recent re-
port of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. They show that the freight tonnage
for the year just ended is the largest in
the history of the railways of the country,
and is Eo less than seventy million tons
in excess of the preceding year. The
gross earnings of the railroads of the
country for the year were nearly STE, ,0OO,-
600 greater than those of the preceding
year.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
S144,044,64O.
1852, 1900
13S,S41,331
Add loss on oats crops ....
Total four years. loss on oats
and hav

Iolal TOUR years. loss on oats
ana nay S6O1, &c, ,397
TIL official reports on the oats crops for
the years 1892 to 1895 were obtained from
page 294 of the Statistical Abstract of
the United States, 1885, and the oats
crop of 1896 from page 567 of the .eYear
Book of the u S. Department of Agri-
culture, 1896" The official hay crop sta
tistics were obtained from page 81 Of the
'Year Book q. s. Department of Agri-
culture, 1885," which states that no off,
cial estimates were made on the hay crops
for the years 1889 to 1892 inclusive. If
the statistics for 1892 had been collected
the total loss on the hay crops would un-
doubtedly have been largely increased by
comparison with the total value of 1892.
Losses on Farm Animals.
The farmers enormous losses on the
value of their farm animals during the
four years of free trade government and
free silver coinage agitation ending March
4, 1897, are proved by the following fig
ures taken from pages 574, 575, SIG and
677 of the year Book of the u S. De-
partment of Agriculture, 1897" prepared
under the direction of Secretary J. Sterl-
ing Morton, who was the free trade Secre-
tary of Agriculture during President
Ceveland's last term:
Loss on farm animals
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19

Henry George because he isy the only ex-
ponent among the candidates for Mayor
Of the principles decided at the Chicago
convention, absolute loyalty to which is
the test of true Democracy" Henry
George cares more for the single land tax
than he does for the entire Chicago plat
form. Mr.. Shanklin knows this, and when
the time comes he and Henry George will
both be found working to get a single
land-tax plank in the: Democratic plat
form.-Indianapolis Journal. :,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
FACTS AND FIGURES.
WHAT THE FARMERS LOST BY
FREE TRADE
Enormous Decrease in the Value of
Agricultural Products in, Conse-
quence of Free Trade Administra-
tion and Free Coinage Agitation.
Official Records Show It.

Official Records Show It.
1t Is shown by official reports, prepared
by the officials of President Clevelands s
last administration that the decreased
consumption Of wheat was 311, 1856, 1856
bushels, and the decreased consumption
Of corn, 2,945, ,529, $40 bushels-a total de-
creased consumption of 3,257 ,416,072
bushels of wheat and corn in. the United
States during those four years. In this
article is given the total production of
wheat and corn in the United States each
year for five years, the total value of
each years crop, and the decreased farm
value of each years crop compared with
1S92-when the wheat crop of the United
States was larger than in any Of the other
years named and the worlds wheat crop
as large as the average of the years since
1S92-as proved by the following figures
taken from page 293 of the Statistical
Abstract Of the United States, 1885,"
which was prepared under the direction of
Secretary Carlisle, as proved by the let
ter therein submitting the report to the
House of esentatiEes-except the fig
ures on wheat and corn crops of 1896
which have been obtained from page 559
of the Year Book of the U. s. Depart
ment of Agriculture which. was pre-
pared by Secretary ]. Sterling Morton,
who is one of the most extreme free trad
ers in the nation: i
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Wheat VIII Keen I'm.

European crop reports confirm the es-
timated shortages that have been made
from time to time and give assurance
that the foreign demand will keep the
prices of American breadstuffs up to the
point about which they have fuctuated
for the past few weeks. The property of
the American farmer is not myth in any
sr-~a Of the word--Omaha Bee.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Another Slump,

Another fall in silver is recorded from
the financial centers in this country and
Europe. During the closing week in Sep
tember the price of silver bars dropped
from 571a cents per ounce to 81 cents, in
New York. A money metal which would
f1uctnate 311a per cent in value in single
week can scarcely commend itself to the
average voter as a safe one for adoption
by a single nation with, at least the CO.
operation of other countries to sustain it's
va Inc
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
RrYanism-EI

Bryanism-Free Trade-Free Ruin.
If Louise Michel should come to this
country to preach the gospel Of anarchy
she would probably begin by avowing her
allegiance to. Bryanism, free trade and
free ruin and wind up by denouncing
Mark Hanna and the Dingley tariff
Grand Rapids Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Loss on farm animals
Decrease
A.

Total loss on farm animals dug
rim the four free trade years Sc, $50 422 96S
The largest tin plate mill in the world is
to be erected at Newca stle, Pa. See,
didn't somebody predict just few years
ago that no amount of protective encour-
aRement would make it possible to manu-
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Their Case Hopeless.

Senator Germans offer to surrender
the Democratic leadership in Maryland
provided the Baltimore Sun supports it's
party in the State and legislative cam
paign, IL the Democracy's flag OF distress
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Losses on Oats and Hay.

The following official statistics give the
losses Of the farmers Of the United States
on their oats and hay crops for the years
named in consequence of the decreased
home consumption during the four years
of free trade government and free silver
agitation:
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Loss on wheat crops
Total decrease In value OF United
StatRs' wheat crnn dnrinp the

Total decrease In value of United
s. States corn crops during the
past four years ...........-.. .ss6s. .725 ,e5s
Add total farm loss on wheat dur
Ing the four years %. 300, S32, ,239
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19

Total loss on wheat and corn $685., ,55s, ,239
1t will be noticed that the loss ip the
value of the wheat crops of the United
States during the past four years $780,
S32, ,5S1-was nearly one-third of the total
value Of the crops for the four years: when
compared with the value of the wheat
crop in 1892! II will also be noticed, that
the total decreased farm value of the corn
crops of the past four years aggregated
1868, 725, ,65S-a total loss of 1864, ,55S, ,239
on the farm values of the wheat and corn
crops of the United States during the past
four years compared with the farm value
of those crops in 1892! Remember that it
is the farm value of the grains that is
quoted from the official ia bles. If figured
on the expert value of wheat and corn for
the years named the loss ON the wheat and
corn for the years named the loss on the
wheat and cora crops is nearly double that
for the farm loss-for it is over bill
ion dollars.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19

Expenditures ..$63, ,O36,O $5s,956,s63
Receipts ....... Al, ,760,46 40,956, 713
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Loss on oats
n.A-


sIncreased value Of corn crop in
1904, deducted from decreased
value Of the other years named.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
Decrease,
from 1892.

.
S21.677,519
S5,563,309
45,59S,543:
76,76S,5TS
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02

There are home duties as well as
pleasures for the children. Boys are re,
ouired to look after the ponies, TO lena
a hand in planting, to help in the har-
vest, and they are often made 10 90 ac'
tive duty as scarecrows in the newly
planted field, where, like little Bopeep'
thew fall fast asleep The girls help TO
gather wood, bring water and look after
the younger ones. AS they grow older
thew are taught to cut, sew and make
garmepts. In former days, the old Oma-
has say, no girl was considered mar ..
riageable until she had learned TO tan
skins, make tents and clothing, prepare
meat for drying and could cultivate
corn and beans. while young man VINO
had not learned to make his own wea,
mons and to be skillful hunter was not
considered fitted to take upon himself
the responsibilities Of the provider OF
family -" Home Life Among the In
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
prvaooks For the Navy Needed.

"Oongress had better stop building
battleships and begin building dry,
docks" was the ringing expression OF
Representative Amos Cummings during
the recent debate in the house on the
proposition to appropriate $780, 900 TO
repair the Brooklyn drydock.
bnMr. Cummings called attention to the
lamentable weakness of this country III
facilities for the repair of our battle
ships.
He said that whereas in the single
mort of Portsmouth, England, there were
81 stone drydocks into which English
ships could be taken for repairs the en-
tire equipment of the United States on
the Atlantic coast was one timber dry
dock, and that one so badly out OF re-
pair that it was useless, and that on the
Pacific coast there was also but one SIN
gle timber drydock.
In the event of war with any mari
time nation, such as Japan or SPAN
the United States would be practically
helpless in its ability to repair war
ships. New York World.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
PENSION CERTIFICATES MAILED.
Payments Delayed on Account of n Large
Deficiency.

Washington, July For more than
n month all pension certificates Issued
by the government have been held up
in the pension bureau. The suspension
ended Thursday. when an immense
batch Of certificates was mailed TO us
various agencies.
This terminates the operations of an
order which, taking effect May 81 last
was designed TO avoid increasing the
existing deficiency in the pension appro-
priations by cTediting the payments
which would follow the issuance OK
these certificates to the new fiscal year
instead Of to the fiscal year which end
ed June 30. The deficiency is said to be
more than s30O.CO0 Between 1900 and
Il 600 of these certificates have accumu-
! lated since the order took effect ana
now all those dated UP to June "a were
mailed. The suspension Included every
class of pension certificates, but iron
now on the regular daily issuance anc
| mailing of them will be resumed.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
Restrictions Placed Upon wheelmen.

Some of the restrictions placed re-
Gently upon the wheelmen OF Vienna
by the new law make a striking con-
trast to the increasing liberties accorded
to American cyclists. In the Austrian
capital most of the streets are closed to
wheels except from 8 p. m. to a. M.
Cyclers can't even push their wheels
with their hands in the gardens OF the
imperial court. in the public squares
and promenades, or in the market places
when business is going on there. In the
freedom given to American riders may
be seen, perhaps, the value of universal
suffrage. American voters would bury
any politician who should dare to put
such laws on the statute books.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
na,,et From an Elephants Back.

At recent wedding that occurred ID
his family the maharajah of Mysore de-
oided to astonish his guests with an IN
noyation. His highness had been IN
England and had seen ballet at tie
Empire theater, and the memory OF IL
fingered even after he returned to the
purple east, the home of the nautch
girls and the couchee couchee.
So he had platform built IL 1eet
square and supported by two elephants.
During the marriage procession-whicn
was by torcblight-the platform, gor-
peously decorated, was occupied by
nautch girls dressed in duify tune
skirts, who danced at intervals along
the route. The innovation in dress was
we'll received by the maharajah's guests
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
PLANS for Logan Dny.

Chicago, July 2.-The general com
mittee on arrangements for the Logan
day programme met at the Auditorium
and decided upon some changes in the
order of the celebration. Instead of haV-
ing the parade follow the unveiling OF
the monument, the order will be re-
versed. OF the 5000 seats to be erected
1000 will be reserved for veterans. the
National Guard of Illinois and the Sew
enteenth regiment, United States imam
try Of Columbus, o.. will participate.
reception for President Mckinley Is be-
ing arranged for the evening.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
Gustave Dors.

Gustave Dore died at 80. From the
aye of 30 to 35 he moved in round of
brilliant triumph, and thence to the end
down the hill of disappointment. lie
cared no longer for designing, and the
art critic did not care for his big PIC
lures. He died too soon TO read the Dore
gallery prospectus, which filed the pa
pers some years ago. Dore spoke Eng
lish indifferently, although he was al
WAYS meaning to learn the language.
He liked Britons ana their ways, but
not their dinner parties. 1T is the DIM
ner parties that kill me, he said once
"How long and how stupid they areP'
Dore was one of the race Of marvellous
bows, for at the age of 4 he painted a
grand battle piece which, we are told
displayed "fre and force and move
ment." At 10 his father took him to
Paris for his holidays. When Gustave
saw the gay city, he at once said, ms
is the place for me?' But how was 1t
to be done? Only by taking his future
into his own hands.
He made IL comic drawings OF the
labors of Hercules and took them TO the
editor of the Journal Pour Rlre. The
editor glanced at them and at once Of
fered the boy a salary of 81, 600 year
on the paper. His father returned home
alone. He then did what many Other
artists would do if their oculists would
permit them-he painted by sunlight
and worked for publishers by gaslight
A proud and precocious genius, his I'M
agination trimming over with goot
things, he could not be bothered witt
academic routine, so he entered himsel
at 10 school of art, but made rush 10
the goal with asneer at the trouble Q
training. His illustrations made boo
run through countless editions an
, saved at least one publisher from ruin
, He painted number of popular PIC
, lures, he became the rage, and then n
+ died Now York Ledger.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
N,,I,onaire ina Jail Cell.

ct Louis. July 2.--Millionaire Tramp
lanes Berry occupied cell Wednesday
night in the holdover at the -FOUR Courts.
He was arrested at the Union s'atio,
by detectives. Berry was drunk an
flourished a large revolver. Wheh Tue
patrol wagon reached the -FOUR courts
the officers started to lead Berry 10 'ne
Central police station. lie opJecteu ~
going. and when near the door SUI zen en-
Detective Howard in the race ne
blow staggered the officer, and DetectlEe
Kelly. who happened to be IN Captaii'
O'Malley's office, ran to Howaros as
sisSlnce.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-02
A would BE Parricide of Twelve.

John Toscane, peddler of Williams
burg, N. Y, accused his l2-year-old son
in the Lee Avenue police court lately OF
having twice threatened to kill him.
A week previously the lad had stopped
his father on the street and demanded
25 cents for firecrackers. When the
father refused to give him the money,
the boy drew stiletto and lunged at
his fathers head.
The father said also that his wife
found brand new revolver i'll the boy s
pocket. When asked why he had the
weapon, the boy said he intended TO XII
his father whenever he should find him
alone.
The boy coolly affirmed his fathers
testimony and was sent to jail.