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The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
OUR CASH PER CAPITA.
1t Is Increasing Steadily and Fxceeda
That of Nearly Every Nation.

It Is Increasing Steadily and Exceeds
That of Nearly Every Nation.
The monthly statement from the Treas
ury Department shows that there was in
circulation ON the first day of February,
81 500, 977, 6SS, being an increase of $751;
2o7 ,0S1 oyer the amount in circulation on
the same date last year.
Estimating the population at u, 2SS, 900,
this gives a per capita circulation OF
$23 .O5, being perhaps the largest of any of
the leading nations of the earth, except
France.
The circulation of gold coin on Monday
last was $645 1858. 492. One year ago
it was $499, 262 ,6S6, being gain of $146,-
293 .SO6 This great increase in our stock
of gold is primarily due to the great trade
balance which came up in our favor last
year.
1t does not require so great volume OF
money to do a given amount of business as
it did FIVE or ten years ago. This is one OF
the reasons why SO much cash is lying idle
in the banks now. A country merchant
can fill small store with $1,000 worth OF
dry goods. Five or ten years ago it would
have required $1,000 to do it, An ndi-
vidual can buy his clothing, furniture and
supplies for much less money than for
merly. So that, it will be seen. the bust
ness of the country can be done success
fully with relatively a smaller volume or
money than at any time, perhaps, in our
history.
This fact, taken in connection with the
other fact that we have larger per cap
tia circulation than we had a few years
ago. or at any time in the history of our
country, strips naked the plea that all the
ills of mankind are due to the scarcity OF
money in the country. There is plenty
of money. The people need more collat-
erals and better prices for their products.
The one is largely a matter of individual
effort; the other, of supply and demand.
How to regulate the latter is not only
the problem of the age, but it has been the
problem of all the ages.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
DYING, A HUNDRED A DAY.
The Veterans of the Late War Pas
ING RaDidIy aw,v

The Veterans of the Late War Pass
ing Rapidly Away.
The veteran Union soldiers are dying at
the rate of one hundred u day. That is
what statistics of the Grand Army and of
the pension Office show. Away back in
the days when the battles were being
fought the news that in any days engage
ment one hundred men had given up their
lives would have pierced the hearts of
waiting millions, would have deepened the
gloom that overhung the land. In many
battles thousands rather than hundreds
were the victims, but days and weeks.
even months. elapsed before the record
of the dead was heightened. 1t was not
every day in the fiercest, btterest. boodi-
est days of the war that hundred men
fell from the ranks. with their pulses still
ed forever. Those who did die then were
mourned, not alone by their own mothers
and sisters and sweethearts sitting in
their lonely homes, but by the sympathetic
heart of the nation. They ranked as he
roes, as martyrs, as men worthy of all
honor. They had given up homes and the
pursuits of peace for their country's sake;
they had lost their lives, and in losing
won everlasting fame. But of the two
millions of men enlisted vast number
escaped the bullets of the enemy, the
bursting shells, the starvation prison
camps and the scarcely less fatal hard
ships of field life. They cane home and
took up individual life again, but not
where they had laid it down-oh, no; the
threads had been broken that connected
these returned soldiers with their former
existence. They labored under certain
disadvantages at first on account of this
lack, but the soldierly qualities they had
gained as compensation carried them
through and they have made good citi-
zens IN peace, as was to be expected OF
men who were equal to their duty in great
emergency. They have served their coun-
try and their fellow-creatures well in
whatever capacity they have been tried,
but through all the years since the war
the soldier spirit in them has been dis
cernible. AS they pass on, one hundred
day, they may have assurance that those
years and their glories are to grow bright
er and brighter in the cOuntry's record;
that they mark an epoch whose impor-
lance is not yet to be measured. If the
veteran as an individual Graves little
share of this praise and esteem it is a. hui
man hunger. and should be gratified. For
the service that he and his comrades rem
dered was great. And they are dying, one
hundred ay.-Indianapolis Journal
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
DEMOCRACY AND POPULISM
They Cannot Co-operate-Remai aims but
One Course for the Democrats.

Thew Cannot Co-operate-Remain ms but
One Course for the Democrats.
There is no possibility of ANAL gamation
between Democrats and Populists, as the
principles for which they stand will no
more mix than oil and water. 1t requires
no particular powers of political prophecy
TO foresee that the result will be the same
as il was in the last national convention
of the Democracy-the Populistic forces
will control it and name the platform
and candidates. Making due allowance
for the many thousands who voted direct
" with the Republicans, the sound money
Democrats can have no reasonable doubt.
after their experience in the last cam
naign. that they are in hopeless minor
ity in their own party, and that the most
they can expect to do, either as individuals
or as an organization, is to defeat the aims
of their former party associates by sup
porting the Republican candidates ana
platform either directly or through a de-
GOV organization contributing to the same
result. To recapture and dominate the
Democratic organization or to win as a
separate organization they have cot a
ghost of show. The most effective and
consistent course, therefore, for them to
pursue is to take the advice recently given
to them by Senator Plat, to unite directly
with the Republican party.-Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette.
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in 1895 than in 1892, the number Of votes

in 1895 than in 1892, the number Of votes
cast being actually less in the recent cleo
ton than in any which had proceed
ed it.
The above statements are verified by the
following figures takeE from the official
records of the Government. They indi-
cate the population Of those States in 1870
and 1890 as shown by the United States
consuls, and also show the total vote in
each State in the presidential elections Of
1916 and 1896 as shown by official returns.
Table showing the population in 1870
and 1890, and also the vote in 1876 and
1896:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
Population Population

The above table, it will be seen, shows
large gain in the population in each of the
States in question from the census OF 1871
to the last census of 1890. 1t also shows,
however, that in every case except two
the vote of 1896 was much less than that
of 1876. The total population in these
States increased from about FIVE MILLIONS
in 1870 to nearly eight and a half millions
in 1890, yet the total vote fell from 9o9,-
600 in 1876 to 791 900 in 1896.
The detail of the vote by States with the
gain in population and loss in votes is
shown in the tables which follow.
Table showing by States the gain in
population in twenty years and gain or
loss in votes in the corresponding period:
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Oregon ........ 111,744 9e,s46
California ..... 462,2S9 $4,000
The student Of the above table should
Dear In mind constantly that it Is entirely
proper to add from ten to fifteen per cent
70 the hgures of the first column in order
10 OBTAIN approximately the number of
maze persons of voting age in the States
III question at the time of. the vote about
winch Mr.. Allen complains, Nov. 3, 1896.
Inc Vote of 1892 Was a Light One.
Ihere Is another way of looking at it,
ana way which Senator Allen seems to
nave entirely overlooked. He apparently
pases MS assumption as to the number of
votes TO which each State is entitled upon
the number of votes cast in 1892, since he
inciudes in his table the figures of that
election and compares those of 1896 with
tnem. Had he taken the trouble to ex-
anime the figures of the presidential cleo
tlons during the past twenty years he
would have found that the vote of 1892
was the lightest in proportion to the pop
ulation that has been cast in a presidential
election for many years, perhaps the light
est at any time since the close of the war.
certainly the percentage of gain in the
total vote in 1892 over the preceding pres-
DENTAL election is lighter than has been
the case in any presidential election since
1917. The following table gives the num-
Der OF votes cast in each presidential cleo
ton since 1868, the increase in the num-
Der of votes and the percentage of in
crease.
Table. showing the total vote cast in
each presidential election since 1868, the
gain in the number of votes in each cleo
ton and the percentage of gain in the
number of votes cast:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
ELECTION FIGURES.
The Story of the Presidential Canvass
of 1896 in a Nutshell.

The Story of the Presidential Canvass
of 1896 in a Nutshell.
The canvass of the electoral vote for
President and Vice-President in the two
houses of Congress presents some inter-
esting figures The popular and electoral
vote were as follows:
Mckinley. Bryan.
Popular vote 4, 1O5,9 $50 6,454,9
Electoral vote 271 176
Stetos '0'' % ~
The number of votes cast shows that
the majority of Mckinley over Bryan, and
plurality over all, indicates decisive vic
tory for the Republican party. Old party
lines were obliterated, and high principle
was indicated by men who believed in
the honor of the nation above mere party
adherence. The total result of the can
vass is exhibited in the following figures:
Total popular vote. IL, S75, 653
Mckinley over BRYAN. 5000. 651O16
Mckinley over all. ......... $500
National Democratic vOte..... 1880
Prohibition vote .......... 131 $40
Socialist Labor vote. ....... 36260
Free Silver people. ........ 1888
Popular vote 1892. .......... 1851, 3o1
Increase in four years. $500. 1,2S4,2O2
Electoral vote for Watson. II
Bryan received the total Populist vote
of 1892, in addition to which was the Re-
publican silver vote, as well as the vote of
those Democrats who voted first and
read the platform afterwards" This ac-
counts for the large number of votes cast
for him. From Missouri he received the
highest number of electoral votes seven
teen. The votes of nine States were CIV
en- him, the highest of which had only
four electors. The canvass indicates a
divergence in the votes of States contrast
ed by the moral lines of wealth and popu-
lation. For Mckinley the votes from the
prosperous, conservative and largely
wealthy and populated States were almost
unanimous Bryan's strength lay in those
States consisting mainly of territory and
not of people. The figures and facts show
that after all, while the plurality of Mr..
Mckinley was great, yet the comparisons
of territories make it still more signifi
cant.-St. Joseph Herald.
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ulent excess" Of votes, Increased her vote
!9.l per cent In 1896 over 1892, yet Mr..
Allen contemplates with entire calmness
the fact that Wyoming, State as ar
Gently for the free coinage of silver as
was Ohio against it, increased her vote
zo.o per cent in the same election. He
also complains bitterly of Minnesota,
which he says cast 1900 fraudulent
excess" of votes In the election of 1896,
out ne omits to call attention to the fact
tnat Minnesota's vote in 1896 was actual
y 90 per cent less than her own vote in
the presidential election of 1892 Her
vote In 1892 was 374 ,SO7, and that of 1896
54l ,539, falling off of $4,000 votes, but
as lOt, 900 of the votes of 1892 were cast
Dy the Union Labor party, which after
wards merged with the Populists, Mr..
Alien makes no complaint of the vote of
1857, which was gain of 42.1 per cent
over that of 1883, while the 1888 vote
was a gain of 1874 per cent over that of
1854 Illinois increased her vote in 1896
24.9 per cent over 1892, and Mr.. Allen
charges fraudulent excess" of votes
amounting to $4,000. Yet he offers no
complaint over the fact that Mississippi
increased her vote 31.9, or that Florida,
the birthplace of Populism, increased her
vote 300 per cent in 1896, as compared
with 1892, nor does he refer to the fact
that Illinois also gained 25.8 per cent in
1915. The highest percentage of gain OF
any State in which Mr.. Allen charges a
fraudulent excess" of votes is Kentucky,
where the gain was 81 Il per cent, as COM
pared with 1892, and the fraudulent ex-
cess" charged is 43,3O0 Mr.. Allen does
not, however, offer any objection what
ever to the fact that Idaho, which sup
ported the free coinage of silver as enthu-
siastlcally as the Kentuckians opposed 1t,
increased her vote in 1896 $50 per cent,
as compared with 1892 nor does he refer
to the fact that Kentucky herself gained
56l per cent in the year 1876 and ~
IN 1888, and also omits to mention that his
own State, Nebraska, gained 5O.7 per cent
In 1888. 1t may be interesting to see some
OF these figures side by side, as follows.
Table showing the percentage of gain
in 1896, compared with 1892, in votes
cast in presidential elections:
Republican States Democratic States
gain in 1896 over gain in 1896 over
1900 1000
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Totals 3.366 1862
Net loss 195,O03

Totals 1886, 1852 Net loss $4,000
Table showing by States the percentage
of gain in population in twenty years and
the percentage of gain or loss in votes IN
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
A Stage of Substantial Improvement
Entered Upon.

Ga opOhs
During the past week the marked i'm
nrovement in tone noted two weeks ago
hos more than been retained. There has
been an increase in the volume of trans
actions. and further moderate advance
in prices. with little disposition to realize
mon the higher range of values now es-
,tablished. The buying of bonds for in
vestment has been conspicuous feature.
The Gradual return toward ease in the Eu-
ronean money markets has induced more
active movement in securities across the
Atlantic In London this change has de-
yeloped a return of speculation in Amer
lean stocks. and during the week the pur-
chases in New York for that market have
been larger than for many months. indi-
eating some restoration of confidence in
onr investments Mr. Clews thinks the
recovery in the Investment market is at
tribufable almost entirely to the con-
seiousness that at last We have entered
upon a stage of great and substantial im-
proYement in financial conditions. Dav-
export Republican.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11

In Germany high grade butter has
been made from sterilized milk by the
addition of pure cultures of the proper
bacteria to produce coagulation.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11

The truly great are those who con-
Quer themselves.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-03-11

A cubic foot Of air at the pressure
used in firing the Fort Point dynamite
guns GOO pounds per square inch
weighs something over ten pounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-17
WATER DEPARTMENT.
COST OF MAINTAINING LAST
YEAR OVER $4,000.
The Improvements Maidstone I'm
portant Recommendations
teration Suggested For Parley's
Canyon Water.

Report of the operations of the
waterworks department opens with
the announcement that the cost of
maintenance for 1896, was S21, 51565 as
against S22,611.60 for the previous year.
Construction supervised by the de-
partment cost SO, 636.51, of which
amount S9,070,01 was devoted to new
mains and extensions, the improve
ments added to the system in the year,
amounting to $5,323.25. Material fur
nished and labor performed for the
various departments amounted to ST.
295.12; assessing of water rates and
transcribing same to the assessment
roll cost $309
Material improvement is defined by
the account of S,22715 feet of cast iron
pipe, making a total of 124 miles, and
4609 feet of mains, comprising the en-
tire system on Dec. 81, 1896. Material
in the value of S12, 1880 remains on
hand. AS the flow of water from the
three sources was sufficient to meet
all demands, the department was not
obliged to use the pumps in Emigration
canyon.
high line tanks, builded by eX-Super-
intendent Ryan have served their pur-
pose and are therefore unsafe and will
not last another season.
1t is recommended, in consequence,
that the contemplated reservoir be
completed or new tanks constructed
The recommendations of former su-
perintendents are reiterated, with re-
spect to the matter of running a tun-
mel of 1,500 feet in Emigration can
yon to connect with the stump, ena-
bling the city to abandon the pumping
station upon which conditions it is pre-
dicted that a saving of $1,000 to 81, 900
a year is dependent.
1t is advised that the tunnel tap
the bottom of the stump, which, be-
sides doing away with the expense,
would increase the water supply from
Emigration by 100000 gallons per day.
1t is thought that the numerous
springs in City Creek might be de-
veloped by tunneling, a large increase
being obtained in this wise. The north
bench system being short of valves,
the city is urged to place at that point
during the present year at least 20
valves of four inches each. The final !
piece of advice and one of the most |
important in the whole list is dis
missed quite summarily. 1t says: |
During the spring and early summer |
months the water from Parley's can |
yon is muddy and unfit for use. This |
can only be remedied by liberation, |
which would cost in the neighborhood |
of $4,000"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-17
ROBERTS in NEW YORK.
THE MORMON ORATOR To- ES-
TABLIsH A MISSION THERE.
Accompanied by George D. Pyper-
The Work Practically Abandoned
Some Years Ago to Be Taken Up
Again.

New York Times, Feb. II: The
Mormon church has set out to convert
persons in the east 1t will begin an
evangelistic movement in this city
Sunday. 1t has sent its best speaker,
Brigham H. Roberts, and one of its
best tenor singers, George D. Piper, to
follow the lines of Moody and Sankey.
Sunday evening at Hartman Hall Mr..
Roberts will pr. ach on The Relation
ship of Mormonism to Christianity.
and Mr. Piper will sing some charac-
teristic hymns.
Mr. Roberts has been sent out on an
evangelistic mission through the
United States that will probably last
for two years. He has been coming
slowly eastward, preaching in the large
cities, and has gone far into the south
for a time. Now he has put himself
under the direction of Elder Samuel
w. Richards, who is in charge of the
Mormon mission of the eastern states,
including New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and the New England
states and he will hold meetings
throughout this region.
The Mormon church has been eager
for many years to re-establish in the
eastern states the mission which -four
ished here about &c years ago. At that
time the church had a large branch in
Brooklyn, and from this branch it
controlled the evangelistic work in the
east, and also handled the many i'm
migrants who were coming from
Europe.
These immigrants used to arrive in
shiploads. They would be allowed to
rest for day or two, and then they
would be put on special immigrant
H. -
landing at Philadelphia, however, Of
fered better rates to the church, and
the immigration was diverted to that
city. The feeling among the eastern
people on polygamy was very strong
also, and the Mormon missionaries
were driven back until the southern
states mission was the only fiourishing
branch left.
The Mormon leaders now believe that
the abandonment of polygamy has re-
suited in a more kindly feeling toward
them in the east, and that they may
safely pursue here the work of
preaching the new gospel to every ma
ton, kindred, tongue and people,"
which they think they must do in order
to fulfill their mission of preparing the
way for the second coming of Christ.
Mr.. Roberts has long been known
as the leading pulpit orator of the Nor
mon church. He was sent by the
church to the worlds parliament of
religions, but was not admitted. He !
has given up practically his whole life
to the work. He was ambitious in his /
younger days to become a lawyer but /
the church authorities persuaded him /
to devote his ability to their cause. He /
is an orator of much natural power. !
William ]. Bryan and he once spoke |
on the same platform at a political |
and the audience found
much of resemblance in their style of
speaking.
Mr.. Roberts has a good presence and
musical voice. In his religious dis
courses he becomes impaSSioned and
)ften is interesting. He is one of the
irst seven presidents of the seventies
n the church, an office which makes
lim practically its chief evangelistic
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worker. He is also prepared to speak
with authority on his Sect's peculiar
doctrines, as he has been one of its
chief writer's on doctrinal points.
He made his chief reputation in the
west, however, in his short political ca
reer. He was a member of the Utah
constitutional convention two years
ago, and against the tremendous ma
jority in the convention, the platforms
of all parties, and the orders of the
Mormon leaders he opposed the grant
ing of the suffrage to women He made
three speeches which attracted much
attention in the west. In one of them,
while speaking of the disadvantages
that would come to women if the suf-
frage were given to them, he used this
figure:
Il have stood on the banks of the
Mississippi, a few miles above St.
Louis, on a bright summer day, and
watched the beautiful river as it
flowed, clear and pure, ripping and
glinting in the. sunlight A little way
below, the muddy, murky waters of
the Missouri pour into the river. The
two streams, the pure and the impure.
run side by side for a little while and
then they mingle in dark stream.
The muddy stream is not as muddy as
it was. grant you that. But the pure
stream, that had glittered in the sun
light, is never pure again"
Mr.. Roberts was once a congressional
nominee, leaving his church work to
take the place on the Democratic
ticket He ran in the first campaign
in Utah in 1895, and with Moses That
cher was criticised by the Mormon
leaders for daring to take a nomination
without first consulting them. This
criticism led to the reconvening of the
Democratic state convention, which de-
clared that no union of church and
state should be tolerated in Utah.
After making a campaign on this is
sue. in which he laid the foundation
for senatorial honors, he ended his po-
litical career last spring by signing the
political manifesto of the Mormon
church which practically reasserted
the right of the church to control Utah
politics. 1t is understood that his mis-
sion in the east is simply preliminary
to his elevation to the apostleship made
vacant by the removal of Moses That
cher, who refused to sign the mani
festo.
Mr.. Piper, the singer, has been con-
nected for long time with the Nor
mon tabernacle choir which took sec
ond prize in chorus singing at the
Worlds fair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-17
FREE SILVER CLUBS.
They Are to Be Formed in Several
Places in the Union.

Chicago, Feb. 16.-Charles y. Crew
son OF the University of Chicago has
received a letter from the Democratic
national committee. urging an early
reorganization of the silver club which
was part of the silver organization
among the Democrats during the
campaign. The adherents of the cause
at the university win meet tomorrow
for permanent organization on new
lines, so as to maintain the fight for
the 1900 campaign. Chairman Jones of
the national committee has made plans
for doing similar free silver work at
other universities. selecting the Uni
versity of California for the Pacific
coast, the University of Nebraska for
the middle west, and the University
of Chicago and University of Virginia
for the central and southern states.