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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05

preaching State campaign. Despite the
air of righteousness given to the commit
tees discovery that it was clearly with
out authority to write a party platform,
its failure to express last Wednesday even
the smallest opinion on public questions
bears all the earmarks of deliberate and
studied policy. Moreover, the plausible
excuses for lodging a reaftirmation Of the
Chicago platform so obligingly furnished
to Senator Murphy by Chairman Jones of
the Democratic National Committee fail
wholly to obscure the main fact that the
Democratic organization in the foremost
State Of the Union practically hauled
down the silver flag when, by a policy of
inaction and silence, it committed itself
to conducting State campaign on lines
which virtually ignore the declarations ac-
copied year ago as Democratic faith by
the national convention at Chicago.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
The Rogansville Affair.

It is said the attempted assassination
Of Isaiah II. Loftin, the colored postmas-
ter Of Hogansville, Ca, will be made the
basis of an immediate and vigorous pros
ecution of all who are connected with the
affair. This much is due to the enforce
ment of law, but in addition the admin
istration should take firm stand against
the movement to boycott colored office
holders in the South. 1t is not likely there
will be many such appointments, but
wherever they are made the incumbents
should have ample protection. The Gov
ernment should not allow itself to be CO.
creed or dictated to in the smallest matter
by any party, faction or class of men, and
II any community attempts to draw the
color line against a postmaster otherwise
qualified it should be made to understand
that the Constitution and laws of the
United States are supreme in every part
Of the national domain.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
An Object Lesson.

The financial situation in the Southern
Republic presents an object lesson which
should not be lost upon our friends, the
free silver lunatics. Advices from the
City Of Mexico, in the words of a recent
arrival from that unhappy place, paint "a
gloomy picture of the future" A young
Californian who has resided there for
three or four years, and who has held
conspicuous position in a large business
concern, states that the decline in the
price Of silver has practically driven him
out Of business. He says that everything
has gone up threefold-except wages. Ow-
ing to the tremendous discount on that
metal working people are now scarcely
able to earn sufficient to procure the nee
essaries of life.
All branches of business are paralyzed
and Americans are leaving the country in
droves. Merchants who have outstanding
accounts and who are compelled to collect
them in silver are being put to tremen-
dous loss. When this young man left
Mexico it took $3.50 to buy 81 in ex-
change, a condition which has practically
destroyed the importing business, and
which is gradually gripping the Govern
ment; for as imports decline the revenues
Of the republic are obliterated.
The evolution of a free silver basis IN
Mexico substantiates everything alleged
by the opponents of Mr.. Bryan in the last.
presidential campaign in this country. 1t
was then said that wages were the last to
go up, and that currency imitation Of every
kind was injurious to the masses. This
is always the fact. Capital takes care Of
itself, but labor is always the victim Of
prevailing circumstances. Yet it is a
strange coincidence that of the several
millions of people who voted for William
]. Bryan, probably rs per cent were men
who, had his financial theories been put
into effect, would have suffered the most.
In Mexico the masses are not RESPONSE
BILE for the financial crisis. The Gov
eminent maintains it's silver basis with
out consulting them. But in the United
States, had the free coinage of silver been
adopted, the people themselves would
have wrought their own ruin. No reason
ing man can contemplate the possible re-
suits of the presidential campaign of 1896
without a SILVER. Bryan was defeated,
after all, by a narrow plurality. Had he
succeeded and had his demagogy and
crude theories been put into the form of
laws, fifty years Of good government and
prosperity would not have wiped out the
damage he would have inflicted upon the
nation.
If there are any free silver lunatics in
this country who still believe that it is
safe to adopt free coinage Of silver with
out the consent of any other nation, they
should be sent to Mexico and compelled
there to study the frightful results of a
deprecated currency upon the welfare of
the common people.-San Francisco Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
The Shipping Question.

Shipping is the one industry that Eng
land protects; shipping is the one indus
try that the United States does not pro-
tect. Last year the total tonnage Of new
vessels launched by Great Britain was
over a million tons; the total tonnage of
new vessels launched by the United States
was less than one-ffth Of that of Great
Britain. No wonder England is mistress
of the seas. 1t certainly is high time for
us to take lesson from England and to
protect our merchant marine, and so dis
pute with England her control Of the
carrying trade of the world, as we are
already beginning to dispute her suprem-
acy in the markets of the world in the
sale of manufactured products.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Pettigrew and Mantle.

Nobody has called attention to any great
anxiety on the part of the public to know
the result of the interview of Senators
Pettigrew and Mantle with the Mikado of
Japan on the true cause Of the demoneti-
cation of silver. The fact is, everybody
except Pettigrew and Mantle understood
all about it before they left, or if they did
not they could easily have learned it by an
examination of the official report of the
director of our mint, which shows that the
japanese silver yen, which in 1887 was
worth 1913 cents, had, by July, 1897,
dropped to AIS, while the gold yen had
not changed a particle, the prices of 1888
and 1897 being precisely the same, 99.7.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Supplement
SHELTON JOURNAL.
THE MODERN FARMER.
His Lot IL Improving Faster than
That of Other Men.

His Lot Ii Improving Faster than
That of Other Men.
The old-time farmers boy was not seri
ously to blame for striking out for the
city. His pathway of life was not strewn
with roses, nor were his days a succession
Of joyous picnics. He was compelled to
rise early in the morning, long before the
lark had ceased from slunber, and bring
the cows from the dewy pasture. He was
expected, before he had a chance to sat
isfy his morning hunger, to pail six
cows; be kicked over at least once; feed
and groom four horses, and carry food
and drink to at least twenty-five head of
open-faced swine.
In the summer he was expected to hold
the handles of bull tongue pillow and
tramp adOwn the rows of corn until long
after the chickens had gone to their night
ly rest. In the fall, when the old horse
power threshing machine came around, he
stood at the tail end and forked away the
straw, while ragweed dust filed his lungs
and clogged the pores of his skin. In the
winter he was sent out to pick stones from
the rocky field, and as he picked, fresh
stones sprang up like dragons teeth to
take the place of those he had gathered.
for rest. 1t isn't any wonder he got tired
Of the business and struck out for the city.
Now it different. The farmer no longer
comes to town in his road wagon, sitting
on a two-inch plank laid across the top Of
the wagon, but he rides in his surrey, his
horses arrayed in silver-mounted harness.
He sits in carriage seat to plow his
ground, and after his days work is done
fol IL al TO h
Toned horse-killing and Misunderstanding
threshing machine has given way to
modern invention run by steam, automat-
ically fed, which stacks it's own straw,
and measures, weighs and loads the grain,
while the farmer, seated in the comforta
BILE shade, may watch the operation. His
hay is stacked by machinery, and baled
by machinery. His water is pumped by
machinery. His stock will soon be fed
by machinery. He is beginning to put in
telephones and order his groceries over the
WIRE
The time is near at hand when, instead
of being the slave of toll, the farmer will
be the man Of leisure as we'll as the man
of capital.
When that time comes it will be found
that the ambition of young men will lie
in the direction of becoming landed coun-
try gentlemen instead Of hard-driven,
overworked and smothered-for-a air resi-
dents Of the cities.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Iowa Democracy and Gov. Boies.

The Democratic party in Iowa is not
content to lose the alliance of the other
anti-Republicans of the. State, but by its
latest move it has ostracized the Boies
element. The venerable Uncle Horace"
saw fit to advocate the adoption of the
commercial ratio between gold and silver,
and base free coinage thereon, instead OF
16 to 1. He insisted upon it. There
upon the leaders ordered him to the rear.
He is no longer allowed to go to and fro
I'D and down the State preaching the Cos
pei of free coinage at SO to 1.-Chlcago
Inter Ocean.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05

German law was in force and cotton ties
were on the free list, but the price was
S1.35 per bundle at wholesale. This year
we have the Dingley bill and protective
tariff on cotton ties and they are offered
at 10 cents bundle at wholesale. These
facts do not seem to work in with the
Cleveland parrot cry that ''the tariff is
tax" These facts, too, are Of themselves
sufficient refutation of the other free
trade falsehood scattered so broadly and
SO constantly, that protective tariff fos-
tiers trusts. Last year, under free trade,
there was cotton tie trust; this year, I'M
der protective tariff, the trust is broken.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
"PROVIDED" AND "IF."
Stand in the Way of that Size and
Bank of England Story.

Bank of England Story.
What the Bank of. England proposes to
do about silver was formally and authori-
tatively stated yesterday at the semi-an-
nual meeting Of the bank by the Governor,
who read letter he had written to the
Chancellor Of the Exchequer, stating, in
substance, that the bank was prepared to
do what it was permitted to do by the
bank act of 1914, that is, to carry one
fifth of the reserve against its notes in
silver, provided, however, that the French
mint is again opened to the free coinage
Of silver "and that the price at which sill
yer is procurable and salable is satisfac-
tory" The Governor went on to say that
the bank had bought no silver, and all that
it had agreed to was to do what is per-
Missile under the act Of 1914, on the con-
ditions he stated. This is some slight en-
couragement to bimetallists, but not
enough to excite charlottesville Com
mercial
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Get Good Money for Wheat

The farmers are now getting just two
and half times as much for wheat as Mr..
Bryan and his followers promised them if
they adopted free coinage. They prom
ised 81 per busbel for wheat in silver dol
lars, and admitted that they didn't know
what the silver coins would be worth.
They are now worth 40 cents under free
coinage. while the farmers are getting two
and half times that in good American
100-cent dollars.-Exchange.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
m.t;ng Onr Own Tin Plate.

The free trade theorists are not hunting
up Just now their assertions made when
the Mckinley law was enacted, that no
amount of protection would enable the
United States to make its own tin plate.
Not only is the bulk of our tin plate now
being manufactured at home as result
Of that protection thus given, but our
of that article are actually
;nvadiuo foreign markets.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Why They're Paying Mortgages.

1t seems now that it is the poor farmers
who are being ''intimidated." Last fall
the Popocrats assumed that the working
men were protesting friendship for the
Republicans because they feared dismissal
If they did not, but the election showed
that there was no foundation for this as
sertion. Now Mr.. Bryan says it is last
years threat of foreclosure that is lead
ing the farmers to pay off their mortgages.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Not a safe Money Metal.

A fall Of 20 per cent in value in a money
metal in ten months would seem to war
rant the belief that it is not very safe as
a money metal. Yet that is just the fall
in the value of silver since last November.
1t was worth 651a cents per ounce in New
York ON Nov. 3, 1896. and is worth only
81 cents to-day.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Protection in the south.

The growth of protective sentiment in
the South, shown by the election of Sen
ator McLaurin in South Carolina, is no
surprise to those who have studied the
situation in that section. The New York
SIM. whose editors scan the political hori-
zon pretty closely, in a recent article
points out the growth of Republicanism
In that section, and says it is to be an i'm
oortant field for the party in future.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Had to Have an Issue

People who are surprised that the three
Republican conventions in Nebraska
decided to again advocate free. silver
should remember that they had to hare
something for an issue. OF course the
Democratic tariff theory was too unpopu-
lar to trot out again, as also the other di-
lapidated fads Of the Democracy.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Threats Not Carried Ont

1t is not observed that the countries
which were making that terrific protest
against our new tariff three months ago
are putting any of their implied threats
into execution. They know now what
they knew then, that the balance of trade
was in their favor, and that they could
not afford to carry out any of their
threats.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Wheat to Bring Golden Dollars

While our wheat production is very
large this year, our home consumption is
increasing with returning prosperity and
we will have to hold the major part of it
for our own people. 1t is estimated that
we will have in the neighborhood of 300
OOO,OOO bushels for export which means
not far from 200000,000 golden dollars to
be distributed among the farmers.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
The Price of Cotton Ties.

A dispatch from Charlotte, N. c., states
that an Illinois manufacturing company
offers to furnish the regular flat cotton tie
ut 20 cents per bundle at wholesale in
carload lots, or at IS cents at retail, and
that several carloads have already been
ordered for that immediate section. The
dispatch goes on to say that last year the
price was $3.50 per bundle at retail and
e1.35 at wholesale. Then the Wilson
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Absurdity Is Made Clear

The recent statements of Statistician
Mulhall, in which he shows that the prai-
RE States are the most prosperous spot
upon the face of the earth, make clear the
absurdity Of the effort which was made
by the silver orators last year to induce
the people of that section to adopt cheap
money as basis of further prosperity.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Sick of His own Medicine.

The Ohio-man-afraid-of platform is
now presenting a curious spectacle. Two
months ago he crammed free silver, and
free silver only, down the throat of the
Democratic party, and now he is as sick
of the dose as were the other people. But
he can't get rid of it now. He has made
his bed, he must lie in it.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05

More than local significance attaches to
the refusal of the Democratic State Com
mlttee of New York to revive the free
silver coinage issue for use in the APP
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-05
Failures Have Decreased.

BUSINESS failures in the United States:
Second week September, 1897. 1859
Second week September, 1896. .315
Second week September, 1895. -. .21S
Second week September, 1894. .21S
Second week September, 1893. .346
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NOW BEFORE THE HOUSE.
Shocking Tragedy Revealed
at Sackett's Harbor.
Spanish Troops Being With
drawn From Cuba.

Springfield, April 16.-The senate
passed Humphreys bill extending
the franchises to street railroad 3
for 30 years and providing for the
payment Of Q percentage OF the re-
ceipts to municipalities by q vote of
20 to 16. Humphrey other bill was
then passed by the same vote. A
motioa to consider the bills was
tabled.
In the house the speaker announced
the following special committee to
investigate state institutions: An.
derson, Allen Of Vermillion. Sher-
man. Cochran, Booth, Comton, Bar
ricklow Blood. A message was re-
ceived from tho senate announcin q
the passage Of the Humphrey street
railway bills. They were ordered
read and printed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-16
FUNERAL OF SENATOR VOORHEES,
Many Distinguished Men from All Parts
of Indiana Present.

Terre Haute. Ind. April 16.-In the
presence OF concourse of people. which
included Governor Mount, Ex-Governor
Matthews. and many of the most dis
tinguished men of the state, as we'll as
large percentage of the population of
this city, the remains of Daniel ".
voorhees, were committed to the grave
yesterday afternoon. Among the hon.
orary pall-bearers were the venerable
Richard w. Thompson, always a vigor-
Gus opponent of Voorhees, on the politi-
cal forum, and Riley w. McKeen. Near
ly every one present was a sincere
mourner, and at few funerals has the
element attracted by curiosity been SO
small.
The interment was under the man
agement of the Masonic order, and was
preceded by a funeral service at st.
Stephens Episcopal church, in which
Mr.. voorhees, was confirmed long after
he had reached years Of maturity, and in
fact but comparatively few years ago.
The funeral cortege consisted of q
platoon of police, the Ringold band, Co.
b.. /. V. l., the Bar association, the
Indianapolis delegation, the jackson
club, the Fort Harrison club. the Terre
Haute club. the Masonic orders, the G,
A. r.. and carriages Of private citizens.
and was one of the largest ever seen
in this city. During the funeral busi-
ness in the heart of the town was sus-
pended, the public schools We're dis
missed. and all Terre Haute Joined in
doing honor to the memory Of her dis
tinguished SON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-16
Terks end Grssss Hattie.

Lariss.. April 16.-[Copyrighted ]
A column Of Greek "irregulars" at
tackled Kirduzi. which commands
the right approach to Grevena. the
Turkish center. 1t was defended by
two companies of Turks. After q
severe fight in which 80 Turks were
killed, the position was captured.
On the other hand. o strong Turkish
force. after severe fighting. drove
400 '.irregu!ars" from the entrenched
position at Krania. Part OF the
'frregulars" took to the mountains
and part escaped into the Greek ter
ritory. The refugees claim 265
Turks were killed. It is reported
Etknike Hetairis, ordered the Greek
''irregulars" to return into the
Greek territory. considering further
bloodshed useless unless the regular
Greek army supports the "irregu-
lars"