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The Republican journal., 1897-08-26
Elaine Board of Agriculture.

The State Board of Agriculture will hold
its usual meeting at the State Fair Grounds,
Lewiston, on Wednesday evening, Sept. 1st.
DR.. b. H Goodell of Amherst, Mass, Presi.
dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege, has been secured as speaker for the even
ing. and will deliver lecture on THE
Channel Islands, This lecture will be of a
popular nature and will be of much inter
est, not only to those engaged in agricutur-
al pursuits but to all classes. Miss Lizzie
M. Brown, the well known soprano of the
Sicilian Ladies' Quartette of Portland will
sing at the opening and closing of the meet
ing. All who visit the fair should avail
themselves of the opportunity of attending
this meeting.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The ONO and Iowa Democrats who
made the silver question the sole issue of
their State campaigns this year are very
blue now. The bottom has fallen out of
the silver argument by reason of the
further drop in the price of silver and the
further increase in the prices of farm pro-
ducts and general prosperity, and now
they are left with nothing to support their
doctrines OF their platform. 1t is sad,
but the people who took the bit in their
teeth and adopted the platform of calamity
in opposition to the views of the wisest
men of their party must bear the respon-
sibility Of defeat.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

People who were favorably impressed
with the wheat and silver theory last
year are now wondering how they could
have been so easily fooled.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The horrible plot of the sound money
men to ruin the country by putting up the
prices of farm products still goes on.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

Orator Bryan is not so busy these days
as lie was at this time last year. The
New y ok Democrats bought his silence
and absence with lick and promise :"
She Ohio Democrats have given him
notice that his presence will harm their
cause in that State; the Maryland Demo-
Gratis have no place for him in view of
their straddling platform, and his own
managers have warned him that he is en-
dangering their cause by keeping up his
talk upon a subject which everybody
knows is becoming every day more I'M
popular.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The people are utilizing the first fruits
of Mckinley prosperity in paying off
Cleveland mortgages. Wise people.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

It's vain fol the advocates of free silver
coinage a, the latio OF Ii to ! 10 deny that
tLtiI policy would include the silver stand
and. ard viii they explain how it is that
the silver standard OF money the world
over, from India to Mexico, and China to
Spain, Inclusive, means the degradation
and abject poverty of woIkingmen?
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The Cleveland Plaindealer, daily
Democratic newspaper of Senator Hanna S
home, reluctantly admits that there is
some evidence of returning prosperity"
lt'is moved to this admission by the fact
that single rolling mill in that place
which has been silent fol years has started
up with ,, 500 men at work
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The whole world seems to be in league
With the souud-inoney men to capture the
falnels Of tue I'nited States, Not only
are wheat and othel farm products still adj
vancing in rliees, hut tile foreign demand
fol Gun com this year is lar beyond any
thin- even before known.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

No need to scratch your life away. Doan's
Ointment brings instant relief in all cases
of Itching Piles, Pin Worms, Eczema, Ring
worms, Hives or other itcliness Of the skin.
Get it from your dealer.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

An inferior quality of money always
cheats the Garner of wages. Capital
knows all the ways and means OF guarding
against contingencies, and labor has not
the chance to do 50. The fact that the
sil1ei standard of money is everywhere
associated with impoverished. servile
iaboi, tells the story
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26
Editorial Notes.

The smiling fields are giving the ca
lamity shriekers the Ha, Ha,
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

repeatedly reelected, his last term not
expiring until 1899. He was quite wealthy,
having amassed comfortable fortune,
and leaves four sons and four daughters.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

Many persons seem to be of the opinion
chat premium OF 49, in the City OF Mex
leo on gold signifies that l35 cents in silver
are equal to 100 cents in gold. The mean
ing is that two dollars and thirty i've cents
in silver equal gold dollar. This is what
the silver standard does for Mexico. We
hear Of the sudden rise OF goods in Mex
leo, but not of a rise of wages. Viii the
workinsmen of Ohio and Iowa give par
ticular attention to that point? 1t con
Germs them.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The men who are ''silverites' in theory
are all 'goldites' in practice Not only
do John Mclean, Senator Stewart, sena-
tor Jones, John P. Altgeld, and ''N-ice-
President sewall compel their creditors
to pay il gold, but now the Tammanvites
who are trying to stand upon dilapidat-
ed silver platform have issued lot of new
bonds Of their society payable in gold
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The most encouraging feature of the
reports showing the return OF business
activity is that they come from small as
we'll as large places. When every com
munity finds itself busily employed the
professional agitator finds his occupation
gone and the country prosperous.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

1t is a great thing for this country, now
that there is an existing gold standard of
value, that while we have an abundance of
silver, 1921, 900, 000 in the Treasury, we
have SO limited it that We have the use of
both money metals without fear of the de-
probation of either.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26

The manufacturers and the farmers are
now engaged in race to see who shall
show the greatest evidence of prosperity
Come to think of it, that was just what
the Republicans claimed last year-that
prosperity in manufacturing and prosper
ity in farming went hand in hand.
The Republican journal., 1897-08-26
Belfast Savings Bank.

Notice is hereby given that this Bank has placed
BURGLAR ALARM GONG on its banking block,
which will be tested and rung on every week day
at 8.45 A. NJ. The alarm sounded at any other
time indicates that assistance is wanted at the
bank. JOHN H. QUIMBY, Treas.
Belfast. May 20, 1997.-3m21.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
The Only Genuine Rainmaker.

From the Kansas City Times.
Tom Reed has spoken. His ponder
GUS chest is still heaving with the
exertion of putting the seal of his in
dorsement upon the story of returned
prosperity. Starting with the some
what confident statement that sscivill-
zation is education and hesitating
not even at asserting that ''capital is
essential to production, the Car
strides like a Centaur through the
obstacles that daunt lesser minds.
With a scornful toss of his bald head
he motions the silver issue aside. No
argument is wasted here. 1t seems
enough to Tom Reed TO point out that
the east had once favored an increase
of the currency, even through issues of
greenbacks. Now, he says, the east
knows better. Possibly, though the
Gar does not say so, the explanation
lies in the fact that the east has since
got possession of the money and wants
a contraction of the currency IN order
to make it's capital more valuable.
With such things, howeve., Tom
Reed does not concern himself. He
declares boldly that prosperity return
ed and stocks rose in the exchanges in
1879. What was done once can be
done again. No second thought,
though, prosperity may already have
slipped in while our heads were turned
away.
What, after all is prosperity, says
the Gear, but the nation at work? And
what puts the nation at work but hope F.?
True, the good crops were sent by
nature, but they have revived hope in
the hearts of men, which in turn has
brought or will bring prosperity to the
country.
This, it will be observed, is reversing
the usual procedure; it is east by way
of the west. What then becomes OF
the McHanna contention that pros
perity is coming to the west through
the subsldization of the eastern man
ufacturersP
The Gar will not be sure that pros
perity has returned or will stay. He
has nothing TO say about public ques-
tions, and only sneer or two for the
consumer" and "cheap, ergo nasty
goods. All he is certain of is that if
prosperity is here, it is due TO nature
and will be followed by another panic
some time in the future.
Briefly, then, the Czar does not
know anything about this alleged pros
peri.y restoring of which Mark and
Mack are boasting. AS for political
questions, he evidently thinks they had
best be left entirel2 with him; the less
said about them the better. Let the
people go TO work hopefuly-whereve
they can get jobs-and see if Tom
Reed and nature can not get to some
understanding for the future.
=, AS for The McHanna firm, any body
eau see they are political quacks. They
have no influence with the elements.
That is vouchsafed only TO Tommy
; Reed, alias the American house of
representatives.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
RRADY GETS THE PLACE.
Successful i'm His Fight for Election
Commissioner of st. Louis

Jefferson City, Mo, Sept. 13.-Gov-
ernor Stephens this afternoon an
nounced the appointment of Hugh j.
Brady as membe of the ST. Louis
Board of Election Commissioners for a
term of two years, from September 3,
1897. In referring 10 the appointment
Governor Stephens said:
IL have appointed Hugh J. Brady
election commissioner of ST.
st. Louis for term of two years, from
8, 1897, because he Is a
lighting, working, iree-silver democrat,
familiar with st. Louis pol
itics, and because, from an examination
of the papers filed in my Office, he
appears to be the choice of the demo-
Gratis of st. Louis for this position. No
other aspirant for position at my
hands ever had better endorsement
than he from the very best people of
the state. Besides this, l have a way
of standing by my friends, and was
never known to desert one when under
fire and persecution
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
HERE ARE MAxlMs FOR CLERKS.
Follow Them and You May be Gut Of
q Job in Less Than Thirty DAYS.

Never DO today what you can shove
off on fellow clerk tomorrow.
Keep at the back of the store as
much as possible, $50 that the other
boys will have to wait OH customers.
!. Always keep a novel under the coun-
ter to catch up when the old man is
out
Keep your eye out for soft snap.
Don't do any more work thar you
are paid to do.
Be the last one to come in the morn
ing and the first one to leave at night.
Don't do a thing outside of your
prescribed duties.
Find fault with your place and
salary.
Be as snappy with customers as you
dare.
Threaten to leave when fault is found
with you.
Believe that the world owes you
living, and act on that belief.
II the above rules are strictly fol-
lowed you will be out looking for job
in about thirty days from date.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
0n the Yerge of Famine.

London, Sept. 1S.-John +. Red
mond, the Parnellte leader and MEM
Der of Parliament tor Waterford, in an
interview opon the prospects of famine
in Ireland, is quoted as saying: "'Tbe
failure of the crops, especially the
potato crop, means that large section
of the people of Ireland will soon be
on the verge of starvation. 1t is already
reported that the Inhabitants of many
places in Connaught are eating bread,
which in ordinary times is regarded as
a luxury and is not used except when
potatoes are understandable.
agricultural experts have informa-
ton to the effect that the present harv-
est is the worse since 1879, which was
the most distressing recorded during
the present generation and the suffer
ings of the poor during the eight
months threatened To almost equal the
horror of the famine of 1916. All the
boards of guardians are providing for
large increase OF poverty, necesSita-
ting doubling the rate IN some districts.
But immediate steps must be taken by
the government if the people are to be
saved.'
1t Is reported that the Duchess of
York will shortly Issne an appeal in
behalf of the Irish who are threatened
with famine similar to the appeal
which the Princess of Wales made in
behalf of the London poor at the time
OF the preparations for the queen s
Jubilee celebration.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
of the class who receive rents, inter.
ests and dividends.

of the class who receive rents, inter.
ests and dividends.
OF course there are men who belong
to both classes who receive rents and
pay interest or the reverse, and me II
will occasionally transfer their interests
from one side TO the other, so that
losses and gains have been somewhat
subdivIded, as the Chicago Board of
Trade gamblers subdiyido INTO frac-
tions the loss on wheat in fall of 20
cents per bushel, but credit and IA
e)me, as opposed tu debt, the two
great subdivisions into which capital
has grouped the population of all civil
lied nations, have on the one side
gained and on the other side lost that
much and more of the iniquitous booty
so far captured by the great modern
device OF monometallism. The process
is still on, be IL remarked, and until
the reaction comes this iniqnitous
transfer of the vast unearned incre-
ment of wealth from its owners to
others will be paid in increased
amounts by production to investment.
The general process is the exact op-
posite as to results, but the exact equiv
alent in morality and principle of an
arbitrary universal scaling down of all
debts-the precise moral equivalent of
the reputation by law of % per cent
of all Indebtedness.
The moral quality of and legislation
requiring all contracts for the delivery
of merchandise to be measured with
standards OF % per cent greater capac-
ity than the contracts contemplated,
would be precisely the same principle
as the counter legislation which sub
mits such measurements TO a standard
20 per cent less than the contracts con-
templated. To add twelve inches to
the yardstick, or quart TO the gallon
pot, or four ounces to the pound
weight is one of the same moral inn
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18

port, and the steal would be the same
in amount as if the standard were de-
based 25 per cent 1t is no worse TO
rob the creditor class than the debtor,
and it is no worse in point of results or
motive to repudiate debt on univer-
sal scale than to increase it arbitrarily
by increasing the purchasing capacity
of gold
These comparisons are instituted for
the purpose of exposing the moral
quality Of policy which increases the
burden of debt and the earnings of in
vested capital without consent, with
out any consideration passing, without
a transfer of equivalents. We under
take to do this by proving that this is
exactly the same moral essence as debt
reputation. The latter, so to speak.
wrongfnlly benefits 100 az the expense
of one, and the former wrongfully BEN
efits one at the expense of 100; but
they are both the same in result and
principle; they are both immoral;
they are both contrary to public policy,
and fatal in private rights; they are
both dishonorable and subversiye of
justice and equity. Neither would be
recognized in a better age among hon
est men, and they are both sinister
devices with which modern conyen-
tlonalism cloaks under the soft euphe-
mism the ancient class of wrong which
once used to be called robbery.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
One Thing and AnOther.


With some men home is simply a
place to stay away frem at night.
oman's inhumanity to woman
makes countless thousands mad as wet
hens.
An expert on the subject discovers
more dignity in cob pipe than in a
cigarette.
An Alabama man who made the
mistake of thinking he could sing was
fatally shot from ambush.
A Prof Ravenstein thinks the world
will be fully populated IN ls0 years.
Buy real estate and hold it.
A gallant Kansas editor takes the
bold position that there is not an ugly
l6-year-old girl anywhere in this world.
Besides other peIils 10 be encoun-
.ered by men who go to the Klondlks,
women are fiocking thither to marry
millionaires.
At a reunion of the SmiIh family in
Blair, Pa, only 4,04O were present.
The other million were probably busy
harvesting and selling their crops.
With 400 marriages a day in Texas,
the idea is eight hundred souls with
but four hundred thoughts; eight
hundred hearts that beat rs four hun
dred.
A Massachusetts preacher claims 20
have the most aristocratic congrega-
ton in America. Still, as Sam Jones
would say, where these religious aris-
tocrats come from Is not near so i'm
pnrtaht question as where they are
likely to go.
A rural school teacher assigned
one of her scholars composition on
''The American Patriot" After a
weeks steady work he handed in the
following: "The American patriot
is IN office, when he amt stump
speechln'; an when he amt in office
he's in Washin ton waitin' fer 1t. lie
is as wise as a serpent, an jist about
as popular"
Among recent curious happenings in
Georgia are the following: George
Washington has been fined for perjury ;
Abraham Lincoln has been arrested for
murderous assault; Stonewall jackson
is IN Jail for slashing his wife with a
razor; Jefferson Davis is suing for q
divorce, and Napoleon Bonaparte, 80
years old, and black as crow, Is in
jail for hog stealing.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
Here and There Over the State.

State Senator Ballard is the latest
victim of Klondicitis. He says he is
going.
Glass is now blown by, machinery,
snd in time political speeches may be
made the same way.
Of coarse there is KIonkike mining
district in Southwest Missouri. A lead
and zinc KIondike. il you pleace.
1t took seven Nevada policemen to
arrest one drunken man last week.
The excuse given Is that plain drunk
in that city is so exceedingly rare.
The Missouri Baptist general asso-
clation will meet in Mexico next year.
II has been nineteen years since the
association was held ia that town.
Five counties in the state of Mis-
souri, are not blessed with railroads.
They are Cedar, Hickory, Dallas,
fancy and Ozark, and all in the SOUTH
ern part of the state.
A New Haven man has been fined So
for embracing an unwilling maiden.
That sort of man would rather pay
three times IS than embrace the dam
sci If she were willing.
st. Joseph Herald: The Jasper
county farmer who raised 5000 can
taloupes on one and quarter acres of
ground this year, has a Klondike of
his OWE until he parts with his Mis-
souri, farm.
The st. Joseph paper which meant
to say that certain social function
held in that city was a swell affair, but
which came out with the startling news
that II was a ssmell affair."" has lost
several subscribers within the last few
days.
The Saline county farmer who sent
So TO find out how to make his hens
lay eggs worth dollar apiece and
received printed circular telling him
to feed the chickens gold dollars will
doubtless put the next ''iver" he gets
in the bank.
The report recently sent out from
Columbia that the valuation of Mis-
souri's fruit crop this year will be 20
million dollars, shows conclusively that
the Imperial state is peach as well as
a plum and the apple of the Unions
eye, to say nothing of the grapeshot in
the midst of her enemies camps.
Springfield Leader Democrat: The
public highways are again crowded
with covered wagons. The mover is
on the road, and clouds of dust mark
the toilsome passage of his tired team.
Some of these travellers are genuine
home feekers, but many of them belong
20 the shiitless, aimless class of people
who migrate every year or two from
force OF hereditary habit. Their fathers
before them found the mOnotony of life
IN any one place too dull for restless
spirit, and after the end of the s'crop
season. they were wont to load a
wagon, spread sheet over it and go
out into the big world Tor change of
scenery. There are families who move
back and forth from year TO year,
finding the satisfaction OF gypsies in
this migratory life.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
THE ARENIc GIANTS UNITED
In the Consolidation of the Great Adam
FOrepaugh and Sells Bros
Famous Shows.

Last season proved the reports of
the conjunction of those greater lumin-
aries of the circas business, J. A..
Bailey and the Sells Brothers, which
were at first laughed down the wind as
Dame Rumor's most preposlerous fake,
to be true.
The old-tImed, slow paced managers
were dumbfounded and demoralized by
a consolidation of such vast proper
tions, rich possibilities and resources,
and we'll they might be. To this stupen-
dous federation of wild beasts, arenic
features. spectacular displays, horses,
tents, cars and what not, NJ. Bailey
contribted the original and famous
Adam Forepaugh menagerie and circus,
which he purchased when sold as pro-
vided for in its founders and so.e pro-
prietor's will. The Sells Brothers, ON
their part, added their entire arenic
resources, as represented in their enor-
nous united railroad shows, which
have achieved popularity and success
in both the widest domestic and for
eign fields. Everywhere the result
was conceded to be an overwhelming
and unparalleled aggregation, backed
6y ample capital and directed by the
most capable, sagacious and enter
prIsing proprietors and managers in
the business. The giants, instead of
distractIng and wasting their energies
in Improbable opposition, strike
hands to give the public double what
either has heretofore offered, and yet
at the same price of admission ar here
tofore charged by each-a wise and
generous policy, inuring greatly to the
advantage and pleasure of every
patron, which means pretty much
everybody. These great united shows
are to appear for the first time in
Lexington, Mo-, on Saturday, October
2, 1897.
Among their many novelties, one
which is creating unbounded amaze
ment and bewildered speculation is the
Enchanted Bicyle of the Air, which is
ridden and propelled upside down
upon a reversed track in space by per-
formers also upside down, with moth
ing apparent to sustain them and their
bike. The several feats thus accom-
plished are said to be little short Of
miraculous.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-18
GUTHRIE'S SITE IN DOUBT.
Prominent Citizens of oklahoma Wire
Pulling at Washington.

Washington, ID. c., Sept. 10
Judge Warwick IIough, of St. Lous,
called at the Interior department again
today to urge Indian Commissioner
Jones to examine mt once the roll of
the Usage Indians, made by special
commission in which Judge lIough is
interested fhe Osages agreed, when
the commission was named by the Sec
retary of the Interior at their request,
to pay all expenses. As the special
commissioners who made the roll can
not be paid until Indian Commissioner
Jones approves the work, he is being
urged to speedy action.
Judge Bayard T. Hainer and NJ.
Golden, of Oklahoma, have not yet
completed their labors in the case in
volving title to part of the site of Gulh-
rie. Judge Hainer is not letting his
duties as an attorney in the case handi-
cap him in his candidacy for associate
justice of the supreme court of Okla
homa. He was at the department of
justice today to confer with Attorney
General McKenna. Tomorrow he will
see the president and tell HIM all about
it.
Judge Hainer denies vigorously that
he was in any way connected with the
alleged Barnes-Orput-DeFord deal, by
which Orput was to have the marshal
ship, Hainer the appointment of asso-
eiate Justice, and DeFord clerk of the
court.
These combination charges were
brought some time ago by ex-Delegate
Dennis Flynn, who was backed up by
DeFord. The attorney general prompt
ly held up Hainer's commission, and
said at the time that the matter would