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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
ARBEITER PICNIC
LANSING, SEPT. IL.

LA NSING, SEPI. II.
The ID. G.. II. g.. w. X. II. will run a
special train excursion, leaving Bel
ding at $40 a. IN. Returning leaving
Lansing at 900 p. III. Round trip rate
800.
DON'T MISS THIS
chance to have good time. German
picnics are great occasions, and this
one. with the visitors from all parts OF
the state will be no exception.
GEO. DEHAvEN, g. +. A.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
WARNING NOTICE.

Whereas Naomi Kellogg has left my
bed and board without just cause or
provocation, hereby notify and warn
all persons from harboring or trusting
her on my account as | shall pay nc
debts of her contracting.
MILO j. KELLOGG.
Dated Bedding, Aug. 81, 1897.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
DETROIT
WEEK DAY EXCURSION
SEPTEMBER IL.

You must be about ready for another
low rate week day trip TO Detroit.
ID. G.. X. & w. Il. X. train will leave
Bedding at Gal u. IN. on September IL,
and arrive at Detroit at III 40 a. m.
Return train will leave at $50 p. IN.
Tor Greenville. Round trip rate 81. 20.
Bicycles free.
GEO. DEHAvEN, G.. +. A.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Certainly you don't want to suffer
with dyspepsia, constipation, sick head
ache, sallow skin and loss of appetite.
You have never tried DeWitt's Little
Early Risers for these complaints or
you would have been cured. They are
small pills but great regulators. w.
|. Benedict, Druggist
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Small precautions often prevent
great mischiefs. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers are very small pills in
size, but are most effective in prevent
ing the most serious forms of liver and
stomach troubles. They cure constipa-
tion and headache and regulate the
bowels. w. |. Benedict, Druggist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

If you have ever seen little child
in paroxysm of whooping cough, or
if you have been annoyed by con-
slant tickling in the throat, you can
appreciate the value OF One Minute
Cough Cure, which gives quick relief.
w. l. Benedict, Druggist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

II you feel like investing in watch
you might look at our elegant nickle
Is Jewels, only $500. This is good
thing. WILL RICABY.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Running sores, indolent ulcers and
similar troubles, even though of many
years standing, may be cured by using
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t
soothes, strengthens and heals. 1t is
the great pile cure. w. /. Benedict,
Druggist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Thursday, september D.
SIP. MI. .. Foresters.
Friday, September 10.
SD ND. Of X.
Saturday, September II.
SIP. nj. q. II. M.
Monday, September Is.
s:O0p. MN. w. of A.
Tuesday, September ~.
1880 p. nj. o. o. Il.
SIP. IN. Eastern Star.
Wednesday, September 10.
1880 u. NIX. of Il
s:O0-Royal Neighbors.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

For SALE:-Three houses. Bar
gains if purchased soon. Inquire of
Geo. $. Roosevelt. 1872
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Helen a. Newman has beautiful rib
bons in those lovely new shades and
stripes.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

$500 will get you very good gold
filled watch. WILL RICABY.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Helen A. Newman has very pretty
street hats in the latest styles for fall
and winter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Have you seen the beautiful line of
wedding gifts at Ricaby's.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Call on G.. w. Hill the new barber
for "a good clean shave and hair cut.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Big line of lamps The largest and
finest stock In the city at Ricaby's.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Our nickle watch for So. so will please
you for the money. WILL RICABY.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

New fall dress goods just received at
Brokers, Main street.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Come and look at Helen A. Newman's
fall hats before purchasing elsewhere.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Big stock of new goods for the open
ing of Bricker's Main street store.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Visit Brokers new dry goods and
bazaar store on Main street.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

When you buy watch you want to
know it is good. Try Ricaby.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

LOTS OF PARIS GREEN AT w.
|. BENEDICT'S.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
Our Fall Stock

nearly all in, and it of the best selected and
most complete stocks shown in this city.
Call and examine this magnificent stock and get ou
IprCeS See
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Haviland China just opened at Ric-
L.,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Fall millinery goods now in at Hattie
Burkholder's.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

Elegant new silverware at Ricaby s
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

New novelties at Bricker,s, Main st.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Public library at Benedict's.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
IL Pension Money Wasted,

The outcry against the increase of the
pension list since the Mckinley admins
tration came in still continues. and we
have little doubt that it will go on as long
as new names are added to the roll. II ia
not a popular clamor, for a great majority
of the American people, irrespective ~
party, are in favor Of the pension laws ma
they stand and desire their impartial on.
forcement. One Of our contemporaries
thinks it unfortunate that some plan nan.
not be devised to stop the growth Of the
list. Death is doing a great deal in that
direction. 1t clipped off 10000 names last
year, and it will continue to elm at an
increasing ratio as the years wear on. for
even the youngest Of the surviving vet.
Grams are getting to be old men.
We have, in a recent issue Of the Post.
explained the increase of the list since
the 4th Of March by showing that Il was
due to the Cleveland hold-up. Nearly all
the applications granted under the present
administration came over from the Cleve-
land regime. It was the settled policy Of
Mr.. Cleveland to hold up claims and PASS
them along to his successor. There was
No saving to the treasury In this in the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Whcat's Valuable Lesson.

Tho silver leaders are utterly unable
to explain the rise in the price of wheat,
and at the same time maintain their ar
gument of last year. The ablest of them,
including MIR. Jones of Nevada and MI.
Teller, have ventured upon the task, but
all have failed. All are forced to confess
that the natural law of supply and de-
mand does apply in the present price of
wheat. But such Il confession could not
have been wrung from them a year ago
Then they We're c%ontending. almost fierce
~, that wheat was low solely because
money was scarce. Increase the volume
of money, they insisted, and wheat would
80 up. But it would not and could not go
up without such an increase. Wheat is
now mt the dollar mark, and even higher,
and yet there is no more money in the
country than there was last year. And
free silver meanwhile has not only not
been decreed, but the policy stands re-
jectcd ut the polls.
Now that the problem has been solved,
and by Il process which all may so easily
comprehend. it seems strange that so
many people last year should have be-
lieved so implicitly in Mr.. Bryan's con-
tentions about money and prices. The
Nebraska leader and his lieutenants
would allow nothing whatever to the law
of supply and demand. Silver had been
struck down. By that act half of the
money Of redemption Of the world had
been destroyed, and hence low prices fol-
lowed for everything. They picked out
wheat for illustration. and now wheat,
obeying the spurned law of supply and
demand. goes to the dollar mark. Short
crops abroad, which create n demand for
the American wheat supply, knock the
spots out Of the illustration, and force a
confession from the silver leaders which
completely disjoints all of the fne-spun
theories upon which they tried to put Mr..
Bryan into the White House.-Washing-
ton Star.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Brief Comment.

The increase in the production of gold
in all parts Of the world is proving very
discouraging to the free silver theorists.
The value Of the silver dollar has fallen
10 cents and the price Of wheat has risen
% cents per bushel since the free coinage
orators were insisting last year that
wheat and silver went hand in hand as to
prices.
The 1900 election is likely to find the
world with a billion dollars more Of gold
than it had in 1896. The wonderful In.
crease in the production Of gold in all
parts Of the world is proving very discour-
aging to the free silver theorists.
The friends Of the free coinage PROPOSE
ton who have been insisting that their net
financial theory would, il put in practice.
increase our sales abroad are no discuss.
ing very loudly the fact that in the very
year in which the country refused to adopt
free coinage its exports were the LARGEST
IN IT'D history, amounting to N,082,OO1,.
500
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Wool at Twenty-Five Cents.

Cadiz Republican: 1t is with pleasure
that the Cadiz Republican can nnoun
this week that the price Of wool in Harri-
son County is twenty-five cents a pound.
During the past week Messrs. e. M. Hogs
& Son have purchased the clips of wool
raised by the following well-known farm
ers of Harrison County, $4,000 pounds in
all, paying in each case twenty-five cents
a pound. The clips of Dunlap Brothers,
Cadiz township; John Clifford, Green
township; s. B. Porter, Green township;
r. r. Cochran, Cadiz township; Joseph l..
Thompson & Son, Cadiz township; Henry
Mckee, Green township; JOHN McDivitt,
Stock township; Samuel Hedges, Cadiz
township; Ross Mansfield, Wayne town
ship, Jefferson County; H. B. Lacey, La
ceyville, and Oliver Roob, Green town
hin.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Myers and NJ

At the recent Democratic State conyen.
ton Allen o. Myers was the personal
representative of John II. Mclean. As
such he not only carried out the wishes of
his chief, but was. in fact, the most influ-
entail Democrat in all that gathering. He
dictated the platform, and on the Sunday
before the convention, which met ON We'd
nesday, told a Blade representative exact
ly what it would contain, and he told it
straight.
Myers knows Mclean we'll. He was
connected with McLean's newspaper for
years, and each trusted the other to the
extent that he dared. For n time there
was enmity between these two men. N.Y.
ers was not drawing a salary from Nc
Lean. At this time Myers wrote a book.
1t was labeled BOSSES and Doodle in
Ohio Politics." On page 213 Of this book
Myers had this to say of Mclean:
He has no morals. He is a stranger to sen.
timent. He Is not deferred by scruples. If
he has an object in view and has the money
to buy 1t. In his code Of life no Law. no man,
act. He believes every mar has his price.
He goes straight to results and cares moth.
Ing. about public opinion, methods or the
rights of Others. When he can get or has GOT
ally. 1t doesn't seem possible that such a
character can exist In an enlightened age.
But John r. clean Is a fact. His exist.
ence must be acknowledged.
And now this same Mclean is boss NJ
the Democratic party in Ohio, and a can
didate for United States Senator. while
this anne Myers is his chief henchman.-
Toledo Blade.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Business still lmproves.

Business conditions continue to improve
and the reports which come from the high
est authorities ON this subject are all sat
isfacto-y. The latest issue Of Dun's Re
view, commenting on business conditions
the country over, says: EVERY city re-
porting this week notes increase in trade
and nearly all bright prospects. The
great change in business is emphasized by
the presence of a multitude of buyers
from all parts of the country, by their
statements of the situation at their homes,
and, more forcibly yet, by the heavy pur-
chases they are making. But the custom
airy signs of prosperity are not lacking.
The strong rise in stocks, the growth of
bank c!earings md railroad earnings, the
heavy speculation in many products, but
most of all in wheat, have made the week
one of surprising interest even to those
who best remember the upward rush in
1870.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Government, beginning with jefferson
and ending under Buchanan and Cleve-

lunU.
Congress alone has the power to coin and
that this power could not be delegated to
corporations or individuals; we therefore de-
nonnce the issuance Of notes Intended to cir
derogation Of the Constitution. and demand
that all paper which is made a legal tender
Tor public and private debts. or which Is
shall be issued by the Government of the
United States and shall be redeemable In
coin.
This means that all the paper money of
the country shall be issued by the Govern
ment. and would thus be either fiat
money or must be sustained by keeping
i'll the treasury an enormous metallic re-
serve, much larger than the one which
now exists and which causes so much dis
satisfaction to the Democracy and its fiat
associates of Populistic and socialistic
tendencies.
In support of these principles we invite
lne cooperation of all men who love liberty
anu ecorruptfon, oppression and tyranny.
n combination of high sounding words,
intended only to misleud and intlame un-
thinking people. and coming with extreme
ly poor taste from IL party whose entire
record up to the time Of its removal from
power in 1861, was directed against the
''love of liberty" and in favor of ''oppres-
sion and tyranny"
We hereby declare all trusts and monOp-
oIies hostile and dangerous to the peoples
interests and demand u vigorous
enforcement of all antitrust laws. etc.
All of which sounds well. But the peo-
pie are naturally suspicious of such de
claritions coming from IL party which neg
lected during its four years of power to
enforce the existing antitrust laws, and
which framed its tariff law in the inter-
ests of the sugar trust, the greatest trust
of the land with the single exception Of
the one which it is now attempting to
place in control Of the nation, the silver
trust.
We demand the immediate recognition Of
me belligerent rights Of the Republic Of
Cuba. etc.
Which it is generally conceded would
be Of little practical value to the Cubans,
and would probably destroy the opportu-
nifty of bringing about, through the peace
full and proper methods of diplomacy, the
results for which the people of that island
are now struggling.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
M'LEAN's GOLD BOND.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT AND
SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY.
Men Who would Pay .workinxmeu
in accent Silver Dollars Demands
Gold, and Gold Only, for Him.
self.
Official Record. SHOW n.

The demand for information about John
Il. McLean's gold bonds continues so
strong that WI reproduce this week the
bond in full with u brief statement Of it's
history. 1t is its own commen upon the
candidacy of a man who advocates q
cause of paying wOrEingmen in 4O-cent
silver dollars and demands good gold dol
lars, and gold dollars only, for himself.
The transaction in question is that of q
contract made by him with the Columbia
Athletic Club of this city in 1889, in
which he requires that organization to
make sundry obligations. amounting to
S1o,OoO. payable to him individually in
gold coin, both principal and interest.
lhe transaction related tofthe construc-
ton Of IL club house for this organiza-
ton, the Columbia Athletic Club of the
District of Columbia. In that year he
made an agreement With the club by
which he sold to it certain lots in the
fashionable northwest part of Washing
ton' near the War, State and Navy De-
partments, and erected thereupon. a COM
modious and costly club house, the price
of the land and the club house being $7O,-
OOO. This money the club agreed to pay
on or before the LIST of March, 1909. and
issued bonds payable to John r. Mclean,
bearing his name upon their face. These
bonds he required the club to agree to
pay in gold coin of the United States Of
the present standard Of weight and fine
ness" also requiring it to pay the enter
est thereon in like gold coin."
There can be no doubt about the accu-
racy Of this statement. The bonds were
prepared and signed by the officers of the
club and turned over to him. and some Of
them have since passed into the hands Of
other parties who now hold them. Not
only are these bonds still extant and
readily obtaiJable by those who desire
to verify this statement, but a still more
permanent and unimpeachable record Of
this transaction is found upon the official
records of the District of Columbia. The
details of the entire transaction between
MIR. Mclean and the Columbia Athletic
Club are set forth in a copy Of a deed Of
trust given in connection with this trans
action. Among the details OF this trans
action, which are found on the official rec
ords. are copies of the two series of bonds
which the club was required to give as its
form of agreement to pay Mr.. Mclean
the gold which he required from it. There
were TO be two classes of bonds, one class
amounting to $4,000, each bond to be
for the sum Of $1,000, the second class of
bonds being for $25, 200, also payable in
gold, and bearing a higher rate of interest
than those OF the first class, a copy Of
which is herewith appended:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Mexican workingmen in Hard Luck

A special commission sent to Mexico by
the Trade and Labor Assembly at Chi
cago last fall reported that teamsters got
81 per day in Mexican money in the City
of Mexico. while those in the city of Chi
cage get $1.75 per day in American dol
lars. which, as indicated, are worth near
" 2El2 times as much as the Mexican dol
lar. Street car drivers get IS cents per
day in the City of Mexico in deprecated
money, and in the city of Chicago 1925
per day in good money. Printers in Mex
leo, $1.25 per day; in Chicago, SD. Press
men in Mexico, $1.20 per day; in Chicago,
$3.50. Shocmakcrs in Mexico, $1.25; in
Chicago. $3.50. Carpenters in Mexico,
$1.25 per day; in Chicago, $3.50. Brick
layers in Mexico, $1.25; in Chicago. 81
per day. Laborers in Mexico, BIZ cents
per day; in Chicago. $1.25. When it is re-
membered that these wages quoted in
Mexico are now being paid in alleged dol
lars which are worth but about 43 cents
as compared with our dollars, which are
worth 100 cents, the contrast in earning
capacity is something appalling.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10

long run, for . pension dates back to the
time of the application. Most Of the held
up claims were those of widows, clearly
proven and sure to be allowed. The
Cleveland administration deliberately
halted the work Of the pension bureau
and kept thousands of poor widows out Oh
the money that belonged to them. If any
one doubts this the records of the bureau
will prove it. And it is in perfect har-
mony with the whole course Of Mr.. Cleve-
land on the pension question. His views
are just about those which his ardent I'D
mirer, the Baltimore Sun. expresses in
this paragraph, clipped from Il recent edi-
torial:
ut will not be long Mt the present rate
before we shall have duplicated the cost
of the war in pensions. This would be
readily acquiesced in, however onerous,
if the money all went to the deserving,
but the fact that most of it is wasted is
legitimate cause for criticism"
Waste is unnecessary or useless ex-
penditlre. The Cleveland theory, as for
mulatcd by the Sun, is that most of the
Money paid to the veterans, their widows
II their orphans, has been unnecessarily
or .uselcssly expended. Mr.. Cleveland be-
llevcd that the pension roll was honey
comhed with frauds. In order to test that
belief he was supplied with ample facili-
ties to hunt down and punish frauds. He
spent Il deal of money in that quest, and
the result was IL complete vindication of
the substantial honesty of the pensioners.
In his last annual message he presented
facts and figures by which he involun-
tarily proved that the pension roll was IL
roll of honor. But although his hunt for
frauds was something very much like u
failure. he met with success in holding up
widows Observation-Disclosures Post
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
$500
Columbia Tn na1 IA. Athletic Het - CUB SeG'e of the l Sist. aHs
Of Columbia will pay to the bearer Twen.
ty-ive Dollars In gold coin Of the United
States at the Citizens National Bank Of
Washington. d. c.. being six month"; In.
terest n Its first mortgage bonds, Class A.
BIexico's Predioament.

The recent enormous fall in the price Of
silver is driving Mexico to consider the
%advisability Of going to the gold standard.
The example Of Japan, Russia, Peru and.
in fact, all the intelligent nations Of the
world, is having its effect upon the states.
men Of that country, and, followed, as IL
is, by the business troubles growing out
Of the great fall in the value Of silver,
warns them that they must fall in line
with other civilized nations IL they expect
to maintain their business and financial
standing.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
h would Hannen.

'If the Democrats should gain control
Of Ohio they would send to the Senate a
man who would support the vicious prin-
ciples Of the Chicago platform. The State
would be gerrymandered, and fifteen or
sixteen men, instead of five, as at present.
would be sent to Congress to support
these same vicious principles ."-Chair-
man Geo. K, Nash.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
1t Was Not True, of Course.

mo man in public office owes the public
anything"
The calamity organs are publishing the
above and crediting the statement to SEN
ator Hanna. The Senator is said to have
written the startling sentiment in a letter
to Attorney General Watson. 1t must be
classed, says the Times-Star, among the
things that are important if true. But it
will hardly prove useful to the silver Dem
ocrats as a campaign issue. Its virtue in
this respect is badly damaged by the dis
covery that it is a pure invention. Mr..
Watson declares that no letter ever re-
ceived by him from Senator Hanna con-
tanned such a statement. This early ex-
posture of the f%raudulency of the cam
paign efforts of the McLean-Chapman
crowd is a stunning blow to the rampant
apostles of free silver.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10

Business must indeed be bright when
the New York Journal, which a year ago
was insisting that nothing but the free
coinage Of silver could bring prosperity to
The United States. has published 2 full.
don h New York and the county eyer.