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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24


monthly in silver, to which our lurid
neighbor replies in this strain: In the
very first sentence here quoted there is
a glaring misstatement OF fact. In 1898
the government was not absorbing
into the currency of the country 81 &c.,,
600 of silver monthly 1t was purchas-
ing. under the law OF July IA, 1890
(knOwn as the Sherman law, 10000
ounces of silver per month. The price
of silver in 1893 was .7S031 per ounce,
making the amount that the producer
of silver got some SO. 100000 per month"
What our contemporary said Friday
was:
AT that time the government was
absorbing into the currency of the
country S4,S00,0eo of silver monthly, etc.
Our unmathematical friends wish to
know what we meant by our comment
quoted by it. Just what we said. The
government was purchasing, under the
Sherman law, $500, 900 ounces of silver
month. The amount absorbed into
the currency was exactly the same as
the treasury notes issued in payment
of the bullion purchased. Had the bull
lion been coined, then $500, 900 ounces of
silver would have been absorbed into
currency of the country, and the vol
ume Of currency would have been in
creased to the amount of the coinage
value of the silver, which is S1.29 an
ounce This not having been done. the
volume of currency was only increased
by the amount of the treasury notes
issued in payment of bullion purchased.
Our contemporary arbitrarily takes
4,5OO00O ounces of silver purchased to
be worth s4,5OO,OOO. The silver pur-
chased by the government, when the
amount is translated into value, must
be estimated by its coinage value, $1.29
an ounce or at its commercial value,
which was .7SOS1 in 1893.
Even our contemporary after this
explanation, cannot fail to see wherein
its statement, on Friday. of the amount
of silver absorbed into the currency
monthly, was a glazing misstatement
of fact.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
SILVER is PARAMOUNT.

Every goldbug organ in the east ac-
knowledges the silver issue to be par
amount in this campaign.
The New York Evening Post urges
the election of a Republican in every
congressional district of the United
States, saying that it is as important
today as it was in 1896.
The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat is par
ticularly anxious for Republican ma
jority in the next congress, giving as
its reason that the stronger the Re-
publican majority is in the congress
which is to- be elected few weeks
hence, the feebler Will be the silver
talk"
Referring to bimetallism, the Chi
cago Times Herald, a radical McKin-
ley organ, declares: There is no other
issue before the people today as vital
as this"
Mr.. Dingley, the author of all the
prosperity the Republican platform
tells about, but which is not else
where visible to the naked eye, says
that the financial issue is paramount
this year"
The Chicago Times-Herald makes
this especial appeal to those who en-
dorse McKinley's policies:
The silver battle must be fought
over again, and every man who be-
lieves in honest money, who would
maintain the nations nonor, and who
desires TO see the principles Of none
tary reform fixed in the statutes must
turn out and become a fighter. Every
congressional district is now a field
of battle, and no effort must be spared
no stone left unturned, TO win the
fight for sound money and currency
reform. The victory should be so de-
cisive that free silver and its delusive
and lying promises will be crushed for
ever.
And yet the local Republican organ
always pretending solicitude for silver,
says that it is not an issue and that
it would not make any difference to
the cause whoever is elected or what
ever ticket succeeds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
OUR NEIGHBoR's FIGURES.

The Republican organ prints lot of
bungled-up figures in defense of the
Republican commissioners who used to
charge mileage for taking walks.
They do not agree with those of
Messrs. E. A. Smith, W. ]. Bateman
and R. r. Anderson, the experts whose
services We're made necessary in or
der to determine just what kind of a
financial hole the Republicans had
plunged the county into.
among many misstatements in the
Republican organs article is one con-
corning the expenditures Of the Demo-
Gratis in 1897. 1t places the figure S21z,-
1874. including S2S,3S4.94 for salaries
TO Republican officials for the last
quarter of 1886, allowed by the Repub-
iean- commissioners. but left for the
Democrats to pay.
Very generously our Republican
friends charge their own salaries TO
the expense account of a Democratic
administration.
Another item included il the Tri-
bunes table is the $7,561.SS of loose ac-
counts-debts contracted by the Re
publican administration for which
they dared not issue warrants without
a ruling Of the court. This, too, was
paid by the Democratic officials, al
though no part of their expense, no
debt of their making.
The article calls attention to the
fact that the taxes for county purposes
were raised $4,000 in 1897. And yet
that S1s,0 900 would not pay one-half of
the Republican expenses that they
shirked and left over for the Democrats
to pay. 1t would not pay One-half of
the annual interest on the debt inner
tied by the new administration from
the old.
The whole Tribune article is filled
with inaccuracies and misrepresenta-
tions. But our contemporary ought to
have learned ere this. by experience,
not to rely upon its candidate for
county auditor as an accountant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

dehasement of silver. cattle, wool and
lead have fallen so per cent in the
las 10 years, and that no tariff can
possibly be laid that can bring any
thing like compensation for this aw-
full loss.'
And, although it is now lauding the
Dingley tariff and telling how Ding
leyism has brought the prosperity de-
scribed in the Republican state plat
form, it hasn't been long since it de-
nolInced, in characteristic language.
others who made the same claim.
Mr.. Dingley. Mr.. Hanna, Mr.. Ell
dredge, Mr.. Brown. and others have
been talking prosperity for some time.
Six weeks ago the Republican organ
said:
Mr.. Dingley and the whole band are
telling of the increased prosperity. The
whole band know that they are lying,
and that they are trying TO deceive the
people.
Has prosperity arrived since last
August? Or does the organ include
itself in the band?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
SlLVER'S CHAMPION.

The Tribune wants TO know on what
ground we claim that the Democratic
party is the champion of silver The
answer is very easy, indeed.
For a quarter of century. ever
since the Republican party passed the
law of Feb. r. 1873, eliminating the
silver dollar from the list of coins, and
thereby closing the minis to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, the
financial question has been more or less
discussed. So universal had discussion
of this question become and so inter-
ested were the people in it, that it
reached a point, in 1896, where the
great national parties took notice Of it.
and felt called upon to define their at
titude on the question of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. In that
wear the Democratic and Republican
parties held their national conventions
and declared their position on the sill
yer question. The declaration of the
Democratic party was as follows:
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to l, without
Waiting for the aid or consent of any
JllltT ndlAOL--
That is the declaration of the Chi
cago platform.
The declaration of the Republican
party was as follows:
The Republican party is universally
for sound money. 1t caused the enact
ment of the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payment in 1873;
since then every dollar has been as
r,~a1 -sar-s, alr~r
posed to every measure calculated to
debase our currency or impair the
credit Of our country. WE ARE,
THEREFORE,, OPPOSED TO THE
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER, Elk
CTPT BY INTERNATIONAL AGREE
MENT, which we pledge ourselves to
promote; and. until such agreement
cen be obtained. THE EXISTING
GOLD STANDARD MUST BE PRE-
SERVED.
whenever the financial question has
come up IL congress since the Repub-
licaus demonetized silver. and it has
been proposed to do anything in behalf
of silver. the vote has shown that the
Democrats favored silver and that the
Republicans opposed Il.
The Tribune talks about Democratic
declarations on silver this year. Every
state Democratic platform this year,
with the exception of three states, re-
afirms the principles of the Chicago
platforiA. Every Republican platform
promulgated this year, with the ex-
ception Of two or three states, pro-
nounces for the gold standard.
The Tribune says that The Herald
cannot begin to establish that the
Democratic party will, in the next ma
tional convention, endorse silver. Judg-
ing the future by the past (our contem-
porary is very fond of quoting Webster
to this efrect), we are perfectly certain
that the Democratic party, in it's next
national convention, viii endorse sill
yer And. using the same method for
divining the future, we are perfectly
certain that the Republican party will
declare against silver and in favor of
gold, and that our contemporary will
still be true 10 the Republican party.
Silver veterans know that the Demo-
cratic party is the champion of silver,
ana that the Republican party is the
champion OF gold and the enemy of
silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
OLE PETERSON REFUTES
SOME STATEMENTS.

Mastar Harald: Ay ben mat ashal.
Yassir. Sum fallar vat been jealous off
me- ha sal TO lot fallars Ay not ben
Svenska fallar tall. An ct maik me mat.
Yassir. Ay ben Svenska all tain. Vas
sir. Bisgoshamiteyhal. mebbe so som off
dem fallars tank Ay vas not. Ay vas sho
oder fallars. C. NJ. Nielsen Cha vas my
frerD, for narvarande fredsdomare hars-
tades har af demokratiska partiet NOM
inerats till fredsdomare fran: die dis
triktet for nasta embetstermin. 8: die
distriktet utgores af den Nordvestra
delen af staden. Nielsen har skott slit
embete pa EFT hedrande satt under den
tic han innehaft detsamma och varit till
stor help for manga nordbor. som af
skilda orsaker haft med den juriliska rat
ten att CORA
Now, Mastar Harald, yu hav ben got
no Svenska lattars vat w set up tipe. bot
Ay vas tall yu eff yu run hem laik ha
vas rite in his har lattar yu vas tall all
fallars vat sal Ay not ben Svenska ct Ay
vas Svenska. Yassr.
Veil. Ay hat CUTE tain yasda. No vas
canvasser cum to mai haus an ask ma
vat polyytickes vas. Nossir. Me an
Huldah We go tn church an vas all rite.
Ay mete Mastar Tomhillson in mornin
Ven Ay go out by back dore tn get sum
wood for tn maik fire. Mastar Tomhill-
son ha ben fallar vat maik sum CUTE
taims sumtaims on vatervorks. He vas
lootenent to Msstar Hottie. ven Mastar
Hottie ha ben kaptane
Mastar Homhillson ha ask me vether
Ay ben Reppubbyklan dis har yare an
ven Ay sal Nossir, ha sal to me, ''Vy?'
An Ay ben tole him Wy. Ay ben tole
hem Ay vas work for mine leedle silver
mine klame in. da kanyon and want free
silver. He sal tn me ct We get silver ven
Broder Eldredge ha ben lacted. Ay tall
hem Ay no want silver ct val.
Mastar Harald. Vile Ay ben rite es
lattar Ay ben see lattar With ma naim
sine to hem in Tribune under he'd Bits
off Color Ay not sine ma naim tn lat
tar in Tribune, an vas not off color. Nos
sir. Ay not ben Reppubbyklan ct all.
Nossir. Ay vas no more Reppubbyklan
en- vas Broder Yon T. Pooleson or Broder
Viii Calderson, an Ay tank man fallar vat
ben Goodvinson. 'hu rite lattar an sine ma
naim ha gat hem from Harald, yust laik
hem gat bits off color from oder papers.
Yassir. Ay tank Ay seen handritin off
sum oder fallar en- et-lattar.
OLE PETERSON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
BRYAN'S UTAH DEFAMER.

Warren Foster, Populist candidate
for congress, has explained what he
meant by saying that William j.
Bryan is ''as ignorant as a pig"
He repeats the blunder of his egotism,
but claims that he only referred to Mr..
Bryan's position on the railroad owner
ship question, or something of the
kind.
That does not explain, however, what
Warren Foster meant when, on the
26th of August, 1898, in his paper, he
said:
Instead of being a progressive
thinker and statesman as we had
supposed, he has proven himself to
be the very cheapest kind of cheap
politician; man who, if he tells the
truth, is almost as ignorant on the
issues Of the day as pig; man
who, instead of being a brave cham
pion of principles, is an inveterate
coward, whose only aim is to be pres
ident of the United States; a colonel
for consideration; patriot for pay.
A mere difference of opinion on the
railroad, or initiative or referendum
question would not have justified such
a vicious assault on the idol of western
men and the great champion of the sill
yer cause.
Warren Foster called Bryan "an in
veterate coward" a cheap politician"
a mercenary, a colonel for consider
ation." a patriot for pay" and such
vile, hbelous epithets as the goldbug
press of the country was bestowing
upon the Nebraska volunteer at the
same time.
Populists themselves will refuse to
vote for such candidate for congress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
First Congregational Church,
First Congregational Church,
First Congregational Church,
First Congregational Church,
FRIDAY Evening.
FRIDAY EVENING.
FRIDAY EVENING.
FRIDAY EVENING.
Hear Lely, the Great Tenor.
Hear LeIy, the Great Tenor.
Hear Lely, the Great Tenor.
Hear Lely, the Great Tenor.

Victoria Times. Oct. 10: Those who at
tended the Victoria theatre last evening
were more than satisfied that the most
complimentary comments made upon the
entertainment were none too high. Mr.
Lely is an entertainer of ability rarely
met with. and possesses magnificent
tenor voice such as is too infrequently
heard on this coast.
or stories rendered by Mr.. Lely be hum
orous or grave. are all alike TO him. He
seems to be master OF both His is a
full. rich cultivated voice, and well under
control.
In Mr.. Durward Lely we have the most
successful operate singer the Savoy
theatre in London ever had, and PATHS
fayorite tenor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

The Spanish peace commissioners
would profit much by study of Amer
lean diplomatic history. They would
learn from it that the United States
do not put forward big claims by way
of bluff and to afford opportunities for
haggling. but that they say what they
will and what they will not do, and
stand by what they say. There will be
no departure from this practice in the
present instance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
JOINED THE BAND.

The organ of the reunited McKin-
leyites of Utah, otherwise known as
the Salt Lake Tribune, says that it
is shouting for Dingleyism now because
of the prosperity that measure has Sc
cured to Utah by helping the wool
lead and cattle business.
1t has only been little while since
the same organ declared that by the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Standing on a gold plank and on a
silver plank at the same time does not
worry Sam c. Park. He is a ventrilo-
quist, and with the greatest ease
changes his voice and talks for silver
or gold, as the temper of his audiences
demands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

The Denver papers are firing Sena-
tor Wolcott's silver record at him. And
they hit him every time they fire. AL
ready he begins to resemble a Cristobal
Colon just before Bleaching.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

The civil service commission will en-
force the law against political assess
ments. but, of course. there is no pro-
hibition of voluntary contributions. "
And the Republican bosses will see to
it that there are such contributions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Hon. Alma Eldredge, Republican can
didate for congress, says that life is
too short to discuss the silver ques-
ton He cannot thus set aside his
party's record and relieve himself of
an awkward situation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

English readers are very conserva-
tive a novel, to be successful with
them, must be published in three vol
umes. The English edition of Busch's
Bismarck" is also published in three
volumes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

With every one who participated in
the late INSTRUMENTATION war writ
ing book about it, the history of it
viii be longer than the official history
of the war of the rebellion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

In its onslaughts upon B. H. Roberts
the Tribune has ignored the wisdom of
the proverb: "A brother offended is
harder to be won than a strong city,"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
A PERvERsE CONTEMPORARY

Yesterday our morning contemporary
said:
We stated on Friday that at the time
the extra session was called by Presi-
dent Cleveland the government was alb
sorbing into the currency sl,5G9, coo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Emperor William has taken a hun
dred and two trunks with him to the
a record
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

New York has a mysterious person
age called Jack the Ink Singer. He
must be one of those horrid yellow
journalists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Professor J. P. Meakin should add to
his repertoire an "Elegy In a Country
Churchyard." 1t would be so fitting
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

If men could discharge their personal
obligations as easily as they do their
party obligations how happy they
would be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

'eWho owns American" asks a Colo
RADIO paper. Admiral Dewey will just
as soon as he comes home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

In the matter of colonial problems,
Uncle Sam can set an example by solv-
ing them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

carpenter living in Noxen, Wyoming Co., Pa had fear
fully trying which attracted the sympathy neighbor who
gives interesting of the trouble nearly sixty
years DID, the neihbor explains and had bad stomach and
also His that he could not
sleep and would Often get Of bed and light lamp
stiffness OF night would make him shake all and his limbs
would draw and he had rub them sleepy
wife much benefited by Rpans Tabgcs that
him take also He has very and chew
his food properly He after each meal buon
he calls the Tabac and makes him feel bully He sleeps
sound al night and is rested in the morning and
druggist got interested in Rpans Tabules from hearing me
speak 50 highly Of them, and now has them sale
caEAn Ne @sass street a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

The relation of our morning and
evening contemporaries may be de-
scribed as that of Kinsman, not broth
ELS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
Major B.-I killed him.

Some men wear smiles upon their lips,
(And that's the way to do)s
While others ope their lips, and let
The smile pass in and through
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Syracuse Herald: He-Yes. she is liv-
ing under an assumed name.
She-Horriblei What Is it?
ing under an assumed name.
after her husband married her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

The sooner Blanco's occupation of
Havana is gone, the better.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Fillmore Progress: In view of the
meeting of the state legislature i'm the
near future. and the fact that a senator
from this great state will be elected by
that body TO the congress of the United
States. we have carefully considered the
adaptability of the honorable gentlemen
whose names have been mentioned by
the papers as candidates for that Office
and we are of the opinion that in the
person of the Hon. A w. McCune the
and would give them the best service
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Park City Record: Last Friday night
the magnificent Mormon tabernacle at
Richfield was totally destroyed by fire
and on Tuesday night the Advocate office
was also burned down. Both fires are
thought 20 have been ncendiary. Hang
ing would be slight punishment for the
perpetre tors of the dastardly deeds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Provo Enquirer: The Salt Lake Trib-
une carries a spirit of bitterness into the
contest that rather bespeaks disappointed
political aspirations in the past.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Judge: volunteer-At first we thought
that nothing could be worse than the
army ration.
Friend-Well what was worse?
Volunteer-When we didn't get it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24
WIT AND HUMoR.

Baltimore Life: "And why did she
choose him among so many?"
THE others did not propose
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Indianapolis Journals, That strike
seems to be long while coming off,
Tell you" said the man on the inside.
The union and the employers are just
now bidding against one another for the
deputy sheriffs."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

Roxbury Gazette: Miss Kittish-Major
is 1t true that once during the war one of
the enemy died to save your life?
+ Major Bluntly-Yes.
Miss K.-How nobel How did it hap
pen?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-24

F1iegende. Batter: The German Fire
De9artment-'I have the honor to an
nounce captain, that the fire is in the
fourth story, and our ladders and hose
will reach only to the second
Indeed, Then We'll have to wait till
the fire gets down to the secord!
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-02-03
OTERO COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
ORDWAY.

The ice harvesters have been
busy the past week.
Miss Eva Piper, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Eugene
Graham, returned to her home in
Pueblo, Sunday.
Mrs. Samuel Andrews of Olney,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. v. A.
Rowe this week.
Walter Perkins has returned
from La Junta, where he has been
working on the ditch the past
three months.
T. e. Robichaud went to Mis-
souri,, Tuesday morning to visit
relatives and friends.
W. G. Shumate went to Pueblo
on business last week.
The Epworth League gave n
Hit and Miss Social at the church
last Thursday night. The pro.
ceeds were SLIGO.
Rev. Spence will commence. a
revival meeting this week.
Born. Sunday, January 30th, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. G. Graham, q
nine pound daughter. Mother
and child doing we'll.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-02-03
A Sample Copy.

This weeks Enterprise will be
received by a number of persons
who are not now subscribers.
These sample copies nre sent with
a request for your subscription.
A copy of the Denver Weekly
Times-Sun will also be sent you.
If You pay for the Enterprise one
year in advance the Times-Sun
will be sent you one year free.
This is a most liberal offer and
should result in a large addition
to our subscription list. The En-
terprise is superior as a paper for
home news aud the Times Sun
will furnish all the general news.
And the two can be Ind for a lin
tied time for tho price of one
only so.