The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-07-21
Current Notes,

Not one among the New York bond
buying bank syndicates has volunteer
ed his services to the country.-Fresno
EXpoSitor.
There is no doubt of our ability tC
strike off Cuba's bonds; whether we
can escape having bonds fastened upon
ourselves is the problem.-Cleveland
Recorder.
The mortality reports of the Spanish
army show that in 1897 80. .534 died of
yellow fever and other diseases, which
shows that slow war is the most de
structive to foreign troops in that eli
mate.
Oregon went Republican by big ma
jority. They vote for the party that
brings the high price for wheat And
wheat went down right after election.
What terrific lot of trouble the voting
king has in fixing himself out with the
good times.
Col. John Jacob AstOr and the other
Fifth avenue young men in the COM
misSary department, have made a ter
rible failure in the apparently simple
matter of getting decent food to the
soldiers with unlimited money TO do it
with. But the officers are feeding on
the fat of the land.
Oregon is Il great wheat producing
State. and Oregon recently gave the
gold bugs vote of confidence; but that
was before the price of wheat dropped
30 per cent. How do the Oregon wheat
raisers like the situation now? Per-
haps no better than Oregon silver mill
erS and the Southern cotton growers.
Here we are again with Grover
Cleveland prices for wheat, even dur
ing war, which has always hereto
fore been Il reliable restorer of prices
The fall in the price of wheat. before
the harvest. to point below where it
was before the war was declared. must
be accepted as one of the phenomena of
Il war under the single gold standard.
1t is silly to say that American peo-
pie are too bald and too strong to be
put down by a sOldiery. Does not Il
military despOt rule the Government
with hand of iron: And i'll what par
ticular of courage. intelligence and
strong love of liberty are we superior
to the Teutonic race-to the stock from
which we sprung?-National Reflector.
General Green Il. Raum sums up the
demands made by the monetary re-
formers now pressing Congress i'll ia
vor of the banks i'll one neat little SEN
tence. He says the demand is that
the Government shall 90 out of the
banking business by ceasing to issue
circulating notes of its own. but shall
remain in the banking business for the
purpose of guaranteeing and redeem
ing the notes of the banks"
This is the first war attempted under
the single standard and it is the first
time war taxes have ever been levied,
while at the same time the supply of
money in circulation was reduced The
result. of course. is Il lower price for
farm products than would prevail if
silver We're coined and greenbacks is
sued TO pay war expenses. thus cX
panding the volume of currency in
stead of contracting it by huge bond
issue.
Every time one of these 13-inch guns
sends its half-ton shell ut the enemy it
shoots away the value of small farm.
Some people are beginning to wonder
if what we shall gain is worth the
powder. We are willing to spend
money in the cause of humanity and
to extend and establish the principles
of civil and religious liberty to an
land. but if this war is pros.
ecuted to acquire territory. to make
jobs for prospective captain generals
and to give bonds to the bond hungry
we hesitate,