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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19

Tue parity! NeItdluly YOU W. uol HICdl
by the free coinage of both metals, for
this woull be simply All endorsement OF
the Chicago platform and deprive your
scheme of a claim to novelty. Nor, |
presume, by restricting the free coinage
of gold, for this would re going further
in contraction of standard money than
Mr.. Gage proposes. The 'regulation of
coinage" to secure parity would there
fore be simply such a restriction of the
coinage of silver as would keep silver
coin equal in market value to gold-that
is, exactly the present system in the
United States, endorsed by Mr.. Gage
and every other gold standard advocate.
Then GU ask: Would this be infa
ton, woul1 this be expansion" Evil
IDENTIFY you mean that the answer should
be no." and l agree with You. 1t
would be neither initiation nor expan-
sion. Prices would not be higher nor
money more abundant or cheaper. For
this reason it would defeat every pur-
pose and every proposed beneficial re-
suit of the re-estabiishment Of a double
standard. 1t is simply a scheme to sub
stitute token silver coins for token paper
money; analogous to the retiring OF sill
| yer certificates to force into circulation
| the silver dollars which they represent.
| Your friendliness to silver, so far as you
manifest any, is not to silver as money but
as a commodity. You nowhere suggest
that silver should be standard full legal
tender money, either in the United
States or in any of the American coun-
tries embraced in the plan. In all of
these it is to be kept Gas good as gold"
that is practically, for in no other way,
except by absolute free coinage, car it
be done, by making it redeemable in
gold. Your idea seems to be that by
forcing the use of silver representative
money instead of paper representative
money the use of silver would be en-.
larged and thereby its value increased.
Your scheme is in no way different from
a proposal of legislation requiring the
more extensive use of silver in the
arts-to substitute, for illustration, sill
yer for earthenware in table service, o.
for all cheaper material In jewelry
Such propositions are entirely foreig,
to the present financial controvers,
which concerns the re-establishmen
of silver freely coined as full legal ten
der debt-paying money. l cannot be
lieve that you do not understand this
but then l cannot conceive why yo'
suppose that any such superficial we
~siveness could be imposed upon you
fellow-citizens.
7 Mr.. Newlands, when you talk abou
' uncovered representative money 20
can mean nothing else than paper cul
rency, like our greenbacks, redeemabl
, in coin, and for which no special r.
%demption fund is provided. AS you al
careful not to suggest any increase {
e money volume but only to create, will
{ out such Increase, an enlarged deman
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19

tell you that our people appreciate
and wont forget your efforts in their be-
half as shown by the enclosed slip from
the Meas, referring to both Indian
School and United States Mint appro-
priations, viz, IS, 375 and $1,000. To
get those under the circumstances and
in the present hard times was, indeed, a
very serious undertaking, and but few
men could have accomplished it.
H. NJ. Y~erington.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19

III SllNCI Duilioh why ChHNld not ~
proposed Pan-American agreement be
for the purchase of a silver redemption
fund equivalent to the uncovered paper
redeenable in silver? This would create
an equal market for silver and have the
advantage Of allowing a choice between
the secured paper representative and
the more cumbersome silver coins with
out in any way endangering a gold
standard by al increase of the volume
of standard money. Even as a scheme
''to do something for silver" in goldbug
p~arlance, 1t is worthless.
But, Mr.. Newlands, you are not salts
fed with the provision to regulate coin
age for the purpose of keeping silver
bullion upon an equality with gold, but
to make assurance doubly sure propose
also a limitation upon the production of
silver. 1 prefer to'give it in your own
language, quoting from the Post:
Now, as to the question of limiting
production, we all know that of old
each government had a monopoly of
the gold and silver found within it's
realms. The scarcity of production
led to the various governments offer
ing substantially a premium for it's
production by making free grants of
mines when discovered, and so the
custom has existed in the United
States and Mexico of granting freely
to h prOspectOrs the mines which
they discovered. The result has been,
therefore, to subject these mines to
the exploitation of tremendous en-
ergy and enterprise. and has produced
a food of silver where formerly there
was adrouth. If. therefore, the reason
for making free grants of mines nc
longer exists why should these free
grants be continued? Undoubtedly
the mines of the present, which have
been already granted by the govern
ments, are private property and must
be free from government %appropria
tion, but they will soon be exhausted
and eve IS to their product the gov
eminent has a perfect right to insist
upon seigniorage in return for the
privilege of mintage, for it is thu
stamp of the government which
creates the demand that gives theil
produ value, and it is a mere ques
ton of policy or the part of the gov
eminent as to whether or no. 1t will
exact a seigniorage. should it b
deemed wise to limit the production
of the existing mines 1t can Ne accom-
plished ]. by exacting a seigniorage
greater or less, according to existini
, requirements. But these mines vii
all be exhausted probably within tn
next five years. The government own
r to-day the undiscovered mines of tn
future. If production is undul
T stimulated why should not h Unite
States and Mexico and Bolivia, pr,
ducing as they do much oyer tw'
thirds of the silver of the worlt
{ determine to withdraw temperate
: from granting mines that may be di
e covered? Leaving the matter to
subsequently adjusted. they can eitht
hereafter renew free grants, or thu
d can place limitations upon them. {
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19

1--WE have then nearly n billion
dollars of representative money for
which we can substitute metallic
could so regulate h coinage of both
as to maintain their parity. Why
should not the Americans absorb in
coinage all of the ffty-three million
dollars OF gold and all of one
hundred and fOrty-fOur million dol
lars of silver which they produce? At
this rate it would take four or five
years before all the uncovered paper
money would be retired, even though
none Of the gold and silver were alb
sorbed in the arts, and this demand
leaves out of calculation entirely the
necessity for increasing the money
vol me in proportion to population or
business. Would this be in~flatiOn?
Would this be expansion?
"It may be said that with this stimu-
lation of use production might be
stimulated. My answer is that the
American countries can easily limit
production if they wish. But before
entering upon the question of limiting
production 1 would like to say a few
words as to the necessity for it,"
Now, I would not intimate, and do not
believe, that the fact that this was a COM
munication addressed to Mr.. Gage In
any way Influenced the expression of
your views. But 1 will say this, that
there is nothing in it in any way antago-
nistic to the well-known views of the
Secretary. Mr.. Gage believes in a gold
standard. For aught that appears in the
quotation so also may you. Mr.. Gage
has no objection to the use Of silver as
subsidiary money, and nothing in what
you say indicates that you wish it to be
used in any other capacity. MI. Gage
only insists that silver shall not be SO
reinstated or employed as to diminish
the purchasing power Of gold or inter.
fering with gold as the sole measure OF
values. All that you say or suggest is
In entire harmony with this restriction,
Take the first sentence of the quotation
I'VE HAVE THEN NEARLY ONE
BILLION DOLLARS OF REPRE-
SENTATIVE MONEY FOR WHICE
WE CAN SUBSTITUTE METALLIC
MONEY, BOTH GOLD AND SILL
YER, AND WE COULD SO REGU
LATE THE COINAGE OF BOTH As
: TO MAINTAIN THEIR PARITY"
What does this mean? How can tn
coinage be regulated SO as to preserv'
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-19

lands scheme is the substitution in all
American countries of real money for
repre- sentative money. He quotes from
the Mint Directors report for 1895 to
show that the uncovered paper money
is as follows:
The United States. 4Io, 700, 900
Mexico. 80. 1000 900
Central American States. ............ 100000
South American States. ............. $50, ooo, 600
Total. e76, 700, 600
He then adds:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

A New York policeman is to be cred.
tied with refreshing supply of horse
sense. having proved at recent fire
that he was very brave man, he wa:
Immediately interviewed by the Society
For the Encouragement of Physica;
Bravery and the Association for the
Enlargement of Contemporaneous Hero.
ism, and, in reply to question, he de.
livered himself of the following square
toed and unassailable bit Of homely
truth: "A man does things that people
call heroic just because he's built that
way. No, I don't think exercise O,
physical training makes man hero.
If it's in him to do a heroic thing, he
just goes and does it. Some people are
not built to make rescues, and that's tbs
reason why they DON'T
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

Herr Adolph Sonnentha1, a distin
guished German actor, visited New
York recently and made his reappear-
ance before a packed German audience
in Lessing's antique play, IN athan
der Weise'' This old drama, belonging
altogether to another era of art, lacking
in dramatic action and wholly without
the modern devices or ensembles of
playcraft, was listened to with absorb
ing interest by the Germans, who ap'
plauded the unaided histrionism of the
actor to the echo. Nothing could sc
we'll show the vast gap that separates
German appreciation of the drama from
French and American. There is not az
English theater that would dare to pro.
duce an old play like "Nathan del
Weise'' without altering and bringing
it up to date with quips and costumes
The Germans have a profound respect
for their national drama which is not
found in any other playgoing people
They do not change their tastes with
every season. They still enjoy evil
liam Tell' and ''The Robbers plays
that America dropped long ago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

President Loubet of France continues
to astound Frenchmen by simply being
q man instead of posing as lie presi.
dent de la republique. Not long ago he
stopped procession Of which he wa:
part and, in spite of the guard and tht
regulations, jumped from his coach anc
ran UP flight of steps to kiss and hug
his old mother who was waving he,
handkerchief at him. He saunters out
among the people smoking his pipe,
strolls into cafes and chats with the
bourgeois as if he didn't know any bet
ter: The Bourbons point to him as 3
sad evidence of decadent democracy.
But the old woman and the commor
people like it, especially as it does not
interfere at all with the serious duties
of le president de la republique.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

There is something new in the Earl
of Warwick's speculative move. He
proposes to convert his estates and his
titled prestige into limited liability
company. This opens a large prospect
for impecunious noblemen. What a
chance for lotteries in ancestral por
traits and decorationsl What tempt.
ing chance for bachelor apartments in
hoary castles on the installment plan.
The London Spectator says that this
move of the earl's is typical of the
change coming over the habits of the
titled class. They are losing gradually
the exclusive right to their own homes
and are anxious to turn their privileges
into revenue. The English home of the
eighteenth century is gradually ,disap-
pearing from among the wealthy land
owners. They live abroad or in town
apartments or hotels, and when they do
occasionally run down to their ances-
trail abodes they usually take a collec,
ton Of promiscuous people and turn
those abodes into hotels. The Spectator
does not hesitate to say that this is the
result of pernicious continental influ
ence and rather intimates that the mo-
ment Briton ceases to be insular he
becomes Bohemian.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

How to dress the foreign representa-
tives of the United States continues to
agitate official minds. There appears to
be among certain undemocratic persons,
who also claim to be Americans, a very
distinct notion that the larger a repub-
lie gets the more clothes its ministers
and agents ought to wear At recent
consultation On this subject in England
an English diplomat openly expressed
his admiration Of the simplicity which
had marked. the Americans in appear
ing at court, but the American diplo-
mat strongly urged a snowy uniform
and regalia that would be indicative of
the majesty, the beauty and the power
Of the States. In following out this fee
bic line Of thought one can we'll imagine
our minister at the court of St. James
wearing a crown Of the people sur
mounted by an aigret and followed by
a train Of the star spangled banner
Nothing increases the respect Of the
foreign martinets for Americans at a
court reception so much as the indie
pendence and simplicity Of their attire
and their freedom from the fustian
that all other officials are condemned tc
carry.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
First Publication May II, 1899.
Sherif's Sale.

BY virtue of an execution, issued out of and
under the seal of the district court in and for
the county of Mile Laos and State of Mime
sofa, upon Judgment rendered and docketed
IN the said court on the 10th day OF November,
earthly Is plaintiff and Andrew Englebretson is
defendant, in favor of the plaintiff and
against the defendant for the sum of twenty
seven dollars and fifty cents, which said exc
c CUT, was directed to and delivered to me as
Such sheriff within and for said county of Mile
Laos, ala on the 10Th day Of April, 1899, levy
upon all the right, title and interest of the said
defendant Andrew Englebretson, in and to the
following described real estate situate in the
county county Of Mile Laos and State Of Minnesota,
known and described as follows, to-wit: The
north half of the northeast quarter (nh Of ne4)
and the east half OF southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter lex of sea of .ne4) OF Sec
ton thirteen Q3), township thirty-eight (38),
range twenty-seven (sT, according to the
United States government survey thereof.
Notice is hereby given, that I, the under
signed sheriff of the said county Of Mile Laos
Will sell the above described renl property and
the interest OF the said defendant Andrew
Englebretson therein to the highest bidder for
cash ut public auction, at the front door of the
court house in the village of Princeton in the
county OF Mile Laos and State Of Minnesota,
on Saturday the 18th day Of June, 1859, at 10
O'Clock IN the forenoon Of said day to satisfy
the said judgment and execution together with
inc interest and costs thereon.
Dated May 4, 1899, +
as F.. D. CLA0GETT,
Sheriff OF Mile Laos County, Minnesota. AZ
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,
PRINCETON. Mimi. Nav 18th. 1Sq

PRINCETON, Mimi, May 18th, 1899.
Sealed proposals for the construction of a
water works and electric lighting plant will be
received by the village council at its room I'M
I'll o'clock p. NJ Of the 9th day of June, 1899 at
which time and place they will be publicly
The work will comprise as follows:
1st-A pipe system.
Snd-A brick power station.
3rd.-A steam power plant
4th.-A brick water tower
5th-An electric lighting plant
Bids wial be received for any one or more of
the i've portions as above. The right is re-
served to accept any bid for one or more of the
separate portions, or for the entire work as
may be deemed for the best interest of the
village. or to reject any or all bids,
A certified check, made payable uncondition-
ally, to the order of j. w. Hartman, village
recorder, must accompany each bid and be in
an amount equal to $4,000 for each portion of
the work bid upon.
proposals must be made upon blank forms
iurnlShed for that purpose, and any not in con :
1Ormlty with this notice and the specifications
WILL De considered as informal and rejected.
Plans and specifications are on file and can
De seen and blank forms of proposals obtained
at the Office of the undersigned; also C. F.
iMoweth, Civil Engineer, "a E. 18th ST.. St. Paul,
~ BY order of the Council,
-... j. w. HARTMAN,
d E.. Village Recorder.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
Commercial Schools.

The legislature of New York Is to be
asked for an appropriation Of 81, $780,
600 as a fund to esta blish a commercial
school This will surprise good many
conservative people who have for some
time suspected that the whole tendency
OF modern education is commercial.
Why, a commercial school, one asks,
rather than social school or school
Of politics? Commissioner Miles O'Brien
is the reputed father Of this scheme,
and from his own utterances it may be
inferred that he is afraid the coming
American man will know nothing about
trade or commerce, will lose, in fact,
his knack Of making bargain or driv-
ing trade and sink into useless con-
dition Of literary, ethical and scientific
erudition, knowing almost everything
except how to draw contract or get
10 per cent on his investment. Now all
this is notable at time when almost
every sacred interest Of civilization is
crying out against the commercial spirit
of the age and many excellent men are
in favor of establishing schools to teach
the young how to avoid being CONNER
cial. Commissioner O'Briep, like many
men Of his class, regards education only
as means Of successful business, and
it is such men as he who have succeed
ed in making our pu bile schools simply
mathematical workshops. What the
community needs now and will need
much more in the future is not good
business men, but good citizens for the
awful lesson is being pounded into US
every day that a man can be one with
out being the other. Enterprise and as
siduity in making money take care of
themselves in this climate. We could
not be a lazy nation if we tried, but
honesty, fidelity to communal interests
and unselfshness need every stimulat-
ing help that we can give them through
our educational system.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

Miss Nellie Miles of Lynn, Mass, has
not only discovered that she is cousin
OF General Miles, but she proposes tc
utilize the discovery. She announces
that she will organize a military band
OF 30 pieces, all men, and lead them
through the country. What is the use
of being cousin to an eminent general
If you do not 'sget there9'' The field il
now open to the sisters and the aunts
OF the other generals and admirals. One
shoulders to think Of the young women
with semidetached uncles who ought tc
be organizing something, if it were only
q minstrel company.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25

A proclamation by the empress dow
ager of China has been published which
is of more than usual import, inasmuch
as it forbids the people of China to mo.
lest or interfere with Christians. The
empress takes much credit to herself fol-
her love Of peace and justice, but the
fact is it is getting to be enormously
expensive to kill Christians, whethe,
they come from England, Germany,
France, the United States, Sweden OF
Italy. Every time a missionary Is mob.
bed and massacred battalion of ma.
rines lands and chops of a piece OF the
kingdom. It pays to be just and peace.
able at this rate.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
Stay at Home Americans.

Stay at Home Americans.
q note Of alarm has been sounded b..
a. a. Lyman of Baltimore with respect
10 Y Americana who abandon their own
country to spend their money abroad.
he suggests movement in favor Of
stay at home Americans. He thinks
that the tendency is to use America to
make make money in and Europe to spend it
~ and cites several cases of wealthy
Americans who have abandoned the
United Unite States to live in European CAPT.
tails, thus depriving the country that
nourlshed them Of all returns in patriot.
Ism and patronage. But is not this dan
ger considerably overdrawn? BY far the
greater number of well to do Americans
who go abroad retain sincere prefer
ence for their own land and people and
return to them gladly. He is not val
liable American who prefers Paris to
New York, and it is fair question if
America would not be better off if
those who prefer Paris went there to
reside To see the whole of the world
IS now almost common privilege Of
Americans, and the exercise Of it does
them no harm. 1t rubs off provincialism
and bounce, opens view into the
memorial past and enlarges the sense of
the blessings Of freedom. To organize
club and have the members take an
oath never to go outside of their native
heath would be about as childish as the
oaths Of fidelity and everlasting com.
radeship that schoolboys make. AS a
general rule it may be laid down that
the more Yankee sees of the world the
better he likes his own country, and
the number of Yankees who prefer to
live elsewhere than in their own coun-
try compares with the number of for
eigners who prefer to live here as
summer shower compares with the gulf
stream. There are, it is true, certain
society imperialists who are never happy
unless they are prancing in the train of
some foreign notable, but they are not
Americans.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
An American Pope.

America, with its s, 0Oo, 900 or TO-
900, 900 Of Catholics, is very much in.
terested in the health of the holy father
at Rome, which has been vacillating
for some time, and intelligent nom
Catholics understand how large a factor
the Eenignant old man is in current
European affairs. The question Of his
successor has been much discussed on
account of his feeble health, and the
names Of Cardinal Gibbons and Cardi-
nal Vaughan have been repeatedly used
as possible future pontiffs But the New
York Tribune carefully points out that
all these speculations, for very good
reasons, are idle. In the first place, the
Italian element always possesses ma
jority in the sacred college and may be
relied upon to choose one of it's number
as the next pope, not only from motives
OF sympathy that exist among fellow
countrymen, but likewise on the ground
Of expediency. The Italian government
would never permit the establishment
IN the Vatican of pope who is the citi-
zen of foreign nation. Only an Italian
cardinal is eligible, for the election of a
foreign cardinal to the chair of St.
Peter might again have the effect of
driving the papacy into exile. The
Tribune also points out, what is not
generally known, that the Roman Cath.
olic clergy, both of high and low degree,
are prohibited, under the most severe
pains and penalties, from canvassing or
even discussing the election of success
sor to the papacy during the lifetime
Of a pontiff.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-05-25
Bows. if YOU take trouble To work NJ,

Boys, if you take trouble to work out
the following problem it shows exactly
what the people think of you: Place
the year of your birth on a piece of pa
per add your age at your last birthday,
last year, not this year, multiply by
1000 and subtract 683, 423. Substitute
for figures letters of the alphabet, a
for r., ], b for 2, c for 8, and 50 on, and
read the result. -EIchu'eqp