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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-01
Does This Strike You?

Muddy compilations, nauseatlng
breath come from chronic constipa
ton. Karps Glover Root Tea is an
absolute cure and has been sold for
fifty years on an absolute guarantee.
Price % cts and 80 cts. For sale by
Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-01

at did me more good than any
thing l ever used. My dyspepsia
was of months standing; after eating
it was terrible. Now l am we'll"
writes S. b. Keener, HoisinR ton, Kas,
of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t digests
what you eat. Elko Drug Co.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-01

"If you scour the world you will
never find remedy equal to One
Minute Cough Cure" says Editor
Fackler, Of the Micanopy, fla, Hust-
Ter. 1t cured his family Of LaGrippe
and saves thousands from pneumonia
bronchitis, Group and all throat and
lung troubles. Elko Drug Co.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
rs UP AGAINST IT."
w. ]. Bryan's Path to the White
Eouse Barred.
bestriding the DemO-POp Donkey
"Frce silver and Free Trade" He
RIMS Up Against the Pros
perity Wall.

One of the most impressive among
the many showings OF prosperity with
which the American people are now
adays so frequently RECALLED after two
full years of restored protection is that
made in the news columns of the New
York Sun of July 20. With its char
acteristic enterprise and sagacity the
Sun, always keenly alive to matters of
genuine public interest, has gathered
from correspondents in various bust
ness centers some very significant facts
as to the abnormal activity which pre-
walls among the railroads of the United
States. No one needs to be told that
when the great inland transportation
systems are rushed with business and
straining to increase their facilities to
else must be extremely busy. Railroad
business is sure index of general Dusi-
ness.
From Chicago the report is that every
railroad entering that city to-day needs
more cars than it has or can get to
meet the demands of shippers. This
condition is not due to any great and
sudden increase in any particular traf-
fic, but is due to the steady growth Of
all kinds of traffic. From all indica-
tons the year 1899 will eclipse all for
mer years in the volume of business
done by the railroads. Last year was
one of prosperity for the railroads, the
increase in traffic as compared with
that of several years previous being
considered almost phenomenal; but
there is almost as great an increase in
earnings so far this year over those of
the corresponding period of last year
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

COFFEE TIPS.
How the First Plants Were Brought
Over to This Side of the
World.

A pretty story of the introduction OF
coffee into the western hemisphere is
quite to the point since our new posses
sions have SO bountifuliy produced it in
the past, says the Philadelphia Record.
There was a time when this assisted
emigrant," though so nobly self-sup-
porting when it has the opportunity,
was tender slip and likely to perish OF
thirst. In TIA Louis XIV. was pre-
sented with single coffee plant for
his botanical garden by an Amsterdam
magistrate. 1t was nourished tenderly
and in time slips from it were sent to
Martinique-no doubt sub-rosa to the
Dutch-the Dutch having long con-
trolled the cultivation of coffee and
guarded it jealousy lest it be Guilt
waited on islands not under their control.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

creased our equipment this year, and, of
course. that has aided US in handling the
Increased business, but in some kinds OF
cars there has already been scarcity"
1t is now but 90 months since Will
liam Mckinley took his seat as presi.
dent of the United States; only few
days more than two years since the
Dingley tariff was enacted. Contrast,
If you can, present conditions with
those which existed 20 months after
the Inauguration of Grover Cleveland
in 1893 and "a months after the enact
ment of the all-destroying Wilson-Gor-
man tariff law. Ten billions of dollars
would not suffice to measure the i'm
crease in individual, corporate and ma
tional wealth which has taken place
since the restoration of protection as
the American policy. Probably $20000,-
100000 would fall below the mark.
Verify, it is true, in the euphemistic
phraseology of the cartoon which APP
pears with this article, that William
Jennings Bryan, bestriding the free sill
yer and free trade ass of his party, finds
his progress to the white house barred
by solid wall of prosperity and is up
Against the Real Thing Now"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
DRIFT OF OPINION.

UMr. Bryan prefers to be defeated
at the polls as the leader of the sixteen
to one party to being set aside by his
party with a platform denying the one
issue for which he stands. Indianapo-
lis Journal
UThere are several things which the
Iowa democrats view with alarm"
There are several things which the re-
publicans of the land do not view with
alarm, and one of them is the campaign
of 19OO-Milwaukee Evening Wiscon.
sin.
GTAccording to the official report Of
the Central Freight association the
traffic in grain is now five times as large
as it was year ago. There is no good
record in existence that will not be
broken during the next few years Of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES State Register.
ryThe Iowa democrats gulped down
the entire Chicago platform without
gagging and afterward swallowed the
anti-expansion and antitrust resolu-
tions. The Iowa democrats are not the
kind of fellows who strain at gnats OF
camels, either.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
rJOne of the southern representa-
tives at the anti-Bryan democratic con-
ference in New York hit the nail ire
mendous blow on the head when he de
clared: 'We voted for Bryan because
he promised us more money-we don't
care for the man himself."-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
UIn his Des Moines speech BryaE
made the flatfooted statement tina.
more banks failed during the siy
months Immediately following the cleo
ton of President Mckinley than during
any six months of our history. The re-
port of the comptroller of currenc,
proves the falsity of this statement
Chicago Post.
OBryan said in a speech the other
day that the foreign-born voters were
unable to understand the issue in 1896.
The insult to the Germans and Swedes.
who, especially among the foreign-born
citizens, were solidly opposed 10 the
free coinage of silver at sixteen to one.
will not be overlooked or forgotten next
year.-Cleveland Leader.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
BACK DOWN OF BRYAN.
Anyth ing to Win Is the Motto of the
Megaphonic Moutlier of the
MRlcOntents.

In his speech at Des Mones, before
the democratic county chairmen of
Iowa, William Jennings Bryan indi-
Gated that he is preparing to do that
which he has always insisted that the
democracy must not do-place the sill
yer issue in the background.
His utterances were made with great
err caution than were those of Mr.. Crok-
er, in which that gentleman made
known his change of convictions. Mr..
Bryan made known his willingness that
the silver issue should be shelved in
such a way that it did not obtrude it.
self at once upon the understanding,
but gradually dawned upon it. First he
said that the Chicago platform was
built for all time. That was, or seemed
to be, quite in accordance with what he
had always asserted. 1--WE need not re-
pudiate a syllable nor idea of it," he
said next. Here the first symptom of
weakening appeared. Heretofore he had
always said: 1--WE must not repudiate,' "
etc. Then he ventured a little farther
out upon the new ground, by saying:
But when new and important issues
arise we can take them into the family
and make the campaign upon them
without apologizing for any past
fight"
Heretofore Mr.. Bryan had steadfast-
ly held to the declaration that no other
issue could possibly take natural prece-
dence of the silver question, and he had
persistently asserted that no other must
be permitted to take precedence.
Having carefully and cautiously pre-
pared the minds of his hearers for the
announcement of his complete change
of conviction, Mr.. Bryan said: 1--WE lost
the last campaign because we lacked
the foreign vote. They did not under
stand the silver issue. But they will
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
COIN HARVEY LEFT OUT.
The Silver school PedngOgue of 1Stsd
Is Not In IL for
1900.

Prior to the formal opening of the
presidential campaign of 1896 it was
generally agreed among political OBJ
servers that Coins Financial School,"
volume of which w. H. Harvey was
the author, would certainly be the text
book of the democrats if Bland, Bryan
or Tillman were nominated at Chicago.
Coin was n man-or, more properly
speaking, a boy, adolescent in years and
juvenile in arguments-who had con
stituted himself the voluble pioneer OF
a new system of finance. It's full bene"
fits were to be attained by statutory
provisions to be adopted by congress.
whereby one dollar would be made
worth 80 cents and so cents would have
the purchasing power of dollar. The
feasibility of this plan was disclosed in
series of fictitious lectures given by
"Prof. Coin" young financier living
in Chicago" to various bankers, manu-
facturers and business men, one of
whom was Mr.. Lyman j. Gage, now the
secretary of the treasury. Coins text
DOOh VI llCC SliNtl dl tHC IdllO vi SiN-
teen to one was embellished with illus
trations. one of which depicted the
financial magnates of the United States
as having wheels in their heads. This
is a sample of Coins argument:
"Mr. f. H. Wheeler wanted to know Of
Prof. Coin if he did not believe 1t would ad-
vance prices if the government was to issue
$500 600 OO0 in greenbackS?
=" No. replied Coin. 1T would break down
the present tottering financial system soon
er. The remedy to restore prices is to re.
monetize silver and then issue more green
backs BY putting silver back in the col
umn of redemption money, we would In.
crease it from its present volume of $780,
100000 to 81 200, OOO, 900. This would warrant
81, 200 900 of credit money and would givd
us 81, 400 eco on a sound financial footing,
or about $34 head
"As Coin made this last statement. he laid
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

have professed TO speak for the
democratic party have been barking up
the same old tree. They have talked
about the burdens under which the
country is laboring and have dscoursed
upon the iniquity of the protective sys-
TEN. With the country prosperous be-
yond anything ever known before any
where in the world all talk about ter
rible burdens and vituperation of the
system of protection, under which all
our present prosperity has been
achieved, has been only so much waste
of breath. You can fool all the people
some of the time and some of the people
all the time, but you can't fool all the
people all the time" Abraham Lincoln
said; and the campaign of 1900 will be
one of the times when free trade poll
ticians won't be able to fool all the peo-
pie or any part of the people into voting
away their prosperity by voting down
protection.
1t is noticeable that Mr.. Keeney sug-
gested Mr.. German as u possible leader;
nOIlCeaDle because MT. NORMAN udS
been suggested before rs representing
the protection wing of the democratic
party. So far so good. The only OBJ
stacle, but an insurmountable one, to
Mr.. Germans success, in case he should
be nominated, will be the fact that he
is not enough of protectionist to sat
isfy people who have enjoyed the benefi-
cent results which have been brought
about by the enactment Of the Dingley
law. The system of protection in spots,
which is Mr.. Germans system, and
which was exemplitied in some slight
degree in the Wilson-Gorman law, will
receive short shirts at the hands of the
voters. 1t is significant, however, that
an attempt is being made by some OF
the democratic leaders to commit the
party, so far as possible, to the policy
of protection. Nothing succeeds like
success, and protection has been pre-
eminently successful. Will the demo-
Gratis and populists be bold enough to
antagonize it again?
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

as was the case of 1898 over 1897. All
the railroads which build their own
freight cars have kept full forces at
work in the shops, but they could not
turn out cars fast enough to supply the
demand, and orders were placed with
car manufacturing companies which
will keep most of them busy for the
remainder of the year, if not longer.
Here is a curiously suggestive fact
stated by an official of one of the big
western railways:
moro pianos were shipped over our road
from Chicago to the west and southwest in
the last three months than the entire num-
Der in the years from 1898 to 1897. This is
good proof of the prosperity of the farmer
for piano is luxury IN which he does not
indulge as soon as he gets a few hundred
dollars ahead Our traffic in farming ma
chinery was never so large as it has been
this year and our crop reports made it GER
tain that the investments in machinery
were well made"
When the farmers buy pianos they
are ION Easy street." No doubt of that.
Another railroad manager said: "If
we could borrow or hire from 5000 to
10000 box cars we could find immediate
nse for all of them"
At Detroit an official declared that in
90 years his road has "never seen a
condition like the present. Ordinarily
ut this time of the year we are not bur-
dened with a surplus of business, and
rather have difficulty in finding place
to store our empty freight cars than to
employ all our energies to find cars
enough to carry the business offered to
rs. We are certainly behind on a Wis
ible supply of cars requisite to carry
the freight which we can get without
any solicitation"
Baltimore reports a scarcity of cars
with which to remove the tremendous
business present and prospective. AT
Buffalo the freight traffic is far in ex-
cess of the supply of cars. Thousands
of extra cars could be used, but they
are not to be found At Philadelphia
a trunk line official testifies to great
increase on all the lines of his road
Speaking of the lines east of Pitts
burgh, he said:
st am convinced that the present pros
perity is lasting for the reason that the In
crease Of business is not confined to a par.
ticular locality. 1t is general. For instance
on all the stations of our road there is Q
substantial betterment. Some of the offices
report an increase Of seven per cent, others
Is per cent. many from so to 70 per cent.
some 100 per cent, and one as high as 2l'
per cent.
while, as these reports show, our bust
ness is much in excess of that of last year
we have not experienced any great diff
ficulty in getting cars to handle the freight
thus far, but there will be a scarcity o.
cars In the latter part of September oil
October. How serious Il will be l have
no means of telling at this time. AS {
matter If fact, we have very largely in
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

terly. She had the conductor bring the
lad to her compartment and, finding
that he was proceeding to Vienna to
attend his fathers funeral, she insisted
on his travelling with her, paying the
difference in his fare, as he had only a
,aird-class ticket. During the trip she
devoted herself to the task of comfort
ing him, telling Tie boy, among other
things, that she, too, had suffered much
from the loss of fondly loved parent,
who had died suddenly in foreign
land. 1t was only when the boy reached
Vienna and was leaving the train that
ne discovered that the kind lady was
Archduchess Valerie.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
HIS SINS FOUND HIM OUT.
The Checkered Career of Man Who
Founded Bogus Diamond
Mine in Arizona.

II saw reference the other day to
the great Arizona diamond field swim
de" said an old jeweler to New Or
leans Times-Democrat man. ut was
sprung on the public just 80 years
ago, and l remember the excitement it
created. The originator of the scheme
came from New Orleans. He was a
brilliant man, chemist, geologist and
natural diplomat, but he lacked moral
counterpoise. He and his associates
procured number of uncut stones
from Holland, and sailed canyon
in the mountain south of the ella river.
Then followed the discovery and the
organization of company and in a
few months nearly 100000 worth OF
stock was sold. 1t was several years
before the exact character of the swim
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
NOT THE RIGHT SORT.
No Halfway Democratic PrOtectiOnist
VIII lie Acceptable nv a Pres
idential Candidate,

George p. Keeney, president of the
Association of National Silver Clubs,
who is making tour of the country for
the purpose of studying the political
situation, and who was a warm sup
porter of Bryan in 1896, says in refer
ence to the selection of a candidate for
the presidency on the democratic ticket
in 1900:
There is clamor for new issues and
fight along new lines. The south
erners are repeating that the western COM
bination failed in 1896 and in 1898 and that
the chief consideration at this time is sue
cess. They will, | believe, demand demo-
crat who will unite the east and the south,
and one who will not in himself revive the
old issues upon which we have met only
defeat and disaster.
This is the first sign that there is to
be contest in 1900. So far those who
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

understand what a standing army
means. They know what expansion and
imperialism mean, and will vote against
them. They will understand these
things better than the native Americans
themselves, and on such issues we can
win"
"On such issues we can win" natu-
rally implies its collary: "On the sill
YER issue we cannot WIN"
1t is not necessary at this time to
discuss the question of the accuracy of
Mr.. Bryan's assertion that he was de-
feated in 1896 because he lacked what
he calls "the foreign vote" But few
words may be given to refutation, on
behalf of naturalized American citizens,
of Mr.. Bryan's assertion that they are
less loyal to the government to which
they have chosen to give their allegi-
ance than are the citizens who were
born under the American flag. There
is absolutely no justification for that
assertion. On the contrary, all evil
dences before the people disprove it.
We have no statistics at hand to prove
it, but we assert with perfect conf
dence that investigation of the facts
will bear us out, that in the army of
the United States the percentage of
naturalized citizens is approximately
as large as it is in the whole popula-
ton. If Mr.. Bryan really believes that
ho irl tt1ra za1 M ri rs n :
with bugaboos of militarism and i'm
perialism, he will discover his error.
But the question naturally arises
whether Mr.. Bryan really means what
he says, or whether he has taken his
cue from Richard Croker and is talking
to deceive the sound money democrats,
just as Mr.. Croker has been talking to
deceive the silverites.
However that may be, it is certain
that Mr.. Bryan has weakened himself
by his utterances at Des Moines. He
leaped into prominence on the platform
of 1896 whose chief plank is that of free
coinage. lie made phenomenal run
on that platform, in view of all the cir
cumstances. His strength was in close
adherence to the issue on which he
made his fight in the last campaign.
They that have been his faithful follow
ers gave him their answering allegi-
ance because he was the champion of
free coinage. When he ceases to be that
champion he ceases to be the logical
candidate of the democracy. Upon the
emergency issues which have been
framed to meet the demand within the
party for something to take the place
of the silver issue, any other democrat
who is otherwise qualified for the can
didacy can run as well as Mr.. Bryan,
or better than he.--Albany Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

On the way to Martinique the botanist
in charge, the ships supply of water
getting low, shared his own daily al
lowance with the precious plants. Re
spending to his kindness, they were
soon growing nicely in Martinique. In
due time these slips produced their
fragrant white fowers-they grow at
the roots of the leaves-and these pres
emily changed into berries, each with
its two grains of coffee. From Mar
Unique the coffee journeyed to Porto
Rico and Cuba.
Now Porto Rico alone annually ex-
ports about 100000 worth of this
highly esteemed bean. The plant grows
wild in some parts of Africa.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
All Are Negroes.

Oberton is village in the Choctaw
nation, Indian territory, Of about 500
inhabitants, all of whom are colored.
The postmaster is colored man, the
notary public is colored and there is a
colored marshal. The town has not
yet been incorporated, but likely will
be soon. at which time the entire set of
officers will be colored. There is con-
siderable business ,enterprise among
some of the people of the nsighborhood.
which comprises circle Of Is miles.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
Not to he Trusted.

To the charge that the tariff has been
the mother of trusts" the response is
that it has been the savior of our indus
tries, the herald of advancing wages,
the progenitor of good prices, the good
genius before whose magic wand de-
preston and distrust have flown to the
limbo of the damned, giving place to
the Frightening presence of confidence
and enterprise. Satan isn't going to
cast out Satan, in either church or state;
and democratic harlequins. marshaled
ty Havemeyers, are not going to be in
trusted with the solving of the trust
problem.-St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

die was developed, and by that time the
affairs of the company were so con-
fused that nobody cared to undertake a
prosecution.
81 saw the professor as he was
called, at Ogden, Utah, in 1854, and he
described the whole affair with great
glee. Afterward he was mixed up in
two other shady enterprises. One was
scheme for aging whisky and the
other was device for refining sugar
by electricity. Both we're fakes, but
he made lot of money out of them, and
as usual escaped punishment. 1t was
the old story, however; he went broke
in the end and died few years ago in
the charity ward of a Chicago hospital
A good deal of the diamond mine stock
was taken in New Orleans, and l dare
say some of it is kicking around here
to this day"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

his hand on a silver bell on the table. and
as its clear notes rang through the room, a
signal that the school had adjourned for
the day, a warm and hearty applause
went up
The youthful Coin dealt in large fig.
ures, an item of billion dollars being
of no Importance to him. Millions were
like corks floating on the stream of his
expansive thought.
Coin fiourshed as a democrat and
evident that he does not fill the bill
for 1900. He is too recent.-N. Y. Sun.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30

steps be taken to protect against van
dals the buried cities of wonderful
prehistoric race in southern Arizona.
The ruins of an ancient temple at Casa
Grande have been preserved by the Gre
alton of government park, and con-
gress will be asked to create a similar
reservation embracing the best pre-
served remains of prehistoric cities ill
the Gila valley.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
Harness Traces of steel.

A steel harness trace is one of the
iatesu productions of Sheffield. A mar
row strip of steel about an inch wide is
incased in leather and used in the or
binary way; the steel is of the best
quality and so pliable that it can be
twisted.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30
sweet Sympathy.

A pretty story is told at Vienna about
Archduchess Valerie, youngest daugh-
ter of the emperor. 1t seems that when
travelling the other day from Linz to
Vienna she noticed on the platform at
Linz 14-year-oid schoolboy crying bit
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-30


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