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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-12-20
PRACTICAL
HOLIDAY GOODS
AT
Lowest Prices
M'KIBBENS.

M'KIBBENS.
We have been getting together the
good practical things in our lines
suitable for the holidays and you
can be sure the styles. colorings and
values are right when you purche Sc
here.
We show handkerchiefs in large
variety from lie each tie $1.25.
Our kid gloves at 81 and $50
! are the best in the country for the
money.
Mittens at Ice, 15c, 20c, 25c, 35c,
Zoe, soc and up.
Cashmere and Fleeced gloves 15c up
to soc.
Fine Topsy Hosiery.
Everything in underwear.
Hoods and fascinators 25c to 81
lapie covers, chenille and tapestry.
Pillow tops.
Lace door panels.
Side combs DC to 81 per pair.
po,orodorr oonhs
oP'ci'i ioO ~ orllllahus LOT z'c.
Silk and velvet belts.
po,+ huo1.Ioa a,1 ,ooo
~ 7
Silk umbrellas.
Ladies lace neckties.
-
''oo'N 'o'i''''
Fancy ribbons.
Special Taffata ribbon wide lac vi
Fine black dress yoods
co1s e1.;n.;, q I'LL .,.;
Snacial all WOOL 7;,oh droSs ooods
of TO u
Fropcb eannols fo ;s+s
Fancy sill, wois+ no+torns
Snecial Taffo+a s;il,s OF vd
Tai lnan ooo ra +o q vd
Snecial all rnon ro1,os a. 1oo and
SO nor ,d haIsI,Ioaoh1
Sneciol ali linon vaI,,oco+ 5oconasoo
Der vd. bleacbed
Splendid all linen nankins 81 o doz
Snlendid crash alIEnon of 1oc rd
Ev+ra rood towels 49, 80 -
others I'D TO 50 n pair
PATTERNS 81 81 IN g
81 10 and -
Mems susnandars 10 +o 10 no;r
Mems gloves 25c TO 81 10 a nair
Mems wool and cashmere socks - RI
soc a pair.
Mems Tonsv faacad or nla;n sootS 80
to 25c q nair
Mems colored shirts
Special white shirts 5Oc and s5o
BIG line OF working shirts soc.
Our Oyerans AT zoe arc snlendid
Mems underwear 25c to 81 -
Our extra fiaecad at 5Oc i worth 70
Mons ba+s NJ oa.
Mems all wool nants - ond 60
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
PROSPERITY AND GLORY.

Air-Marching Through Georgia.
Mckinley and Roosevelt, men OF golden
Men whose loyal energy now the nation
needs:
Men whose resolution all the world united
needs,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
CHORUS.
Hurrah Hqrrah! In honor we are bound.
Hur sound; Aurran'' ouf money III
Honest golden dollars ringing all the world
around,
Bringing prosperity and gloryl
Builders in our history, men of real worth.
Men whose names are honored over all the
teeming earth;
Fen among the bravest since the nation had
Bringing prosperity and gloryl
Hold to truth and justice, to integrity and
right
Hold to fearless principles, to honest dol
lars bright
Hold your country's credit ever spotless
with your might,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
Keep the fruits OF victory stainless ever
more,
Keep your banners flying on Manila's dis
Keep our noble President within the White
House door
Bringing prosperity and glory!
Cherish deeds of valor wreathed in mem
cries sublime,
Cherish grand achievements wrought IN
Oriental cline,
Cherish honest duty calling; now's the
golden time,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
IL ~.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
story of the Clenrings.

The best gauge of the volume of bust
ness of the country is the bank clearing
statistics. They prove, as no other fig
ures can, the trade movement. Never in
the history of the country have they
shown such a vast aggregate OF business,
such an immense increase as during the
years Of the Mckinley administration.
The following figures are from Brad
streets and are accepted as official. The
comparison is made with the year 1894,
as that is the year the Democratic pol
icy Of handling the finances of the coun-
try was in full sway.
The grand total of the bank clearings
of the United States, as given by Brad
streets, for the first six months of 1894,
were so, 0S5, 071, 1876. For the first six
months of 1900 they were So. S57 POI,
BIG, an increase Of S20,772, 130120. For
the month of June. 1894, the grand total
was $3.5IG, 315,339. For the month Of
June, 1900. it was $G,621 ,06S, I07, an in
crease Of $3,044, 753, 4GS.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
PROSPERITY IN IDAHO.
Report of State BIreau of IInmi gra-
tion Labor Statistics Proves 1t.

Report of State RIreau of Inmi gra-
ton Labor Statistics Proves 1t.
"There are few, if any, States in the
Union where laboring men are better
treated, get better wages and have more
, opportunities to acquire homes and Sc
cure Il competence than in Idaho.
THE relations between laborng men
and their employers in this State are I'M
usually pleasant With the single ex-
ception of one county in the State there
have been no strikes for years in the
State and no labor troubles of any kind.
In this county labor troubles are now
in n fair way Of being satisfactorily set
tied. The mines are being worked by a
good SCI of men, who are paid from SO
to $5 per day, and every citizen is salts
fed with the conditions. Ia other parts
of the State the relations between la
borers and their employers are harmoni-
Gus and pleasant.
"All labor organizations that are based
on law and order are welcomed not only
by the employers of labor, but by all
classes of citizens. and all such organiza-
tons are in a fourishing condition. Near
ly all, If not all, of the labor unions have
a hospital fund and many Of them have
halls where the meetings of the union are
held, while in some instances there are
libraries in connection with the unions
that contain the best books on literary
philosophical and scientific subjects. As
n class the laboring men OF Idaho are
sober, industrious, frugal, we'll educated
and intelligent"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
PROSPERITY FOR ZINC MINERS.
Four Years of Mckinley and Protec-
ton Have Enriched Missouri.


Mckinley prosperity and the protective
tariff on zinc and lead ores have in four
years, added millions Of wealth to Mis-
souri, and Kansas. They have made a
comparatively little strip of territory in
southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas
the greatest zinc mining section in the
world producing seven-eighths of the
American zinc ore and about one-fourth
of the entire worlds supply.
For years this district, which centers
about Joplin, Mo-, and Galena, Kan,
consisted of several little mining camps
struggling along and yielding very little
product. Mining was done in a crude
and primitive way, and lack of capital to
operate in a manner befitting country
so beautifully blessed by nature was a
check to development and a barrier TO
progress.
Three years ago a change began. The
factories of the East, which had been
alarmed over the Wilson bill and shut
down their plants entirely or in part, had
their confidence restored and resumed
operations to their full capacity. This
created n demand for more zinc which is
used extensively in many industries. New
uses for zinc for various purposes were
constantly being found, and additional de-
mands for zinc ore were thereby created.
AS consequence. the attention of
Eastern and foreign capital became at
tracted to Americas great undeveloped
zinc fields, whose only need was financial
aid. Money, which had been tied up by
cautious capitalists, sought investment.
Wonderful were the changes wrought.
Mines, mining leases and mineral lands
doubled and quadrupled in value, crude
and antiquated methods of mining gave
way to modern methods. The old hand
windlass and horse holster were supplant-
cd by modern machinery. Old abandoned
mines which had been left with their tim
bers to rot and tools to rust were opened
up again and new mining camps sprang
up all over the district. An era of pros
perity had dawned and the increased de-
mand for zinc had advanced the price to
point undreamed of four years before.
The following table is concise history:
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Total 49,. 81, 7G7, 030,671 5000, $50, 13J
Prosperity Among Miners.

The prosperity of the American miner
the last four years has been remarkable.
The activity of the mills and of the rail-
roads has doomed the price of coal, cop
per, zine and other metals. These have
yielded far better returns IL wages to
those who go a thousand feet into the
earth" than they would nave done had
Mr.. Bryan been elected President in 1896.
The opening up Of the minis to the free
coinage Of silver would never have really
doomed the price of silver, for the silver
Of the whole world would have poured
into America, the nations Of the earth
being only too glad for us to pull their
chestnuts out of the fire for them.
IN the mining Of gold in Il gold stand
ard country, miners have profted far
more than they would have ever profited
by the mining of silver in n silver stand
ard country. The lone, poor prospector,
and the grub stalker" have had n chance
TO "come in on the production Of gold,
whereas silver mining has always been
under the control of wealthy syndlcates,
and of individuals like Mr.. Clark Of Mon
tana. whose wealth enabled him to buy
a Democratic Legislature to elect him
Senator, and to contribute 500, COO to
the present fund to elect Bryan Presi-
don't
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Wiudfall to Railroad Labor.

For the fiscal year ended June 30.
1899, gross railroad receipts were larger
10y $2GG 1863 than for the year ended
June 80, 1895. Such increase mostly rep
resents larger dividends Tin the form Of
increased wages) to labor. Similarly
there was a gain over 1895 of $2S, $751;
45S in net earnings. This has gone part
ly into the strengthening of cash ac-
counts, but the greater part Of it into
increased dividends to stockholders. 1t
must not he forgotten in this connection
that railroad securities are owned very
largely by people of all classes. They
are recommended to widows for safe in
vestment They form the basis, next TO
government bonds, for the investments OF
insurance companies, and for the trust
funds Of charitable and philanthropic In
situations.
In 1898 there was paid in compensation
to employees of railroads the total sum Of
$495, 055,61G, as against $445. 50S.261 in
1898. gain OF SO, J47,35 When in ad-
dition we consider the increased wages
indirectly paid in new construction Of
track and bridges, in new cars, etc. which
absorbed the greater part of the increases
in gross earnings, it will be more evident
what windfall just one year of pros
perity has been to the people who work
on the railroads.
The number of new miles of road built
during the year ended June 80. 1899, was
$500, as against only 1,G50 for the cor
res ponding period ended in 1895. OF
course this is significant, not merely be-
cause it has meant increased work and
more money paid in wages, but because
it increased the facilities of commerce,
and because it made it that much easier
for the farmer to get his products into
the city to I'll the dinner pail of the city
workman
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Adlai stexen.on,s prosnsritx.

The city of Bloomington, H., which is
the home of the Democratic vice presiden-
tial candidate, Adlai Il. Stevenson, but
recently sold its bonds on basis which
makes the interest paid by the city on
the loan only $40 per cent. This rate
is lower than any municipality in the
United States could get in 1896.
AS a citizen of Bloomington, Mr.. Ste
venson will be able to save some money
in taxes, because Of the good credit and
prosperity that has come to his town as
a share in the beneficial results of Re
publican policies during the last four
years. The remarkable appreciation in
the credits OF American municipalities
since McKinley's election il 1896, mean
ing great savings TO taxpayers, has been
ore OF the most interesting features of
the great prosperity that has come to tlc
people of this country.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Prosneritv on the Pnc,tic.

Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson, in an
interview the other day, said:
Anything produced in the United
States will now permanently find its way
into all parts Of the celestial empire. Our
trade relations there in the future are
secured. The trade in cotton goods has
been very heavy in Manchuria and other
northern provinces. Our interests gener-
ally, our dairy, poultry ard other products
from tie farms Of the United States,
now have assurance of permanent mar
kets in all the provinces throughout the
Chinese Empire where such things are i'm
demand, and this demand is growing and
will continue To grow.
'''rhe work OF Secretary Hay in this
regard supplements and compliments the
work Of our army and navy. A year ago
70 nation would have listened to propo-
sition of this kind (thc open door policy.
but the whole wor,S listens to the United
States now. The white mans burden
came with the islands. Secretary Hays
work brings the reward for lifting the
burden. Some idea Of the vastness of
the interests involved may be gained from
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Money Earned and Spent.

In 1899 the savings banks deposits OF
the United States advanced to 1920
3G0,954. That brought them up to more
than the combined savings banks depos-
its of any two other nations in the world
and to half the deposits Of Austria, Hun
gary. Bavaria. Belgium, Denmark,
France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway,
Prussia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United
Kingdom. Australasia, Canada, Cape
Colony. India. Natal and the Crown colo
mics all put together, their combined de-
posts being, in 1899, hut $4,593, $40, 4J0.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Cigars smokeI Over Prosperitr.

Probably nothing demonstrates prosper
ity more clearly than the consumption of
cigars.
w. G. Hollister of Chicago, who prints
the blue labels for the Cigarmakers' In
ternational Union and is required to make
affidavit to the number turned out, has
made the following report to President
q. w. Perkins of the union of the labels
printed during recent years: 1895. A.
$4,000; 1896, 46.440,000 1897, 46,54j.-
50C; 1898. 46,609. 200; 1899, 55,140,O00.
During the first six months of 1900 the
number jumped TO 3G.S55,000. Men can
nor afford to buy cigars unless they are
prosperous and earning good wages.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Corn, Cattle aud Contentmcnt.

"Gentlemen." shouted an orator in
Kansas in 1899 from the beginning of
Indiana to the end of Nebraska there is
nothing but corn. cattle and content
ment."
And he added little later: "The joyful
sound of the mortgagor paying off his in
debtedness has even pierced the dense
ears Of the money changers of the East"
Nothing can exceed the breezy Joy, the
piano and top-buggy buying enthusiasm
of the Kansan in the year Of his pros
perty under the gold standard.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Prosnerity Cor NIincrs.

Coke, a product of coal, is used excu-
siyely in manufacturing. Its consumption
is one of the best evidences of the pros
perity and increase of our manufacture
ing industries.
In the year 1890, under Mckinley,
prosperity and 'the opening of the fac
tories" was a great year for coke. More
new coke ovens were established than
ever before and the product was greater.
The price more than double. and even
then the demand caused by the growth OF
the iron and steel industries Of the coun-
try could not be supplied. In 1894 coke
was selling at 81 per ton, early in 1000 II
touched So n ton.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
ZINC IN MISSOURI.
OnAntitY AYcrAge price

\ few of the above figures are partlcu-
larly instructive. In 1892, at the close Of
the Harrison administration, the Joplin
zine field produced 131, 4SS tons, the av-
erage price of which at the mine was
$21 TG per ton and the total value Of
which was S2,SG4,4T In 1894, under
the Wilson bill depression. the produc-
ton Of this same field had fallen to 50, 100
tons, with an average price at the mine
Of SO per ton. total value of 81 ,33I,9lO.
lin 1898 the quickenng influence of Me-
Kinlcy prosperity was fairly under way.
the production rose to 139,66S tons. with
an average price at the mine OF $20.9G
per ton and a total value OF $2,921 ,321.
Last year, 1899, the full tide Of prosper
ity promised by the Republican party
was flowing in on the Joplin and Kansas
district and the production reached high
water mark in ISL 400 tons, with an av-
crage value at the mines OF $32.93 per
ton and total value Of $5,974,G2i, or
over four times as much as it was in
1894. The year 1900 figures, when all in,
will show n still further increase. Yet
it is probable that the Missouri section
OF this prosperous region will utterly ig-
more this wonderful object lesson and
vote for Bryan, free trade and rotten
money. Vote to again close up the fac
tories and bring disaster to their country.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
JANUARY

During Harrison's administration there
was an approximate gain of S154, 100000
in the value of live stock. During Cleve-
lands administration there WIS an APP
proximate loss of $S20,000,000. During
the first three years of McKinley's adj
ministration an approximate gain OF
1857 600 600
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Prosperity Dividends to Farmers.

Last years prosperity dividends paid
by the Republican party to the farmers
Of the United States amounted to up
wards of one billion dollars. The value
of ten staple crops showed for 1899 to-
tai increased value of 1923, 100000 over
1895. Add to this increase an advance
of $633, coo, 600 during the same period in
the value of live stock, and the balance
sheet shows disbursements of a round
billion. This does not include the special
profits from better prices for fruit, but
ter, cheese, eggs, vegetables and lastly,
but not leastly, wool. Following are
comparisons of values of the principal
crODs:
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Nebraska,s Prosperity.

The Secretary OF State of Nebraska has
compiled list showing that the excess
of mortgages paid off and released during
1893 over those filed for the same period
amounted to more than $J0,00U,000. The
most OF these were paid in cash,
the foreclosures were comparatively few.
IL will be hard for Mr.. Bryan TO con-
vince the farmers of his own State that
they are not prosperous.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31

the fact that while ten years ago our
exports from the Pacific coast to all coun-
tries aggregated $26000,000 and five
years ago $42,000,0OO, the steady increase
in Pacific coast exports has raised the
aggregate to S7S,000,000 a year ago."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
No Room for Calamity HowIirp.

Large sums of money alc being offered
in the financial columns of the Chicago
daily papers to loan at 3A per cent on
city property, Az per cent on farm prop
erty. When money is offered at these
rates 1t behooves the calamity nowlcrs
to take a back seat. Sach interest rates
indicate such prosperous times as the
country has never seen before.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Luxurle, from the Other Side.

The prosperity that came to our work
ers in these protected industries was the
means Of spreading prosperity to ali home
workers, whether or not they belonged 20
pursuits or callings OF the kind which
needed to be protected.
Nor did so much prosperity at home
work to the harm Of those other countries
which must continue prosperous, if they
are TO continue to be our good customers.
While American exports this last year
were $1,394, 1S6,371, the largest in our
history. and were more widely distributed
throughout the world than ever before.
yet in some directions there were great
increases in imports. Our imports of
manufacturers materials this last year
were valued at 1902 ,2G1, JOG, which is
about 40 per cent greater than for any
preceding year in our history
by being protected in his opportunities
to make at home the articles that ought
to be made at home. the American indus
trial worker has more than well utilized
and justified such oppois Jnity given him.
He has done his work - increasingly we'll
the last four years that all the nations of
the world have become his customers.
The whole outside world instead of sell
ing him the things he can just as we'll
make himself, now sells him the terial
which his increased work requires and
which it is not worth his own busy while
to prepare, and the silks, the satins, the
perfumes, the wines, the gloves, the jew
elry, the artistic fancy notions. the toys,
the tropical fruits the tea, coffee. sugar,
spices, etc, which he could not very well
if ever afford to buy for himself wife and
children, before the Republican party
gave him prosperity.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Men Wanted in the Mills.

Many manufacturers of wooden and
cotton goods in Connecticut state that
lots OF looms are idle because men to
work them cannot be found. Wages have
advanced in cotton mills from II to 20
per cent.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
PRoSPERlTYFoR WAGe-EARNERS
Proven by the History of the American
Federation of Labor.

Proven by the History or the American
Federation of Labor.
That the laboring men of the country
are in q more prosperous condition than
ever known before is proven beyond any
chance Of contradiction by the statistics
of the American Federation OF Labor,
sent out over the signature of the presi-
dent, Mr.. Samuel Gompers, who is
Democrat
We compare the disastrous years Of the
Wilson bill and Democratic rule-1S93,
tS04 and 1S95-with 1890 under Nc
kincy and prosperity
In 1893 the American Federation Of
Labor met at Chicago. There were 9J
delegates present, 50 national trade un-
ions represented, Is local trade unions,
II city central unions and one State
branch. The receipts for the year were
$40, SG4.G2, and the expenditures $21 1888.
IN 1891 the American Federation OF
Labor met at Denver, Colo. There were
a delegates present 80 national trade
unions represented, u local trade unions,
IL city central unions and three State
branches. The receipts for the year were
S15,346.43, and the expenditures S17,-
302 0S
In 1895 the American Federation Of
Labor met at New York City. There
were So delegates present, 81 national
trade unions represented, % local trade
unions, 10 city central unions and three
State branches. The receipts were S13,-
IJ1.15, and the expenditures S15,612 -.
In 1899 the American Federation Of
Labor met at Detroit. There were 1S9
delegates present, 30 national trades un-
ions, Go local trade unions, 81 central
unions and five State branches. The re-
ccipts were $50, 757.13, and the expendi-
lures $50, 1922.
Surely labor prospers when the men,
bers Of this great organized body can
contribute to the cause, as shown by the
above receipts, over $4,000 more in 1899
than they did in 1893, and several thou
sands more than double what they did in
each of the years 1893, 1894 and 1895.
Under date of Aug. ., 1900, Mr.. Comp
ers stated the number of independent
unions 10 be 1,154, city central unions
101. State branches II.
1t is evident from these figures that
when the American Federation OF Labor
meets in December next there will be
showing of progress made and increase
of membership, ali accomplished under
labor's prosperous conditions, such as no
labor organization has ever before made.
Larger Exports of Farm Products
The agricultural reports show that our
sale of agricultural products abroad DUR
ing the past three years, 1S97-1S99, were
more than $5O0,000000 greater than in
tie preceding three years, 1894-1S96.
Exports of butter were worth, in 1895.
$915,533; in 1899. $3,263951.
There were 425,352,l S7 pounds of ba-
con exported in 1896 and 5G2, 6j1 ,4S0
pounds in 1899. This was an increase Of
137,000000 pounds.
The following are some interesting COM
narrative wool prices furnished hv q
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
Better Prices for Forr,ers.

The following table shows the current
market price of different staple crops OH
June l, 1896, and June /. 1900: