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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-11

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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN

Will populists ever wake up to the
fact that they must have press to
present their principles and defend
them in every populist household?
There is where TIE work must be done
If it is effective. Give to the voters
in the populist party the facts and
the arguments to sustain them and
the party will grow like a green bay
tree. Thus armed populist voters will
soon be looked upon as knowing some
thing and become men of influence In
their several communities. Those who
read the plutocratic dailies and the
weeklies that are made up from them.
ere kept in the most profound ignor-
arce of all governmental affairs. Such
papers are all alike. The Cincinnati
Enquirer Of September 10 lies on the
editorial desk. It's editorial writing is
less than column and is made up of
short squibs, the longest Of which con-
sists of ten and one-half lines. The
remainder of the page is made up 1T
very mediocre poetry, short stories,
and light trash of various sorts. That,
too. during state campaign in which
the right of the people to own their
lighting plants, street cars and other
municipal utilities is burning ques-
tion. Fifteen injunctions have been
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
THE NEW BANK CONSPIRACY

The bankers all over the west were
perplexed, mystified, nonplussed, by
the condition of affairs in New York
and Washington last Saturday, and not
one of them could give the reason or
invent a theory that would clear up
the matter. Government Is suddenly
rose to ITO. At the same time there
was a tremendous rush to retire cir
culation, application being made to
the comptroller to retire nearly ST.
100000 of national bank notes. All of
them in attempting to solve the
problem started from the proposition
that the Wall street crowd never I'M
dertook anything unless they believed
that there was money In it for them.
Patriotism, the public welfare, or any.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
Dealers In Everything.

thing of that kind never influenced
them in the least. The question was:
How could there be any money in
such movements" To buy govern
ment Is at 10 was the same as lock-
ing up the money in safety vault for
five years, yes, even worse than that,
for II the premium should disappear
it would be equal to the less of in
to, est for ten years. Why was some
great pool taking all the government
II per cent bonds at 10? What did
they want the bonds for?
Western national bankers are hot
over the attempt to retire circulation
in large amounts and contract the cur
rency after the continual demand for
many months for more money" They
think that will go long way to raise
az outcry against the whole national
banking system and give a boost to
the revival of populism. Just at the
time when large amounts of money
arc needed to move the crops, con-
sEiracy to contract the currency does
rot tend to inspire the west to shout
for continuance of the national bank
system,
The forty million dollars that Sec
rotary Shaw has taken from the in
te,nal revenue receipts some bankers
have thought might have had some
thing to do with the demand for retire
ment of national bank notes. If bank
els could retire their circulation and
get back their bonds, they might take
the same bonds and get a deposit for
them. But with bonds even at 109 they
would only receive 1.67S per cent in
terest on their investment. So there
is nothing in that sort of deal.
Several bankers have asked the edi-
tor of The Independent for an explain
alton of this new conspiracy, for tbs
DdEKoTS LH6IuSelfeS nave 1iduCu ~ q
conspiracy" But the editor has to
acknowledge that he can find no ex-
PLANTATION that is satisfactory. The
situation is this: Government 2 per
cent bonds are being bought by some
pool or syndicate at ITO. The Wall
street gang of bankers are making des-
perate efforts to retire their circula-
ton and contract the currency just at
the beginning of the crop moving sea-
sor when there is the greatest de-
n.and for money. Interest rates are
going up. Even the great milling con-
Germ of the Pillsbury's has to pay Z
per cent, when heretofore they have
got all the money needed at per
cent. Rates have been raised on the
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17

LEA rms oOA II HING AT LABJ
Three years ago The Independent be-
gan to give warning to the people con-
corning the promoting and speculative
craze that they seemed to be seized
with. The little plutocratic chatterers
who write the editorials in the re-
publican daily and weekly papers
thought that they were having lots OF
fun calling The Independent one of the
old bowling pops" 1t has taken the
distinguished banker leaders three
years to learn what The Independent
knew and was telling it's readers that
long ago. Some Of the more sane
among the bankers are now talking in
such strain that one is inclined to
charge them with having taken their
speeches verbatim from the columns OF
The Independent. Read the following
and see if it don't sound as if it had
been taken from the columns of this
paper:
Since 1897 this country has in
dulged in an orgy of speculation SO
insanely wild that it hardly has
parallel in history. Every man af-
flicted with the speculative mania
knew that the day of reckoning
must come. 1t has come, and the
only wonder is that its coming was
so long delayed. Beginning with
last September outraged conf
dence began squeezing the water
out of stock market quotations,
and it has been squeezing ever
since, and is not through squeez-
ing. Do not be deceived by tenn
porary rallies. Stock market quo
tatiOns must reach the, level OF
actual values before confidence will
enter Wall street again. Many
stocks now a. Oted will no longer
be listed when confidence again
walks abroad in Wall street.
Legislation will not suffice.
There must be reorganization.
Value given to nothing cannot be
maintained, yet this is what our
twentieth century financiers have
attempted. They have capitalized
bonuses, paid for individual plants,
for individual enterprises They
have capitalized the promoters
rake off. They nave capitalized the
great expectations of minds more
visionary than Colonel Mulberry
Sellers.
1.-THE officials of the government,
through misconceptiOn of the sit
uation on several occasions, came
to the relief G. spectators, and
this unwise use of the government
power can be excused only upon
the ground that the officials hon.
estly thought disaster in Wall
street meant general disaster"
Those are the words of S. F. Flynn,
pl esident of the National Live Stock
bank of Chicago. The readers of this
Taper will remember what has been
said in it's columns during the past
two or three years about "capitalizing
prosperity and drawing interest on
it for the ages tt come Three years
ago Mr.. Flynn was silent and SO were
al! the rest of the bankers. If they
lad been subscribers to The lndepen-
dent they WOULD have known then
what they have just found out now
SSSS%
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17

Amours. What have the conspirators
in view?
The only thing that the editor OF
The Independent can suggest that has
any plausibility in it is that this gang
Of Wall street pirates are riding for q
fell. They have disposed Of all their
Industrial and other watered stocks
and want to precipitate panic. Then
what stocks remain on the list will 60
still lower and they will buy them in
end wait for another revival Of bust
ness. That it will result in bankruptcy
and ruin to tens of thousands, fill
graves with suicides, asylums with
the insane, spread hunger and suffer-
ing over the land has no influence with
them.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
BANKS "MoNKEY1NG" WITH SHAW

Secretary Shaw must realize by this
time that the bankers have been
"rlonkeying" with him. They made
such strenuous representations to him
concerning the absolute necessity OF
'Iaore money to prevent panic that
he got frightened and to supply it
took the dangerous step of defying the
laws to furnish more gas for the Wall
street balloon. Notice to what lengths
the secretary of the treasury went.
In the first place, the law declares
that national banks shall deposit for
security for deposits United States
bonds AND otherwise" The secretary
handed over to them government mon
ey without requiring them to deposit
national bonds as security. That was
the first defiance of the law.
The second step was like unto the
first. The law provides that national
banking associations shall at all times
keep on hand lawful money equal to
at least specified per centum of the
aggregate amount of it's deposits"
The secretary ruled that depository
banks need not take into account the
public deposits in computing their re-
serves.
Still the banks pressed him for
more money" and his next step was
to violate the constitution of the
United States which provides that mo
money shall be drawn from the treas
nry but in consequence of appropria-
tons made by law The law pro-
vides that public moneys, except Gus
toms receipts, may be deposited in
designated bank repositories. But in
view Of the constitutional, provision
no secretary Of the treasury has ever
ventured to divert money from the
treasury to the banks. The secretary
has taken $4,000. 600 out of the treas
ury, namely, the receipts for internal
revenue, to deposit in the banks.
After the secretary had done all this
a. the request of the banks because
they declared they must have more
money" to prevent a panic, then the
banks, as soon as they had got every
dollar of government money that they
could lay their hands on, began to re-
turn national bank notes for canceIla-
ton and are making every effort in
their power to contract the currency.
They have simply been making a
monkey out of Shaw and no wonder
that he is somewhat "riled."
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17

issued by the republican courts against
the city Of Cleveland, preventing 1t
from owning lighting plant or estab-
fishing any competition with Mark
Hanna's street car lines. The ordinary
voters of Ohio, most of when rely on
papers like the weekly Cincinnati En-
qrirer for all their information can, OF
course, know nothing about the merits
OF the contest going on. If 100000
Nebraska Independents could be dis
tributed weekly in that state for a few
weeks, they would know something
about such questions. The only item
in the Enquirer that indicates that it
krows theret is such man as Tom
johnson or that there is campaign
in progress in its state is The follow
ing:
Can General Miles automobile
recommendation for war purposes
be regarded as an Endorsement of
Tom JOhnsOn's spectacular style
of campaigning
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1903-09-17
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SHAW QUARRELS WITH BANKER


The interest of all national banks
are not the same. Among their man
ayers there are bull and bear cliqucs.
Some of them are in such position
that they would profit by great fall
i'll prices even if it brought on panic,
while others are in such condition
that a panic would be bad for them.
What may be called the bear clique
is trying to reduce their circulation
and there are many applications on
file at the treasury department for that
purpose. Il it were not for the law
that forbids the reduction of the cir
cClation more than s3,000,O0O a month,
some millions of national bank notes
would be retired Immediately in face
CT the demand for money ito move the
crops" What would follow upon that
everybody knows. Secretary Shaw, for
political reasons, wants to stave of
the panic as long as possible and he is
furious at those bankers who are try
ing to retire their circulation.
All this goes to show what supreme
folly it is to allow the banks to issue
money at all or in any way to control
the amount of money in circulation.
l. shows that there are lot Of ma
tional bankers who will precipitate
panic at any time and send thousands
Tito bankruptcy and want If by so
doing they can fill their own Golfers.
These bankers are heartless pirates.
After being petted and given special
privileges from which they have ac-
cumulated millions, they stand ready
at any time to bring wreck and ruin
upon the whole country.
SSSSSSSS$S
Always mention The Independents
when writing to our advertisers.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

exposition of the advan-
tages of Snow Hill. as "a
resident and business
town. and as a manu-
featuring and industrial
center That Snow Hill
is supplying the State
with its Governor. is IA
timely reminder, but we
will go further and as
sert that Il man of the
ability and attainments
of Gov. John Walter
Smith. can properly be
claimed by no town or
county. but belongs ra-
ther to the whole state.
Nay even then we think
his confines are too mar
row. and we confidently
predict that his State
will require his services
in the National Con-
gress, for which high
office his talents, his
training. his statesman
ship, and hisbroadmind-
edness eminently fit him.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07
TUESDAY,
MARCH 10th, 1903

at about the hour of , 30 o'clock D IN.
at the Court House door in the of tow n
Snow Hill. Maryland
FIRST-All that vacant lot on the
south side of Market Street, i'm the said
town of Snow Hill. adjoining the resi-
dence now occupied by Mary E. Pontz,
formerly Mary f. Richardson, which
was conveyed by Oliver ID. Collins and
wife by deed of record among the
land records of Worcester County. to
which reference is hereby made
SECOND-All that house and lot sit.
uate on the corner of Morris and Mar
ket streets in the town of Snow Hill,
Md. whereon Mary f. Pontz. formerly
Mary Z. Richardson, now resides, aud
known as the homestead of William
Mills, late of Worcester County. de.
ceased, and which was devised by the
said William Mills by his last will and
testament TO his widow. Elizabeth Mills,
for life. and after her death to his
daughter, Mary + Richardson, now
Mary +. Pontz.
LEVI a. PURNELL,
Mortgagee.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

Sr.. for certain purposes, and the resi-
due of said estate was bequeathed to her
aforesaid husband, Edward Hobbs. Sr.
during his lifetime, and at his death to
her granddaughter, Sarah Bell Hobbs.
and her grandson. Robert III. Hobbs,
share and share alike.
9Th. That your orator administrator
cum tcStamentO anneXo as aforesaid, has
sold and disposed of all the personal
estate Of said tes;atrix. but that the
same amounts To less than nine hun
bred dollars and is insufficient to pay
the debts of the testatrix and the
pccuniary legacics provided in said
will
9th. The Bill further alleges that it
will be necessary that a new Trustee be
appointed i'll the place of Edward Hobbs,
Sr., deceased, named as Trustee i'll the
said will Of Sarah b. Hobbs. deceased
To perform and carry out the trust i'll
said will
It'll That the personal estate of the
said Sarah b. Hobbs being insufficient
to pay her debts and the pecuniary
legacieS in her said last will and tesla
ment, the real estate of the said Sarah
b Hobbs in Worcester County, or so
much thereof us may be necessary,
should be decreed to be sold by Trustee
to be named by the Court.
Sth That Robert II. Hobbs is resi-
dent of Worcester County and is a
minor under twenty one years of age,
| and Eleanor Davis, Lessie Thurston,
Ella Davis. George Hobbs. Edward
Hobbs, Jr.. and Sarah Bell Hobbs. are
all non. residents of the State of Mary
land, residing in the State of Pennsyl-
vania and adults, except Sarah Bell
Hobbs, who is minor
1t is thereupon this 10Th day of Feb
ruary, 1903, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County. in Equity,
that the plaintiff. by causing copy of
this order to be inserted i'll some news
paper published in said Worcester Coun-
ty once in each of four successive weeks
before the 10th day of March. 1908, Civ !.
notice to said absent defendants of thu
object and substance of this Bill, warn
ing them to appear i'll this Court in per-
son or by solicitor on or before the I'd
day of April next, to show cause, il any
they have, why decree ought not TO
be passed as prayed.
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL, Clerk.
True Copy. Test:
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL. Clerk.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

any enterprise looking TO tne
public veal, and who withhold
sot only their moral but also
heir financial support, and
hese are the whirlpools of
cvIla and Charybdis on whose
angerous rocks many prom
sing venture has been wrecked.
he present age will lend itself
readily to success, as the
,st. while the future, no man
ay read. However, there are
rtain signs and indications
lich may be used in making
orcast, and if we read them
ght, Snow Hill not only has
,romising future, but is even
" on the verge of a new era
prosperity.
together Mayor Corddry
given a clear and forcible
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07
PURNELL & JOHNSON, Solicitors
CALVIN b. TAYLOR, Solicitor.
Order of Publication.

Calvin b Taylor, Administrator cum
tcSiamcntn anncXo Of Sarah h.
Hobbs. deceased,
Eleanor Davis. L,>,ic ThurSton. Ella
Davis. George Hobbs, Edward
Hobbs, Jr Sarah BELL
Hobbs and Robert
H. Hobbs
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. In Equity.
The object of this suit is to procure Il
decree appointing IA Trustee To complete
the trust contained in The last will and
testament Of Sarah b. Hobbs, deceased.
and foi the appointment of IA Trustee To
sell certain real estate of which the said
Sarah b Hobbs died seized and posses
Sed in Worcester County, Maryland.
The Bill states:
LIST. That one Sarah b. Hobbs. late of
Worcester County in the State of Mary.
land died about the first day of January.
in the year nineteen hundred. i'll the
City of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania, leaving last will and
testament duly executed to pass real and
exemplified copy of which is now of re-
cord i'll the office of the Register of Wills
of Worcester County.
I'd. That by said last will and tesla.
ment Edward Hobbs, ST., the husband
of the said Sarah b. Hobbs, was con
stituted sole executor of the same, but
died before qualifying as such executor.
Sd. That the plaintiff. Calvin b.
Taylor. was duly appointed administra-
tor cum testamento anneXo of said last
will and testament by the Orphans
Court of Worcester County, and has
duly qualified as such
4th. That by the first item of said last
will and testament of Sarah b. Hobbs.
deceased, she bequeathed to her sister,
Eleanor Davis. three hundred dollars;
to her niece, LESSEE Thurston. fifty
dollars; to her niece, Ella Davis. one
hundred and fifty dollars; to her son,
Edward Hobbs, Jr, five dollars; to her
son, George Hobbs. five hundred dollars
to be held in trust by Edward Hobbs,
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

BE sure and use that old and well-tried
remedy, Mrs. MISSIONS SOOTHING
SYRUP for children teething. 1t soothes
the child. softens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrhaGa Twenty-Five
cents bottle. IT Is THE BEST OF
ALL.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07
TUESDAY,
MARCH 10th. 1903.
at $50 O'Clock p. III.

All that tract and parcel of land stu
ate on Pocomoke road near the corporate
limits of Snow Hill, owned and occupied
by William d. Pentland at the time of
his death. This farm is advantageously
located and is improved by a brick
dwelling house and suitable outbuild-
ings. The tract contains 81 acres, more
or less, mostly cleared land and is well
adapted to the growing of trucks.
TERMS OF SALE
Cash, but an extension of payment
may be obtained by purchaser upon sat
isfactory security
WILLIAM +. JOHNSON,
Attorney.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07
PURNELL q job NSON, Attorneys.
Attorneys Sale
VALUABLE FARM !
MEAD CHOW IIIJI Mn
NEAR SNOW HILL, MD.

BY VIRTUE of authority vested in
the undersigned as Attorney for the
devisees named in the last will and test
ament of William ID Pentland. deceased.
will offer at public sale to the highest
bidder at the Court House door in the
town of Snow Hill. Md. on
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-07

BY VIRTUE of power contained in IA
mortgage from Mary +. Richardson to
the undersigned. dated the 18th day of
January, i'll the year 1898. of record
among the land records of Worcester
County. in liber f. II p. number 10,
folios 2S1 and 2SS. default having been
made in the term of said mortgage, the
undersigned mortgagee will sell at pub.
lie auction FOR CASH. the following
described property mentioned in said
mortgage, on
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-10-08
TO cURTAlL OUTPUT.
rastIc Steps Inausurated to Reduce
the Iron Supply.

Drastic Steps I~naugurated to Reduce
the Iron Supply.
New York, Oct. 3.-The recent heavy
declines in the values Of railroad and
industrial stocks has had a depressing
eject on the iron trade, according to
the Iron Age. A matter which may
nave considerable effect, however, is
the publication, to lie made this week,
OF specifications for the great tunnels
in this city to be built by the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad company.
1t is under stood these vast require
ments will include aver 800, 900 tons of
castings.
Pig iron manufacturers are much in
earnest in their endeavor to curtail
production. II is hoped to effect a re-
duction of at least 20 per cent.
Efforts have been made to secure CO.
operation of producers throughout the
country.
The excess Of production over con-
sumption is not believed to be very
serious, possibly not 10 per cent, and
an effort Of this kind continued for a
month would bring about a more
healthy relation of supply to demand.
Notices posted at :. number of east
ern furnaces that wages will be re-
duced 10 per cent. show that drastic
measures are necessary. Consumers
are carrying very small stocks.