Evening star., 1943-08-22
Fifty Years Ago
In The Stur

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session due to the panic, the most i'm
portant speech of the week
Speech on was one delivered by Sem
Currency ator Voorhees, of Indiana,
printed in part in The
Star of August o. 1893 He advocated
repeal OF the Sherman Silver Purchase
Act, but still believed in bimetallism,
wanting the currency based both on gold
and silver. Money is simply medium
for the exchange of values; money is
creature and Congress its creator. Gold
and its alleged intrinsic value 60 for
naught as a circulating medium unless
the coin bears the stamp of the Gov
ernment-a stamp more powerful than
the grasp of the lions paw or the eagles
claw in bestowing life and activity on
dead and otherwise useless material.
The same official stamp on silver, or on
paper, at once nobled them to an equality
with gold in purchasing power, no mat
ter how debased or valueless the mate
rails may have become as commodities by
sinister or unwise legislation"
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the personnel Of the new District Com
mittee. According to The
New District Star of August 81, 1893,
Committee Speaker Crisp today an
nounced the appointment
as follows: Chairman, John T. Heard
of Missouri = Representative Heard,
the new chairman - has long been
identified with the District Committee,
and has taken a great deal of interest in
District affairs. Mr.. Heard is well known
and popular in the House" The names
and outstanding achievements of other
members of the committee also were
given at length.
Preparations were under way for an
other Oklahoma rush, as described in
The Star Of August %, 1893:
Lond Rush THE Presidents proclama-
Plans ton opening the Cherokee
strip for settlement at noon
on the 18th day Of September was re-
ceived at the State Department this
morning. 1t was in the White House
mail from Buzzards Bay and was COM
plete except that 1t required the
countersignature Of the Secretary of
State. That was attached without the
loss of a minutes time and the law that
means so much to SO many anxious
settlers was promulgated at once The
lands now open to settlement are divided
into seven counties, whose boundaries
are described in the proclamation"
Fifty years ago, as today, the East was
suffering from drought, and The Star
of August 81, 1893, gives an
Rain, Roin, amusing account of the
Go Awoy efforts of amateur rain
makers in the Connecticut
Valley, by means of balloons loaded with
explosives. The few clouds that promised
some hope of rain were rudely dispersed
by dynamite, and the operators, after
a look at the muttering crowd, also dis
persed while the dispensing was good.
AS evidence of the free and easy trend
of the times, scheduled meeting of an
nounced anarchists
Anarchist Meeting received but brief
PIonned paragraph In The
Star of August 81,
1893 "a proclamation addressed to the
anarchists of the world has been issued
(from Chicago signed by William
Holmes, who claims to be secretary of
committee of anarchists. 1t sets forth
that the time has come to assemble to-
gether in conference for the purpose of
collectively proclaiming to the world the
great principle of human liberty"
Italians were almost as much excited
so years ago as they are today, and
mobs were formed In Rome,
Excitement to march on the French
In ItoIy Embassy. The Star of
August 81, 1893, COM
mented "The troubles growing out of
the fighting between French and italian
workingmen employed at the salt works
in Augues Mortes, France, threaten to
involve grave international complica-
tons" Tempers cooled off, however and
further trouble was averted