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Show COINAGE THE PREDICTED EFFECT height of goldbug civilization and Independent A merican. Christianity. OF FREE SILVER. Morotou Frawan Bays That If the luitejl Btatea Bhuuld Open It Bitter Would Advance to Ml at a the THE HULE OF TRUSTS. This system of slavery now In vogue .lere and in Europe, Is the interest. QUESTION. ! NOT SELL CHEAP GOOD3 TO CONSUMERS. THEY What is the use of kicking about gov. Isn't that eminent by injunction? what the people voted for last fall ? Duluth Labor World. John lar The flag is an emblem of liberty, but should we go to sleep and let designing men steal our liberties, what is the When writing to you recently on the flag to us? Record, Salida, Colo. currency question 1 pointed out the enormous dimensions of that "unearnAfter the discovery of gold In Calied increment" which Great Britain harfornia and Australia, Germany and vests because of the fall of prices. That Australia demonetized gold; in 1871 very same fall which has impoverished demonetized silver and reGermany her debtors is yet heaping upon the lap gold. To a man up a tree of the money lender the riches of the monetized would appear as if gold and silver it universe. were not money, without flat behind This was the view expressed by Mr. them to make them such. Farmers' Gladstone in the house of commons Sentinel. after the carefully planned failure of the Brussels conference In 1893. AmerI do not believe that a government ica. the great debtor nation, had decid- founded upon justice and equity needs ed in 1873 to start out upon that cur- a army, repeating rifles and standing rency lourney which muBt lead to con- Gatling guns in order to dispense justraction. WaB it then for England, he tice. A government that must resort asked, the country which profited most to arms to maintain peace among its by her mistake, to take the lead in recitizens is not a fit government for a pairing that mistake? A year ago Sir free people. Rights of Man., William Harcourt, Mr. Gladstones chancellor of the exchequer, confirmed A writer in the North American ReMr. Gladstones views in these remarkwith the statistics of twenty-fou- r view, able sentences: states before him, says the United Nobody who was present will for- States is the largest tenant farmer naget the memorable speech delivered by tion in the world. Of the 7,500.000 Mr. Gladstone in this house on this adults engaged in agriculture about same question, in which he submitted are so heavily mortgaged to the world's ridicule the proposition that the Interest they must pay to that this land of money lenders should avoid foreclosure is about equal to go from country to country, hat in galling rent. We have more tenant hand, begging that we should be paid farmers than England, Ireland', Scotten shillings in the pound. This is prac- land and Wales combined. Illinois tically the goal to which bimetallism stands first, with 80,245. Texas comes would lead us. Of course, we are told next, with 66,566. Old settlers will rethat we shall receive more money. The member that previous to 1873 farmeiS, truth is that we are not paid in gold, as well as others were nearly free from but in goods. It Is out of this mer- debt. Mortgages and tenants were alchandise that our people make their liv- most unknown. Then laws contracting ing, and now it is expected of us that we the currency and demonetizing silver shall go around the world begging that began to be felt, and debt was made we shall receive less merchandise for As a result, unless class our gold. Can anything more ridicu- necessary. is legislation repealed, and we have lous be suggested? That we who have more in money circulation, we are millent hundreds, nay, thousands of to be a naUon of like doomed, Ireland, lions, to foreign nations shall ask them landlords and tenants, masters and that for this money they shall give ub slaves. Representative, Boulder, CoL less In return than we now receive." Such is the currency policy of the The masses of the people produce all liberal party in this country. In igla of wealth by their labor applied there debtour' norance of results to follow, The masses of resources. to natural ors have enmeshed themselves. They create demand for the also the people have fallen in love with a currency the prinas are also this wealth they doubled the system which has about both a proMan consumers. is tribute they pay annually to England, cipal consumer a consumer. ducer a As and rewho and because this is true we here he provides employment for himself as cognise the great racial dangers which are involved if we continue to sell Asia a producer. With an equitable, comher money metal at half price are yet mon sense adjustment of his business he would never fail to find battling for bimetallism along the line relations, and always be able to reemployment, of the greatest resistance. That is to the wealth that he creates. This tain educated are more your people say, the a business is question and it must be the stronger to them as debtors will and acted upon before there understood On the the case for silver will appear. be cen permanent improvement any the as worlds the creditors, other hand, material conditions. Topeka New which will for that legislation plea raise the level of prices is likely here in Woman. England to continue to fall upon deaf Many jieople imagine that gold Is the ears. A chain, however, is no strongof standards because the lator best and in this weakest link, er than its of getting it is practically unicost us connects that the link chain gold with India must involve us, for all time form. It has been estimated that gold to come, in the fluctuating fortunes of in some of the larger Colorado mines the white metal. In India we collect ecsts but 3 cents' worth of labor and our entire revenue in silver rupees. expense to the 1, and the cost varies There has been no rise of silver prices from that all along up to $1, or even In India, whether in the rupee price of more. J. B. and R. B. Graves recently labor or of Indian commodities. Thus in four days took i't 642,000 of nugthe burden of the Indian government gets in Trinity county. Estimating in remitting to England the eighteen their labor at 3 per day, the labor in millions sterling of interest payable in that gold would be 12, which is less 3 5100. And yet people gold would have been Just doubled be- than cents for that such a fooled into believing are of in the silver cause of the fall price San Frana standard! is of material Indian the mints the for closing only In 1893. Instead of a revenue collection cisco Star. of 180,000,000 rupees (ten rupees to the p. D. Armour says five years of sovereign) being required to pay the Perhaps they "home charges of the Indian govern- sunshine have begun. ment 360,000,000 would now be required lave for him and men such as he who live off the labor of other men. Tofor the purposes of this remittance. was elected in peka Advocate. When Mr. Cleveland could have been silver 1892 the question Coming Along. settled, and settled by a gradual procMr. Alfred Mister Prosperity's cornin along ess of remonetization. Dat's what de rich folks say! Rothschilds proposal at Brussels stands out as one of many evidences Blowin' a trumpet en ringin' a gong Dats what de rich folks say! that the time was then ripe and the men ready. But Mr. Cleveland made over de State he's it known, through the subterranean SayDats what de rich folks Bay! channels of diplomacy, that far from But, pears ter de po folks he's powergiving any support to silver, he was ful late on recongress the preparing to urge fer ter res by the way! Stop silver of clauses purchase peal of the the Sherman act. Mr. Cleveland's In- Hope dat dey'll shake him en wake him tention became known in official cirin time cles In Calcutta. That this was the Help him along on de way! case I learned at the time and at first Ain't seen a dollar, en cant get a band. The government of India bedime lieved that the cessation of all silver Dats what de po folks say! purchases in America would still furFrank Stanton in Atlanta Constituther reduce the exchange value of the tion. rupee, and therefore, in advance of the legislation anticipending DlnglejUm at Work. The receipts of the government foi pated from Washington, the Indian mints were closed. the month of August, under the Ding-le- y tariff law, were $6,538,582 less than the receipts for August, 1896, under POINTS FROM THE PRESS. the Wilson tariff law. It may be that Japan adopted the gold standard a the claims of the republicans as to the few months ago amid the yells of apqualities of the plause and clapping of hands by the Dingley tariff will be realized at some Japan is time in the future, but the above figures goldbugh of this country. dead broke today, notwithstanding the show that they are, as yet, a long way big indemnity paid her by China, but from being realized. The expenses oi the goldbugs are keeping very quiet the government for July, the first The Eropean millionaires month under the Dingley bill, exceeded about It. will no doubt loan her more gold, pro- the receipts by $11,000,000. And there viding she will mortgage the labor of was another deficit of fourteen million four generations of people to pay the for August, the second month. Ex. of 1 to lit. one-thi- rd in-fju- anti-silv- er revenue-produci- DO r Do Witt Warner, Though a Golilbug, 1 Opposed to tho I'rnrnt System of Government Of, llj and for Truate. The recent article by Flower (goldbug) designed to demonstrate the beneficial effects of trusts has provoked some vigorous replies even from the strongholds of Wall street. John De Witt Warner says: That trusts, on the whole, cheapen goods to the consumer is not true. Take the sugar trust Itself, Governor Flower's example. The margin between the raw sugar, which it buys, and the refined sugar, which it sells, has been greater since the sugar trust was organized than immediately preceding its organization. Beet and cane sugar farmers and European governments, by improved agricultural methods on the one hand and bounties on the other, have greatly lowered the price of raw sugar. After the sugar trust has put a part of this saving Into its pocket It has the cheek to claim, and have its defenders assert, that it should be credited with the rest. If it was right for the sugar trust, the Standard Oil company, the beef trust and the tobacco trust to purchase and bully through congress the special legislation they have just gotten, then it is right for those who would like to share Mr. Flowers bank account to elect congressmen and presidents who will pass laws and appoint judges who shall see to it that the possessions of gentlemen who believe in grab-a- ll tactics shall be so divided that every one can have a share. Personally, I do not approve of this, and, therefore, I am sorry to see Flower and other gentlemen inviting against themselves the appropri-tt- e practice of their avowed principles. ,We hear a great deal nowadays of anarchy and communism. If legislation by corruption, such as characterized the session of congress which has just adjourned, shall be continued, we are likely to see more of it and not from Europe, either. Bad as he is the European anarchist is rather a ridiculous power here not much more danger to the cause of order than is the sot who has become a horrible example" to the cause of temperance. The American anarchist, however. Is being bred throughout our country in homes where faith in the honor of legislators, the integrity of courts and fairness of government is dying out. Every time a senator sells himself, and his vote Is delivered in public, there are made more anarchists than could be induced by any possible reward to leave Europe for this country. I trust, however, that the prevalence of more patriotic views than those of Flower may avert the remedy which the gods will bring if we do not find a better, and that we may not some day have cause to consider how ridiculous It was to spend our time In plaguing Most and Schwab, while we have let Havemeyer and his agents ex-Go- ex-Go- v. v. ran loose. Ingratitude. The princely J. Plerpont Morgan plunged madly into the cabin of the gorgeous yacht Corsair, and pulled lock after lock of his silken hair from his leonine head. Stop that! shouted Cornelius Van7 derbllt, one would suppose this place was a sofa cushion and you were trying to stuff It Man alive! shouted the princely J. Plerpont Morgan, have you been reading the English papers lately? j i No." "You ought to. Theyre full off editorials Baying the rich are grinding the faces of the poor In the United (States, and that the vast corporations have combined to wring the hard earned money of the toiling masses fro m them by means of extortion. Cornelius Vanderbilt smiled rind gazed upon his delicate white haids. manI icured in Paris. Oh! said he, the ' English papers are madly Populistic, and tfhey have fallen into the hands of defmagogues Well mare them and blatherskites. attacked in the columns off our own chaste and cultured press .1 The princely J. Plerpont organ tore out more handfuls of his s lken locks. Thats where the shoe i Inches! he The money tha t floats our shouted. watered stock comes froi u England, and, if we denounce the English attacks on our corporations a ud combines the reservoir of cash may c ry up. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbil' gasped. And this." said he, is 1 Inglish gratitude. The corporations ive sold the country to the British on y to be met with treachery. He swooned. -- 1 1: ng Shall Wi Balk Thalr Republican politicians a sidetrack the money que make the next campaign but monetary reformers to be unwise enough to p : do so. The Dingley bill la novi a law. The Republicans do not pro ose to make any essential change in it, and their opponents cannot do so while McKinley is president. It would, therefore, be the height of folly for us to waste auy time on that question the more especially as a large number of those who are beartlly witb us on all olhei issues are as Strongly Republican on this one many of them even still believing it to be the moat Important oi all. But the money question is not even Czar Reed can temporarily settled. adopt any bill the Money Power orders the House to pass, but the Senate baa not yet been entirely enslaved, and Is not likely to be at least, not until after the next election. If the are wise enough to allow the Republicans to bombard the air with tariff talk without reply, devoting their whole time to the necessity of abolishing Bpectal privileges that build up monopolies and trusts, and practically enslave the masses, they can elect the next House and materially weaken the enemy In the Senate. It Is, therefore, very much to be hoped that our people will force the Issue of economic reform and equal opportunities for all. ODDITIES OF SCIENCE. A machine has been invented for mopping and scrubbing floors by electricity. Electric lighting is now much used in quarry work. There are more adherents than many suspect to the folk betheory. The lieve that uo work being done after the late and hearty dinner, and little tissue waste occurring during sleep, the body has sufficient energy stored from the evening meal to enable them to perform the morning's work. nuu-hreakf- ay Cheap hand grenades may lie made by dissolving twenty pounds of common salt and ten pounds of sal ammoniac In seven gallons of water. Fill quart bottles of thin glass with this liquid and cork tightly. The bottle should be thrown so as to break in or near the flame In case of fire. The breaking of the bottle liberates gns, and the heat of the fire generates more, working its own destruction. Bromiodlde, one part; bromine, one part; water, five parts. Thirty grains of this solution la said to be sufficient to sterilize one quart of river water iu fire minutes. If the water is very hard Tom Tom and flap Trap. Current Events: The money mongers or foul, the lime salts and ammonia of America, as well as those cf other neutralize a part of the bromine. In countries for they are banded togeth-ci-ar- e this case, add bromine solution until a seeing to it that glowing re- faint yellow color Is obtained and perof the discovery of gold In Alas- sists a half m'rute. An equal amount ports ka, North West Territory, California, Colorado, South America and other places too numerous to mention, are kept up. They fondly hope and imsg ine that exciting reports of this kind will alienate the affections of the people from silver coinage, and bring about a state of lethargy among bimetallists. If gold was really being found in the enormous quantities that these great financiers would have us think, there would be a large sized panic among these very manipulators much of Insomnia, perturbation of spirit, and gnashing of teeth. Plenty of gold would be as calamitous from their standpoint as plenty of any other kind of money. What these mongers want is a scarcity of real money, and therefore dear money. The great common people of the whole world would rejoice exceeding much if great quantities of gold should be discovered: for the common people are honest and single of purpose and simply advocate a volume of money sufficient for the worlds needs. That volume Is Insufficient and probably ever will be under gold monometallism. It would take many Klondlkes, even such as the gold-buare picturing, to furnish enough of the yellow metal to emancipate the people of the world from the tyranny of mammon worship. of per cent solution of ammonia neuWhen this is done the water is clear. 9 tralizes the free bromine. An English journal records e number of cases of blindness from electricity within the last six weeks. It has been predicted that if the present electric lamps continue in use a weakness of sight will be produced in this generation, partial blindness in the next, and total loss of sight in the third or fourth generation. It has been suggested that fluorescent tubes be adopted. These would fit around a room like a strip of moulding. It is claimed that they would give a strong, even light, which would not harm the eyesight and would coBt no more than tha present incandescent and arc lamps. An exceptionally healthy Englishman, aged 27 years, had a black mole on his arm since birth. Three years ago it was torn by the horn of a sheep, but quickly healed. He soon Injured It again and it enlarged to the size of a finger tip. Six monthB later he again bruised It and healing did not take place rapidly. A few satellites appeared. A physician excised the whole affected area of skin. In five months a lump appeared in the axilla and was promptly excised. Soon the surface of the body was thickly sprinkled with melanotic growths, ranging In depth, size and color. A mole la a potential Killing UrfinliiDi sarcoma and on showing the slightest "Ha, ha! Col. John Jacob Astors mirth could activity should be promptly and freely be heard for blocks. excised. Its the revival of prosperity that delights me, he explained to William Coventry and Birmingham, England, C. Whitney. "Ever since the hard are considered to have acquired all tha times I've had to get along with two artistic skill attainable In the conprivate yachts. Now I can afford struction of watches. The test of exthree. cellence in a watch is that it obtain a And I, replied Mr. Whitney, have Kerr certificate. No watch has obtained been able to afford but one banquet a the 100 marks which signify perfecweek to my political supporters. Now tion, but Coventry haB come nearest I can give them two. with 92. The Kerr test is a severe one. To what do you attribute this great The watch is tested in every position revival of prosperity? inquired Col. by the day and hour. It Is baked in John Jacob Astor. an oven and frozen in a pail. It must To the high price of wheat and the make 18,000 vibrations an hour and low price of silver," replied William C. not vary a second per week. A quarter turn of Its time screws, a millionth Whitney. Do you think, asked Col. Astor, of an inch, will make a difference of that the revival of prosperity will twenty seconds a day. It should only of Bryan Ism? be repaired by most skillful hands. prove the death-bloDo I! said Mr. Whitney. Of course I do. Why only last month I dreamed Vhyelelune In tha I' lilted States. I was voting for Bryan, but I havent An interesting satistlcal article on had a nightmare since times Im- the medical colleges, physicians, etc., of proved. the United States, based on the last Then," said Col. Astor, we want edition of Polk's Mediral and Surgical to enjoy ourselves all we can, and the Register and the census of 1890, has spectacle of prosperity that we present been prepared. According to this auwill prove a blow to Bryan ism from thority, the ratio of physicians of all which it cannot recover. in the United States is about one kinds He immediately began preparations to six hundred and thirteen of the popfor a grand ball. ulation. This estimate is based on a millions, and population of sixty-fiv- e What Are tha Klghte of Majorities. one hundred and six thousand of tha No one measure will secure equal physicians are thought to come under for all. opportunities Indeed, no the head of regular, while twenty-si- x dozen will. The struggle for the ecothousand represent the eclectic; nomic and social emancipation of the :) and other homeopathic, people is to be a long one, and success with sects, professional together will be impossible until an intelligent and Irregulars in general. majority not only asserts, but exercises quacks its right to govern. A majority has the A Wleked Magpie, right to do whatever any government The mischievous and cunning of the can rightfully do, and no minority has There la a a right to say that it shall not no mat- magpie is proverbial. ter what dead men may have said to story told of a tame magpie which was seen busily employed in a garden gaththe contrary. A majority has the right to tie its ering pebbles, antf, with much solemnown hands surrender a part of its own ity and a studied air, dropping them Inrights but it has no right to tie the to a hole about eighteen Inches deep, hands, or surrender the rights of any made to receive a post After dropping other majority and much less the each stone, it cried Currack!" triumrights of every other majority, through phantly, and set off for another. On all time, and without regard to examining the spot, a poor toad was Constitutional found in the hole which the magpie changed conditions. end statutory laws Intended to do this was stoning for his amusement. are usurpations of power which the people have the right to ignore and, Mrs. Mann (meeting her former serwhen they realize that the nations Ah, Mary, I suppose you are vant) welfare demands it, they will Ignore getting better wages ct your new them, provided they have not entirely place? Mary No, ma'am. Im worklost the spirit of freemen. Topeka ing for nothing now. Im married. gs w physio-medic- ( |