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Show STAND BY THE STORY OP TWOlYOUNQ MEN a Dafaadad HU Coaatry ou tka Fiald f Haiti Th Other Bobbad It Tel tha Former la Folatnd Oat aa aa Anerehtat by the Letter The Blnnibarlag Form of Jaatlco Show, blsna ef Awakening. IUTI0. SILVER IN INDIA. II. Shlbley.) The Indian government, in its OUR BUDGET OP PUN. (By George V1XTEEN TO ONE THE ONLY KEY TO BIMETALLISM. an- swer to the proposition to Join with SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL tbe United States and France in the AND SELECTED. free coinage of silver and'gold at 15 Who Frotoad That Thaj Ara to 1, makes this very important admisThat The Other Side of the Certain er the Oppoaad to tha Ratio IVunld Mot sion: "India has, since 1893, passed a of tension Play aa Seen bjr the Bapera Jnat and serious through A period at Katlo Hava Frao Coinage Any Like the Prince to and to alike trade Why the Duke embarrassment, Plata Proposition. the government Prom New Time. , This young man did not give himself to his country In the war of the rebellion. He had $40,000 In gold, and when government bonds went down to 40 he bought $100,000. Uncle Sam has paid the Interest, $6,000 per annum. In gold ever since, and exempted him from all taxation which we will say. Is equal to 2 per cent more, which makes his yearly pension for investing in a "sure thing" $8,000. But even ' this is not good enough for this man. Our Uncle Sam therefore gave him back $90,000 in national hank notes, every one of which was indorsed by Uncle Sam. Thus, in addition to his pension of $6,000 a year in gold, with, exemption from taxation, risk, worry, care and labor, he has enjoyed the use and Increment of $90,000 for over thirty years. And besides all this, this "patriotic" citizen who is so very jealous of the nations honor" still has his bond yielding him six thousand dollars every year, and his $90,-0bank notes, which yield as much more at least Then we find his present worth to be as follows: His bond, which is still yielding him six thousand 200 cent dollars per year at market value, about $118,000 National bank notes 90,000 Profits bank notes thirty years, estimated 180,000 Saved In taxes thirty years. . . . 60,000 Interest on bond 180,000 200-ce- nt 00 Now we find him worth $628,000 Reader, do you think he has been fully paid for his kind of patriotism? Or do you think he deserves still further favors for his unspeakable patriotism. If so, do you think our present system of finance is "the best the world ever saw? Are you willing to have our government make so much differ- ence between its rich and poor citizens? How do you suppose the legislation, the workings and results of which are here illustrated, was obtained? Bondholder is worth, bonds And Interest, $628,000. He belittles the soldier and calls him an anarchist But he does this merely .to hide his own iniquities. Some day his guilt will find him out Then the soldier will put a rope around his neck and hang him for treason to our flag and our country. The days of the are about numbered. The time is near at hand when he will have to go to work. brad-hold- er This young man had no money, so he gave himself, with all that that implies, to his country. He sacrificed lov- ing sweethearts, friends, home, business and all things both profitable or pleasant. He shouldered his musket and went South to do and dare that our country might live and that the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution might not become obsolete rubbish. Can pen or tongue ever tell what he suffered. Of the long marches; of the lying under fire for weeks in the trenches; of the hunger, cold thirst and heat; of the lonely perilous hours on picket; the terrific charges; the hellish fighting where his comrades were left in piles. He was following the stars and stripes. How he shouted as he saw Old Glory pressing on to victory! How his blood tingled as ha read in the papers the fulsome praise of the boys in blue! He was one of the nations defenders. He was fighting for his country. . He was earning the gratitude of coming generations. He fought at Shiloh until a bullet wound in the shoulder laid him low. He spent two months in hospital and rejoined his regiment in time to fight for months in front of the heights of Vicksburg. He risked his life on a score of battle fields. He contracted rheumatism from sleeping on the ground. But steaming, his patriotism never faltered. For all this he received the munificent salary dollars per month, of thirteen which was finally raised to $16! If he had saved all this money till the "cruel war was over he might have had as much as $600. Just think of it! He might have got as much for his four years service as his rich brother received for interest, etc., in nearly four fortnights! Then added to all this munificence and "paternalism our government has given him a pension of Over $12 per month ever since 1890. six whole years. Then it follows that the old soldiers pension for a month is nearly half that of the bondholders for a day. Old soldier is worth in wages and pension, neither having been used, say $1,400. Vet the old soldier dearly loves the bondholder. He believes that the bondholder did a pa0 triotic thing when he loaned that to Uncle Sam. He never dreams that the bondholder Is a greater enemy to the country than was the slave power. But he is learning the truth now. The slumbering form of Justice has begun to show signs of awakening. , blood-drench- ed 85-ce- nt $40,-00- Thank to Dloglay. Prosperity and the Dingley tariff are linked together. First came the Ding-le- y blll.and then followed dollar wheat REAL MISSION OP THE STANDWhen the great and tariff ARD DOLLAR. act became a law the farmers of Europe announced that they had no Mow It Hoy Bo Uaed to Pro toot tho wheat to sell; indeed, they had none Tresanry from Bank Shark Extract for home consumption.1 Prices for the from on Article by Senator Teller cereal went up, and the Republicans ' The Way to Blmetalllam. sang a pean of praise and said, to Dingley." "Thanks Sugar stock From an article by Senator Teller: 40 per cent and Standard Oil jumped The retirement of the greenbacks, and stocks climbed 50 the substitution of national bank notes ropolitan Railroad per cent, while Metstock in New York to make up the amount lost by their sells for 130 .cent per thanks to withdrawal, appears to be the present were never so numerous Such a and never scheme of the administration. so profitable as they are receive never will the proposition now. Never sanction of congress. It may be put binations of were so many new comcapital formed; never were house by republican votes, the rich favored through the as they are at present but if It came to a direct vote in the to Dingley. thanks Senator Hanna senate it could not pass. It is foolish, missed a when he telegraphed point to that first the suppose in the place, to effect the that McKinley "God rules national banks would Increase their and the Republican still lives. party circulation. To retire the greenbacks He should have simply said with truth and treasury notes means a contraction and brevity: "Thanks to Dingley. of $500,000,000. The circulation of naSeldom has there been a more genial notes less is than tional bank The mercury has and if any man believes those and kindly winter. a with cheerful gone up persistency, Institutions would swell their circulaand enthusiastic Republicans can but tion to $700,000,000 and guarantee to redeem every dollar of it in gold across recognize in this another proof of the their counters he is financially un- upward trend of all things since the sound. If required by law, it would g.o. p. went into power. Surely they not be done, for the banks would sim- are Justified in saying, "Thanks to ply go out of business. The idea of Dingley. retiring the greenbacks is based upon Lika an Advance Agent, a desire to get rid of the constant drain It is stated that Maj. McKinley may upon the treasury for gold. If our visit New York this month to attend treasury were to adopt the policy of a manufacturers dinner. There is no France that drain would stop instant- improbability in the announcement ly. When a holder of paper currency The President does not like to stay goes to the Bank of France to have it many weeks in Washingcontinuously not does know he whether he ton. He has a redeemed roving spirit, which is to get gold or silver. The bank ex- Induces him to accept any possible exercises its option, and our law contemcuse for getting out on the road. He plates that our treasury should exerlabored hard to get into the executive cise its option, but it does not, and office and now that he is there is right there is the trouble. Offer silver willing to swing around the circlequite on for those greenbacks once and the the slightest provocation. Ex. drain would stop. This, of course, Woraa Than a Plutocrat. would not solve the whole situation, Mark Hanna gives the He to those much, and but it would Ishould be done. But it will not be so who term him a plutocrat There is, long as the gold men dominate our after all, a line of demarcation between a plutocrat and a corruptionist treasury. REDEEM IN SILVER. Ding-Trus- ts $250,-000,00- 0, In the United States the battle for Dimetallism must be lost or won on the ratio of 16 to 1. All considerations require that the ratio should not be wider than 16 to L If it were to be changed at all it should be narrowed to correspond to the ratio of tbe Latin to 1, which would make it Union, 15 easier for France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Spain and Russia to follow the lead of the United States in opening the mints to the free coinage of silver. After the battle is won in this country, the nations named will still be retarded by an uncertainty as to the effect on their currency of the point difference between their ratio and ours. America, to secure their may ultimately find it to her advantage to remint her silver at the ratio named. But, as we are not assured of the support of those countries, there is no reason why we should, at this time, go out of oiir way .to oblige them, 'especially as they leave ua to light the battle alone. onie-ha- lf 6 In all arguments by our adversaries, isllver is priced in gold. Very well; as 'words go, we can as well use that manner of speech as any other. Remember, then, silver is priced in terms of 'gold. With this for a basis on which jto work, let uf compare the recent centuries and see about what the ratio Should be, in the light of silver and gold production of this century. From the discovery of America to , the year 1600 the world produced 30 :ouncss of silver to one of gold, and yet the ratio was about 14 to 1. During the next century the world's output was 40 ounces of silver to one of gold, yet the ratio was scarcely more than 15 to L In the next century, 1701 to was again 80 1800, the production ounces of silver to one of gold, with ao appreciable change of the ratio; yet there had been a variation in the ratio of production of over 25 per cent. As both metals had free coinage, this difference of ratio of production was not able to make Itself felt in the commercial ratio. ; a a During the first ten years of this cen--;t try 50 ounces of silver were produced to every ounce of gold, yet the ratio was not thrown out of joint In the iimmnd ten years the worlds production vas 49 ounces of silver to one of gold. According to the theories of gold mono- -, me tall lets, the ratios of all the nations ,'ln the world should have gone all to i pieces at this sudden widening of the ratio of production. But the curren-cfe- e of the world were not pnaettled, aud the wisdom of bimetallism was (demonstrated beyond reasonable argument. As the century wore on, new Igold mines were found, and the production of gold increased enormously. Thus, from 1850 to 1870 there were 5 ounces of silver produced to one of gi'ld. If the thory of some that the ratio of production regulates the ratio of commerce were true, then the ratio of value between silver and gold would have been not 16 to 1, but less than 6 .to 1. But no such change In values Itoek place, and the truth of the bimetallic theory was again demonstrated. ;From 1871 to 1895 the world yielded '17 ounces of silver to one of gold. During the entire period from 1800 to 1895 the relative production was only 13 3 ,ouuces of silver to one of gold. ; : 2-- a a Thus, the sixteenth century gave 30 ounces of silver to one of gold; the ;17th century, 40 ounces of silver to one of gold; the 18th century, 30 of silver to one of gold; the first 95 years of the 19th century gives 13 ounces ot silver to one of gold. We have the lowest productive ratio of four productive ratio of four centuries, and the highest coinage ratio; aud yet, in the face of all this, the speculators in the yellow metal have the splendid effrontery to stand up and with long faces tell the nation that we seed a yet wider ratio. The ratio of 16 to 1 is exceedingly The wide commercial ratio liberal. is due entirely to legislation hostile to silver and favorable to gold. The tremendous power of such legislation is seen in the effect it has had on the price of silver in a century of low silver production as compared to gold. We must stand by the ratio. There can be no compromise. Nothing can now stop the onward sweep of the army of liberation. If traitors get In the way they will be crushed. H. F. THURSTON. 2-- 2 cen-ftwe- st Good Tlnn for Flatocrata. From the Flaming Sword we learn that times are good (for the millionaire) and prosperity booming as Gage--d by the secretary of the treasury who is scheming to do away with greenbacks, and issue bonds Instead, for our dear" people, whom the bankers of Iiombard and Wall streets love so well and cater to their wants so faithfully. Such is life. In the poor taan's mind! Ex. Waa Wortblaaa. This embarrassment to trade hae been due to falls in the average of prices and the dislocation of the' par of exchange with the other allver using countries, and the advantage given to English manufacturers through the restored par of exchange with India. Tba Otbar Slda. HE actor strode to 1 the footlight glare Ites-sf- fi Apparently hap- as he py could be; And the "house looked up at his face ao fair. MM Compare the foregoing evil which India has experienced with the conditions which have prevailed in the other silver-usin- g countries. In Japan there have been rising prices and good times to the producing classes until tbe creditor class secured the adoption of the gold standard of falling prices! And alghed for- "what a tunate man Is he. And they little dreamed aa he spoke hla lines . In Mexico there have been rising So full of honor, and joy, and glee prices, a bounty on exports, home was busy with "cues manufactures stimulated-- and as a That his brain and "fines, consequence a grand era of prosperity. And where his last act props, This contrast Is an object lesson which should be. Is not being lost upon the producing classes of the United States. And when he knelt by the Ingenuea side, They did not all see these thlnga in So brave, so gentle, and urged a 1896, for these facts were denied by kiss the gold standard advocates; but tba did not hear, aa he wildly sighed, They which those advocates prosperity "For God's sake, tell me the biz promised has proved to be a prosperfor this! benefited are for those who by ity only falls in the average of prices, and this Ah, no! they saw but the courtly pride excludes the producing classes 95 per Of his manly form and her perfect cent of the population. bliss; she answered But, nevertheless, India's Money Famine. aside: India Is suffering from an extreme "Be darned if I knr'w! Try another stringency In the money market, and is kiss! feeling severely the effects of the gold standard. Dispatches from Calcutta And when he paused by the sweet bring information that in order to meet soubret inthe monetary crisis a bill haa been Just lingering a little, as if in play troduced in the council to provide for the issue of currency notes against They did not hear for the clarionet As she gently murmured: "Up stage, gold. Tha local resources have utterly you Jay! failed to supply the demands of trads. In explaining the situation Sir James And when the prompter behind the scenes Westland said the scarcity was "due to Had "pulled him through in the the banks remitting their capital to usual England," but he did not tell the oauae The "house way,demanded a "curtain la of this condition of affairs. The fact call." . that- this embarrassment to trade haa 'And left, delighted with caat and been brought about by the closing of play. the India mint to silver. This haa has and a fall in given For they were not In at the final act produced prices a great advantage to English manu- ' Whose scene far back In the wings facturers; therefore, the money in the was set banks of India has been drawn from But the "supes,took part with surthat country to England. The export prising tact trade of India haa been practically When the manager and that actor killed, and It can never revive bo long met as silver Is discriminated against by For there by the light of a pasteboard the native mint Sir James Westland moon, further said that "the banks must In the time it would take to behead operate on commercial principles, and a Czar, If, The man who had called the last act no blame was attached to them. then, the hanks are not to blame, what too soon la the cause of India's financial famFlayed an opposite part to his das- -' ine? Evidently the closing of the mint zling star. to silver, the consequent fall in prices producing poverty among the people, That Settled It, and the stopping of export business. India is receiving an object lesson on the beauties of the golit standard. Will the people of the United States bt wise enough to take the hint? , - Wolrott'l Report. Senator E. O. Wolcotts unofficial report concerning the transactions of the bimetallic commission, which ha gave to the senate, contains nothing new so far as facts are concerned. It is evident that the chairman of the bimetallic commission has not abandoned all hope of securing an International agreement looking to an enlarged use of silver ae money, but he expresses the opinion that England is firmly fixed in her opposition. Exonerating President McKinley from the charge of disloyalty to the bimetallic cause. Senator Wolcott is Inclined to criticize the actions of Secretary Gage, against whom he has declared war, and for whom he haa no kindly words. With sarcastic emphasis Wolcott suggests that it !s premature to discuss the secretary ol the treasurys Republicanism, as "Gages advent into the party and tbe cabinet were contemporaneous.1 While declaring that bimetallism is not dead, either in the United States or in Europe, Senator Wolcott la prepared to make concessions as to the ratio of the coinage in order to bring it to that now accepted by Russia, Austria and India. This is the most significant utterance in the entire report, and will cause the widest discussion. Starving tha Children. Men of means, who manufacture articles that help the washerwoman to gain a livelihood, are not as charitable and humane aa they are professed to be. We know of one, not a hundred miles from this office, who la of a sanctified nature, and who drops "dollars, into tbe church contribution basket, as a Godly offering, that would rather starve orphaned little children, sIbo men who wish to make a home with him, than kneel down at the altar and offer up a prayer telling the world how he had constantly tried to do hla uttermost in helping the poor out of this competitive world.-Coming Events. First' Britisher There goes the Duke Hes an absolutely worthless fellow. Second Ditto Worthless? Oh, I dont know. First Britisher Yes, he Is. He haa been refused three American by heiresses. Second Ditto You dont say so. ' Well, he must be worthless. of Muddy Water. . Joat So . ea-cr- ed "How very stylish you are, Mr. Soft You hold your elbow very high. Ya-aI got it from the Prises of Wales. "Did you meet him abroad? "No. But Cholly Davis saw him meet a friend on the street one day. lelgfa. a; |
