Show GOLD is not money silver is not money paper is not money the only thing that makes either pass pan current as a measure of values is the authority of law conferred upon these articles the government by its law and its stamp has in the past and an d can in the future make all of them full legal tender A gold ring or a gold watch is is no more money than han t a silver spoon yet if melted coined and stamped by the united states either can become money we believe in having two yardsticks of equal length THE republican platform admits that free coinage of silver 16 to 1 is a good thing but that we cannot have it unless we get help from england in other words we are stuck in the mud and will have to wait until some one comes along and pulls us out the old story of trying to help ourselves it seems has never been tho thought e of if we went until old england or any any other foreign country gives us aid we will wait until the sky falls let us try helping ourselves first before we call on our neigh neighbors bon says the bryan democracy THE goldbug democrats of the east are in a serious quandary over the situation at heart they thay desire the election of mckinley but they are in doubt as to the best way way to accomplish the result their r first impulse was to go over to the republican camp bodily but they fear such act would drive out from that party ten voters to one that they would bring to it they now are scheming e to put up a ticket of their own h hoping 0 ping to draw democratic votes from bryan and thereby elect the buckeye buckey napoleon by strategy their own candidate of course would only be a man of straw to be put up and knocked down for a purpose J sterling morton a cleveland cuckoo wants to be the victim being from nebraska he thinks he possibly could give that state to mckinley NIc Kinley by this move but the way things thing are now looking P the effort will be futile the people are ar aroused aused and the panic has begun in the ranks of the hosts of satan surely the way of the transgressor is hard AND AN D now comes the gol goldbug bug press with a circular issued from the life insurance companies and R nd as an argument against free coin coinage they say if the co country adopts free silver the beneficiaries of life insurance policies w will ill be compelled to take 53 cent dollars on the death loss etc of all the desperate logic and covert threats that these soulless corporations have trumped up this is the weakest of f all the idea that these people with their greed and avarice should worry themselves over the interests of t the he widow and orphan is like the wolf weeping about the fate of the lamb whenever the wealthy classes clamor for the rights right of the poor the latter had better beware there is danger near president kruger is to be honored with a statue in pretoria it will be forty feet high 0 h and will represent oom paul in the quaint garb tall hat included which he affects on sunday aud and special occasions the statue will be of bronze mounted on a pedestal and column of granite and at each corner of the pedestal there will be a figure representing a transvaal burgher in in an attitude of defense |