————————————— SA MORE HONEY REEDED samen. THE CADRE AND REMEDY TOR HARD TIMES. When the Country Gets Free Colne age at Sixteen to One Prosperity Will Be With Us Again-—Plouty of Money the One Mode of Relinf, The present hard times are owing to the demonetization of silver. It caused a contraction of currency. Xt reduced the amount of woney in the country, This reduction caused a fall in prices of produce and commodities. Falling prices mean hard times. They heraic panics, No man ever heard of falling prices being an index of prosperity, No man ever heard of a sound dollar, 8 healthy currency, causing hard times, As a conniry’s population increases its money sunply must increase in pro- portion. In 1873 and soon after, the United States, France and Germany demonetized silver. This contraction of the ourrency, burdening gold with the money function the leading commercial worlds, caused the panic of 1873. In 1878 the Bland-Allison enacted, and the addition of ounces of silver n month relieved tho strain on gold in the United States un- til 1884, and from that tirae until 18390 the superior resources and energies o » OL bill was a 000, 000 to stay just beyond the border line. Sherman saw the cecessity for nore woney. He also saw that unless he made concessions to the people bi- metallism would come %o stay. The Sherman Silver Parchase bill, re- quiring the purchase of in 1880, Harrison was President. I'oster was Secretary of the Treasury. But for an incident in Boston the panic of 1893 would have swept the country. By a preconcerted arrangement with the gold conirollers, one Phineas Pierce presented a $1000 Treasury law. That was nos demanded payment in gold. Toe Assistant Treasurer refused to render the Government rigot or optic to pay in gold or siiver. Pierce com- plained to Foster. #o dire that the note be paid in gold. option was surrendered. Gold became the basic money. This was in Oe. tober, 1891, Soon after, Mr. Preston states, the raling tended to silver certificates begivning in evil was made. On June 30, 1800, there was out- standing legal fll on a gold basis 8 on hand was £150,232, 404. Thus five cents in goid was b lar. On June 1, mn ev foregoing was ex. tho and uder notes, 1 te 346,68] ,016, liv- hind each dol- 1898, 1 the out standing in circulation Silver eartifieates Treasury notes Greenbacks Currency certificates jaa igend Dat 4 f Lainst Gepasits of gFrYenbacss Pauk ngtes in ¢irca-ation The gold basic upon which the $903, - 671,84] was resting on June 1, was the reserve of $107,658,9514 in the Treasury, or a little over « ane -half cents of gold back dollar outstanding. Eagiand has back of ber redeemable obligations their value In gold. To less would be industrially suicidal. is 80 in the United States to-day. The Boston ineident made the opera- tions of the Sherman law injurious iu- stead of beneficial, silver taken by the basis for the issunnce of silver 1895, leven and Oi each have it the burden that the gold reserve was compelled to bear. And since ber, 1881, the strain has been growing and growing. man law under the necessary. as a part of the Government redemp- tion money, its natural repeal would bave been injurious and of money would have relieved straia occasioned increase in population. As it is, sinee the repeal, November, 1893, a state of panic has prevailed. More money is wanted. The supply is at a standstill. Population is 1n- creasing. Bond issues to secure gold cannot keep up with the demand, and if it could, complete ruin would be hastened by the appalling debt. There is but one mode or relief. It is bi- anetallism, the free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1, the natural ratio. Then the money supply would keep pace with the demand, Then would prosperity come and be as welcome as food to astarving people. The Demo- cratic party's eandidate will furnish this mesns of prusperity if he ia elected. In the West and South and throaghout the North and East light is penetrating. Bryan’ssucces: means life, regeneration. It means the sav- ing of the country. It means a re- united people, the casting ont of the evil that auvoency of gold has ever brougot in its trail. —Madison (%. J.) Democrat. SE ———————— es] Aun 1 pearued funcrement, The almighty dollar has been in creased in value fourfold in the past thirty years, Still we are told thas we eannot legislate people rich-—when we legislate to inerease, year by year, the vaiue of the dollar, compelling the debtor to pay ihe bond and mortgage holder more and more, measured in labor and its jroduets. And this ever increasing in valne is said to be “honest.” It is an unearned incre- ment given to the.rich at the expense ol the - ler Knight, a AOI. 5050 0h. Child Dies From Hydrophobis, At Danbury, Conn., Carrie Koch, six years old, dis of hydrophobia, The child was Son by & may dog Dont two weeks ago, W————— ce ————————— A ———— —— 4 AEN oe je ee, SILVER NOTES. Bryan is making his mark, MeKin- ley has got a Mark already, and it is whispered that he wishes that he coald rub 1t oat. Trusts, combines anl corporations breed goldbugs, putrid breeds maggots ; but the maggots have a use—Lthey are good for fish bait. ns flesh Boss Hanna says that his emploves not interested in the silver If they were to let him find ont they were they would lose their are ques tion, tha OLD, It is stated thet ‘‘there are 5,000,- 000 peasant farmers 1u Germay march ing fast to irretrievable ran.” 7T British gold standard is getting in its work the world over. 41] There 1s no question of importance to the people than an am- pie currency, Every restriction thrown around money benefits millionaire, and injures all other Montesquieu, great French statesman, said: “Financiers support a State as the cord supports the man it hangs.” He spoke truly, but were he living to-day the gold bug press would dnb him an ansrchist, the Tr 1 YALJUer- It might suit the Astors, i OLgers bilts, Goulds, that ilk to have a digmond rency through which they could con Rothschilds and of our- How ibe pluto-aristocrats of Graal Jritain must despise their fawning States to" have their ares not great enough own Restrict the currency and you biosk and indus- throw the workingmen of employment, lower the prices of farm prodnels, and the great creditors ous on the poverty and ruin of the masses. Oar first coinage act passedin 1792, by Jeflerson, and approved by Washing- the $0 1. would now be classed as eoranks, com- munists, socialists and anarchists. “Overproduction!” Oh, what hol- low mockery! Overproduction wheat when millions are starving; of clothing when millions are naked. The man who can write thus is surely a lunatic or the most heartless of created beings. It is not overproduction but underconsumption which is causing the misery of the people, and this can be remedied only by placing in their hands the means to make them consu- mers. Congressman Towne, the gallant young Minnesotan, who left the Re- publiean party rather than be an aces sory to the erime of shackling his fel- low. counirymen with golden fetters, uttered a great truth when he said: ““The true fiatist is your modern Amer- jean gold standard advocate. The loge of his argument leads to a money base so small and a credic top so large that ‘confidence’ is to take the piace realized 18 only soother name for ir- redeemability.” What stupid rot that is, abont “money that is good in Europe.” Let's seo what thers is init. Ais a farmer in Oklahoma; B is a farmer in silver standard Mexico. Both want to vimis England. A sells 1000 bushels of wheat for $500 in gold, and in Loulon exchanges his gold tor £100 English money. B also sells 1000 bushels of wheat, getting $1000 in silver for it, snd going to London, exchanges his silver for £100! Now, what advan. tage hae A over B? What is wanted is money that is good in Normao—and lots more of it. : SII The fuilare of the Labrador fsbery said 19 be complete 1s aon DEMOCRACY’S PLANK Declarations Platforms Contrasted, THE The Financial wo As the campaign progresses though ful men are continnally asking is the essential differonce between two great parties on the money ques tion. not mre satisfied with ti waporin the subsidized Repn can press, consisting of nsse out argument, I that the Kept “sound money, ean, and that Hers, repuadl - They us of ators and Innatie arty lines are BWinD ARLSIRE 10088: campaign and thinXing voters OTE are pv 3 i aR founudsation the ns money. In cud declared st they changed fre they were for Le standard” until = orougzht about by ling ¢ existing g change could wreement with the lea ymmercinl Nations the world, The Domocratie platform ndopted at Chicago on the other hand 1 Powe . » ¢ 1 deciarads riae conse of LO at the of we fav nd silver sixteen 2 ti that the enough snd in 1s own policy ithout the consent - wi “-w other Nation on earih. fail his country that the Demoer hit one + ‘ iwepubiie «VETY DAD WOO rengih and greatness aust 1% declaration as i nt £35 ve atic is the rig ‘nl o zealot fohn 1s2¢il Yonag, er article re tio an partisan ss recent news came ins DAT is DAKEs viewing Admission her prosper in and woifid Ye and on enjoy OWNR resources epite of of the world.’ money withont success, mainly aquest ion, creditor Nation, counirols such reasonable to believe that the United states, without the interveation England or any other {foreign Nation, ean solve ita own carrency problem. ~ New York Suburban, oO 5 The Advaniaze of Free Silver, The great advantage of free silver lies in the fact that 1s will iutroduece an era of expanding currency and ris. ing prices in place of the falling mar- ket that bas so long depressed us, Althongh the immediate effect of free tilver may be to lessen the volume of the enrrency by driving our gold away, yet very roon the influx of silver will more than make good the loss of the gold and the ‘volume will rapidly ex- pand. The consequence will be that prices will rise, commerce and mana- factures will be encouraged, labor will ne in demand, many who are nhem- olosed will get work, eompetition for employment mill become less severe, wages will riee, and, inthe end, work. inymen will be benefited as well as merghanta and manuisciarers, Vebtors wao have bern wronced by the darinkage of priovs will secure as “ass a partial justice and be abe to my oft their notes and morigages with vwething like a far equivalent for want they got ‘vue they bbrro ved, — tank Vsreons, in Arens, ER] That Pennsylvania man who ate thin ty ples and one watermelon and drop. ped dead should have known enough to leave watermelons alone; they are dan- gerous for those with delicate digestive apparatus. [GNORING THE TRUTH. CANDIDATE McKINLEY TRIES TO DF. CEIVE FARMERE, — ® False Charges Concerning the Cause of the Agricultural Depression Hav Crops and the Tariff -A Fall in Demand and lucrease in Supply. “Daring the last seventeen months of the Bepublican tariff lnw there were imported into this country 140,000 tons of hay, and during the tirst seven- teen months of tne Democratic tarifi Yaw there were im] orted 375,000 tons, Depression in agriculture has always followed low tarill legislation.” — Mr. McKinley to farmers, at Canton. it true that there hus been a slight increase of the imports of hay, but the imports are only a “*drop in the bucket” ns compared with the quantity produced iu this country, and the reduction of the price of hay in the United Ntates has not caused by any change in the tariff Mr. McKinley must know what Is have been. These tinue to be effective. The following table shows the size of the domestic erops snd the imports and exports, in for the years named CRUsEes will con tons, fiscal not the equal to less than 1 per cent. of the quantity produced The bay market in a Nation L000, 000 is not depressed oriation of number \ that last year were peopie this coun of t HE, or hay, as wi and hor iPATAR~ AS City at « brought £ ? Mis ot FWaR ony OnE, Mr. MoKinley savas nothin : trolley, O the bfovele and © s ; th clis tae farpiers that tho hav market has been depre by th wicked Democratic tarilf, — New “INCE, A ———————1es 555555 As {0 Taril Responsibility, po ina retaras of exporis and imports recently made officially show that for the seven months ending Jaly 31, thi exported to Europe nearly L000 mores of than we sent in the same months o 18056. We have imporied also $43, F 000,000 less. The result 18 a foreign eredil balance this year on merchan dise made alone of 830,743,802, agains’ balance last year : 821,219,002, This ins conslasive an awer fo the charges that it is the im: ! portation of foreign goods that is re’ sponsible for our businesd troubles, and that the tarift of 1594 sonrages foreign importation. 1p the latest ais monihs reported it will be seen tha’ Yhe export trade has made a gain over tbat of imports of nearly $112,900,000, In confirmation of what is thas proved, Senator Teller, who is a protectionist, snd voted for the McKinley tariff and against the Wilson tariff acknowledges in a recent speech that the Wilson bill is *‘a better bill for the manufacturer; of this country than the Hepabliean bill of 1890." He says tha “the peo ple who make iron and steel tell w» that the schedule on irom and steel was also lately satisfactory,” and it ie well known that the cotton schedale was dictated by the manufacturers themselves. — Boston Herald. A—— AA ATI Froe.Wool Facts ani Fancies, Faney--Patling wool on the free list decreased the number of sheep in North Dakota 300 per cent. —Sanatos Hansbrough. Free wool sweep: ine sheep from the prairies of North Ds. kota; free trade came in and the sheep went oat. — Ben Batterworin. Fact ~The wool clip of Norta Da: kota 1s the largest in its history. Tha number of pounds marketed here ex ceeds that of last year by 330,000 pounds, — Dickinson (N. Dak.) new. item, 1808. Wells Broo. of Farse bave been buying eatile snd sheep iu this county.~~Jamestovu Aleri, Hep tember, 1895. St. Paul Globe. | eouniry eq i 0 5 { an actual debt A FREE TRADE COLONY, ftesult of Six Months’ Operations in New South Wales. An experiment is going on in the Cnglish colony of New Bouth Wales which promises to be of great sconomie value, When the Hon, G, H. Reid, the present Premier, sus- seeded last fall in passing his bill, em- bodying & new scheme of taxation, it was asserted by the protectionists of New Bouth Wales, as well as by those living in other Australian eolonies, that un application of the plan conld uot fail to lead to general industrial bankraptey. Premier Reid's plan was a more radical free trade method than any hitherto in use in apy civilized country in the world, All of the enstoms taxes aro wnder it abolished except those on spirits, wines, beers, tobacco and opium. These are looked npon as lnxuries upon which e tax ean fittingly be paid, while if distilling, brewing or tobacco growing takes place in a colony a countervailing | internal revenue tax would undoubt- | edly be placed upon those enterprises, | The deficiency in the National receipts | brought about by this radical curtail i ment of revenue 18, under the law now { iu force, to be made good by direct | taxation. A partof this is secured by | n tax on land, and the other part is | received through the instrumentality | of an income tax. As the result of six | months’ operations, instead of proving { disadvantageons, the new plan of {ax- ation has been found to be distinetly It was said that wheat uld be abandoned in New Wales because there was no any protection granted the farmers; but instead of this the ares of planting has been muck larger this year than ever before, and, curionsly enough, a large number of | farmers have come the ria into the un- protected colony of New South Wales of engaging in the It is said that New this grow populstion- r hs i benef ial, growing w South longer f wheat from protec. ' v tionist colony of Viet Year +1 its y ppened in ¢ has aleo and with them at the realize a wando trad ty tus, ral wre ft 18 by ti va other the they we interest piace in United abhor are FHE MEANING OF MenINLEYISM, t Means the Ching ia That it Meant in 18D2. Sams 1526 Vagne promises that if the Ohio . iH r is elected President the country way become i#, should not blind the to real natare of Four that lerstood to mean a policy 1, dear goods and a re- This was the ymbodied in the and the + rejected the policy snd ordered a wi 8 » tari mysierions 4 the Years ago and after a {all Over (90 Years repealed, has happened since 1835 to singe in the siightest degree he ntial nature of McKinlevism. It then a demand for special privileges for the benefit of a and manufacturing It is a scheme by which on American consumers taxed on the goods they ¥, in order that a smali number of ouaires may greater for It means class legislation in nterests men who furnish money to buy votes and corrupt the popular government. It | is a bold assertion of the right of some nen to get rich at the expense of the masses who prodnes all wealth { The popuiar verdict in 1892 was | that McKinleyism was a {rand and | robbery. Theft is always theft, mo matter what it may be called. Foor rears ago the people voted against { stealing under the form of law. Is there any reason why the same people should now vote in favor of high tariff robbery, merely because the MoKin- leyites are this vear ealling their leader “‘prosperity’s advance agent.” E . xolhing | As tarifl ew great trusts "1 abe non . Mase nes, of the 3 ¢ ®IATrQeR © III - The McKinley Bill and Wages, The McKinley tariff law, says the New York World, went into effect Oc. tober 6, 1830, and the Wilson-Gorman bill Angust 28, 1804. The first effect of the passage of the McKinley hill was a general reduction in wages in protected industries. The World in 1892 printed several thousand instsn- pas of strikes and lockonis in protect. ad indastries that followed the enast- ment, Yesterday the junior organ of the protectionists continued the tale of stianster to workingmen unoder the MoKinley bill by publishing the fol- sowing as the experience of merely one protected firm-—the Cambria Iron Company : 1088 Th WORKINGMEX, There were $885,401 less wages paid in 1893 than in 1802. ‘here wore 81,500,410 less wages paid in 1894 than in 1892 The loss in wages in {wo amouniad 10 82.304 814, “A5% TO COMPANY. The wvaine of the prodnet of the Gambiia Iron Company in 1835 was &2,054,000 less than in 1892, ‘he value of the prodoet of 1804 was 54,916,200 less then in 1832. "heshrinkage in two years amounted to $u, 80,200, 3 * vears KHALID REMOVE Germany Runs OF With Madagascar Usarper, ENGLAND IS INSOLTED Fhe Seaadier Has Landed the Pre at Coast East An ineldent of Zauzit ned Germa tendar Dar-es-Salaam, on of Africa. great politics Frid reiati the Cerman » oceurred nt ar, deeldedly stra British and which may lead to tious of a serious After the bor Zanzibar by 1 UN Thrush bad proel was loueling ths wa ite, Khalid was AL eruiser beead er eileved, to one of the Germa EArge « has arrived atl { German East Af PERESYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News Glosusd From Varios Ee Etata It is su re 2 posed that a gang Philip H TE bhed n near Readir tured and I and trespass n at the Carrie Furnnees W Lamont Jobn Darker injured J sandiag liam wers rr the onth of the botelieeper living st Pike county, promises never to Henw i, of with an ax Dunme was bry Bpencer Masters, whe re. ae ireet in the same borough, and his left arm was badly gashed, iory, om the Thonrea sh bark, wis the pepe 1 a bor burned explosion in whiz lel and three men wore Riliel-~Jowseph door boy, aged 16 years, of Mount killed hard miner, aged 55 vears, of Pottsville, several burned avout the bead, neck and arms; Bd ward Boese, miner, aged 28 years, Pottsville, seriously borned on the face, neck, arms and hands: James Brown, laborer, of Pottsville, burned on the ack. James Barrett, of Carbondale, was stroek by a New York, Ontario and Western express train between Carbondale sud Mayfield, and probably fatally injured, The meat house of Butcher William Rader of Cedarville, Chester ecoun'y, was burglar- ized and #50 worth of iresa beel carried away. Three accidents about the mines occorred in the vicinity of Mahanoy City, Paul Rite a Polander, aged 30, was crashed io death between two mine cars; William Shutulis, a miner, was seriously injured by a fall eof top rock, and John Boscholar, a miner, was seriously injured by a fall of top coal The cinder crusher plant of William Iittle & Co, at Bwedeland, one mile above West Conshohocken, was almost totally destroyed by fire. Moch valuable machinery is badly damaged. The loss will be about $8100, sox ered by insurance. The origin is & mystery, The plant has only been Ia operation about two years William Simon, a fireman employed at th® power house of the Heranton Heat and Pow er Company, narrowly sseaped being scalded to death. He was bualing ashes out of the pit beneath a boller when one of the bam burst open and allowed steam to eseape. Simon was caught in the bissiog steam. BN is fearad he cannot recover, George Kirwood, single, aged 30 wears, committed suicide in McKeesport, by hang- ing bimsell by a towel Despondency was the cause Kirkwood was employed as clerk in the office of Wampler's lumber yard, and has been sick for a month. His brother Bamusl awnke was surprised to ses his brother's dead body hanging by a towel which had teen fastepel around his meek and throwe over the top of the door. : was Kk Donnelly, Laffoe Tienne The viet ms are instantly; injured, Ri
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