~ FALLACIES EXPOSED, ram A IL- GOLDBUG SOPHIITRIES AND TF HOODS SEOWN UPL. Test, Payment of Donds, and Sliver Producers ered and Clearly Explained None Should Be Imposed Upon. Hammer Consid- Goldbug sophistries and falsehoods are difficult to deal with, They mul- tiply like weeds and assume all manner of shapes without anv regard to congraity cr con sistency, They seem absolutely mpervious to logieal refutation and to survive with renewed vigor every demoaostration of their absnrdity, Neverthelass, as their continued and emphatic reiteration is liable to mis. lead, it seems necessary to persevere in exposing their falsity. As therois no method in their presentation, I think it is well to take them up in- diseriminately upon the plan of hit. ting a head rever 1 see it. And first here is a live one called— ITAMMIRR TEST, “fake a United whe ‘run 1t is said: Wy 1\ \ A \\ friend of Labor” \ aA LAY \\ \ \\ \ \ \ the bullion mass will valuable with the coin, but a silver dollar to the nearly half its value stroyed.” Very true, but why? defaced gold ean be taken to the mint and without cost re stored to coin. coinage privilege and it will stand the test in exactly the same way and for the same i! the min You may smash a silver do mer and equally submit test and BAe is reason, t 18 Opi ar on tae anvil uatil it 1s khapeless and the rem- much as the coin before defacement, for the plain reason it ean be reformed and standard hat without cost into the stamped No coin. Ons of that which by their terms are { made pavable in "1a either a rank hypocrite or without sufficient in- telligence to manage his own business, I'he hor it ol Nation { Government, ‘coin, or and cred n { { i i 184 do exactly what it has eon- cannot be suspicion by aod { »” + i ” ales] 3 aoe} 5, tainted or y the whines ibolders, echoed by no ther hirelings, or the third specification I select this rougint ir greeay von 3» fatter | = IW many ol 4 test," Way regards— “THE PAYMENT OF poxXDs."” 0 " bonds are in terms payable 1n ‘coin, Yet as gold was given for them thers 18 8 moral obligation to pay them in gold. The assumption of fact because nearly every bond in existence has by refunding =a <ehased with mt tender notes, Insist upon that gold was ud then ask what determining the eo whick it shall be p of payment to be lo consideration for the | of its terms w method of payme Iawyer smile to se & matter of seo: At no tice and and voder no |! character of the c obligation allowed fluence, legally or m dertaking of the oblig consideration may have been is ihm: terial. It may bayve been the bui of a railroad or Government supplies or anv « hundred things, 1f 1 then the amount paid was equally im portant with the quality. 18 false Government been made ton, IgA rally wr the in rails i waa lo refer to Ol as a guide in conmderins the tion of the Government ign. Ign as it 1s to the teachings of busines sense, common One thing is certain, least consideration at which it conld be obtained. If gold was paid, then the purchase was made with just as » an amount of gold as the buyer econld induce the Government or repre sentatives to take. What Le how much he paid has n to with the quest bought. Let me illustrate by an actual trans action. A vear snd a half Government wished millions of bonds, and a mot ey fy n cato was negotiating for the purpose. Pending the negotiation Mr. Cleveland sent sn to Congress, that for thirty year bonds, payable in coin (the only kind then authorized bv law), the syndieate would require that the rate of interest should be per cent., but if thirty-year gold bodds could be authorized they would take them at 3 per cent. the consideration in either case to be in gold. The dif- ference, reckoned to the maturity of the bonds, amounted to about fifteen millions of dollars, Congress not be- ing willing to suthorize a gold bond, the contract was concluded for coin bonds at 3] per cent. interest—that js to say, the Government obligated it- self to pay to the syndicate fifteen millions of dollars for the privilege of satisfying the bonds in coin, instead of obligating itself to pay in gold alone, Now, I ask, supposing silver to be cheaper than gold, in what kind of coin ought the principal and inter- est of these bonds to be paid? Can there be any doubt about the answer? When the Government has paid fifteen millions for the option of discharging its obligations in either milver or gold, instead of gold alone, shall it re fuse to exercise ils option? $4 any officer of the Government shall under present conditions pay the in- terest on these bonds in gold, wiil he not be guilty of a manifest fraud upon the American people from whom the means of payment are to be proenred by taxation. And yet these bonds in no way difler from any others, except that in this case by the communication of the President the relation between the consideration of the bond and its on is made manifest and indis- table. The man who talks about honor or eredit of the Nation be- ing injured or imperiled Ly a payment silver of the obiigations of the mail its ao athine OLLIDgE ion of what he Avo whew. db ey ndi 10 eSBRLe stating a3 3 ia orn if ox 1 f i! i OINaAge y benefit « # reason given lowed to take orth of silver bullion for 1t a dollar. nonsense, | g1iver coinage opens the mints, not to prodncers but to everybody, alone, jaitty who holds or chooses to procure | silver bullion. The privilege is uni- versal, and every ounce of silver in the* the option of its owner, the nt and converted dollars, Yhen two bi for } are world can, at i ba brought to into American ¢ 1 &. one Ne, her, 18 3 impossiblo that th id b " mld f iifference in market price betwee When with 871 grains of silver anybo ly ean procure | an American dollar, no one { part with silver at any less price, and therefore (a is going to I'he OIGAZD Yaiue allowance the co ivind trivial bullion value Inust, cost of transportation), markets of the nust always for a will make no difference bullion he takes bis ballion to it in New York or 1f he mints it he will rican dollars, sud if he market he will receive American d¢ | to him whether the mint or sells J.ondon market Am { 8@ils 18 1a the receIve | the e jaivaient of ilars, | The assertion, therefore, that the mine | owners, more than i obtaia a dollar at the mint for ifty- three cents’ worth of bullion or say amount of bullion worth in the mar- ano kots of the world less than dred cents is pure fietion.—C. J, Hill- { yer, in Silver Knight, anyone else, ean i The Bryan Dollar, The silver dollar nnder the proposed { free coinage act will bs as great it purchasing power as the present dol lar. We are 1 to a dichones! { dollar. that chargs the {roe coinage dollar will not be worth thie onnosed I'h 0 that foes vais re becyg uz the qu ation. We assert that it will duction | in the proportion of 18 tol. The quantity of i marketed | of rold, MU #i to bo times vor ile function as money | and its col value will be in the | sane prop [hs eommoeraial value of silver will, by reason of the increased demand, become tha 83 1is coinage valae, and will bear tha same proportion to the commercial | value of gold as the quantity of silver i produced bears to the quantity of gold | produced. Bryan and the Democratic party are not wedded tc a ratio whieh wonld prove impracticable. It would be impolitic now to coneade the possi bility of the ballion value of silver not | rising to its coinage value. Bat in | case it does not, we are assured, and | we feel confident that such safe. guards of legislation will be enacted as will insure the parity of both metals Of the ability of the Government to insure such « parity there can be no! doubt. It is notorious thet the pres. | eat silver dollar, which contains only fifty-three cents’ worth of silver bul. | lion, is equal in purchasing power to a gold dollar, which contains a hnan- dred cents’ worth of gold bullion, be- ease of the credit of the Government, To the enactment of sach legislation, in caso it becomes necessary, as will insure the continuation of this we are unalterably committed. — New York Suburban, Iss Bedtime fn Ancient Days, The boya and girls of this ver i sixteen taat Restore to ail nage irtion sama they be sent to bed at dark. Yet the ma jority of grown people, as well as the children, {o ancient Rome rarely lighted a candle unless at dawn, In Rome, Athens, Egypt, aud other parts of the Mediterranean shore, the bedtime was between seven and nine o'clock in the evening, according to {he season. The Turks go to bed eatly and get up early to this day. 1 § THE SILVER SIDE. Wall and T.ombard streets are feriy opposed to Bryan—all the m reasofi why those woo carn their pport him. uw lviog should sn ra who Dearing Wa i ng the Treasury reserve speoniators have BLOCKS in os will find the people guu- the apprehensi r ior thi uwtid 1311 5 Mil the in autumn 3 ‘ 111 all : $ 3 guns will a:l be loaded tor bear. —hermat Coes it cost so much : Inoney wial they want to do? mn aL ” i shem de mont, Co Morg an A sary to spend hundreds of make Le peop according ald 18 re ) 7 against their wishes? oiates vote y BOW much w 180 them vole ur Daddies is American people. I and wo 16 DeCessarios more Luan the beneficent rule # 5 i BLIVET ¢ the INASEes BOW of ago we were fold that that gold and silver h If true, the rascals doing so mach ‘against i's money will have a a ticket at the pearly Why is it expend millions, JEPUBLIJAN BTATEMENT3 BUITER AND EGG3 DI3I ABOUT 'ROVED. Under the Wilson Butter Jllave the Kxports Have Increased in the Lnw Imports of While De= Kags. Decreased, Crease The Chicago Inter Ocean publishes in article introduced by startling headlines in which 1t is asserted that ‘“the tariff issne leads,” that ** Western farmers are awakening to its tumportance,’ ly Imports ot great "and that “they realize (nl the losses hey have sustained inder the Wilson law.” Attention is lireeted to the remarksof C, W. Mott, ff St. Paul, General the Northern Immigration Pacifio Rail ap 6“ “was by fog bur 3%y on butter,” he eased two cents a pound tho mm 1s the con grqueuce is Michigan farmers who send butter i one-third than when the McKinley fTeot. The rest oc mes from Cannda.” Bat Mr. Mott and the Inter Ocean know, or to know, that mports of nlways small, the now oficial fig BUYE, de vw, and shipping Joss law was in ought butter, do wreased nonder Hero ure the both imports and down to June 3 Ww the i been own volition" For the same people vote ‘‘of their for the gold standard? reason that the high ' deliver up his money. great sane, MeKinley is Jost sight of in the cam- English capital and Onsires, arn ful howl ol against stirrin ines is troly pathetie, fonder on which ov others ng is prosecuting a most 3 na pro- disliress woul {i be gla i and whioh cape observation, fearing the in. " We gesting that *‘no ch asiter draw with good ow § 4 1¢ people, beg 3 10f he law, English financiers rule this country, and that question is, Shall the United Ntates legislate for tha people of this policies and foreign legislation? If the United States cannot maintain an independent financial policy, we are a dependency of Grest Britain, and un- til that question is settled, there is no other question of the slightest im- portance. If we trust our finances to Great Britain, we may as well trust everything else to her, because who- ever governs the financiers of the coantry, governs the country, —Silver Knight. — wn What Demonetization Has Done, The demonectization of silver has checked our advancement as a Nation, and brought us under tribute to thieves: but if we succeed in seonring its remonetization, the wheels of pro- gress will turn again, and the people will arive in their might, ‘like a young giant refreshed with new Wine.” —Sena- tor Jones, in Arena. Humoring Mim, Eminent Bpeciallst—Yes, madam your husband ls suffering from tompo rary aberration, due to overwork. Wife—Xes be insists that he is a mill fonaire, : Eminent Specialist—-And wants te pay me $100 for my advice. We'll have te humor him, you know. Standard : esc os A OB co si Don’t lean anything; you Ynow your. self how careless you are in paying Wiles nm law on r pound, highest 80 ag to valae. 1530 the Besseme { that-—but or cost per ton usiy” reduced, bLeea reduced, but cannot be trade or even a low tari glire © al ocen Ef 2 Ed ati wages aide gots so Jong ns the lo 81.65 and 31.95 gressional Con less than 86.72 aod as high as $60, The tariff daty i much higher than tho en: on =i ite: for pro labor was paid nothing for der the present law would not permit them to nnderscll the ingots made in this country. The people saunot be fooled by such balderdash in this cam- paign. The now steel pool formed two weeks ago to control the price of open-hearth steel will do more dam: age to steel consumers and Ameriesn labor than would absolute free trade in stoel, — Democratic Party the Conniry’s Hope, I am one of those who believe that the Democratic party was not born to die except with the death of Republi. ean Government. It is inherent to our constitutional system, atid essen: tial to the wholesomo existence of that system. That it has, on important occamons, failed of its daty to the State and fallen short of the require: ments of the hour, merely proves that its lenders were unequal, not that the principle of its being was at fault, In spite of the mistakes of its leaders, and in spite of grievous perversity and misadventure, the party has survived disssters enongh to destroy half ¢ dozen parties. As long as free insti. tutions bailt upon recorded Jaw need a firm, enlightoned defender—a de fender alike against the encroachments of organized rapacity and the excesses of popular sontiment—the Demooratic ty, a8 directed and inspired by efferson, will stand between thom institntions and every assailant Henry Watterson, | | i i i | | | | | | { | | i i i i | | i NOT A WORD AGAINST TRUSTS, wepublicans Falled to Condemn Mo- nopolies, ye ihe Amoriecan people, irrespect.ve believe that if they no midst of pieuty it 15 because they Bre poo: Chief nro the agencies which trusts the among the iwonopolies whieh great nna control the commoailies ‘on sumed by tho MIAsKEn, The (que Lion of breaking down these combine whieh oppress the people are of issnes of the day. Relie from trust exactions, and the abolition ob them wetnre of nearly all ithe foremost of the power of monopolies to make ortuncs out of the lemanded by practically « very Ameri- Poor, 18 earnestly sitizen, the platform of the Republican Couventi olutely ut on the word of tional a IR ab of trusts Not condemuation for tho onuspiracies against the people was in wf BID je 4 JAA ferted in the declaration of principles : country, nor did @ many speakers who addresse refer to the which § ( ii given t on i 1h dangeron Oo the couvention are th erity. Thera clunrges vinations { pros plenty of wild Democratic party, and plenty of bun- EApping ation s nuainst CO De ses of high-taxation p lared t prom: but no one J denouns rganization of Protectionism. ian 1 i arill aw a mas ImpoEs reali sdvanutage $1 rar 4583 Areal ne mt reasing ot nereased 80 i BCTIOAT f£ 3 4. wy Lis LA108 Ale irom prolit ey migl } yMpdant can Feauce insiry and gas i . a 2 and — XOW LOIS enty voar bushel, the en reached ne need not go farther sonri to ascertain the exact of the farmer. than condition their children of the education which had been planned, beecanse of the de- pression of the times, what folly is it home market.’ Mr. MoKinley speaks again of ‘a most damaging foreign competition in our home market.” In what agrical- tural products has this damaging foreign competition been noted? Is it in cotton? Is it in eattle, in wheat? Aro not all these exported? Tie trath of the matier is that tho policy of protection has evoked re: talintory measures ou the part of countries like Germany apd France, which, by their prohibitory tarifls, have prevented onr sales of agricul: in the home market MoKinleyism moans the fiual destruction of the agrienitaral industry. —3t, Lous Bes public. od III 5.5 BY Why Freighis Are High, Pricos of staple farm products are low, nnd fatmere compiaia that the railroad freights eat np all the proc on their nsrops, Bat tho radroads have to par the trnst's price of S39 per ton for +teel rails, waiie the sams rails are sold to Japau sud Covad tor iosn than $22. The additional 37 cone out of the farmers’ pockets. Ie 18 any ‘ wonder that freights are high? AMERICA'S DEEPEST LAKE, -urious Facts About a Body of Water in Cregon, (ho jst Oniy was Lostis that xter t regularity downs oa fall York 21a beard growth and mustacl of bristly New Russian Babies. Ag by a recent traveler, Russian babies as seen in the homes of Russian Niberia, are tnattractive specimens of human woked curiously at one little says the iraveler, “which was 131d upon 4 shelf, Another hung from the wall on a peg, while a third was shing over «ie of the supporting rafters and was being swang to and fro by the mother, who bad a cord loop over hey Why, cried 1 in surprise, that's a child! “Of course it Is’ re. plied the woinnan: “what else should it be? Having eamod =o much in so short a time I had an irrestible de sire to inspect the *conteiis of the swinging bunde. | looked, but turned away in disgust, for the chill evas as dirty as a pig. I asked why the baby was not washed, It may have been mpertinont., . ‘Wasbad! shrivked the mother, aparently borrified. Washed! What-wash a baby? Why, youd Kili ih?” : described the peasants ia Ys ry ity. "i botdie,” foot, A cargo of conl wax recently re ceived at San Pranclses from Ton onosugh to make the venture profitable.
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