4 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, AUGUST The Contve Zemoat, CHAS. R. KURTZ ED. & PROP CIRCULATION, OVER 1400, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price 8) If pald in ADVANCE 'y { per year. CLUDI RATES: Tie CENTRE DEMOCRAT One and 3{ime ! Tug CENTR and Pu sa Week NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET, p WM. J PRESIDENT of N¢ BRYAN PRES! ARTHUR SEWALL, of Maine FOR VICE DENT Democratic State Ticket FOR CONGRESSMEN-AT-LA JOHN M. BRADEN Washington county BENJAMIM C. POTTS, Delaware county FOR ELECTORS-AT-LARGE WILLIAM M.SINGERLY Philadelphia. JAMES DENTON HANCOCK, \enango \.H.COFFROTH Somerset. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, Pittsburg RGE, FOR Samuel Dickson, Albert M, Hicks, DISTRI CTORS John M. Carroll Chas. J. Reilly, James J John ’ John H. Hickson, John B. Storm, Thos. A. Haak Chas. F. Reninge: Chas. H. Schadt Thomas R. Phill; Charlies F. King John K. Royal, William Stahler Aikens, r 8. Hackett Harry Alvin Hall, Democratic County Ticket (JAS. SCHOFIELD { ROBFRT M. FOSTER M.CRONISTER MBERG ER { P. H. MEYER ¢ DANIEL HECKMAN IANK KISTER HESS C which convened on October 15th, 1877, at which duced a bill for the free coinage of silver dollars of 4124 grains each, which were, to dues, public and private, except when otherwise provided by contract LION MAY DEPOSIT THE SAME IN ANY MINT COINED INTO SUCH DOLLARS FOR HIS TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS GOLD BULLION IS DEPOSITED FOR COIN- and The Cougressional name of Willinm McKinley. Senator McKINLEY'S SILVER RECORD President Hayes, of doubtful memory, alled an extra session of congress, session Richard P. Bland intro- 1 be a legal tender for all debts and AND ANY OWNER OF SILVER BUL- UNITED STATES COINAGE OR ASSAY OFFICE TO BE BENEFIT UPON THE SAME AGE UNDER EXISTING LAW, This free coinage act passed the house, Record, of the Forty-fifth congress, page 241 shows the vote in full, among the ayes appears the The act was amended in the senate by Allison, and was thenceforth known as the Bland-Allison act, and the provision for free and unlimited coinage was stricken out, and a provision made for the p more than 4,000,000 ounces of silver per mouth to purposes urchase of not less than two or be used by the treasury for The vetoed coinage amended bill passed and was President Hayes. by both bh by It wad repassed over his veto among those who Repub. ut was William McKinley. the McKinley tariff epealed the Bland. " » - 1 USCS, and ory erride the veto of t he voted to ov ne lican On went into ¢ presid July 15g0, flect and r Allison law and in its place was enacted the “Sherman Purchasing Act.” Among those who voted for both the appeal of Bland-Allison and the enactment of the | “Sherman Purchasing Act,” was Wil | ord of Mr. McKinley disclosed by rhile in congress, and shows that then stood for what Mr. Bryan st: | Pointers About Free Silver. | Continued from First Page purchase the same quantity of all com- modities. The way to deteruiiue wheth er money is remaining constant in value is to look at general pricesin the market if we find that a dollar purchas of at another we say the value lities one time than it COMO of money the other hand, we diminished, If, on find that a dollar purchases more com- modities, we say the value of money has y ascertain, there. increased. In order t fore, whether the value of a dollar has increased or diminished since the demon etization of silver, in 1873, we must go to the price | ists of articles and see the gen. eral course of prices since that time, general prices have fallen since that time it means that the value of the dollar has increased, and tliat, an honest dollar to-day. this work has been done for us. In Engl therefore, it is not Fortunately and there is the Royal Statistical Society. a society called The so- in pursuance of a of the British tion for the Advancement of Science, on the 15th of March, 1814; being ciety was founded recommendation Associa it object the careful collection, arrangement, dis. cussion and publication of facts bearing on and illustrating the complex relations of modern soci in its social, economi.- cal and political aspects, especially fact which can be stated numerically and ar. 2 ranged in tables, and to form a statistical as its fund library as rapidly would permit That society is composed of | ed by wealth 1 patronage of political office. They have in that society an honored man whom they claim as the first statistician in the world, Augustus Sauerbeck a change - GOLD BUG MEETING speaker of tl It was no oth James P Coburn Bank 10 is a capitalist and rolls in bh He made one of his customary utterances. weaith, to tell poor men w 10 vote. a: 1 It was ou the spread-cagle style, in which not agree the pational bank- f a national : ! ertain other corpor- | ations ears has been the special repre tative of corporate interests i } This be that he bh people, and is whi rising the { the interests h secu and sou! It is a fac , OF men refuse to npninees of the ~ a listening to the he pocket book, and who for the throbing of the heart of h The issue between ing the money power is so sharply that men of Mr. Wrights inclinations and prejudices must necessanly the oppressor and support McKinley the direct representative of the money power, There is where they naturally belong, and where they will all be on election | day. The places of these deserters, we are gratified to know, are being filled by | scores of persons who see that the republi- can issue of to-day represents a moneyed | plutocracy, and that the election of | McKinley would mean a continuance of | a system which has brought the produc- | my classes to the verge of financial ruin, Their votes will be cast for the candi. dates of the democracy, and will more than make up for the loss sustained by the desertions of such men as Mr. Wright, The people have determined to look after their own interests and they will not be swerved from their purpose by the cry of anarchy and socialism, whether it comes from traitorous demo- crats or subsidized republicans. 17 is asafe prediction that Col. Span- gler will receive the congressional nomination in this district. rs vw need both gold and silver and the toi masses and the iron hand of drawn | join with | generalities—that | ment—no fa he sawed the air with majestic gestures and twisted his head looking exceedingly wise and profound, when he denounced anything savoring of democracy. The | Col. has the faculty of talking much and saying little. Platitudes and glittering was all. No argu- Cts—politic buncombe— Coburn Congressman J. D. Hicks, of Altoona, whose reputation as a lawyer has pre- He is a keen, smooth, oily chap and a fluent ceded him here, was the next orator He took up the goid standard Throughout speaker argument from the start he sh 1 s¢ he showed hi 18 discour $s bitterness | 1 Qi QC | st National | | FL EET EE LE for the democrats by calling them ** The “The he democratic party miserable old Democratic party Mossbac ked part to-day was the same ** Cloven-fooled divel”’ as in the past Such bitterness aturally insulied many persons who were present and they soon left the hall. Mr question Hick's presentation of the money was fallacious in many ways, false constructions placed on many things. He also told partial truths, He is not fair nor honest ou the question, Persons who doubt this statement need only inform (hemselves on the issue and they will readily understand when meu like Hick's are playing the part of the demagogue on the stump. > —— BryAN truly experienced a triumphal journey across the continent, “Tur exclusively gold nation, like Logland, may show the most massive fortunes in the ruling classes, but it shows also the most helpless and hopeless pov. erty in the humbler walks of life.” ~JAMES G. BLAINE. ——— Tux N. Y. Sux, now devoted to gold monometallism, on Juse 13, 158s, ex. pressed views of this sort : "Gold has risen so that the proper way of expressing the truth is to say that the gold dollar is worth 117 cents, while the silver dollar remains at par. “The prompt adoption of silver asa standard instead of gold would, there. fore, arrest the decline in prices toa great extent, and palliate, if it did not we can have both ouly by making each eqnal with the other,” —J AMES G BLAINK. | cure, the evil of dull trade.” general prices have de. clined from 111 in 1873, 10 63 in 1% The figures for 1895 and 18¢6 show a still further decline. This table shows that the purchasing power of the dollar measured in gold has constantly increased since 1873. This is the dollar that the gold men call ‘‘honest,’’ a dollar that to-day will buy abouttwice as much of everything as it did in 1873. Persons who believe in an unvarying dollarand wish to restore the purchasing power of a dollar to what it was in 1873 are said by republicans to ‘“‘believe in a debased currency.’ You will note, in the last column, that silver, all along, has maintained almost the same relative value with the average of all other products, as shown in the next to the last column. ‘These statistics are compiled in a gold standard country too. It shows that gold has gone up. It is a scarcer metal, By making it the only money of the leading natious, the money classes have increased the value of their holdings almost double and the poor man, in debt, must produce almost twice as much to repay it, t shows that Me would 1573 money bas increased in value and our debts are doubly hard to pay. That is why capitalists, money lenders and bankers insist on gold. “If you see ft in the Sun it's so." An honest dollar is one that does vot If, Our nation is in debt to foreign money | lenders, By demonetizing silver, since | fluctuate, but maintains relatively the same purchasing power of the leading The above table It is the It will make products of the world. shows that silver has done this, reliable measure of value the not double its be " 4 FOURS. honest dollar. Money sharks can value aud the masses will protected from the Wall street shy subscription in g THE SILVER DOLLAR Out says :» Cincinnati En. patrons quirer, We involved in the pend ling struggle for it shows a d eter ¢ part of the voters to as. 165, that they may vote A patron wishes to know whether silver money is a legal tender aud has q 2 J 1 « i R 2 iq not demonetized since 1587 The the it been of 187 de- doll act uswer monetize silver ar; but simply 14 stopped It ’ egal scoinage. It wasa tender, but as only a small amount (§5,000,000] had ever been coined arresting the coin. age was equivalent to its demonetization, Nothing was left of the mouey of final redemption ] The stopped the coing same COU; ¢ law transferred the | ues from the silver } ace which silver had honor. eighty years. The Bland , which had passed over the ns to demonetize § » avis i» payable all govern 3 i, Bowes 1 Ha er bn fron yes down a WHAT IS THE REMEDY on certain, self evid ug those pertaining to finance lowing the volume of “Double money double the value of products.” “Divide the volume of money, and you | divide the value of products The legislation of the republican party, | the demonitization of silver ir has nd has finally singe 3 O73 of divided the volume money, demption money to the single gold stand- ard. The decrease of result has been all values, until to-day real estate and its products of labor bidders. The Sources AL ket without any gold do lar bas been magnified profits of industry have been minin The gold dollar bas been arch, while industry and prod have become upon the face of the earth Again, ‘divide the you double the “Double the voMume of money and you divide the det." voiume of mouey debts The adoption of the gold standard and the demontization of silver have divided the volume of money and doubled the debt. The actual amounts of the debts are not multiplied by this process, but the inability to pay, or the paying pow- er is decreased. Thisis a fact that is know to both the debtor or creditor by actual experience. What is the remedy for such a condi. tion? Itis embraced in the same axioms. Increase the volume of currency. This is what the free coinage of silver means. It will increase the volume of currency, aud an increase in the volume of curren. cy means a rise in values, and an in. crease in the ability to pay debts. Those |of our readers who can remember the | financial condition of our country prior | to 1873, or who have learned that condi. | tion from history, know that values were always mamntained, and the people as a class were prosperous, and that since {that time values have constantly de. creased, The cause cannot be mistaken, nted by the Gorn is the | bankers, ——— - AP irl —— | THR banks are agitating the battle for gold. Should the people follow the bankers? We think not, i i ————— | Iris free silver that our readers are clamoring for,and we devote more space than usual to the consideration of this topic. | sons are storming us with questions | reduced our re- | the gradual | | »n age 5 are a mere drug upon the mar- | made a mon- uction Wants a Bounty Governor Hastings received a letter from a Schuylkill couuly man recently stating that he is the father of seven sous The writer also says the a ’ 1 1 aol ~ and no daugilers he has been informed that state al- fathe KOovernon lows a bounty to ev of the | without d¢ ery pe and asks to see that gr pL Yoh v is a republics vote for Gar - Ait Strat A at ot ot Rh iii, ANOTHER meaning sent out recently to de Crs, On an average oni THE men on n : Advisory committee, to Hanna elect McKinley, represent : ‘Sunlight y r €] a combined There will : dl ¢ has i +O plenty of boodle afloat. Keep your eye iad your hands t Take all you can get. . hd wealth of $525,000,000. open for it “Tar gold and France, can exhibit on silver nation, like o such individual as abound in England, BUT IT PEASANTRY THAT, WITH SILVER SAVINGS, CAN PAY INDEMNITY THAT WOULD HAVE BEGGARED TBE GOLD IAN WF LONDON i IN ane aca Cleanses elothes and most evaryining €ise-wil lest labor and greater comfort fortunes HAS A THEIR A WAR Lever Bros, 144, Hudsow & Herrison Bus, N to which ~ould not have ~Monutgon & Co per cent held cI reductior the peasantry of England 2% clot WANTED : 50,000 y MOST HEAT! :- i . v : « 14 v ndsterijng in goidor a contributed a pou gin g single shil i } T s Iyvox& Co a LESS COAL! op) Yi a rE Bd W. 1. 3: MILLER, 25 Per Cent Re d | 0 {l 0 I Fooo0000c0coooocooooono 3 . OOO0OOOOOO00! - Straw Hats Cat In Half. x1.50 kind 1.00) Hi large stock of Our negligee shirts Aring disappe g rapidly, caused by the great reduction. The 25 per cent. cut in clothing is still on for a few weeks. £15 (0) gnite 12 50 10 On “ Uk Oh . - -t) ) per cent, off, 11 “ ) “ 9 oN “ 50 The black and bine serge coats go at the same cut, & you 2an af ford to keep cool. " CE > i MW NW NN MM NN MW N NWN NW DOO XX XO OOOO OOOO IOI III III TIANA) EE LT a >.» LAE EE EE EE Xx MAAN ASNRANNASAANASASSSAS ASSN APARNA FS NSTI ATS ar Ar LE EEE EE EO EE EE EO LOOOOCOOOOCOOCOCOCOCN SO IOC i i SN 4 . a MONTGOMERY & Co Bellefonte. -
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