y } tesa wsiIssesay THE CHAMPION SWINDLE ¢ or “New Light on the Silver question,’ this is considered the best work of its kind, If you want to gain a clear idea i of the Silver question get it, Rogular price 10 cants. Send Oeents to thisoMee and same will be malled to any of our readers. «swestasael / 4 / The Ce ao. CHAS. R. KURTZ Ed. ad Prop. Carlisle's Mint Reports Just be 4 DANGER! ON TO WASHINGTON! Corrected, as the Reputation of H“ELLEFONTE, ¢ ¢ A Th Th TR Th Te Ce Se LOOK AT THE LABEL! 4 The date, printed after your 4 name, oi abel ofthis pa i per, shows the time to which ¢ your subseription has been ¢ mid, Note these tern 4 / Rp price #1 #4 4 # If paid 1 advance $1.0 ¢ Be Te Se SE TN SE PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896. Judge Furst, Dr. Atherton and the Keystone Gazette | are at Stake. For some products. They have beer democratic tariff was the cause of the d Yet we had protection from 186¢ to 1892, from about $1.40 to 75 cents peg bushel. it, when we never had free trade or anything like it. a proposition. It simply shows the desp make the farmer believe that be is prospering. Space will not permit us to answer the many faulty arguments and misstate. Few of our readers saw the article, and we doubt if any would ments of facts. place much confidence in it, Thereare, t sey lies : as republican orators are peddling about the county, that we wil tention : Here is an amazing “There statement: was practically no coinage of silver from 1561 to 1873." » or the other is w We presume you 30 not. know Aly one or the otiaer 1s wrong. better No sensible man would deny MINT REPORTS WRONG(?) acts. Come upto our sanctum gad on **Then it is not true that we had free coinage of gold and silver in 1866 (In page 293, of Report of the Direglory of | : i 293, Report of the Diregfory of | 18¢3, when the coinage act was passed the 52] £911 - vy ’ . 4 by 1 the Mint, you can find that int by CONgress, nO prot 1510m was made Jor there was a total of 3,50 the coinage of the silver dollar.) Thu Suvyer dollars Cone d In — Pe oi . whos honesty . ; 4 and patriots 5 fond of was about $£14,000,% g 3 Hine 3 S14 ’ boastin ve the free } Liver \ ‘a ) axing a tota xact f age of sty 1 15853, they reduced 6.0 ; ; Co the value of silver int) but 6 per cend." wwe two paragraphs are fro No, Mr. McKinley will not make any campaign speeches, but ther W We will give the history will be other eloquent speakers in the fleld. —Mark Hanna egistation on the Silver Dollar, a ~—Buffalo Times Wi ki { e3 t ( « y the highest authority: rr. 1 BE t for ther v tl vi ! . teport of the Director ofthe Mi ¢ | State and it became a cot odit Its AT GRANGE PARK ‘ \ ue ! d ue 1 8. [NE - Page TY 1 Are in the habit of stating every now | SILVER COINS DOLLAR TI fave at ‘ re 1 e habi tatin ry n El Go oa I losing days at Grange Park, and then, that the volume of currency 0 becoined, a of April See. Ea ¥ Coste no ¢ sii ; : : rains: nineness, SL, { +H necessariiy ell. ing T i re re iortunate thas has been but slightly decreased, and | anzed. act of January 18. 187. ¢ as n necessarily ie 1 8 . : Ale than " » : ” | 3 Billy 4 A JARUALY 1D: & i . wuwnder a * the anenin T x p . ’ R o « Pp that the amount per capita in 1565 and | 3 issue, under an art the openin 1 ay and Friday were " . 1878 varies very little being from $14 to | n ineness changed, act of January 18, 1557, 10 | 23" jt was clearly lea! picnic [he sky cleared off (al ' ¢ ler " _n " hag ke ne} 4 / a3 3 — w A { " $15. The “Inter on Jas a Coinage discontinyed, act of February 12, | capitalists sent representatives to Wa and the sun came out to brighten up and five-twen tic bet " casion at various times to refule this | 18% iy : rig : 11 3 : weindhy sy ’ ’ tn we . : : : Se : . H 1 . als { mivigorale ail with its genial warmth og we 4 . x assertion, and in doing so, has given | ,Loinage reauthorized, act of February ington, with the ald of John Sherman, lo] "8 , , penial yam a i ) pay ~ ro % : i158, : *3 L 1 A i ' wr p figures that cannot be successfully dis- | !bave this accomplished, Next they ace | Thursday the attendance was very large, . pally : 1 $ | : ] hit ing £ os ney he + : puted. We produce below a table com- Oe page 449, of me report, under | domplished the same thing Wn other { and the ground was crowded. All trains , he 2 odd Honey 2% pag : : : "ee J EAL samo ain RAL ] WAEER TL . 1 ‘ v ng Al ke 18 a wdial J / : piled from official sources which exhibits | “Summary of Monetary Hvents since |g : Yate loaded and the roads leaf ! . @ repudiior and exiorfioner the currency of all kinds outstanding in | ,.gen xs Aeae' nls since | European countries, and the price of | Were loaded and the roads ieatingto | lo demand money more waluable thar Fe He wreney £0} 1786" you will find: silver bullion rapidly declined-there | Centre Hall were lived with private © gave. Truly your Tous SurrMAX.'" NE ¢ 140 y . ” s The United States did not What . : Year. Currendy. Popilatioh: Per sapliid | "48% j- Lowering of the weight of sil. | was no mouey den aod for it. Hogland | conveyances enroute for the picnic. , As in ei ua : What should be the judgment he 1a H, 8] 87.42 | ver pieces of Jess value than $1 to the ex- | demonetized gold in India=—silver was | bie principal event of the day was the these bonds in gold Co people 4 ' t LOT 'M 5 %.76 | tent of 8% per cent 3 United S .. % % : . ; 5 he int «t of the x {a ‘yh 2 pe cent in the a ed States, then their only legal tender One ounce silver addresses delivered in the auditor The ere of Lhe n Sherma w) . tod - pH and limitation of their legal tender pow. | oh oh he Ty Fon able in coin, which by Im ’ Toss | er to $s, silver 61% d,” ‘of refined silver would always, when | iam Dy Hou. J. T Allman secretary of the 4 a ol his letter to Dr. Maun a i and Y mT | ‘ i : 4 S14 wit . : fhe principal pal n ! “ Rl oq DARE 4 des 3 head b teolned ii ripeed, excBAlge wm India for a | stese grange in the morning, and by " } fucipa re : re . ih | procured passage of t called . Si * 480, Hn ame Hedding t { " { : ’ . reenbacks., se bonds issued by our " % Tt it BERTON B€ 450, lider same Heading the |, oy of wheat. The Englishman bul. | Mortimer C. Whitehead, of New Jersey ¥ " . thon hs 1 credit strengthening act baby which w Jollowitig ap é rs whet tt Sil. ' ¢ . y : Wer it the war wes ug hit f oy 17% | , - Eps Suows will {lied down silver in United States toa | and Mr, DeWitt, of Towande, Pa. in the BOVEHmE« he wat @ DORSET | it was declan the principal and V7 1] ver Dollar Was destroyed as standard | mmodity,. By getting silver bullion } afternoos Col. J. L. Spangler presided and | id for it ated gree hms interest of tl 3 g comin MLY., bY geting iver 31100 | WKS ' : + GPAng : resigeqd . n 3 ¢ a : n f 1520 | nyoney Of this country / H | : " 0 1 t receive € T y 47, HA , A cheaper in this country, they could take | and made an bdpening address that hy * co WwW hink Se Of yor ls ia bes af y rR 3 = ® * Renlacin { double " : ates - 1 the wooording 10 LLC 2 The currency, included In the above Al Sy Repcas wr i thetoubie | jt to India and exchange it for wheat at | sparkled with good humor and god 4 : ; te matter & COT DTISCS © { | standard by the gold standard, limitation |, \ tt 3 / " 4 "we : 018 Lion H recnba A . amounts comprises demand and one a%d y 3 EC i BO A fo ALOT less cost. The lower the bullion drop. | ariitient for the people The large =} y de = LY jana two-year (re@sity notes authorfered by | ©. the legal tender power of silver dol- \ . ) n redit strengthening act of > spf Mba vs T to om vy ars to fs. * * *” ped, the Jess the India wheal cost the { anditorium was packed a M ) ff Dec. 27. 1827 Dec. +4 NT the 4 ry the acts of Dec. 27, 1857; Dee. 17, 1860, Englishman. In this way hé Seats down | bear these men and all liste iat it wasih ind . and March 2, 1861; tempotraty ten- day Note the statement in italics No pro- | “BB:shman. 'n this way A Depts vows 1. : oh © (2 these ; arm : Ivans, and one-year cert ry 's of indebt. sion was made for the coinage of the the American silver, and also heats the | y 4 : i . crest. at bo : - : y treast a ryt » {ry %+ v adia fares \ avehl rate i sloarly indicate at the § ' ; : : Hrocu ness;ts asury OLS 0 Ah ia two eats silver doilat™ (in Act of 1853) On page India farmer. Our sarpind rain is sold, | arly indicated thatthe fi the Te | . 3 , aud sixty ays; weven-lhariy-laree a { Ive rnao] nd vat ait he he Oe mderstand the ney au vat @ ‘ . . ’ . sat Rot rvmvidemi interest nates 1 | 446 of this same report is given a history In Liverpool, and establishes the prices wderstand the money qu them rot [ " . 1 year notes; compoustl interest notes 3 ' ¥ k 'h ¢ i " bomé thee Comme p RE ee 5 ac ks + ’ " . . . " . at heserie . v net and Bo ane w i ih 1 oinage of wah : per cent certificates. Non-interest bear- | of all legislation on the silverdollar. It at home jor Off WRLAL, anq no one phigh smi os COIN ted at the time the bond AT Lya . C 3 1 "a ry 2 > os ov} wrtloae i ta 18% 1 selience von y tee : a na A ot ‘ MSE ing demand utd legal tender notes, | was “authorized to be coined, Act April buy our wheat #4 England unless it is as | In the audience you could count ii is provision of pa 4 sta § ; pudia of a ractional curréecy. State bank notes ) : heas adit from Indi That is ti wes of republican and prohibition S's dine 1 oh A ug Co a ASL and nti 21 batik " k notes, | 5 y8y2,” That was sufficient provision, | PS2P a8 FERS from InGia. That is the | } 4 : nrincinal and interest iti coin was incor y extortion of fam aud nalionn. Lik notes. 2 story of the decline of wheat. That i farmers who have concluded to drop | PPRCIPal and Act t 1 : pi ! han § That pe disposed of by imol and it was never revoked by any Act ¥ is section i sorated into the bonds by the refunding | W0,000 ON the slaggerning ines ol That can be disposed of by a simple that ean be found until \apiaae ssc " how England reduced our silver and | party lines, this time, an 1 vote for their V7 h . the country as the ecula its of vial bv ‘that shee It denies any . an be jound un Coinage aiscon- " : Bik | acts of 1870. In 1573 they demonetized | mg whrm Yer th . E tamara den al by hat sheet, It denies anything tinwed, Act February 132, 1873."" The Milt up the extensive grain fields of | own interests : ’ ’ 1543 y "a the operation, In the whole financial it cannet prove, ‘ p ¥ Je . i N taal \ hen it silver so as to make coin mean gold COIN | history of the civilized world no parallel "ey tan) . " 4 ractional currency, subsidiary ndia. The decline of silverbullion and | In the evening ajoin jebate took A a . } J The “‘Statistical Abstract No. ¢' Is ” ay pli 1 is . wi ns Foon heat 8 ’ 1 : Think i hi i Mag 3a ey took alone. aud thereby added 100 cents to! can be fonnd to this audacious deed of * ud il y \ s Rms A | 1 1A or Yoert 4 + Aol » ran Fi, fas reduced in we b ¢ wheat since 73 are lhe same. m lace in the same building between Hon . hy hrakers faith hevate troachs ‘ Sars sued by the Treasury Department at the | = ’ . ight by Act of i 3 fs : we i . : € H each dollars worth of bonds. We have broken faith, deliberate treachery 10 tia beginning of the year 1966 shows the fol 1853, and eoined on government aceount, of it, in 1873 India shipped only 730,454 | A. O Furst, of Bellefonte and Mortimer | ever been able to reverse the great people nd onal dishonesty, * » béginnin f the ye 1 i. : . : if . i “never been al to rse the great HT Yaar the names: of those wl Surin " : . ; It was reduced in value ahd listed in | bushels to England. In 1892 they in- | Whitehead. Mr. Furst made many wild - . he Said it will bear the names of thosc wo 3gwin3 9a the volume of curtmicy i 1 tend t Il ch reased it to 56 3 bushels. Thus f fed stat for gold wrong of 1873. and, therefore, the bond: | enacted it to the distant generations al tender, so tb ¢ ! 1 ¢ so | CTEASESd I 0 +557:303 © 8. S | unfounded statements in argumg jor god. . . : KH se sesmss snsvsstns coasnsrsmmtmmens £150, 000,000.00 “% ’ po A: Gr Sha Chane . $5557 el - " S04 um a in arguing lor goid. | s siders have succeeded in being paid | amidst the groans, the curses and the Subsidiary SUvVer...... owe ou sn. 00000 | wonld not be sent away, Tit was all they destroyed one-half of our primary | Mr. Whitehead followed and by govern. incipal amd iuterest in gold, or its lamentations of those who til on the rey 142 OAR (8 rislw : at v n ONG, in * % Bate Bank Circulation... HLIG808 | whore is in the Act of 18%8. Subsidiary | money reduced, the price of silver when | ment reports proved to the satisfaction pia 4S . .d and and on the sea, and more deeply Demand Notes ute 412.58.59 Is ca g : ‘ 1A equivalent. As the gold dollar has ap-| oo coq 1) av other nat 1 be 1 and 2 year Notes of 183 LIT | coin was demonetized, andl the silver dol. | We mine one-half of the world’s product, | of all that Mr. Furst was entirely wrong engraved than any other name Ww - Compound Int. Notes TA 00 | As oe . : ¢ : Ral . preciated 100 per cent In pun basing | found that of the Secretary of the Treas. Fractional Currency 2 toes 7¢ | lar was not touched, “We had free coin. reduced the price of grain ome- all, | in nearly ever statement be made. It was mower since 18731 it is manifest what a |ury | lohan Sherman) as the author of National Bank Notes 144. 137 30.00 : te s . : . - : y . . : wn T C EN ' i t ne AT) Jon crman) a th auth C I ACK cove ta) on aon | age of the silver dolldr from 1853 to '73. buy most of their grain in India and des- | an awful tearing up, very humiliating creat advantage has been secured by the what be himself said constituted the two iim | (yy page 28g of this $ame report you can troyed the American farmer's market. | for Mr. Furst. It was a complete victory . 2 fold crime of repudiation and exioriion Tr SR coronene, 180, 197,147.76 ) | . © bondholders. It has resuited in a depres To : / find that from 1 | There the farmer has it in a nutshell. | for free silver to the great discomfiture , . -— . i 192 | e < ! . free silver to the grea isc ure " ; 4 cigted value for the productsof the far! WHERE REPUBLICANS STOOD IN 1855 7:30 BOND CURRENCY OMITTED, The population at that time was 34 million. By simple process of division that shows about £35 per capita. In addi- tion to this there was S29 million of 7:30 notes or bonds, of small denomination as low as $10, in circulation, not included in the above. Secretary McCulloch, | inn his report for 1863, says: ‘‘Mady of the small denominations of which were | in circulation.” Will you deny these facts? Our old soldiers cad tell sotnething about this kind of money. Through the emergency of (he war, and an imperfect monetary system, a large amount of these bouds, legal tender money, was put in circulation. The re- cent Treasury reports, since 18g1, do not include these facts, like the former Treasurer reports. The ‘Gazette, no doubt, never heard of this fact either, In one of President Grant's messages to con- gress he allndes to the fact that the sold- fers in the field, at one time, were paid no less than $20,000,000 of these bounds. These were immediately put in circulation to purchase supplies, or sent it home to their families. President Garfield, in an address, fixed the amount per capita at | this period as high as §72. The same ap- pears in the congressional records, Im | the face of these facts and the eminent authority quoted, can our estimate of the per capita circulation at $50 in 1866 be “sot even half true?” The Gazette, further on, states "That in 189s the amount of money per capita was $34.38. Carlisle's report for 1895; on page 41, says the stock of money per capita, in 1895, was $23.59. It don't agree with them. In the face of this weeks a discusson has been going with the Gazette about farm trying to crack the old fact the Gazette shoul ury report corrected, or called in. Eit chestnut to the farmer that ecline of wheat and all farm products. and under this policy wheat dropped And yet they say that free trade caused It is useless to argue such eration they are in, and the effort to It won't go, hough, several statements init, same 1 A bit of at- i give 1 have the Treas “The to 1873 there were but $8,131,295 silver dollars coined, and As long as we keep down the price of of that amdunt vuly $2.506,80 were coin. | silver, deprive it of free coinage, and ed prior to 1853, and that in the succeed- |thus keep down its price, so loug will ing 21 years ‘sy to ‘73, the coinage of | England keep down the price of farm dollars anfounted to twice as much or products by buying our cheap silver and $5,524,438. And yet this Krapp Gun on |exchanging it for India wheat, The Pirance (the Gazette) asserts we had no | farmers have been repeatedly informed “No | of this fact, Itis time for them to drop free doinage during 1853-73 and | politics and act for their interests. The I'silver was bemg coined.” In addition, | there was issued from the mints, in the | Gazette mever refers to this wheat prob- } dane period $62,769,805,00 in subsidiary | lem in this connection. [t wont do. | doin.—Mr. Carlisle certainly must have | With its customary consistency it con. | that report corrected—it don’t agree | cludes its argument in the following with the Gazette, | style : SISTINGUISHED GENTLEMEN, | ‘So we still say to the farmer that the : " | chief cause of the depression in prices of On this same point Judge Furst was | ihe products is the free trade policy of severely called down at the Grange | the democratic party.” Park, and Dr. Atherton made the asser-| Tq the above, we have nothing to say. tion In the court house recently, that | prue indulgent reader can form his own | the democratic party demonctized silver | ooinion, in 1853. They say so, but Carlisle's re-| 14 conclusion we pay our respects to port, in our office—open forinspection on | ye Krupp Gun (Gazette) by quoting one | the above facts—contradicts them. They | oontence from their last issue, viz: J ialecorist should have this government “Pat it is useless to spend time in | document suppressed or altered, in order | pointing out the gross misrepresentation | to Yemain consistent and retain the confi- | of facts, and the absurd conclusions of a | dence of the people. paper whose editor is so easily converted from the honest records’ of the govern. ment on the money question. ———“ 0] Ox Friday evening Judge Furst deliv. ered an address to the republicans at Mackeyville. We hope he stuck alittle closer to facts than when speaking at Grange Park the previous evening, when Mortimer Whitehead very clearly showed by Treasury Reports that he did not. Stick to the text, Judge. OTHER i THE TRUTH AT LAST, One more point and we are through with our subject. This time the Gazette told the truth unawares. We agreein the following: “It will further fully appear that one ho. oe the price is the increased thing that has tended to of Seat in this countr importations of wheat from British India to England, as shown from the article above quoted from the Democrat,”’ of Mr. Furst, and his friends Chairmas Gray, bankers Coburn and Humes, and a lot of republican hissers from Rolie. fonte., At the close a ringing applanse was given for Mr. Whitehead, and three rousing cheers for Bryan. Mr. White. head was surrounded by a large orosd before he left the platform and fer a long time accepted the congratulations of the public. It was a signification event. It proved exactly what we have said heretofore, that Judge Furst in his politi- cal addresses was not reliable. That is a serious charge, and an unpicasant one to make against such a prominent citizen, but in the joint debate, at the picnic, this was clearly proven before the entire audience, Friday the attendance at the picnic was quite large and the weather was fine. county, spoke in the afternoon on “How tomake a Grange Thrive and Prosper.” Mrs. Hutton, of Cumberland county, spoke to the farmers wives aud their relation to the grange. Friday evening the closing exercises were held in the auditorium. Short fare. well addresses were delivered by cach of the officers. A heavy rain followed on Friday even. ing and ceatinued during Saturday which made it unpleasant for all those who were moving. The picnic was a success and largely attended. Mr. Rhone and his assistants in charge ave well pleased with the week's eveuts and think it was prof. table and enjoyable for all who were in India is under Great Britian’s control, In 1873 silver was demonetized in United Subscribe for the Centre Democrat. attendance. 1 = XO. 38. SHERMAN AND THE BOND ISSUES. How Our National Debt was Doubled---Benefit of the Money ders---To Demand More Repudiation and Extortion VOL. 18. Len- | Deputy Wm, M. Benninger, of Dauphin The republicans now quote John Sherman { tho Ot etary question, and he played an important part mn the leg x 4 Eo Our bonded indebtednes mportant point in the cont er Moet 3 1 " R 4 = licans assert that the bonds purchased in gol ome of 11 p " lican campaign orator g over Centre count al 40 ' many people believe it re to clear up the ( Of in this respect. The pub iid know how the or cal w . : They should know that it is one of the greatest ition : r . ’ 4 appears in the form of an inguir You will notice i Joh spee hatCo Oh thi kable utterance, of 2 1 position to know the fact “Ther ut of meannt mers and the producing classes of this | country, and has thereby sacrificed the | industries of this country upon the altar of avarice. The history eof the bond is sues of this govermmemnt has been the darkest ome in our national existence. The clection in November is to determine whether this moneyed iuterest, which | has been paid over and over again the | amount of its primary imvestment, shall be allowed to stil fwsther exploit the productive industries of this country To enable you to judge whether Senator | Sherman told the truth in his Columbus ] speech, we would like to summon the Senator himself as a witness. The follow. | ! ing quotation is from a speech he deliver. ed in the Senate on the 27th day of Feb. | ruary, 1567 : “Kquity and justice are amply satisfied | if we redeem these bonds at the end of | five years in the same kind of money, of | the same intrinsic value, il bore al the | time they wene issued. Gentlemen may, reason about this matter over and over | again, and they cannot come to any oth. | er conclusion; at least that bas been my conclusion after the most careful consid. eration. Senators are sometimes in the habit, in order to defeat the argument of an antagonist, of saying that this is re. pudiation. Why, sir, every citizen of the United States has conformed his bus. iness to the legal tender clause. He has! collected up and paid his debts accord. ingly.” On February 27, 1568, Mr, Sherman made a speech in which he spoke as fol. lows, deprecating McCulloch's policy of contraction: he contracted the “Within two years legal tender $160,000,000, and potes over $40, the plain United y at ina wi 3 4 XO, (60 He 1 » re . y > ( Are Cranks and Repadiationists—Pennsy iva nia Republicans a few years age {From Pennsylvania adopted at Harrisburg, Seg Republican platform wh, 18 “Resolved, That the long and success. ful existence, under the laws of ETON, of the gold and silver standard, warrants us in demanding the early repeal of the legislation which demonetized silver, and established an almost ‘exclusive gold standard; and we therefore favor a re. turn of the free and unrestricted coinage ofthe dolla: of 17¢5 and ils restoration to the position it held as a legal tender during the So years of our national istence, thus preserving the equality of the commercial va with the gold dollar, circulation cx of the silver dollar botls ue keeping in . The Constables Were Angry DuBois says con. Clearfield county were the maddest set of men in the county last week when Judge Gordon decided “that they were cutitled to but § cents Tor serving a warrant, regardless of the number of names theron, and instead of getting mileage at the of 10 conts a si circular, they are to get 10 counts a mile direct. Jie also decided they were mot entitied to any pay for making their quarterly return to court, for which ser. vice they heretofore received frso. The decision was made under a law passed by the last legislature, and has caused a great deal of kicking. Now the consta. bles are obliged to make their returns to court and pay their own expenses, The stables Loaner 1h of
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