CIRCULATION DO OVER 1700, CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. LABOR'S RINGING PROTEST. How the Laboringmen and Producers Have Been Wronged by Our Monetary System---A Strong Appeal From Leaders---Free Coinage of Silver the Remedy.---Labor’s Great Cause. 1 Toilersthrough. To the Members of Organized Labor and all other Producers ane out the United States: In view of the general distress now prevailing throughout our country, which has existed for so many years and which will continue until remedial legisiation i enacted—and all this occurring, too, at a time when our granaries are full to re- 1 i 1 : ry ‘re 2 lere should pletion, and when, in the natural order of things, our producers and toilers should be enjoying to the full the fruits of their hard and « labors —~it seems to onsc us that the time has come for united action on wealth of the country. The respective demands and platforms of pr ur several organiza . . : ' thi ndition tions set forth our opinions as to the causes that h ght about this condition of things, Inasmuch as the leading representat of the causes of the tril zations have placed one Pil sm to you, inthe light of the facts a wv here is widesprea flerifig an made payable in coin, ipal of th lawful m 1.4 coin MAUCT ZOLG n of tae ter DOTY act peu pot gold coin, or silver. Colle bt was also made payable in coin 1870 the standard of coin was by the refunding act nominated in the t ’ A that is to say, all the obligntions of the United States were then declared payable 1 in either gold or silver, of the present ratio, at the option, not of the bond holders, but of the people of the United States, All the acts passed since the close of the civil war, it will be observed, werein the interest of the bond-holders, and against that of the producers and toilers, ut it remained for the year 1571 to witness the cr blow of all ‘And Act R In that innocent-appearing bill, entitled 1e laws Relative to Assay Officers, was successfully at, smuggled through congress The bill purposely Har By that ¢ rant, demoanetized, and the worl 0 be minted, the silver Aa ard » . landestine act, » people and e's representatives t of 1874, adopting t} and by t ing revised statutes, silver wa 8 volume of ultimate redemption money was ’ + QU en reduced from about sev to three and one-ha!f billions of the crime of 15g “Bland Bill This bill was vetoed by President Hayes (John Sher. ed the bill over the veto, ,000,000 standard silver after the In 1878, ICovery congress passed what is known as the man being se retary of the treasury), ¢ nd « Ongress pa The act of 1878 added to our volume of money over dollars In 1890, what is known as the “Sherman Act’ was passed as a substitute for the ‘Bland Act This law $150, t'nder the Bland and Sherman laws over As all listress is due to a scarcity of money, ' of 1878 further increased our volume of money over WH) , O00), $£500,000,000, or about fg per capita, led to our volume of money reflecting men are agreed that the were ade we must leave it to the imagination standard men bad had their present « as to what would now be out condition if the gold way. and our present insufhcient volume of money were half a billion dollars leds The Sherman bill was adding over fifty millions a year to the money of the country when in 18g3 its repeal was imperion ly demanded by European financiers, through their American allies; and, although the people's representatives made one of the grandest efforts ever witnessed in behalf of the producers and toilers of our country, yetthe power of the financial institutions of Europe was so great that our people were compelled to submit to temporary defeat. » Now. the question is: What do the tens of millions of victims in this country, to the diabolical gold standard policy of Lombard and Wall sMeets, propose doing about ft? Submit to subjugation, or demand in no uncertain tones the immediate restoration of silver as standard money? No! they will no longer submit to such injustice! And therefore we earnestly recommend the adoption of the following resolution : “We demand of the present congress the immediate return to the money of the constitution as established by var fathers, by restoring free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present ratio of 16 to 1, the coins of both metals to be equally full legal tender for all debts, public and private, as before the fraudulent demonetization of silver in 1873. “nigger’’ are going to get him out, ‘don’t you for. | get it” friend Harter, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, SCHOLARSHIP ‘ES 1800. plane man, and id that the * discovered ut { them and the meeting adjourned to allow the speakers time to hunt up an answer Crazette 1 My attention having been called t above publication in the Gazette, I beg leave to say, t has lisher of that paper imposed upon. The only truth it that another gentleman Walker Fsq.,) made speeches at that place at the dat tains 1s Harrison and 1 The meeting was not interrup 1 orderly named. ed in any manner. It was close I called f but throughout and at the questions, as my manner is, non were asked. Certainly such simple que wave been asked When tions as those, said to would not puzzle the veriest tyro | three millions of workingmen, in the | United States, are wandering over the | country seeking work and finding none 1 it is not difficult to tell the : will be mm voters how laboring man's condition proved by restoring our currency lo wha! it was during the eighty years of | our coutitry's prosperity As to the other question, the editor of the Gazette not that 23 years to learn of the “Crime of must imagine because it took him '73,"" nobody else knew of it. For more than twenty years an earnest made in Congress to restore it, and the fight kept up until the people all over the country have found out where the is "in the woodpile,” and they Ina C. MITCHELL - .o——— LAST week a free silver meeting, at Baileyville, Ferguson township, were insulted and roughly treated. Such conduct is truly a disgrace to that com. munity, and many of the more sensible republicans are sorry that it occurred, We are imformed that similar conduct took place in Milesburg, at Stormstown and other points, It is disgraceful, and the individuals participating in it, ould be punished. fight was | was | disturbed by republicans. The speakers ay returm{”’ ER York™News illed and that a prominent mer. Stormstown said, nK Clemson s C ] 1d referred « ity and speakers | the abuse they could bring t their standa They used such Bryan is noth and if the wind would fall to 80 green the speakers | democratic OWS IR argument It created i they had {t nough We had a meetis and also the republican of September 24, 15¢6, Hammond Sechler and Ira. C. Mitchel nd had a fair crowd, but the evening | was very chilly for an out door meeting. { Our speakers abused no one, but gave us facts and sound argument. I am sorry to say, for our community and re. publican brethren, they could not éxtend the same courtesy to us, as we did to them. They hissed our speakers, and they cannot deny it. Some of their own party voters told me it was a shame and an outrage on the place. He felt sorry | for their party, as the democrats had treated their meeting fair and square, Iam not going to sign my nam Voter,” as I am innocent of the charge in the Republican of saying the “Voters of Scotia Mines were Frank Clemson's Cattle.” The article is intended, by the one that circulates it, to injure my busi- ness, but a lie never hurts, it always in jures its originator the most, Yours respectfully, J. W. Grirrin Stormstown, Pa., Sept., 26, 1806, g of the democracy , on the even addressed b | 4 y i .—— New Paper Last Thursday a new paper made its | appearance at Bellefonte "The National | Democrat.” It will be published only, we understand, during thecampaign and supports Palmer and Buckner for presi | dent and vice president and democratic | county ticket. The paper is printed in | Philacelphia and mailed in Bellefonte, | The business office is in the Centre Coun. ty Bank building. VOL. WHY THERE IS DISCONTENT. How the Value of the Farmer's Products have Declined under the Gold Standard. The Wealth of the Country in the hands of the few, Public Salaries Measured in Farm Products and other Comparisons QUESTION crease in 1k erage Acre verage Acre and amount of Bushels 20,7 26,400 +R 3 2,300 H] ed | EIR 200, 1 be noticed that the price of wheat, toy growing less each year It will also number of bushels of gross production upon and that the money 1 ceived for THE RELATION OF PROI Mr. Brown loaned Mr 186g $1,000 at 10 per interest Each year Mr, Brown received from Mr. Gieen $100 as interest money. Is order to buy this $100 Mr, Green sold from the products of his farm at the market price at that date 50 bushels of wheat, i Or 165 bushels of oats, : h Or 125 bushels of corn, Or Or 23 pounds of butter, hn Or s00 pounds of pork, Ur Or 250 pounds of wool, Or 45% pounds of wool, Or 500 pounds of cotton. Or 1,000 pounds of cotton, This information is here in point. OUR VAST INDEBTEDNESS, At present prices the interest charges on the vast indebtedness of this country, corporate and individual, together with taxes, all of which are fixed amounts, re. quire for their annual payment more than the entire proceeds of the eight prin. ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 4.) Green in cont “to buy the $5 Green would sell 15 bushels of wheat, wo bushels of oats, 265 bushels of com, 515 pounds of butter, 1,500 pounds of pork,
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