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WILLIAM C. IKS LIT.
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1896.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
NATIONAL.
PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
VICE PRESIDENT,
GARRETT A. HOBART.
STATE.
CONGRESS-AT-LARGE.
GALUSHA A. GROW,
S. L. DAVENPORT.
COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES J. DAVIDSON.
Fo* STATB SENATE,
W. H. RLTTER.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
JAMES N. MOORE,
JOHN DINDINGER.
FOR SHERIFF,
W..8. DODDS.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
W. J. ADAMS.
FOR PROTB JNOTARY,
R. J. THOMPSON.
FOR CLERK OF COURTS,
ISAAC MEALS.
FOR TREASURER,
CYRUS HARPER,
FOR COUNTY COIOCSSIONSR,
HARMON SEATON,
JOHN MITCHELL.'
FOR COUNTY AUDITORS,
W. S. MOORE,
O. R. THORNE.,
FOR CORONER,
JOHN L. JONES.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
Silverville, Buffalo township, Thurs
day evening, October Bth, addresses by
Hon. J. B. Showalter and J. M. Painter.
Opera House, Butler, on Thursday eve
ning, October Bth, to be addressed by
Hon. A. O. Furst, of Center, Co. Pa., and
Col. Jas. P. Colbnrn of Phila,, Pa.
Unionville, on Saturday evening, Oct.,
loth, to be addressed by Col. J. M.
Thompson and J. M. Galbreath.
Prospect on Tuesday evening Oct. 13th
to be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson
and J. M. Galbreath.
Cooperstown, Tuesday evening, Oct.,
13th, to be addressed by Hon. J. B.
Showalter and Newton Black.
Evans City, Wednesday evening, Oct.
14th, to be addressed by Hon. George H.
Wiggins, of Erie, Pa., and others.
Saxonburg, Wednesday, October 14th,
afternoon And evening, to be addressed
by Col. J. M. Thompson, S. F. Bowser
and others.
Mars, Friday evening, October i6tb, to
be addressed by Col. J. M. Thompson
and Newton Black,
Honest Money in the Senate.
If Mr. McKinley is elected President
there is every reason to hop: that the
members of the House of Representa
tives who will enter office at the same time
will be ss strongly in favor of sound
money and as strongly opposed to the
free coinage of silver as are the members
of the present Congress. There is a gen
eral impression however, that by no pos
sibility can the silver majority in the
Senate be overthrown. This impression
is, I think, incorrect.
The Senate whose term will end on
March 3, 1897, are, with their present
politics and respective States, as follows:
Jone*, Arkansas, silver Democrat.
Jones, Nevada, silver Republican.
Kyle, South Dakota, Populist.
Call, Florida, silver Democrat-
Mitchell, Oregon, silver Republican.
Morrill, Vermont, gold Republican.
Palmer, Illinois, gold Democrat.
Peffer, Kansas, Populist.
Perkins, California, silver Republicau.
Piatt, Connecticut, gold Republican.
Pritcbard, North Carolina, silver Rep
ublican.
Pugh, Alabama, silver Democrat.
Squire, Washington, silver Republican.
Vest, Missouri, silver Democrat.
Vilas, Wisconsin, gold Democrat.
Voorhees, Indiana, silver Democrat.
Allison, lowa, gold Republican.
Blackburn, Kentucky, silver Democrat.
Blanchard, Louisiana, siller Democrat.
Brice, Ohio, gold Democrat.
Cameron, Pennsylvania silver Republi
can.
Dubois, Idaho, silver Republican.
Gallinger, New Hampshire gold Rep
ublican.
Gibson, Maryland, gold Democrat.
Gordon, Georgia, silver Democrat.
Hansbrough, North Dakota' silver
Republican.
Irby, South Carolina, silver Democrat.
There is not one vote in this list now
cast in favor of gold which could, by any
possibility, be changed to silver by the
next election, with the single remote ex
ception of that of Illinois. But if Mr.
McKinley gets a majority of the electoral
votes, he is almost certain to receive the
vote of Illinois, and the sound money
voice of the State will be heard as em
phatically in the next Senate as in the
present one. Excluding from the list
the States whose votes for or against sil
ver in the next Senate are in all probality
likely to be unchanged, we have the fol
lowing.
Pennsylvania Oregon,
Kentucky, Washington,
Indiana, California,
North Dakota, Kansas.
South Dakota.
The present silver majority in the Sen
ate varies from three to seven, according
to the particular form in which the free
coinage proposition may be placed. With
the gold ranks remaining unbroken, an
accession to them of four silver votes
would change the attitude of the Senate.
It is obvious that one such vote will be
gained, beyound peradventure, by the
election of a gold Republican to succeed
Senator Cameron in Pennsylvania. All
indications now point to a Republican
plurality for Mr. McKinley in Indiana,
and to an additional vote for the honest
dollar in the Senate, in place of that now
cast for repudiation by D. W. Voorhees.
This would leave only two more votes to
be gained from a number of States, sever
al of which sanguine Republicans claim
as certain tor McKinley. Assuming that
Mr. McKinley will receive the great
popular majority in the country which
all good people hope for ami which the
best judges now predict, it would seem
likely that the election would sweep
more than two of these doubtful States
into the Republican column, and land
the next Senate safely on the side of
common sense and honor.
But entirely apart from the votes in
the Senate which the election might di
rectly cbange.it is apparent that a sweep
ing popular condemnation of the free
silver fallacy would bring back to the
right side many Senators who have been
dragooned away from it, and would lead
some of these who have been wholly
committed to silver in the past to see a
light.
It seems to me, therefore, that there is
good reason to hope that the next Con
gress will be all right, both in the House
and in the Senate. —Washington Cor
respondence.
A LtMOB From History
The Chicago Tribune translates from
the Hemlandet of that Jcity, one of the
oldest Swedish newspapers printed in
the county, a very interesting and in
structive account of an experiment in
cheap money made by the Swedish Gov
ernment early in the last century. The
article was written by Dr. John A. En
ander, wboes attainments as a historian
have given him a wide reputation, and
it is of especial interest just now because
it shows what did occur in Sweden in
the efforts to.float "cheap" money and
what would occur in this country should
we undertake the free coinage of silver
at the fictitious ratio of 16 to I. We give
below a condensed statement of Dr. En
ander's instructive article.
About the beginning of the eighteenth
century the wars of Charles XII. had
brought hard times to Sweden. The cir
culating medium of the country consist
ed of silver and copper. The largest coin
was the Swedish riksdaler, about the size
of our old silver dollar of 416 grains, but
worth two thalers silver or J three thalers
copper. After 1718 it was worth three
thalers silver or nine thalers copper. In
consequence of successive alterations in
the quantity of copper with which it was
alloyed the silver thaler had in the course
of 1 50 years fallen to a third or fourth
of the value it had in 1624- This was the
condition of the Swedish currency when
Mr. Gortz became Minister of Finance—
a man whom Mr. Enander describes as a
"sanguine, obstinate autocrat."
There was still a considerable stock of
silver money in the country; but owing
to a lack of confidence it was hoarded,
and little was in circulation. Mr. Gortz,
like our Mr. Bryan, conceived the idea
that Sweden could "without waiting for
the aid or consent of any other nation,"
establish a financial system upon an in
dependent basis. He decided to remint
all copper coin at an arbitrary and false
ratio in comparison with silver. The
copper thaler, he said, was the "money
of the poor," the "debtor's dollar." By
overvaluing it he thought the price of the
bullion it contained would rise in the
market. At the same time it was claim
ed that by the depreciation of this coin
prices would rise, farm products would
bring more and industries would revive
so there would be a demand for labor.
The King did not believe in this finan
cial scheme of his Minister of Finance,
an 4 it was only after great hesitation
that he signed the decree to carry it out.
The people soon gave the new thaler the
derisive title of "calamity coin" on ac
count of the ruin it wrought. Dr. En
ander says that not even Mr. Gortz im-
agined that it would be possible to float
an unlimited number of depreciated cop
per thalers. He was not as crazy as Bry
an on that point. It was decided to
limit the number to two million; ' 'but
once on the downward road no place was
found for a halt short of the bottom of
the precipice." By 1717 there were 13,-
000,000 of these new thalers in circula
tion and when Charles xii. died the next
year forty million had been minted, and
25, 000, 000 were current. They were
made legal tender, and the law declared
two of them equal to a silver riksdaler.
Then the silver money all disappeared
"as if by magic," says the historian"
The new money would buy nothing ex-
at rainous rates. Every article ot
fered for sale had two prices one in
honest money and another in the new
"cheap" money. Then a decree was is
sued against this double valuation of
goods, makiug it a crime punishable by
a fine of not less than four times the
value of the goods, and the result of this
was the immediate suspension of all traf
fic, except in the primitive form of bar
ter.
Silver having been driven out of cir
culation by the cheap copper coin, the
Government issued a decree that all per •
sons in posession of silver, native or for
eign, coin or bullion, should forward the
same by July I, 1718, to the treasury and
receive the new copper coin in exchange
therefor, This caused an immediate ex
portation of silver from the country al
though laws were passed to prevent it.
The country had then a total of 625,
168, 000 copper thalers in circulation-cer
tainly a sufficiency of "cheap," money
for a country like Sweden. But this
abundance of debased coin brought only
calamity to the people and the govern
ment. The public debt had reached the
enormous sum of 60, 000,000 silver tha
lers. and the Parliament that met in 1719
was forced to consider means for getting
rid of this debt.
It was finally decided to begin by re
deeming the "calamity coin" at half
its face value. The people were invited
to bring it to the treasury and exchange
it for silver at the ratio of 16 to i. The
Government in fact had no silver with
which to carry out its part of this prop
osition; but it returned to the owner of
each thaler deposited the identical coin
deposited by him, which was thereafter
to be valued at only two silver ore, and
to make up the difference, it gave him
paper money of the nominal value of
fourteen silver ore. Commenting on thi
financial operation, the historian says:
"Such of the Swedes as had by indus
try and thrift accumulated a small fund
with which to support themselves in
their old age beheld with dismay the
sudden disappearance of one half of
their small savings, while they felt the
pang of a terrible douot as to the ulti
mate redemption by the Government of
the paper which it had issued and in
which their savings were invested. "In
fact, this doubt was justified. The Gov
ernment was not able to maintain the
credit of either the paper it had issued
or of the money it had guaranteed to up
hold at a depreciated valuation that was
still above the market value of the bull
ion of which it was made. The net re
sult of operations was a Govern
ment disgraced and discredited and a
country reduced to poverty and distress.
Multitudes of people were compelled to
resort to beggary as the only means of
keeping body and soul together.
At last on August 20. 1723, Sweden's
financial delirium come to an end. The
Government then decided to reduce the
legal tender value of each copper thaler
to its bullion value—one ore copper—al
though the Government stamp declared
it to be worth one silver thaler. At iast
says Dr. Knander, Sweden had had
enough and more than enough of "cheap
money." The fluctuation in the value of
copper had enriched a few speculators at
the expense of tens of thousands of their
poor compatriots. The Swedish histori
an closes his instructive article with this
paragraph.
The Swedish farmer suffered as much
as any other citizen, and possibly more
for during the hard times he was com
pelled to sell his farm, he hail received for
it in payment this "calamity" copper
coin, and now he had nothing left except
the bits of depreciated copper known in
Swedish parlance as kopparslantar (pen
nies). The farm laborer, who had denied
himself of every comfort in life and put
away his hard and scanty earnings in the
hope of being able some day to purchase
and own a farm, was practically swindled
out of the results of his frugality and
self denial.
Little children may need the sting of
personal experience to teach them to
keep out of danger; but grown men of
, a'fterage common sense should be able to
profit by the experience of others and by
the lessons of history.
Our Public School*.
There is no better leveler of caste in
the universe than that of our common
schools, where the rich, the poor, the
high and low mingle together on the
j plane of equality. A poor man's son
plays with a rich'man's son without a
thought of the difference which wealth
plays in the social world. Our common
school system is not as perfect as it
should be. When the time comes when
it is possible for every child in the land
to secure a practical education without
leaving home, then the schools will be
more useful. Among the most urgent
needs is that of the consolidation of
school districts so as to provide better
facilities in country districts. Without
an increase of taxes schools could be
consolidated, and thus give "the scholars
better facilities for securing an educa
tion, Xo school should have less than
two teachers; for in all districts are
scholars from six to sixteen years old,
who must be taught according to their
ability. In every school are children
learning their letters and from that up to
those who would like to study higher
mathematics. You see how impossible
it is for one teacher to do the work that
ousjht to bf, done in the district school.
Two teachers could do this work well.— '
For years Massachusetts bad tried the
plan of having less districts, and hiring
the scholars brought to school in wagons
from the outlying districts, and it has
pro\ en a gre3t success.
Pole Raising in Saxonburg.
That the present campaign is an inter
esting ono is evident from the fact thet
even the school children are taking a very
active part.
Last Saturday the yonng Republicans of
Saxonbnrg, ranging in years from 6 to 10
raised a pole amid much enthusiasm. Just
one week previous the voting oilverites.
Populists and Democrats raised a pole and
held a meeting, and it can be truthfully
said that the crowd present was but slight
ly larger than the one present at the boys
pole raising, tne enthusiasm and interest
was remarkable, proving that while young
in years, yet they are deep and correct
thinkers. The bojs carried out the entire
program themselves. A committee con
sisting of Clarence Helmbold, Milton
Muder, Ollie Maurhoff, Albert Pfeiffer,
Willie Pfeiffer, Tom King and Jim Bau
man having same in charge.
After the pole was in position a speech
appropriate to the occasion was delivered
by Milton Muder in which he told the boys
many truths and showed them the ad
vantages ot belonging to the Republican
party.
May the boys live long and ever be upon
the right side is the wish of their Friend.
Milton E. Muder, (aged 13.) made the
speech of the day. It was a» follows:
Friends and school-mates. We meet to
gether today to raise a pole, in honor ot
the Republican party. We are bar yet
young; we are but yet school-children,
striving to learn all that may be nselul to
us in after life. There are many things we
do not know, many things that we can
only learn through experience. But my
Jriends we have ail learned that 'honesty
is the best policy.' We have all learned
not to be fur a dishonest dollar. Today
we have silver dollais but they are backed
by gold. The amount of silver in a silver
dollar today is only worth 53 cents, but
having the government stamp upon it,
combined win, being backed by gold in
sures its value one dollar. Our currency
is now on a gold stundard.bnt if free silver
wins (which it will not) do'lars will be
ODly worth 53 cents.
Does not our Arithmetics say ono-hund
red cents make one dollar, aren't there
and always has been one-hundred cents in
one dollar. Why shonld a man working
for one-hundred cents receive only 53
centsT What we all want is gold or some
thing as good as gold. What is meant by
tree silver, it means that the mine owners
wish to take their silver to mint and get it
coined tree of charge.
At th« present time the government re
tains so much for coining it; this goes to
pay off tho national debt. They eay that
if gold wins England nil) rule this conn
try Who ha.- bten draining thin country
for the past two or three year-t England!
What has canned lit Free trade! In Re
publican times or times of tariff, a duty, a
tax is laid on all thing* brought f4om
England and elsewhere. This duty goes
to the support ol the government.
Also when this tax iit off the English
manufacturers can undersell our manu
facturers, and thereby ruin them. This
affect* the workinguiau also, for when the
employer is ruined he cannot pay the
workingman so high wages. This is what
caused ail these strikes, etc.
To say more of free silver, they t>»y that
wo have had tree silver. Then why is it
all the oldert settlers thai bavt, r.een it re
lu-e to support it, then there surely must
Lis something wrong with it. They say that
Wiu. McKiuiey has always been lor free
silver until the time ot his nomination. Is
that so f No! He may have been for the
ooinage of silver, but never was he for the
free &Dd unlimited coinage of silver. Sure
ly the way he was nominated, so un
animously shows that there surely mast be
something worthy ol mention in Iho man
The way Mr. Bryan was nominated was
simply by a uiob convention. They were
there at the Chicago convention for nearly
a week, they did not know what to do.
The gold Democrats were becoming dis
couraged and began leaving; a crowd of
silventes from the Went combined with
Mr. Bryan's following and they adopted
the free silver platform and nominated
Mr Bryan. Mr. Br> uu goes speaking here
and speaking there, but McKinley needs
only to step out upon his own porch and
tnere thousands greet him Workingmcn
save their days wages to Ti«it him Home
say they aro compelled to or lose their
employ uient, but my lriends the way they
cheer lor him so earnestly, any ono can
see that they mean it.
There is one country today that is ou a
silver »t»iidard. What country is itT Wn)
our next d< or neighbor Mexico! Mexico,
what kind of a country is Mexico! A Very
poor country indeiu; workingman'* wage*
being only 50 cent* to W) ctnls per day.
That same thing would be in this couu
try if free silver would win, our bujks
would be broke,business would be (topped
and workingmen would be uo working
men tor tbey wculd receive uo work to do.
My friends there are some people who are
Democrats became their lathers were
Democrats,because their grandfather* wire
Democrats. No matter what the Demo
crat party would support, no matter what
they weald adopt tney would be a Demo
crats ntil!. My friends there was a tree
silver craze started in the West a few
months ago, men built castles in the air of
their future i' free oilver would win, but
their »ir castles tumbled jver, the »ilver
jraze is wearing < ff, they are getting dow:,
to solid business, man alter loan, state
after state are bjoming lor McKinley.
Now 1' y friends my words are nearly
en ded, and as Te grow into men and wo
meu, some ot us luay even sit upon the
Presidential chair, may wo never forget
the day when we rallied around the flag
of our union and declared for Sound money
and Protection
My friends beloru I close I wi*h you all
to give three routing cheers for our r.ext
President, Win McKinley, of Ohio.
Nomination Papers.
The state department was kept open
until midnight last Monday niglit to re
ceive nomination papers, that being the
last day for their reception. They num
l>er almost as many as the certificates of
nomination. The People's party and the
Prohibitionists filed more nominations
than at any time since the passage of the
Baker ballot law.
This year the official ballot will have
four or five more columns iu some dis
tricts than a year ago. From Philadel
phia alone, there will be candidates rep
resenting 17 different political organiza
tions. The nomination papers from dif
ferent congressional districts indicate in
teresting factional troubles.
Congressman "Jack" Robinson's op
ponent, ex-Judge T. S. Butler, of West
chester, filed papers is the independent
Republican nominee in the Sixth con
gressional district.
VV. 11. Ritter, of Butler, contesting the
Republican nomination with Wm. M.
Meredith, of Kittaniiig, for the state
senate, filed his papers as the citizens'
caunoun of
didate. The nation papers
ex-Congressman Sibley as the People's
party candidate for congress in the
Twenty-sixth district, were presented by
ex-Deputy Secretary of the Common
wealth Tilden, along with those of the
later as the People's party candidate for
state senator in the hrie district.
The nomination papers of the so-called j
"Jefferson party" nominees for congress- j
man-at-large and presidential electors,
were filed by John I'. J. Sensederfer, of
Philadelphia. There are 3.504 names of
voters 011 them. Thomas Greevy, of Al
toona, heads the list.
Water Work* and Clubs.
The State Sapreme Conrt opened it*
October term in Pittsbnrg, Monday, and an
usual began business by "banding down"
a batch of decisions. There were 114
ol these and the majority of them were in
ca-es appealed from Philadelphia and other
eastern counties; a few were from western
counties bnt none from this county. The
taree decisions that will attract the most
attention are two regarding borough and
city water works, and one regarding the
sale of liquor by clubs.
Kegarding borongh water-works the
Conrt reverses itself.
The decisions are in the cases of J. T.
White and others against the city of
Meadville, and Martin Metiger against the
borough of Beaver Fall*. It is held that
a municipality cannot build a water works
of its owe if the town is being supplied
by a private corpoiation. The borough or
city's only recourse it to buy the plant of
the private company.
The decision puts in force as the law
what was contemplated by tie "Woods
water bill. It was passed by the Legis
lature, but was vetoed by Governor Hast
ings. It provided that municipalities
could not build water works of their own
if private companies were supplying the
town, but they must buy ont the private
plant.
In the opinion in one case handed down
by Justice Dean, he admits that the Su
preme Conrt made a mistake in its ruling
in the Millvale borongh water works case,
and that ruling is now reversed. In the
Millvale case it was held that a municipal
body is clothed with powers of legislation
to a limited extent, and when within the
limits oi its authority, its acts are ob
ligatory. In the contract with the pri
vate company no restriction was placed
on the borough's right to erect a water
works in the future.
That is a right, it was held, given to all
such bodies by the law, and they mar
exercise it, no matter at what cost to pri
vate companies whose franchises are held
subject to such right. The right of a
borough to ercot wa'-er works is independ
ent of the right of private corporations
t« erect similar works, and it is of no oon
seqnence that such erection will injure
private franchises of the same character.
This ruling ia now flatly reversed, and
the injury to private companies is consid
ered. In addition to the last decisions,
more questions are to be decided. The
referee in the Rochester Water Works
case made hi 3 report on the same lines as
held by '.he Court in the present cases.
Exceptions to it go further and raise the
question as to the right of a borough, in
corporated under the general borough act,
to build water works at all, unless given
authority by a special act of Assembly.
If this is sustained it will bring into ques
tion the validity of millions ot dollars
worth of bonds issued by such boroughs to
build water works.
In referring to the decision that had
been g'ven in the Millvale case, Justice
Dean says: "It was assumed by all parties
in the court below, and by the learned
Judge of that court, that the authority of
the municipality to violate its contract ex
isted. With the greatest reluctance on
the part of every member of this Conrt the
decree of the Court below was affirmed.
"That reluctance is oxpressed in no
donbttul language by our Brother Greene
who delivered the opinion It was as
sumed by all counsel in both courts that
Lehigh Water Company's appeal was void
of contention on that point and the case
was decided on other grounds.
"It was a mistake. We now are glad
of the opportunity for correction, especial
ly so because the example of Millvale bor
ough seems to have led other municipal
orporations to adopt tho same coarse of
action."
In conclusion, a permanent injunction
was granted against the city, restraining
it from antering into a contraot for tho
construction of a water works.
In the Bearer Falls case the opinion in ,
the Meadville case is cited as covering it. j
An injunction is granted against the bor
ough restraining it from securing $123,000
for the constriction of water works, or
for issuing bonds for tr.at purpose, or en
tering into any contract for the erection of
the works.
The decision regarding clubs, favors the
clubs, and holds that it is not a violation
of the Brooks law to sell to members.
This has been a mooted question since
1887. County courts all over the State
have decided it both ways,.but a decision
could not be obtained from the Supreme
Court until now. The question was raised
and argued in tho Superior Conrt, but no
decision was given The matter is now
settled by the .Supremo Court. S"o decis
ion has been handed down in years that
directly aflVots a greater number of peo
ple than this one. The opinion was Writ
let by Justice Dean. Tho suit was that of
William R. Klein against the Liviugstone
Club. It was appealed from Lehigh cofln-
Justice Dean first describes the charac
ter of the club, a chartered organization.
The soit was brought by a member to re
strain the club from selling liquor to mem
bers, on the ground that it was a violation
of tho license law and imperiled the club's
oharttr.
It was admitted tho clnb derived no pro
fit from the sales. Justice Dean says:
"l'hb Brooks law only reduced to a com
prehensive system all the features of all
the license laws at its date on our statute
books. There is not in it, nor in any of
tho statutes it replaces, a prohibi
tion of the use of liquors in clubs, any
more than there is a prohibition of its use
in a family. No indictment for furnishing
liquors to members of a club could bo sus
tained, the evidence showed be
yond reasonable doubt such furnishing
constituted a sale. The statute being
penal, it oust be subject to a strict con
struction We cannot extend it beyond
its letter if we, in constrning the Brooks
statute, adopted the settled rale of con
struction.
"There are no words in the act, which
by any possible construction oan be stretch
ed into a prohibition of the use of liquor in
clubs, or that can be deemed as requiring
they shall be licensed. There is, in fact,
no express legislation concerning Ibis dis
tinctive, open, notorious, long existing use
of liquor; the plain implication is, that the
consumption of liquor iu clubs, as known
to the Legislature, was not deemed a sale.
The general wi.rds of the law, however,
make the sale of liquor without liconse il
legal everywhere in the Commonwealth;
and whether this lie a sale, in now a judi
cial and not a legislative question."
Itelorring to members of clubs, the Court
continues: "They are all owners of the
property, wh-.n purchased in equal shares,
a.d if a division were then made, each
would be entitled to an tqual share of
liquor, but one consumes his share and
that of others who do not driuk liquor, and
he puts back it. the common treasury the
va'au of the others' shares, therefore, al
though by consumption the division is not
equal, yet it is made equal by the contri
bmion to the treasury.
"Does this constitute a salet We think
not; there is no uleuiuut of a bargain,, only
a method of distribution of the common
property.
"it lias been argued that the effect of
ocr decision, 11 against plaintiff, will be to
deprive the licensed hotels of patronage to
which tuey are impliedly entitled, by pay
ment of heavy license lees under the
Brooks law; that member* of clubs will
consume such liquors as they desire in
their club rooms, instead of at licensed
bars. This is not withoct force, but it
should be addressed to the Legislature,
who seem, for lilty yeras in all the legisla
tion on the liquor question, to have care
fully retrained from prohibiting the furnish
ing of liquor to club members by their
clubs, as well as neglected to impose on
them licetiFe fees."
FAIR VIEW.
There will be a Missionary meeting in
the IJ. P Church hero ou next Saturday
at 3p. in., the 10th. Guests all are cor
dially invited toat'.end.
Hugh Young our blacksmith has iinally
built a tie » shop, it is exceedingly large
and roomy. Will Gibson was the leading
carpenter on the job.
Will Young our school teacher was
made happy by their first born— it is a
gill.
Lou Maddison was home a day or so
with his family last week and returnod to
the lower oil held whore he labors.
W ill Duir who was recently married to
one of our gul.s, Miss Ollie Orris, drove in
to town the other day and made a short
stay *ith her parents
Mi.ses Annie. Murphy and ISstella Myers,
of Cbicora, drove over and called on Miss
Flonsa .Scott the other day.
K. 0 Scott was down at Pittsburg last
week to purchase his fait slock of goods;
be said he m-t Will Walket, who was for
merly cashier in the Petrolia Bank, and is
now bookeeper iu Duquesnn Bank of Pitts
bury. >V ill is cei taiuly equal to the posi
tion.
Mrs Mary Oritfin and her daughler.from
Peabo.ly, |< ms-s are visiting at Temple
tons; Wilt Templeton and family
from near Philipstown are visiting at Phil
ip Tumpletou's.
Pernio hero are not able to take care of
their immensely large crop of apples.
Dsn T.
His Throat Cut.
James Welsh, a resident of Hoboken,
and employed as foreman on the new
Butler and"Pittsburg railroad, w«; brutally
assaulted and robbed on last Thursday
night at Roi-s bottoms, near Ross grove.
Bis throat and head were cut and be wa
left for dead.
Thursday, Welsh went to Pittsburg on
business and did not get started home in
til 10 o'clock p. m . via the Penn avenue
cable line and the Citizens' electric line to
Aspinwall. Hoboken is iully two milts
from the latter place, and Welsh started
to walk home.
The Ross bottoms have for years b»en
known as a dar.gerous locality, and very
lew peoi le cure to travel the road during
the dark hours of night. Many mysterious
deaths have occured in this vicinity, and
the causes of but few of them have been
learned.
Welsh is a powerful man. Fully 6 feet
tall, weighing pounds, and able to
take his »itfc any two ordinary
men. When he reached the old railroad
crossing just below the Allegheny county
workhouse three men jumped ont of a
fence corner and confronted him.
One of the men said: "Is that you.
Welshf He raplied: "Yes," and im
mediately one of them struck him with a
blunt instrument. Welsh was staggered,
bnt quickly recovering from the blow and
his surprise be shot out his right band and
knocked his assailant unconscious. It was
then the other two men, or probably five,
for Welsh is not positive how many there
were, jumped npon him and beat him to
to the earth.
Welsh struggled hard to free hmself,
and gave up only when he felt the keen
blade of a knife drawn over his throat
The fellow that used the knife muttered
threats to kill Welsh, when one ot the
men said: "For God's sake, don't kill the
man. All we want is bis money."
But the fellow wi'.h the knife didn't
heed the remark, and slashed Welsh four
more times, each time the knife cut the
scalp and the blood spurted in great
streams. One of the fellows hit him with
a handy biily, and Wolsh was rendered
nnconscious.
When be came to he was in an awful
condition. His wounds were bleeding and
he was minus sl2. some small change
and a gold watch valued at S9O. Welsh
managed to reach the elec'ric car. and was
taken to Sharpsburg, where Dr. Hujgins
attended him, and had him removed to
his home in Hoboken. The only trouble
expected is from blood pcisioning and if
this sets in he will probably die.
Welsh has been in charge of a number
of roagh men of all classes during the past
few years. He always carried consider
able money, and his gold watch, and it is
thought some of the men he bad formerly
bossed are the ones who assaulted and
robbed him. He thinks he recognized the
voice of one of the men.
Constable Jacob Davall, of O'Hara
township, is investigating, and every ef
fort will be made to apprehend the p«r
petrators of the assault and robbery.
SAXONBURG.
Miss Lulu Stark has gone to Coopers
town to stay tor the winter.
Captain Ira McJunkiu, of Butler, install
ed tte officers of the Odd Fellows Lodge
last Monday evening.
Have you had any of tha fresh sausage
made by Frank Weber.
John Sachs returned home from an ex
tended trip to Whitestown and reports a
new gasser on his lease in that territory.
The new railroad and most every on
connected witb it were photographed last
Monday.
Davey Dale and Ike Meals know how to
play "The Silent Quaker."
Come see ns on the 14th.
Miss Edna PfeifTer who is in Pittsburg
having her eyes treated, is recovering ber
sight slowly but surely.
Mrs. A. F, Knoerr snd Mrs Jno. Krumpe
are visiting their sisters in Mannington,
W. Va.
Ben Grim is all right again and will
anon be able to resume work.
"Groter" left last week but promises to
return after the election.
Tho new rail rail road officials were in
town last week paying off claims for right
of way etc.
All Lodges in town now meet at 7
o'clock instead of 8.
Youug Milt Muder is a dandy,his speech
at the pole raising was very good.
J. W. McKeo made a trip to Pittsburg
last Monday.
Last Monday was pension day and the
town was filled with old veterans.
Miss Laura Krause will have her Fall
Millinery opening, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday of this week.
Win Dixon of Penn township floated in
to town last Monday.
Charlie Muh hoi land was a visitor to the
county Beat las'. Monday.
Come and bring your fr ends with you
on the 14th.
Mr. Bremau who was kicked by a horse
last week, is getting along nicely and is
now able to be around.
llarry Bremau was at h> me with his
parents last Saturday.
Miss Phenic Burtner is at Oakdale Alle
gheny county attending school.
Look oat for the big Republican rally,
which will be heM in Saxon!;urg, Wednes
day afternoon and evening Oct. 14th.
Parade 3pm Col. J M. Thompson and
S. F. Bowser are to do the speaking.
The Misses Alice »nd Mary McKee are
spending a few weeks with relatives in
Pit tsburg and Allegheny.
A. B. C. McParland and Geo E Robin
son of Butler were visitors in Saxon last
week.
D. E. Bale, Ike Meals, John Jack, E I.
Brugh, all from Butler installed the now
officers of the Odd Fellows Encampment
last Friday evening
Miss Cora Horn has received an elegant
line of goods direct from New York, and
is now having the Fall opening in Hats,
Bonnets and Millinery goods You don't
have to go to the Pittsburg Exposition to
see new and stylish heal gear; just step
into Miss Horu.s Store and s«e the latest
in the Milliners Linn.
I HONKSTI,V believe that William J.
Bryan will carry thirty of the forty-five
states. —The Hon. Joe Blackburn.
The great defect of Mr. Blackburn is
his excessive conservatism. He is always
cautious and almost timorous of expres
sion. How floes he expect so inspire
enthusiasm in the Popocratic bosom by
such a pale and halting prophecy as that
quoted above? He should put more
blood and fire into his bulletins. Only
thirty States for Bryan? Why, the Hon.
Charles James Faulkner "claims" forty
six for Bryan. Shall Kentucky be sur
passed by West Virginia in this ignoble
manner? Must Mr. Blackburn again be
reminded of his own inspiring observa
tion that "he who dallies is a dastard and
he who doubts is damned?"—Fx.
MCKINLBY received fourteen delega
tions of al>out a thousand each last Satur
day and made fourteen speeches. Among
the delegations billed for this week is
one of two-thousand Confederate vet
erans.
THE official ballot for this county will
contain thirteen columns, and the I'lli 1-
adelphi a county thirty-eight,
A HEARING in the case of Ritter vs
Meredith, (the Senatorial nomination
case; will be had before the Judges of
Dauphin county, Saturday afternoon; and
Mr. Ritter's conferees and some others
have been subpoened to attend it.
FLORIDA and Georgia held state elec
tions Tuesday ami Wednesday, and Ixjth
went Democratic as it was expected they
would.
X-Rays
Of testand trial prove Hood's Sarsaparllla to be
unequalled for purifying the Mood because
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, ft. '
Hood's Pills enr ,'ii I,IV. r Ills, ac cento, j ,
COULTER & «AKI£R. JI
I:
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
SI IT GOLD. BE IT SILVER?
History of the World'* ( olnafr Art OUT-
Inn th* La«t Twcnty-fivr \>ar».
The facts embraced in the following cjtf
fnd/irembra- •• the history of the world, ■>-
Mated to coinage, f"r the Inst quarter of
a country
1871—Germany adopt••<l a gold standard.
lf-73—Belgium suspended standard sil
ver coinage.
1873—Holland suspuoded silver coinage.
1878 —Denmark adopted a gold standard.
1873—Germany dem»netized sil vor cuius.
1873—Norwy adopted a gold standard.
1873—Sweden adopted a gold standard.
1873—United States suspended free coin
age of silver dollars.
1874—The Latin Union limited their sil
ver coinage.
1575—Suspension of silver coinage in
Italy.
1875—Switzerland declined to cein her
quota of silver under rhe Latin Union.
1875—Suspension of silver coinage on ac
count of Dutch colonies.
1576—France suspended the coinage of
silver.
1877—Finland adopted the gold stand
ard.
187S—The Latin Union suspended «oin
age of silver except subsidiary coins.
187S—United States resumed eohiage of
the silver dollar, but on government ac
count.
1879—Austria-Hungary suspended the
free coinage of silver.
18»5—Egypt adopted a gold standard.
189u—Reumania adopted tha single gold
standard.
1890—United States *uspended coinage
of silver dollars and began purchase »f
bullion.
1891—Gold standard adopted in Tunis.
1892—Austriu-Hmagary adopted the goid
standard.
1893—Minis of India closed t« the free
coinage of silver.
1693 —United States suspended purchase
of silver bullion.
1895—Russia decided to coin lOU.UOO.'"
goMVroubles.
1895—Chile ndoptetl the gold standard.
1890—Costa Iliua adopted thegold stand
ard.
1878-1881-1892 —Three international con
ferences held to try to re-establish the use
of 6llver.
During the hist period the United States
largely increased her full legal tender sil
ver. in the face of a decline of 50 per cent,
in its value, and was obliged to suspend
silver coinage. It will !>e seen that the
action of the various nations has been
uniformly in one direction, that of affirm
ing the gold standard.
•" *
MADISON, IS 10:
"It is essential that the nation should I
po«c«s a currency of ••qual value, |
credit and tfse wherever it may circu- I
late."
• *
The DeH Money for Wages*
A ULrjre proportion u/ our
of mature year« have had an instructive
experience that lowering value of any so
called dollar legal tender of payment foe
their wages is a lowering that is eompen
sated to everybody else before compensa
tion reaches them.
It is a lowering that lifts tha prices of
all commodities before it lifts tho rates of
their wages. A dollar for work
ingincn of the United States means a
poorer dollar.
The daily wagesof our workingmen and
working women are by far tho larger, by
far the most important aggregate of
wealth to be affected by the degradation
of the dollar, or of any legal tender equiv
alent of the dollar. All other aggregates of
wealth, the accumulations of capitalists,
which can only obtain profitable use by
being turned over daily in tho wages of
workmen and the employment of the cap
tains of their industry—all other aggre
gates of wealth which remain unemployed
in the payment of wages of the day, the
month, the year—are not to lie compared
in their sum to this gigantic sum.
It is this gigantic sum, the wages of la
bor, which is assailed by every policy
which would male the dollar of the fath
ers worth less than its weight in gold.
The debt of the United Suites, large us
it is, is a wart beside that mountain.—
Daniel Manning, I), m ci-atic secretary of
thu treasury, in 1
DK ATI IS.
GLESS—At the home .•( her danghter.
MM. Goobring, in Zelienople. Sept. 20,
189G, Mrs. M. C. Gless, aged 83 jears.
1 KLIBV—At her home in Connoqnenessin if
twp., Sunday, Sept. 13, 1890. Mi*B
Priscilla J. Ituby. in her 46ih year.
BOYLE—At his homo nenr Sugar Creek
church, Sept. 25, 189ti. Daniel Boyle,
in bin 83rd year.
MAHOOI)—At her home in Washington
twp, Oct. 4, 1890, Mrs George Muhood.
KOONCE—At his homo near Grove City,
Oct. 2, 18%. Win Koonce, in his 86'h
year, Lie was the father of 11. W.
Kounce of Butler.
BELL—At his home i:i Concord township,
Oct. 5, 1890. Archibald Hell, son ol'the
widow Bell, aged about 22 years.
KEEPER—At her home in Hutler, Oct.
5. 1890. Emma, wife of Henry W.
Keefer, aiied 34 year*.
KIIODEN BAI 'G H— At his home in Pitts
burg, Oot. 5, 1896 Kev. W 11. Kho
denbaugh, aged 40 yoari lie was born
in Harmony.
ppw
■ gRpYALie-ajij
G
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
Acreain ol tartar basing powder High
JKO of all in leavening strength.— Latent
Cintcl States Government food Report.
Boric. RAKIKO t'owuFit Co . l(»'. Wall at... N. v
J. B, BREDIN.
Attorney At Law
OlTlce on Main St.. near Court llou: . Hutler
fa.
S. H. PIERSOL.
ATTOKNUY AT LAW.
OOlce HI No. 104 Kasl Diamond .H'
A. T. SCOTT.
ATTOKNtn -AT-I.AW.
31.:e ot N». H. Mouth IHatno'-l. Butler. I'e.
NEWTON BLACK.
itt'y at Law- once on Sow ii Blue of t>lamon<i
mi tier. I'a.
ALEX RUSSELL.
Attorney-at-Law-
Office with Newton Klack, Esq
South Diamond, Buller °a.
C. F. L. McQulstlon.
CIVIL KNIIINKKR A*D PHBVKVOB
Office near Court House Butler Pa
DR J. E i'AULK
Dsntlst.
Painless extraction—No Gas —Crown
and bridge A-orlc a specially.
Office—ln Gilknv building op(>< sitoP. O.
DR. S. A. JOHNSTON.
.3ENTIST, BUTLt'R, PA.
Gold Killing I'ulß i K*tr.ip».jn 't "wePi
li(l A rllllo';il ;Vi)l li tvii li >;: ' I■ ■ ■!■«!! v
ii.ro.is Oxide »r v'lti' >1 Vu or I.HJ.
OiPHtll 'tt "* i; ■i.
(»mce "«er Mill T'S URU ry east of Lowry
ouje, _
clonics osedWeln.!sd»i s ami Thursdays
IH»n*t rrottlfp \Hi» Prracb.
1! : .. . . ( th* fr»« «h«r f*r»jr h»T«
iKvii -q • 1*- :irr»!rt hyjuvritot Tk«f
adv.. ito free silver tm saga. j>rc>t*n (rr**t
i:; H_ .l! :i f«-r %vh»t rfcir #MI Hl« eritn*
aim:n- - '.V and •erar* with ail tha
in\ w ir.ry can 'Wimnad rh«»* whn do
r. t . .!,<■ with lk<ir riews. Ona ot
their . - > • Senator »f NVTMU.
whu n- 'ilver mine*, wake* hi* co»-
tr:. > •'i ill gMri. Aaath»r of thrtr
notorious . iv- .its* rh* infaiaeu*
geld. has vH- 1.-a«ei af hit huatoa in Chi
luaile payabl. in tfold and now, chirping
contracts i.f their .-aurfirtnt* for T!C» presi
dent. Arthur r-ewatl, hava Iwn pws»nud
showing that he has all hi. contracts pay
able in «<>ld These are farm not question
able. for pr.tofs havr I inn »oo abnujani
and clear for evun denial. D« ther pro
pose to have silver for th« poor man,
depreciated to half »h<» value of a «ru«
dollar: Are n«t »ueh fasts •uif.currt to
show the Ui>o hypwrriiy—H»eivtt i'ress.
Our tsraod Aid Mslc.
Republicans of rnan*rlv:aila c>aim Su#,-
#OO plurality for M.-Winlor l'en»«ylvani«
should do Iwtter than that since Tillman
has stumped the common wealth. —»pringr
field Union.
Those who haro l*en predicting that
Pennsylvamia would *ivo McKinloy 400,000
majority probably knew all the rtme that
Tillman was to speak In that »uite.—Kan
• sas City Journal.
Sinee Tillman made hi* speaking tour
I in Pennsylrania political prophets are
. predicting that that stnpw will give Mc
! Kinley < .>).'oo major; fr fan THlinwn b«
in the pay of the Hepublican committee?—
Wheeling Intelligencer.
! Raise in Cottoa, Perlin* la Stiver.
Why don't the freo siivorites explain
why cott .n in the past thraa weeks jumped
from •>' ? cents a pound n 8.44 ueuts.wkile
silver de -lined iu tho utms i>eriod over
tluvoceutaaa ounce? —Chattanooga Turns*
Why He Figures
;,r in\
MJ
it takes figuring just at this time
to make both ends meet, ati<l now
winter is almost here and you
must be prepared for bad weather.
You Must Have Good Footwear
you want to buy it cheap, not too
cheap for at tins time of the year
it must I>e good. We can't praise
our fall stock too highly for never
before have we been in shape to
offer high grade footwear at such
low prices as we are now.
Bread Y/inners List
Men's Stag Boots s'.s°
Boy's Stag Boots 1.35
Youths' Stag Boots i.oo
Ladies' Calf and Oil Grain
Shoes i.oo
Ladies' Warm Shoes 6.sc, 75c and
SI.OO
Child's School shoes 50c, 75c and
#I.OO.
We Defy Competition
Ladies, Miss, Youths and Chil
dren's Rubber Boots at the uniform
prices of sj.oo.
Boys Rubber Boots, sizes I to 6
$1.50.
Men's Felt Boots and Oveis #1.50.
Ladies' Neat Felt Boots and Overs
f 1,00.
Boy's Felt Boots and Overs 1125,
for goods and low prices try
Butler's Progressive Shoe House.
2i5 South Main St., BUTLER PA
0. E. MILLER,
A. M. CH KISTLEY,
ATIOUNKY AT LAW.
Oftlce r.n North Diamond Ktreer. oppoatto the
Court 1 louse- Lower Floor.
J IV!. PAINTER,
Attorney-at-Law.
md Oiarnonrl, Bur ler
P»
A. 1. BLACK.
ATTORN['.Y AT LAW.
Koom J—ArnK.ry Building.
- I M i R MAN
hvhiumi. ,>n'j gruoroi:.
Oiileaat no. 1 r>, u-, »•. t > \-t lit
'..irraacy. Butler. Fa
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
Physician ind Surgeon,
von \t •:< CunMtiirtmip st.
H. n. (iOUCHER.
All •• r I.' 1 • -at- la. office in Mitchell butldlu
Bui Ipt Pa.
oa v p fji.„ tor
Dentist.
Kormerlv l;i.ov.i, n.s (lie "PKEKLKSS PAIN
I.LSh h\ri;.\( T')I! OK TKETII." Located
Berniane..!ly 111 ill Knst .IrlTerHon Ht.. Opposite
Hotel l.owrv. Ituil.-i-. will do Dciiful oW'ra
lons or all klinis l>y the latcwt devices nnd up
to dale methods.
i I. UUfJALDSON, DantlslT"
Butlar, Penn'a.
Artli: 1.-tl Teeth liwrt'tl on the lat<»t Im
.roved plan. «. >l<l I'llllm; .1 spw'all.y. Office
vi I Scn.'tiil'H ('iot.flnff Stor'i.
V. M vie ALPINE
Dentist,
Main St.
NaoHtheticb Ad mini.-tiered.
L. S. McJUNKIN
anrf Keai Estate
Agent.
:7 EAST JEFFERSON ST
HIITI.KK a
Dr. N. M. HOOVER,
IST K. Way no Si , office hours. 10 to 12 M. »n
in :i !\ M.
L. BLACK.
PIIVRIAJIaW AND Kl H'tKOK,
'Jew Tr(/ktW4«tu nuuoiiiif, Butler. !*a.
DR ("HAS i-i. B HUNT,
Physician ana Surgeon.
Eye, oar, nose and throat a pprcialtj
1 .'{2 and 184 i-. Wi*ir. Street.
Ilulbton building.
W H. BROWN,
(loniceopathlc Physician and
Surgeon.
)fl'ce 231 S. Main St., epp. I*. O.
I>«i ieoee 315 N. Mi Kcan St
For bale
A forui <1 20 acret-. Tv i:t; n !>e\en roo'.i.
1111- ftiiiid 11 ..it, or. artlrf, ueil water,
oU i-pi i>k •1•• li -. t hou»e and
;. uveiili r I out-buililii •< Vr i!l ell cbeap
>r < xel. uj e I r tuv.n property, about a
liileit Irom Butler.
Fur purticularn imjuiru at ti>i* ofiice.
{THREE \
STRADE i
STIMULATORS. |
SI m
H .AT, jg
ICampbell g TempletonJg
ll The Best $lO Decorated Dinner®
gli SET m
in America, warranted not to S
Spl erase, you can buy part of this
set if yoo don't want it all, we |g*
will match it up for you for the
j(Pt next year. {■£<
The Best $12.50 Cookj§
STOVE M
I A first class store well made, Kg*
large oven and guaranteed to
jell I be a first class baker,
JHO The Best sl6 Bed RoomJK
SET H
sp£ antique finished, beveled fc|*
ors made up in a first class
manner and equal to any S2O JSC
*g|j suit you can buy elsewhere,
|
8 BUTLER, PENN'A, J§
il Silver or Gold +++ l
Of any denomination, from ten-cent piece to dol
lars, will be cheerfully taken in our boys' and girls
department for all solid School Shoes—and the
shoes will be the newest of the new, for our entire
line of Fall Shoes have arrived. Especial atten
< tion is directed to immense line of Service Shoes. '
> One dollar will be <
j Taken in Exchange +
I For a pair of these Service Shoes to fit a boy or £
. girl of eight. Large or small sizes in proportion.
This Service line has been thoroughly tested.
This is the third winter for this line. We know
* they are good. Every pair wan anted. Boys' *
Satin Calf Lace Shoes at 75 cents, sizes 11 to 2. |
These are the lowest prices
• For New Shoes
► <
. For boys, that have been made th<s season. >
Larger sizes 3tosJ, at 85 cents. Boys' all solid
boots, and lower prices than you have ever bought
!them. i
AL RDFF & SON, ;
114 South Hairi Street. j
FRANKLIN
HOUSE
KSTJA HUSHED 1837.
Cor. Bates and Larned Sts.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Only a Block from Woodward and JeUersoa
Aves. Very Central. Near All Car Line*.
H. H. JAMES, Prop
i , o- w icjk
DKALBft ID
Rough and Worked Lumber
OF 1U KINIiS
Dours, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings,
Shingles and Lath
Always In Stock.
LIME. HAIR AND PLASTLK
Ofllct opponit4 I'. A VV. Depot,
PI ILRh
Hotel Willard.
Reopened and now ready for the
accommodation of the travelinjf'pub
lie.
Everything in 6rst-e bpb Htyle
MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owner
M H BROOKS. Clerk.
tfTajunnFML
drXobb
>. |> U 'U NTll Kl\, I'll 11.A.. VA.
ii. If 1 HI limn P':w)(.*ln tbrrur»of«ll
• ...... 1 f.11.1 mini. 11 .N,i inaltcr fr.im «»b»l .
uim or . •• >•' '!iMu:hiK, I v ill iruimtrJM ft mr» .
Itc-l'*-" t-iuUi-UouuJ *A4 nil ll«* I
tltU.
What is Your Need?
If you need any
thing in the furnish
ing line we can sup
ply you. It you
want a hat or cap
we can show you the
best Up -To - Date
stock in the county,
at very low prices.
Colbert & Dale.
242 S. Main St., Butler, I'enn'a