PIKE COUNTY PRESS.
Friday, Octobkr 1, 18S18.
fUHMRllKD EVERT FMDAV.
OFFICE, WlOWW'g RUILDIIM, BROAD ST.
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Regular Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM M'KINLKY,
OF OHIO,
FOR VR'F.-PIIKHIDKNT,
GAHRKT A. HOBART,
OF NF.W JK.RBKV.
REPUBLICAN (STATE TICKET.
For Congressmen-at-large,
(JALUSHA A. GROW,
of Susquehanna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative in Congress,
W. S. KIRKPATRICK,
of Northampton.
For Representative,
AARON COURTRIGIIT.
For Prothonotary,
EFHRIAM KIMBLE.
For County Treasurer,
CHARLES W. SHANNON.
For Associate Judge,
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
For County Commissioner,
JAMES M. BENSLEY.
For County Auditor,
JOHN C. WARNER.
- Editorial.
"The vcay to restore confidence is
to defeat through the ballot tho
party that destroyed confidence.
Tho way to restore prosperity is to
defeat through the ballot those who
have destroyed prosperity." Mc
Kinley, Sept. 23
DON'T GIVE HIM THE CHANCE.
"I do not want any man to vote
for me, then object to what I
expect to do if you elect me. And
If I can prevent tho maintenance of
the gold standard you can rely upon
my doing it the very first possible
opportunity given mo. William
Jennings Bryan, Sept. 22. 1896.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRES
SIONAL CONVENTION.
Before this roaches the eye of the
reader the outcome of tho conven
tion hold Sept. 25, at Stroudsburg to
nominate a Democratic candidate
for Congress for the Eighth District
will be genorally known. While it
was apparent tg even a casual ob
server that thore was trouble ahead
for Mr. Hart, and that his chances
for the unanimous ronomination
were very remoto, yet the spanking
he received at the hands of his con
stituents conclusively proves that
they know a bad boy at Bight, and
are not slow to administer the con
dign even before he drowns the cat.
Cluirges wore made two years ago
that Mr. Hart had receivod a large
sum of money, some placing it at
$2,500, from Mr. Mutchler with
which to carry the conferees from
Pike and deliver them as a precious
package to that gentleman and
thereby make him the nominee of
the party. It was assumed that Mr,
Mutchler had with cautious fore
sight knowing, perhaps, Bomething
of the high sense of honor which in
flates the breast of the average Dem
ocratic politician, fortified himself
by making a similar arrangement
with Carbon county, and thus plac
ing himself as he supposed in an im
pregnable position, for it was not
probable that his plans would be
overthrown in both Pike and Car
bon, nowever, the rtxloubtablo
Major Klutz, an alert and wary toe,
did succeed in Carbon in ooralling
the delegates, and Mr. Mutchler
turned with confidence to Pike for
the delivery of his bought and paid
for goods. But Pike saw a new light,
she held the key, and she refused to
unlock the situation unless she could
occupy the Congressional pnrlor her
self. After many bickorings and vari
ous and devious nianeuvres it 1
ramo appnrent that Tike would,
through the firmness and shrewd
ness of her conferees, and tho un
bending determination of Mr. Hart
not to abide by bis agreement, but
to secure the prize himself, win tho
fight. Mr. Mutchler found that ho
wits tricked, nnd likely to lose both
his nomination and the money ad
vanced to Mr. Hart to secure it, so
his conferees in desperation de
manded as the price of the inovita
bio, at least a disgorgement of the
money before Mr. Hart was nomin
ated or they would go in the conven
tion and expose the whole scheme
and denounce the treachery nnd dup
licity of Hnrt in such mnnneij as
would make bis election more than
doubtful. The meeting of tho con
vention in the morning after theso
threats hud been made, its ad
journment, Mr. Hurt's hurried visit
to tho bank, his return and unanim
ous nomination in the afternoon, are
all so well known that a bare mention
of the facts is all that is necessary.
His conferees and friends agreed to
accept tho statement of tho princi
pals that the money was a simple
loan, though why if the collateral.or
tho security was good when it was
obtained it must be repaid before
tho .nomination, was a query made
but not answered.
In return for the steadfast adhor
once of his conferees and their will
ingness to accept the tenuous
theory of tho loan part of the trans
action, and to force it upon tho cre
dulous voters of this county, their
success in the attempt, as was evi
denced by the vote he received in the
face of a bitter and relentless cam
paign made by the Republicans,
aided by some Democrats who could
not be persuaded to swallow their
own skins, it was naturally supposed
that Mr. Hart w6uld have been only
too eager to lay at the feet of his wor
shipping admirers and thick nnd thin
adherents in Pike the prizes of the
contest, in the way of desirable and
honorable appointments. The pre
vious congressmen from this county
remembered with gratitude tho
fealty of the party and rewarded its
representatives with two appoint
ments to West Point, and two to a
naval cadetship, one of the incum
bents of which Mr. Thomas rose to
distinction in his profession. But
how with Mr. Hart ? True to his
political instincts and consistent
with his sense of honor no sooner
was his election assured then he be
gan casting, about for some inethod
by which he could turn these cov
eted positions to his own future pro
fit, nnd gain a ronomination by their
use in nnothor county. He had
learned the extraordinary lesson of
being able to eat your cake and still
have it, had reversed tho rule that
there is some honor even among
a certain class of gontlemeu, and he
determined that lessons so easily
loarned, and experiences so cheaply
bought should not be lost in his poli
tical advancement. Where were the
bright boys of Ma tamoras, graduates
of the schools and fitted to accept
the positions ? Whore were some
Milford youths longing for some
fvidor fields of activity, and emin
ently qualified to reflect credit and
honor on our county ? Was there
no hopeful Democratic Pike county
boy deserving of recognition, that
Mr. Hart must pass over into Car
bon and take a youth, E. R. En
body, who had boonlookod upon as
a protege of General Lilly, a formor
Republican congressman from that
county, who appointed him to that
position, but being rejected, aftor
two years of study, was again an
applicant, and whose father was an
embryotio candidate for Congress
who relinquished his designs in
favor of the recently defootod John
E. Lauer, and appoint him to a
naval cadotship, throwing the empty
shell of the honor to Pike in the
form of an nlternate appointment ?
Mr. Hart can to-day review his
Accidental statesmanship calculate
the profits of his political perfidy,
sum up the whole demnition total
of his moral gains, reckon the es
teem In which ho is hold by decent
and honorable men, and contrast
them all with his glorious career in
Congress and the dazzling page
which his name will adorn in politi
cal ethics and in the history of the
politics of the Eighth Congressional
District of Pennsylvania.
WHY NOT HART?
We have urged the ronomination
of Mr. Hart, and we still think ao
cording to time honored party usage
he was fully entitled to it at the
hands of the convention. He should
remuin in the field and fight the bat
tle. Two years ago when bis nomi
nation was demurred at because he
was a comparative stranger in the
County with no espticial claims on
her for so great a distinction, the
answer came pat, it is not the man
but the County wo honor. That
was the party Shibboleth, the open
sesame by which ho gained tho
votes of our people. If thnt argu
ment was good then, it is equally
forcible now. The Stroudsburg
Convention deliboratoly, premedita
tely, and with malieo aforethought,
so far as two counties at least were
concerned, came to the meeting it is
said with the papers nominating
Barber drawn, thus prepared to show
no quarter to their weaker bretheru
but to ruthlessly strike down Pike's
claims before she could even assort
her rights. No matter about Mr.
Hart's deviations in the past ho was,
and is, the chosen representative of
this County as the one upon whom
the mantle of honor should fall and
a blow at him is a blow directly and
squarely in tho face of tho Democracy
of this County. Pike asserted two
years ago, when the cry came give
us another nnme, that she had tho
right and she alone to determine
whom of hor sons or what adopted
child should wear tho toga. If Pike
under the guide of her foremost and
shrewdest politicians was right then
she is right now in her insistance
thnt the nomination should come to
her, nnd tho attempt to wrest it from
her by brute force and sheer num.
bcrs should be vigorously resented
by her stalwnrt Democracy. Mr.
Hart must remain in the field, and
his whilom friends if they are
consistent must standby him in this
situation in which they have aided
to placo him. They must not skulk
in the face of tho enemy.
THOS. B. REED ON "PROTEC
TION AND PROSPERITY."
Spnnkor Reed in his introduction
to "Protection and Prosperity."
says : The book which Mr. Curtiss
has written is unlike any other
which hos been presented on the
subject in its method of troatmont,
and in tho width of range.
The calm and careful history in this
book of tho protection system in
England' which preceded tho Cobden
movement, nnd the history of the
Cobden movemont itsolf will go far
to rectify tho f also ideas which have
been so long prevalent, and if it con
tained nothing else will bo worth
all the book will cost nnd all the
trouble of understanding tho story
therein narrated. , This book is
also the story of how tho nations
discovered that the best way to be
protected and prosperous was not to
leave things alono, but to use their
brains and make things bettor.
This book ivesthe history of
experiments tried all over the world
of the two systems and tha results
which have followed. It teaches
what the facts teach and nothing
more.
CAN
WE COMPETE WITH
EUROPE.
An examination of tho evidence of
British manufacturers given before
the Royal Commission on Depression
of Trade and Industry, quoted in
precoding chapters, shows that the
chief complaint in England against
the Continent is boenuso of the lon
ger hours nnd lower wages which
prevail thore. It is fully demon
strated that the "superior effici
ency" of British artisans has not
saved Great Britain, from an inun
dation of Continental goods. If tho
Continent is able to supplant and
destroy industries in Groat Britain,
as it is certainly doing, with lower
wages and longer hours, how thon
would it bo possible for tho United
States to withstand tho combined
Continental and British competition
when tho wages paid to its artisans
are still higher than those paid in
the United Kingdom?
FREE TRADE ALMOST AT AN
END.
Aftor the dismal failure of "tariff
reform" of which we are now hav
ing experience, it is scarcely neces
sary to pursue the subject further.
The f roe tnidors have proven thom
solvos to be the most incompetent
and unreliable body that has boon
entrusted with power since the gov
ernment was formed. Lacking the
capacity to govern, incapable of
comprehending the needs and wants
of the people, and unwilling to take
advise from tho loaders of the Re
publican party, who have afforded
them the greatest lessons in states
manship to be found in recent his
ory, thoir public career will be
short.
What have Mr. Hart and the Pike
and Monroe Democrats to lose by
keeping in the fight? What to gain
by abandoning it? Tho die is cast,
the edict has gono forth, the Rubi
con is crossed. They must fight for
their political lives, or thoro will be
nothing but a lot of miserable corp
ses strewing the fluid, with tho white
flag of poltroonery floating over it,
where onco trod tho hosts, and
waved tho banner of a proud and
vaunting Democrucy. It is death
with honor or retreat with disgrace.
Wo think there is courage enough in
the loader and sufficient loyalty in
the ranks that they will go down if
they must facing the foe at least.
Democrats say "oh, yes, you want
the split widened, you want tho two
candidates to remain so ns to insure
the election of IC il l. pat i i k . " We
wnnt you gentlemen to be honorable,
mnnly men, who, having with deli
beration chosen your pnthwny, will
not stultify yourselves nt every turn
of the way, and show a truckling,
miserable, cov.-nrdiy spirit in the
face of a foe which flouts you and
once under their heels will fiind
you to powder, and cast your ashes
in the dead sen of oblivion.
They can have a new attraction
down in our sister Monroe next year
at their fair, a en so of real Demo
cratic chameleons warranted to be
able to change their colors with the
shifting of the winds, nnd no ques
tions asked. See Shull, Staples,
Westhrook and Rhodes about it.
Thnt would be a drawing curd for
the people of Pike.
Why did tho sentiment of Mon
roo undergo such n cliaiiie in a very
fow days? By a single, simple un
explained flop she caught on the one
"green" spot quicker than well
it beat the cars.
Mr. ilntchler evidently had no
ducats in tho deal this year, at least
he wns not on hand to secure them
or ha ve his pound of flesh.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By viri ae of a writ of levari r-.eias, Is
sued out of tin- Court efCuniii'iii Pleas of
Pike County, to me direct -il, 1 will expose
to Public Sale, by vendue or outcry, at the
Sheriff's Cilice in Die Uoroiurli of Milford
On Friday, October 2, A. P., 1896,
at thrw o'clhL'k in tin niVrnooii nf skl
day: Alt Mint ticitaili piro, parorl ur
tract of land. Hitualc yip niul ln-imc in
tlm Township of Din-jmim, County of
Piko and Slate of TYnnsylviinla, bmiiiuVd
and described is fnllmvs ti wit: Ji -4?in-niliK
at a heap of stones for a corner, being
a corner of lands of Hannicl S. Thrall,
(now Geyer)thenee along land of Henjarnin
Hulsc south forty-five and a half degrees
west eighty-seven perehes to a roek
for n corner, thence, along land sur
veyed to Abraham Shinier north thnxs and
a half degrees west one hundred and
twenty perches to stone corner, thence
north tnirty-eight and a quarter de
grees east one hundred and forty-two
perches ton pine stump for corner, thence
along land surveyeil to Luko Brodhead
south eighty-two ilcurecs cist one hundred
and itinty-thnt-perches to corner of lands
owned by Junius Newman, thence along
same and lands of Howard Ilulso south
fortv-four deprives west one hundred find
eight perches to corner of Howard iiulse's
land, thence along saine south forty-throe
degrees east thirteen perches to a corner,
thence along land of Cornelius Littleliehl
south forty-four degrees west eiiihry-three
perches to a corner of land late of Samuel
fcj. Thrall, d- teasi rl, th. ne(. nlong same
north forty-tvo nnd a lull" dcj-iecV west
sixty-nine pen lies 10 the place of in-ginning,
containing one hundred and eighty-one
acres he the same more or If-;-; Ik inn- luirt of
a larger tract surveved on a warrant granted
to Jesse AicKean and which been me vested
in said mortgagoi bv two dees from Wal
ter Mitchell and in said Mitchell by deed
from James S. Wallace and wife, dated
April 4th, ls7 , and recorded in deed bink
No, JI7, page pit. excepting therefrom and
themjuit as Iji tho above mentioned deed
all the lands HiMia.e and lying on the
south (or below) the public road running
through the lauds above described, on
which said lands excepted and reserved nre
ereotd a house and burn formerly oc
cupied by Mrs. Louis Loth.
IMPKn"KM(XTS.
On the above land are a good frame
house, barn and ot her out buildi rigs.
Fruit of all kinds. A bout to acres arc im
proved, the balance woodland.
Seized and taken i n execution t the
property of H attic K. Kooto ami W. (i.
Young torro tenant nnd will bo sold hy
me for cash.
II. I. ( -OCKTHIfiHT,
Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office., Milford. Pa..,
feepteniber t, lH-.ei. j
WIDOW'S APPRAISEMENT
The following ane,rai.-.ement set apart
for tho widow has lxieu Hied with the
clerk of the Orphan's Court, and will lie
presented to the Court for approval on the
Ninteenth Day of October, ls.ni.
Estate of George Mlllott, deceased. Wid
ow's appraisement of personal property.
JOHNC. YVKriTUKOoK,
Clerk ot Orphan's Court.
Milford, Sept. SK, 18t).
CANDIDATES' CAEDS.
Having been nominated by the Repub
lican Convention as u. candidate for the
ollicu of
Representative,
to I voted for nt the tJnner-d Election. I
hereby respect fully oln it the Mipport of
tho people of the county and H elected
pledge myself to further I lie weifnre ot my
constituents and conserve their interests
faithfully to the b.-st of mv al-diiv.
AARON COitT Ki'illT.
West full Township, Mpt. ao, l.smi.
Receiving the nomination for the office
of
Associate Judge
at the hands of the Rt publican Conven
tion I hercbv respectfully a.-k the sup
port of my fellow-citizens. If elected it
will be my aim to faitnfully and imparti
ally aid in the administruttou of the duties
pertaining to the otliee, to tin het of my
ability. WILLIAM MITCHELL.
Miffurd, Kept, ao, lb'.Ki.
Having bvn solicited by many friends
Who believe that the will of the people wu
not allowed to be fairly expressed at the
recent Republican primaries, 1 hereby an
nounce niysell a candidate fur the ullicc of
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
to bo voted for ut the Ocm r-d Election to
be held Nov. 3, In-, under the title or po
licy of People's Party, as n e-ul.tted by the
act of June 10, 1 y.i'i; providing for nomina
tion by iiomin ttien pi!e,, ,-md respeet
fuliy aak the support ol .dl who tavor fair
and jut methods; in politics. If elected I
pledge jnym-If to iM.Miaiatrr my oilieial
duties In such mitum r as to guard the iu
le rests of the people, and promote thu gen
eral welfare of the tiixp.e.'vrs.
(iKOKi.IK il. liOKTREE,
Gretmtowu, Sept.. j, l--o.
To this VuTKii i.k I'ikkCui nty: I here
by announce i.iy it a candidate for
County Treasurer
under the title or policy of " lYonlo'ii
Party," ha regulated by the Act of June
10, ItvjA, providing for nomination I y nom
ination pajerh, and o!u n your Votes ut
the general election Nov. :i, lsu(i.
JuiiN A. KIPI
August 5, is.).
FALL OF rmcES.
fVOT DUE TO APPRECIATION OF GOLD,
BUT TO CHEAPER COST OF
PRODUCTION.
ttarlit A. WrlU DturiMM Cmw nt Pall la
rr!r. ConipftrM JiMpr'a nn To
MiiTr" Throry With SIlVfrltM- Gold ITrM
ApproHntcd Theory Mrunrcd by Price
of I.nhnr, Gold la rHprelAt1na;.
Tho Hon. Duid A. Wells, author c
"Rmmt Knonomio CliHiigos," and the
priMitf-pt Ainerlonn Authority on the
cauflci of fulling pricce, hu a fall page
articln on this subject in the New York
Tribniio of t'pt 7. Ho finds that there
hits been a nuiversnl full in prices, aver
aging liO or 40 per cent pinoo 1878, but
thnt it is only in this country thnt the
full is attributed to the demonetization
of silver. Continuing, h says in part:
Grunting, as every intelligent person
Diunt tlntt the recent universal deoline
in prices cannot bo due to any local
ageury, but must bo attributed to some
universal influence, it is claimed that
such an influence is to be found in an
appreciation in the valuo or purchasing
power of gold, owing to its limited and
itiKiinieient supply, and also that this
decline in prices followed the so callod
demonetization of silver in some coun
tries, and the closing of the mints In
othor oountries to its coinage.
The appreciation of gold, helped by
an alleged enforood scarcity of silver,
and a decline in price seem, therefore,
to stand to each other in the relation of
caiiHo and effect, and the cause of tho
aavocittes of silver has accordingly at
the r.utnet much of plansibility. But
plimsiliility is nut proof, nor assumption
trui h, in is strikingly illustrated by the
rhtim of the Rev. Jusper, pastor of the
First colored church in Richmond, Va.,
that "the sun do move," and the earth
"d.i stand still," and who has more of
seeming facts in support of bis faith
than cuu be adduced by the advocates
of the gold appreciation theory for
cannot everybody with eyes see the sun
move up every morning in the east and
move down every evening In the west?
And if the earth moves 19 miles every
second, as the astronomer bugs tell us,
would not every movable thing fly off
its surface as mud does from a revolv
ing carriage wheel? And as nothing
does fly off. is it not oertain that the
earth stands still?
Investigation in the cose of the Rev.
Janper and the advocates of the gold ap
preciation theory will, however, load to
different conclusions. It is to be noted,
in the first place, that the advocates of
the latter theory, In stating what they
assert to be the truth, never express
themselves other than generally, in all
that has been written or spoken in sup
port of the gold theory on either side of
the Atlantic.
No ono has ever been able to name a
single commodity thut has notably de
clined in price within the last 80 years
and satisfactorily proved, or even at
tempted to prove, that such decline was
due to the appreciation of gold. And
the reason for such default is that it
cannot be done.
On the other hand, not a single com
modity that has notably declined in
price within this time can be named in
respect to which olear, abundant and
specific evidence cannot be adduced in
proof that this decline has been due to
decreased cost of production or distribu
tion or to changes in supply and de
mand occasioned by wholly fortuitous
circumstances.
Nobody, furthermore, has ever risen
to expluiu the motive which has im
pelled the honest sellers of merchandise
all over the world during the last 25
yoars to take lower prices for their
goods in the face of an unexampled
abundance of capital and remarkably
low rates of interest, exoept for one or
both of two reasons excess of supply
or diminished demand. Has any one
ever attempted to explain how it has
hupiHined that during the recent period
of the fall of prices the world's stock of
money, and especially of silver, has been
constantly increasing?
Is it not plain that a phenomenal de
cline of prices in two parts of the world,
with entirely different monetary condi
tions, must have had other causes than
a demonetization of silver in the United
titates, which took place, if it ever did.
a comparatively short time ago (repeal
of the Sherman act in 1898), and which
has not prevented nearly $600,000,000
of silver credit money from circulating
in the the country at its full nominal
value?
That the price of labor measured in
gold has not declined, but increased in
a marked degree everywhere in trie olv
ilizcd world during the lost quarter of
a century, has been already commented
on ; hence if the purchasing power of
pold has increused during this period a
given amount of it would have purchas
ed more labor and not less, or, what is
the same thing, wagos would have fall
en, whioh they have not dona.
Measured by the price of labor, gold
has unquestionably depreciated, and re
cent careful examinations indicate that
the ratio of its decline has been from
100 in 1878 to 88 in 1898. Measured
aluo by the deoline in the rate of inter
est on such established gold paying se
curities as British oonsols, the ratio has
been from 100 in 1870 to 76 in 1896.
Can anybody suggest better measure
for testing this issue?
Has any one ever endeavored to ex
plain how an appreciation of gold has
reduced the cost of railroad and water
transportation to the extent of more
than 79 per cent within the last SOt
yeuTK, although the wages of employee
have advanced during the same period r
If, on the other band, these redao-'
tious were oaused by the suppression
of the froe ooinag of silver, will not
rovcrni'n of policy enable the railroads
to advauce their freight rates and rob trie
people, as will be olaimed, by exacting
50 per cent mora than at present? And
will not some supplementary provisions
to the free coinage aot be necessary to
prevent their so doing?
- SIMPLE SUMS FOR 8ILVERITES.
Problouui Which Can Kaallj B Irtf ur4
Out bjr Voter.
A fainter raises 1,000 bushels ot
wheat, for which he now gets $500.
With that money be buys various kinds
of manufactured goods at low prioes.
With free coinage at 18 to 1 he might
get $1,(100 for his wheat, but would
certainly have to pay nearly twice as
much for the goods he would buy. How
uiu. h would tlie farmer gain from a
ehenp money scheme which doubled tlie
price of the things ho gets in exchange
for his wheat?
The Sherman silver law of 1890 pro
vided for tho purchase by government
of 54,000,000 ounces of silver per year.
Under, the operation of that law the
price of silver, after short speculative
rise, fell steadily from $1.16 to 78 cents
per ounce. If the pnrchnse and storage
of practically tho entire American pro
duction of silver could not prevent its
price from falling, what reasons are
there for believing that the mere act of
ooining silver into dollars and return
ing them to the owners of the bullion
will double the price of all the silver in
the world?
A workingman who depends for his
livelihood on tho sale of his labor to an
employer Is now paid $2 per day In
currency based on the gold stnndnrd and
kept on a parity with gold by our laws.
This $3 will buy a relotivoly large quan
tity of necessities. If this country adopts
free coinage and goes on to a silver basis,
$3 will buy only one-half as much of
the goods the workingman needs. Show
how labor would be benefited by a pol
icy which would cut the purchasing
power of wages in two.
An investor having money to lend
was approached by a farmer who want
ed a loan for the purpose of buying new
implements, additional stock and some
fertilisers. "If yon will let me have
$800 on the security of my land and
buildings," said the farmer, "I will
rote for a free silver law which will en
able me to pay yon back next year in
dollars worth just half of those you
lend me. " State how much money that
investor loaned the farmer, also the
rate of interest paid.
A large nnmbcr of persons who com
plained that they were poor decided to
enact laws which would make them all
rich. As their poverty consisted In the
lack of food, clothes, furniture, houses
and other forms of wealth, they agreed
that instead of producing the things
they needed they would set men to work
digging silver, which they did not need,
out of the Rocky mountains. By so do
ing they expected that the supply of
other labor products would in some mys
terious way be increased. How much is
twice nothing, and how will the chang
ing of silver bullion into coins make
more houses, machinery or beef?
If tho sonnd money vote in Vermont
Increases the Republican majority from
81,000 in 1893 to 88,000 this year, how
long will it take the 18 to 1 Issue to
wipe out the entire Democratic voto in
that state? Whiddrk Graham.
A PLAIN TALK TO WORKINGMEN.
Th A B O of tlie Silver Queatlon.
Let us not get mixed up with com.
plex matters in connection with the free
silver idea.
Let us not befog our brain with ar
guments about, the crime of 1878 or
bother with the many theories which
the advocates of free silvor are giving us.
But let us take a common sense view
of the situation.
Now, to start with :
Suppose Bryan was elected and the
free coiuoge act had been passed and
that free coinage was an aotual fact
Suppose thut silver could be taken to
the mint and coined into silver dollars
at the ratio of 16 to 1.
How would that affect ns?
We haven't got any silver bullion.
A whole lot of people who own silver
mines have it, and so they could have
It ooined into 16 to 1 dollars, but not
having any ourselves we could not have
a solitary, single dollar ooined under the
free silver act
Now, supposo, however, that all the
silver mine owners and others who had
silver took it all to Washington or Phil
adelphia or to some other United States
mint and had it coined into 16 to 1
dollars, and
Suppose so much had been coined that
all the silver in the world was made
into 18 to 1 dollars, and
Suppose that every one of these dol
lars was piled in one heap right on the
next block, and
Suppose every single one of them was
worth 100 cents here and everywhere.
What good would they do us unless
we had something we could trade by
which we oonld get one?
Well, we have something to trade;
everybody has.
Some have labor, so much for a dollar.
Some have lumber, so much for a
dollar.
Some have sugar or potatoes or hams
or coal or something else, all so much
for a dollar.
We have advertising and subscrip
tions, so much for a dollar.
When we want one of those silver
dollars, we cannot go and take it They
don't belong to u& They belong to the
men who took the silver to the mint to
be ooined.
If we took one, it would be stealing.
If we asked for one for nothing, it
would be begging.
If the owners gave us one for nothing,
it would be a gift
If we borrowed one, it would cost us
interest, and so
Most of us, to get one, must trade la
bor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or
something to get it
This is absolutely and honestly so,
isn't it?
Well, being so, why do we take any
chances on the dollar?
We oan get gold now.
It is worth 100 oents on dollar
everywhere.
So we have supposed the silver to be,
but
Suppose it isn't
What then?
What is the use of taking a chance
unions we can do better? A silver dol
lar wou't be worth more than 100 oents,
will it?
We are getting that now.
Let well enough alone.
Some say duty compels a Democrat to
back up and vote for a Democrat You
have Bryan's word that he is no Demo
crat Let him deny that he said it
Some say it is pretty bad now. Wo
might as well take a ohanoe. It can't
be worse.
What kind of tomfoolery is this?
Are things bad in s business way?
Let us tell you something to try.
Vote down this crowd of repudiutors.
Tell the world in trumpet tones in
November that we want the best money,
that we will take no other, and bumueus
will revive.
Let the capital out that Bryan and
bis followers have scared under cover,
and prosperity will coma Lumber
Trade Journal.
What 1 J to I tin
It has never kept gi
parity.
It has never once
give
coinage, practical bimetal il 4
the conenrrent circulation M gold and
silvor.
The ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted In
1884, It represented the then commer
cial ratio, the market values of the two
metals.
In the 40 years following the adoption
of this ratio and up to 1874 there were
ooined less than 7,000,000 silver dol
lars, or not in many by 500,000 as were
coined from Jan. 1 to July 1 In this
year.
And never during the wholo period
did gold and silver circulate freely to
gether as equal money. What reason has
Mr. Bryan for his "firm conviction"
that they will do so new under frc
coinage, when tho difference In tho com
mercial ratio is far groator than at any
time during the period from 1834 to
1878?
Strange Tied Fellows.
u
The thought of sleeping with such
bed follows disgusts Undo Sum.
Sound Argument From Kmtnent Bimet
al I lata.
Gold is recognized as tho universal
standard of valuo. It is the measure
that must be used. It is the measure by
which yonr wealth must bo tested.
Tho wealth of the United States is
tested by the same rnlo. It has been
and always will be the touchstone of
measurement, and when you depart
from that and try to figure up any other
measure which tho world does not
recognize you get into confusion. Sen
ator William M. Stewart
As hong as gold, either from its in
trinsic superiority as a metal, from its
rarity or from tho prejudices of man
kind, retains so considerable a pre-eminence
in value over silver as it has hith
erto bad, a natural conaequence of this
seems to bo that its condition will be
more stationary. Tho revolutions, there
fore, which m:iy take place in tho com
parative valuo of gold and silver will be
changes in tho slate of the hitler rather
than in that of tho former. Alexander
Hamilton.
Ilorae Noiiflrnw.
i ooiiT iniuK i am r-any any enonf er
thon I nhed to be." argued the horse.
"I am woith just as much as I ever
was. Tho bicycle has appreciated.
That's all. " Chiougo Tribune.
Let farmers mnicniber thot a 200 cent
dollur is just as valuable in thoir hands
as it is in tho -hands of the wage earner.
I hold sound, stable currency to bo
among tho greatest encouragements to
industry und business genorally and an
unsound and fluctuating now expand
ing and now contracting, so that no
honest man can toll what to do as
among the greatest discouragements.
John C. Calhoun, 1888.
REGISTER'S NOTICE
The following accounts have been filed
in tho Register's Ollico of Pike County
and tho same will Ik- presented to the Orp
han's Court of said county for confirma
tion and allowance on the Xinteenth Day
of Octolicr next.
Kstate of .Tames 11. Briscoe, deceased.
Account of Klizalsah Briscoe, adminis
tratrix. Kstate of Eleanor Beam, deceased.
Account if Thomas Armstrong, execu
tor, oic.
Kstate of David Howell, deceased.
Account of C. W. Bull, trustee, feo.
JOHN C. WK.STBROOK,
Register.
Register's Ollloo, Sept. 23, 181)6. 3w
Ml
All persons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning papers or refuse of
uny kind tn the streets of tho Borough is
prohibited.
By order of the town council,
J. C. CHAM ISKRLAIN,
President, pro tciu.
Attest, D. H. HORNUKCK, sjcu'y.
MUfiird, May 6, lauo.
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