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NEBRASKA.
Some of the ladies of Lincoln have
organized a McKinley club.
The prohibition state convention will
be held in Lincoln August 2Sth.
Clemens Prinz of Cuming county died
from the effects of over-heating.
Eastern tourists are greatly pleased
with what they see in Nebraska this
year.
Carl R Borgqnist one of the oldest
inhabitants of Cheyenne county, died
last week.
The Fremont hemp and twine fac
tory will this fall use up the product
of 2,000 acres
Lightning struck the Bohemian
Catholic church at South Omaha last
week, killing three people. »
Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman wants 95,000
from South Omaha for injuries received
from a defective sidewalk.
Burglars broke into the postoffice at
Tobias to rob the safe. They were not
successful in opening the strong box.
An effort was made to blow the safe
in the Charles Doris jewelry store in
Fairmount The would-be robbers
were unsuccessful. *
Sarpy county is hard at work on an
elaborate float to be entered in the
Nebraska parade at Omaha state fair
week. It is being constructed at Pa
Billion.
The Adams postoffice safe was blown
open and its contents rifled. About
•100 in stamps and money were taken.
There is no clue as to who were the
thieves.
Maggie Halpin, of Greely, the 17
year-old daughter of William Uulpln,
went to Lake Ericson with a party of
young folks and was drowned. Her
remains were recovered.
Professor Barbour, professor of geol
ogy at the state university, was at Ver
don recently inspecting the wells and
snaking a full geological report of
Kichardson county.
A son of Mr. and lira Lawrence
Burns of Tekamah was kicked in the
face by a horse lsst Thursday and se
verely injured, his nose being broken
and his face bruised.
On account of soms defect in the
hoisting apparatus, Henry Hoggett, a
well-digger, fell eighteen feet to the
bottom of a well in Casa county apd
was severely injured.
Grandpa Arend of Elm Creek went
. out recently to shoot a few rabbits in
'his garden. The load went through a
neighbor’s window, nearly making a
pot shot of the family.
George Latta, a prosperous Burt
county farmer, has just completed a
barn having a capacity of twenty
seven horses, 1,000 bushels of grain
■, pod fifteen tons of hay.
Bev. Clarence A. Stewart, pastor of
the Methodist church at Tamara, has
handed in his resignation as pastor
and also^: withdrawn his membership
from the Methodist church.
Hoover, the murderer of his brother
-in-law, Councilman Duboise, was exe
cuted in the jail at Omaha on the 7th.
He left a statement expressing regret
t killing the best friend he ever had.
John Q Williams, in charge of the
artesian well at the Rosebud agencr,
dropped dead from heart failure. He
was a man of 60 yeara His home is
Pittsburg, Pa., where his remains will
be sent
Gus Roberts of Liberty was last week
sent to the asylum at Lincoln. He im
agines himself to be the bearer of the
sin of the world and desires to be put
to death that the world may be iree
from sin.
Fullerton people are somewhat In
4 dlgnant because Lena Stan key, a 14
year-old girl debsuehedby her father,
• had been spirited out of the country.
The case against the old man will hare
:J to be dismissed.
At Oakland lightning strnek the flue
*, on the residence of Alfred Johnson,
running down the inside of the house
and out of the door, doing slight dam
age to the house, but scattering brick
ta all dlrectionu
At Elkhorn a horse fell on Charles
’ Killey while he was out riding and in
jured his thigh. Before the man was
rescued be was nearly drowned, as he
had been precipitated Into a ravine
partially filled with water.
By the overturning of a load of grain
«u which he was riding, the »-year-old
son of Frank Bailer, a farmer living
seven miles north of Exeter, had the
tines of a pitchfork run into his brain,
causing his death in a few hours.
Pierce precinct, Pierce county, voted
on the qpestlon of voting bonds to the
amount of >14,000 to aid the Norfolk A
Yankton railroad in completing its line
Of road from Norfolk to Yankton and
the bonds carried by a vote of 163 to 23.
Three hundred car-loads of corn
^ passed through Blair inside of twenty
four hours The cars were made up
ta fifteen trains each being drawn by
two engines The corn was gathered
from various stations along the Elk
horn.
The adjutant general's office has or
dered the discharge from the Nebraska
> ; National Guard "for the good of the
,, service” the following: Private George
i T. Freeman, company C, First regi
went, Beatrice; Private B. B. Lincb,
troop A, Milford; Privates A Augus
tus A Cooper and Stanley E. Lindsley
i of company G, Second regiment, Oma
guards
An old man named McNulty and his
t®*i living near Oconto, quarreled ovet
the ownership of an old bridle. In
the heated argument which followed
the old man fired a shotgun and filled
the boy’s hide so full of bird shot that
; it looked like a grape cullender. The
r, mounds are not fatal.
B'O. Whittemore, a mas «3 years ol
p; •**. Who was reported some three
- > weeks ago as beipg placed under $7,000
r hoods on the Charge of rape of a Utile
'Pi |W fourteen years old, came into die
■#’ triet court at Auburn and changed hit
■ v plea to that of gsctlty and Judge StiU
neat him to the state prison for ten’
pears at hard labor. j
I At Tobias a barn belonging tu J. I*.
Sutfin was struck by lightning Satur
day night and burned to the ground,
together with ita contents, consisting
of oats, hay and farming implements,
Loss about $700, partially covered by
insurance.
Thomas Wilson, a man who has been
held in the county jail at Blair, since
last March for breaking into cars on
Elkhorn, escaped last Friday night,
lie had to go through three doors and
had made three separate keys and un
locked every door.
Following is the mortgage record of
t'latte county for the month of July,
1800: Fifty real estate mortgages
hied, $47,122.86; thirty-eight real es
tate mortgages released, $35,372.25;
sixty cbattle mortgages filed, $13,220.46;
eight chattle mortgage4 released, $5,
080.60.
Herman Koch, a prominent farmer
living near West Point, met with what
may prove a fatal accident. lie' was
returning home with a calf in his
wagon. The team became unmanage
able and threw him out, breaking one
of his legs and otherwise injuring him.
The broken leg was amputated.
A burglar tried to get into Alex
Francis’ general merchandise store at
Dunbar, but was unsuccessful. He
next tried the postofBce, but again
failed, but be was successful in enter
ing F. Boos' general merchandise
store. Goods to the amount of $60 was
taken. He was overhauled with the
spoils. The thief had just been re
leased from the penitentiary.
Reports from country precincts in
Gage county, show that the recent
storm did considerable damage in a
strip of country north of Beatrice,
varying from one to six miles in widtli
and extending across the country. The
corn is badly blown down, scores of
windmills wrecked and many small
buildings torn to pieces. Orchards
were stripped of their fruit and Bhude
John F. Crawford, a well known ref*
dent of Omaha, was struck by. the
northbound Missouri Pacific passenger
train at the railroad crossing at forty
eighth and Leavenworth streets. His
right foot was severed above the ankle,
the face badly bruised and the chest
and arms were covered with scars and
gashes from being dragged along the
track. Death was almost instanta
neous. He was about 00 years old.
A serious accident occurred on the
Burlington railroad one mile west of
Nemaha. Mrs. Nettie Umbling, a
farmer’s wife from near Howe, Neb.,
a lady friend and two small children
were in the act of crossiug the track
when a freight that was backing up
struck the vehicle in which they were
riding, killing both horses outright
and tearing the vehicle to pieces One
child had its leg broken in two places,
the other its leg broken in one place.
Both ladies were badly bruised. The
little ones will die.
A peculiar accident happened as the
Union Pacific flyer was pulling out ol
the yards at Sidney. The main driv
ing wheel on the left side of the loco
motive broke .from the axle and leav
ing the engine ran out on a side track
for fifty feet. The train was running
but five miles an hour and was stopped
within a few feet of where the acci
dent occurred. The accident was
caused by a flaw in the journal of the
driver and had the train been going at
full speed the result would doubtless
have been a disaster.
The Lincoln Journal says tha^ nu
merous complaints have been made
about the breaking open of desks at
the state bouse. Desks have been ran
sacked on several occasions and post
age btamps stolen. In some cases the
loss amounts to considerable. About
one year ago complaints of this kind
were numeroua One office was robbed
of 880 worth of stamps or a whole
year's supply. Some of the robberies
occur at the noon hour. Entrance to
offices is supposed to be effected by
persons who have keys to doors as well
as deska
J. W. Stocking, who has lived neat
Panama for a number of year* had the
misfortune to step on a nail while do
ing hie choree. He did not pay much
attention to it until neat day when it
pained him very much, so he went to
eee a doctor, but lockjaw was setting
in and nothing could be done for him.
Three different doctors were called and
held a consultation, and all gave him
up and death relieved him of his suffer
ings. Mr. Stocking was a single man.
He leaves one sister and brotner, who
live near Panama and one brother in
California.
President Barnes of the §tate Agri
cultural society, declares that from the
applications and inquiries received up
to the present time the state fair will
be 30 per cent larger than any of its
predecessors. Not only will there be
more exhibits, and more of them, but
there will be a number of entirely new
ones, some of which will attract a
great deal of attention. He is enthu
elastic over the change in the grounds
since the last fair. The thick carpet
of grass, where a year ago was newly
ploughed,and graded ground, has, in
fact, made a wonderful transformation,
and one which will be appreciated bv
all visitors.
A fatal accident occurred at Glen
Rock, a station op the Missouri Pacific
some six miles north of Auburn. Will
iam Hawkins, a farmer living lu the
village, while getting oft of the high
side of a box hay rack, had one of it is
feet caught some way and he tumbled
to the ground, falling on the end of a
pitchfork handle. He had thrown tho
fork to the ground before starting to
get down. The tines sticking in the
ground held the handle upright The
handle was forced some six inches into
the body, passing through the bladder.
He cannot live but a short time.
▲ fruit tree fakir is getting in hit
work iff neighboring towns of Kalla
City. He sells fruit trees on the in
stallment plan, and takes fruit in pay
when the trees begin to bear. He
takes an order and it turns up in the
bank a collectable note. *
Very Rev. G H. Gardner, dean of
Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, died sud
denly of pneumonia at Bayfield, Win.,
lest, wee«r. He was sick out a few
days- He was 46 years old and leaves
a wife and six boys. He was there
spending his vacation, as is customarv.
He has been a prominent candidate for
bishop of the Episcopal church for s
number of time*
DR. flANSEtMVAS LOST
HIS CHRONOMETERS STOPPED ADD
IE LOST HIS BEABIHSS.
JACKSON RESCUED HIM.
Found by the English Scientist on 'mn
loo Floe—HU Lucky Meeting With
the Norwegian Explorer was Ac
cidental—*The Fran Aban
doned In the Drl/tlng
Ice—Nansen's Story.
Vardok, Norway, Aug. 18.—Tbe
captain of the Windward, the British
steamer which has just returned from
Franz Josef land after taking supplies'
to the British North pole expedition
commanded by Jackson and known as'
the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition,
filed a telegraphic message here yes*
terda.v describing the accidental
meeting of Jackson and Dr. Nnnsen,
forming one of the most remarkable
incidents in the history of Arctic ex
ploration, for it appears that the Nor
wegian ex plorer had been living in a
hut quite close to one of the English
explorer's stations for along time pre
vious to the meeting of the two men,
yet neither one of them was aware of
the other’s presence in that vicinity.
In this messrge, Jackson describes his
accidental meeting with Dr. Nansen
while the latter was traversing the
ice pack, and it appears that it was a
lucky meeting for the Norwegian ex
plorer, as the latter was misled, ow
ing to inaccuracies on the map drawn
by Payer, the discoverer of Franz
Josef land, and also oeeause Dr. Nan
sen’s two chronometers and his watch
having stopped, he was quite unable
to establish his position and was con
sequently trying to march westward
to Spitzbergen over the ice pack,
which was not only highly dangerous
but probably impossible.
Jackson, after meeting Nansen, con
ducted the latter to Elmwood,, the
headquarters of tbe British expedition,
where the Doctor awaited the arrival
of the Windward, which left the
Thames on June 10, and Vardoe on
June 28, to take supplies to the Jack
son expedition, and not to bring them
back, as currently reported.
Jackson, in the dispatch filed by the
captain of the Windward, said: “On
June 17, I met Dr. Nansen three miles
out on a floe, east of Cape Flora, and
inder most extraordinary circum
stances. He bad wintered in a rough
hut within a few miles of our north
ern limit in 1895, and this Rprlng we
unwittingly came within a few miles
of his winter quarters.
"Dr. Nansen left the Fram with one
companion. Lieutenant Sigard Scott
Hansen, a lieuteuantin the Norwegian
navy,and director in the astronomical,
meteorological and magnetic observa
tions, and reached latitude Sd:14,y
traveling northeast from where he
left the Fram, which was in 84 North,
103 East
It is believed here that the Fram
may turn up here or at Bergen
shortly, as she stood the ice very well,
has plenty of provisions on board and
there was no sickness among her crew
;when Dr. Nansen left her on March
'3.4, 1894.
Professor Mohn says that the scien
tific result of Dr. Nansen’s observa
tions are magnificent, and that sev
eral- islands havo been discovered.
Dr. Nansen, in describing their life
during the winter of 1894-96, said:
“When the bears’ flesh had been ex-L
hausted we were obliged to kill the
weakest dogs to feed the others, and
continued thus until the whole pack
had been slaughtered.
“Myself and companions started in
tbe direction of Spitzbergen on May
Kt After that we occupied six weeks
on snowthoes, dragging sledges and
kayaks (the Arctic canoe) loaded on
sledges after ua We went partly
overland and partly over sea ice.
“We reached Jackson’s winter quar
ters, where we found all in good
health. We remained there about six
weeks, till the steamer Windward
arrived."
JONES’ SELECTIONS MADE.
Gov. Stone and J. 11 Johnaon on tho
Democratic Eiaeatln CoiunaUtas.
N*w Yobk, Aug. 16, — Chairman
Jones of the Democratic national com
mittee has deolded upon those who
will compose ^he campaign committed
They are: John R. McLean, Ohio;
Governor Stone, Missouri; Clarice
Howell, Jr., Georgia; C. A. Walsh,
Iowa; J. R. ShanUlin, Indiana; J. J.
Dwyer, California; D. J. Caiupau,
Michigan, and J. B. Johnson, Kansas.
Governor Altgeld ifiay also be ap
pointed a member of the committee.
Fusion Not Llksly In Washington. -
Ellknsburg, Wash., Aug. 16.—The
Democratic, Populist and silver Re
publican conventions met yesterday
and received representatives from the
cofaferenoe committees Each then
took a recess to give the committee
further time to confer, the Democrats
being dissatisfied with the distribution
of offices. The present situation sug
gests a fusion between the Populists
and free silver men, with a separate
Democratic ticket.
••wall's Son Works Aesinst Him.
Naw York, Aug. 16. —The following
speakers have been engaged to stump
Mainaifor McKinley and Hobart: Har
old M. Sewall, son of Bryan's associ
ate; Senators Hale. Frye and Lodge;
Congressmen Dingley, Bou telle and
Doliver, ex-Governor Pnkin of Louis
iana, ex-Senator Warner Miller, J.
Sloat Fassett of New York and Gen
eral Clark E. Carr of Illinois, ex-min
ister of Denmark.
Capitalist Mnrdsred.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 16 —Hon. W.
F. Eyeter of Chambersburg. Pa., was
murdered here last night. Fred
Vance and five women of the town
are detained at the station as knowing
something of tho case. Mr. Eyeter
was here with a party of prominent
Pennsylvania capitalists, en route to
Cripple Creek to invest In mines.
FUSION IN THE SOUTH.'
B*pibHc»8i| Sound Moony Damocntl
nod PopalliU Mny Unite.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1?.—It is
not st all'unlikely thut a combination
ticket will be put in the field by the
Republicans, National Democrats and
Populists in some of the Southern
states. The executive committee of
the National Democracy is in receipt
of propositions looking to this end
from Alabama, Texas and Florida and
is inclined to look upon them with fa
vor. The leaders of these three par
ties in the South have no‘t yet dis
cussed matters of detail in the
proposed fusion, but it is probable
that if it is to be carried out thev will
fuse oh the state tickets as nearly as
possible in proportion to the strength
that eacli one possesses and that elec
toral tickets will be made of men
pledged to vote against liryan and
Sewall.
rive. ^HIUAUU FAILURES.
®**P» ®ron* Wool, Hides end Liquor Deal*
•re Onable to Meet Their Liabilities.
Chicago, Aug. 17. — Five failures
were recorded to-day as follows: The
Chicago and Western Soap works, $80,
000 assets, liabilities $50,000; Louis
Sibers and 8ons, liquor dealers, $35,
000 assets, liabilities $30,000; the Chi
cago Consolidated Iron and Steel
company of Harvey, $300,000 assets,
liabilities not known; Henry M. Ho
sick, wool, ]93 Michigan street, $200,
000 assets, liabilities $125,000; George
Obertie, dealer in hides and leather,
$200,000 assets, liabilities $125,000.
Congressional Nominee Withdraws.
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 17.—A sen
sation was caused In political circles
of the Twelfth congressional district
by the announcement from Marshall
Fulton, the Democratic nominee for
congress, that he has withdrawn from
the race. In his letter to Chairman
Onion of the Democratic executive
committee, Mr. Fulton gives no reason
for his action. Mr. Fulton is the sec
ond Democratic candidate to with
draw from the race after the nomina
tion had been made.
Klllna His Will's Paramour.
Buttic, Mont., Aug. 17.—Joseph L.
Bonesteele, a bartender, went home
about 5 o’clock this morning and shot
and killed Frank Cole, a lodger at the
house, whom ho found with his wife.
Cole came to Butte from SL Paul,
where ^ie held positions on the Pio.
neer Press and Globe. He was made
city clerk of Butte two years ago, but
the mayor, learning that lie was liv
ing witii a woman to whom he had
not been married, recalled the ap
pointment._
Hlg Oil Trnlts Set on Fire.
Lima, Ohio, Aug. 17.—At i o’clock
this morning lightniug struck a 30,
000 barrel oil tank on the Kemper
farm, three miles south of here,
owned by the Standard oil company,
and the fire communicated to three
others. The Standard people em
ployed BOO men to throw up embank
ments and are shooting the tanks tc
let the oil out. The smoke from the
burning oil obscured the sun. The
loss will reach $75,000.
No Ootd Ticket In Nebraska.
Ltnooi.n, Neb., Aug. 17.—Whatever
the gold standard Democrats may do
at Indianapolis, it is quite evident
that the stute of Nebraska will not
put up any gold standard Democratic
electors. It is well known that
Tobias Castor, N. S. Harwood, A. J.
Sawyer and John A. Ames of Lincoln,
D. T. Cook of Beatrice, and ottier
gold standard Democrats, are opposed
to any such more They contend that
such action would help Bryan more
than McKinley.
Two Nm In a BA- Joseph Halo.
8t. Josri'h, Mo., Aug. 17. —During
heavy storm Thursduv an old ice
house north of the city was struck by
lightning. Yesterday afternoon a
gardner informed the police that just
before it was struck and burned he
had seen two men enter It. A force
of men are at work digging in the
ruins to find the bodies.
Oklahoma Ginning Plant.
Y Guthrie, Ok la., Aug. 1'/.—The Cim
arron Ginning company, with a,capi
tal of 940,000, waa chartered to-day,
and will build an immense ginning
plant one mile east of Langston. E.
M. Greon is president. W. .1. Pouts,
treasurer, and V. A. Thompson, secre
tary. Thirty stockholders, represent
ing 1.000 acres of cotton, arc in the
scheme.
I«. A. W. In l*ulltic«.
Louisyn.i.K, Ky., Aug. 17.—The of
ficial publication of the T,eaguo of
American Wheelmen, the* Bulletin, it
going to lake a hand in political af.
fairs, and will mipport the gold stand
ard. Sterling Elliot of lloston, presi
dent of the League, suys thut iu the
next issue he will have an editorial in
favor of the gold standard.
A Minuter Fired Upon.
U UK NOS Aykrs. Aug. 17.—A dispatch
from Cliiiqnisaea (Snccrc) ISolivia, an
nounces that, a merchant named Cullar
attempted to assassinate the Chilian
minister to Itolivia wliile the latter
was i here, tiring several shots from a
revolver. The minister wasseeerely
wounded.
U.u.rnl Srhellendnrf Out.
: Rkiu.in, Aug 17.—It Is officially an
nounced that the 1'russian minister
for war. General Bronsart von Schel
lendorf, who was appointed in 189S,
has been relieved from office. He
will bo succeeded by General Von
Gossler.
Killed by Lightning.
Kansas Citv, Mo , Aug. 17.—John
Haggett, a denier in live stock, of 72
North Tenth street, Kansas City.
Kao , was ruck by lightning and
killed yesterday while standing under
a tree on what are known as Muucie's
bluffs, live and one-half miles west of
the U n ion depot.
The richest gold plaaer mines of
Alaska have been transferred to
Canadian territory, and miners are
now paying miners* lax to British
authi titties.
SHERMAN ON FINANCE.
THE OHIO SENATOR DENOUNCES
THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
OPENS OHIO'S CAMPAIGN.
The Financial UUtory of the Vnltad
Statai Dlaeutted at Length-—Declared
That Worklnfntn and Pan.Ion*
an Would Ua Rained If tha
Gold Standard It Mot
Maintained.
Columbus, Ohio, Aupr. 17.—The Re
publican State campaign opened here
at 1 o’clock thiB afternoon in a great
tent m the presence, it is estimated,
of 10,000 people. At 1:30 o’clock, after
the usual music and cheering of some
well known men, Governor liushnell,
as chairman, formally opened the ex
ercises with a short speech, after
which he introduced United States
Senator John Sherman, who was re
ceived with great cheering. As sooty
as order was restored, the veteran
financier spoke, in part, as follows:
“Both tho silver and tariff arn vital questions
of domestic policy of equal importance, bat I
propose on this occasion to ronfin * ray remarks
mainly to what is known as the frei oinage of
tilver at the ratio of sixteen p rts of silver to
one of i^old. This issue i* thrust upon ns by
the Democratic part/, or, rather, by the Popu
list b.-auch of the Democratic party.
“Gold and silver coins are recogniz>d by all
commercial natiou* of the world as the best
standards of valu9, as tin m?asure of every ar
ticle of desire, of everythi lg that is bought or
sold. Ihese two m«ta!s not only measure
all other things, but they measure e ch
other. Their relative value constantly changes.
Twenty-throe years ago sixteen ounces of sil
ver wnro worth more than one ounce of gold
Now thirty-one ounces of silver can bo bought
by one ounce of gold.
*‘In 1834, during the administration of Pres
ident Jackson and under tho leadership of
Daniel Webster and Thom is H, Benton, Con
gr ss adopted the ratio of ifl ol silver to 1 of
gold, by reducing tho number of grains in the
gold coin. As silver was thus sligntly under
valued it was not largely coined Silver could
be coined in Franco at the ratio of 1»to l, and
theownoruf silver bullion could send it to
Franco and have it converged into coin at that
ratio, thus receiving about * per cent more for
his bullion than if coined at the Americau
ratio of 16 to *. Gold became the only Amer
ican coin in circulation, and the avowed pur
pose of tho pas-age of the law of 1834 was to
make gold tho standard. This law. heartily
approved by Andrew Jackson, would now be
called *The Crime of 133h’
THE ACTION TAKEN IN 1853.
* In 1853, upon the report of Senator Hunter,
when Pierce was president and when all
branches of th© govenment were under Demo
cratic control, Congress reduced the quantity
of silver in tho fractional coini (half dimes,
dimes, quarters and half dollars) more than 8
per cent; directed the pure has 3 of the silver for
their coinage on government acconnt. abolished
the law for their free co.naga and made them
a full legal tender for S’* only, leaving gold still
practically thd only full legal tender United
States coin. At this time tho silver dollar bad
disappeared from th * current coinage of the
United States and was practically and pur
poselr demonetized. This. 1 suppose, would
now bo called the ‘Crime of Silver was
practically demonetized by this act and the
act of 1834.
“Iti* certain that from 18)1. when Mr. Jeff
orson became president, to tho close of Buchan
an’s administration in 1811, tho Democratic
party was a gold party, nppo.od to si.ver and
all forms of paper mon°y
“When the Republican party came into
power in 1861. by the election of Mr. Lincoln it
had to faco a formid ible r-bollion. G >ld and
silver wore alike banishod from circulation
and irredeemable paper money of all denomi.
nations, from ten cents to $ ,>00 was substi
tuted in place of coi i. When he war was over
tho Republican party sought to restore specie
payment ns soon as practicable. In March,
1*69, it pledged the faith of the nation to pay
ment in coin or its equivalent of all bonds of
the United States and to rej*oam the United
States notes at the earliest possible moment in
coin.
THE 1873 REVISION OF MINT LAWS.
“In order to carry out this pledge it became
necessary to revise th» various coinage laws of
the United State*. This was promptly and
▼ary oarofuily done by n bill framed in the
Treasury department while Mr. Boutwell was
Secretary. It was thoroughly considered by
tlio ox parts of that department ind was printed
and submitted to all persons in the United
8tates who wero suppos *d to be familar with
the coin age laws. The bill, containing sixty
seven sections, accompanied by a moss of infor
mation that fills a volume, was sent to Con
gress April 2, 187*, by Secretary Boutwell
anti its passage was strongly recommended by
him This bill omitted from the coins of the
United States the silver dollar, precisely as
was dp o in 18 8. bnt provided for the coinage
df tha fractional part* of the dollar in accord
ance with tho act of that year. The bill was
pending in Congress for three years—was care
fully considered in both house* and special at
tention was called to the omission of tho 4124
grain silver do lar, which w <s never in the bill
at any stage, and tho reasons for this omission
given. It was finally determined at the urgent
request of morabors from the Pacific coast to
insert among tha silver coin > a trade dollar
containing grains of stand ird silver, but
this dollar was made like the minor coins, a
legal tender for $5) only. There was but ono
yea and nay vote on tne bill, und that was on
tho proposition to repeal tin charge made by
the mint for tho coin ago of gold I voted
against its repeal.
“The bill passid both housos and became a
law February 12. 187.1, by practicnlly a unani
mous vote of both pirti a, and was specially
supp irfco.l and voted for by tho senators and
iu ‘tubers from the -ilver states
• This ha-* been called the 'crime of 1878* and
a« the bill was under my charge in the Senate
1 was rieid to be the chief criminal. It was, in
fact, a wine moasnre of public policy, carefully
discuss'd and considered during three yea re
When we tost the outcry against this act with
tha sober acts shown by official rocoris, it ap
pear.* simply ludicrous. Tho total numbor of
silver dollars coined from 1792 to 1873 was 8.031,
£>*: while tho nninber of trade dollars issued
under th» coinage net of 1874 containing sovan
and one-h df grains move silver than the old
dell tr was 3* .,9.4 and the nnmbo * of stand
ar i silver dollar* coined under the Bland-Alli
li>n act of 1878 was 4 M.793.011. fifty-four times
tho number issued before I87&
**lt is strange that tha vary men who sup
ported and u god thU coinage liwof 18 3 and
dnm tnded tin exclusive coinage of gold are
the very men who now domand the free coin
age of silver and d mounco as “golditss” and
robbars all who believe in the coinage of both
gold and silver.
'It has boon said that tho dropping of tho
silver dollar in the coin igo act of 187.1 was sur
reptitiously dona This charge is shown to be
fal*e by the debate in c > agrees. and especially
by tho declaration of the men who now make
(he charge. Sixteen months after tha pas-ago
of that act Ssnator Jonas of Nevada, in a de
bate in the ten %te. Juia 11. 1^74, said: ’1 am '
opposed to any proposition, coroo in whatever j
form it may. that attempts to ova: rule what !
(*o J himself has made for money I believe '
tho sooner wo coma down to a purely gold
standard tie b^tfcar it will be for tlio country." ; 1
“Senator Stewart of Nevada, in tho same de
bate onthel th of Juno, 1874: 'Si.*, the labor
I
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In# man and the prolueeria 'ntitlod to h-ve
hii product and hi-* labor measured by the
aame standard of the world that measures
four national dcb» Tlioro have boon a crest
many battles fought ng lin-t gold, but gold has
won every time Gold never has compromised.
Gold has made tho world icapoct it a 1 the
time. The English people once thought, they
could get alo >g without gold for a while, but
they had to come back to it1
"On June 1. 1874. Senators Jones nod Stewart
and all the representativjs and senut ra of the
silver states were urgent and honast in saying
that gold was the best and only stamlurd of
valuer, but they changed their minds wh*n the
largely ine reused and ine reading pr uluction of
silver in Nevada and other states redu’od the
market value of silver below that of gold as the
establirbad ratio of sixteen to one. Then they
wanted a market for their silver. ThoV wonted '
to pay existing debts and obligations con*
tracted upon a gold basis in silver but took
care in their contracts to stipulate for the pay-,
ment of gold in them, and this has been ani ia
now the general practice in tho silver states.
“During this period silver rapidly fell in
market valno below gold at the ratio of sixteen
to 1. Prior and lubsequant to 187a • many
changes ware made in coinage by the leading
countries of the world. Germany in 1871
changed its standard from silver to cold.
France, Italy, Switzerland and iloigiura ‘-ad in.
18S.1 entered into a treaty called the Latin un
ion to which others I ecame parties an.l by
which tha coins of each of these countries are
received and paid by all of thorn. This im
portant arrangement was first modified and
finally abandoned and gold became tho stand
ard of valuos of th' so countries, but in h!I. sil
ver was coin d and largely used as a subsidiary
coin p erisely ns in the (Jolted States
Mr. Sherman here sketched at con
siderable length the history of the
Brand-AHison act of 1875 and thd
Sherman purchase act and its repeal. •
Referring to the bimetallic declara
tion in the repealing act declaring it'
to be the policy of the United States
to always maintain the parity of gold
and silver, he said:
inis o jc aration, made by Congress ind ap
proved by the president at a time when the
puilic mind waseontored upon the silver rju ?s
tion, is a wise statement of public poliez that
oa^ht to be acted upon without regard to pari
ty divisions. This bill passed a House of Rep
resentatives fresh from the people by a vot of
SSJyea* a*»d 118 nays and the Senate b.* the
vote of 43 yeas agiinst 32 nays. This act was
not a party vote, but it i*, 1 believe, the ex
pression of opinion of a majority of the two
great parties of the country.
•\And here, fellow citizens, we ought to stand.
I appeal to Democrats and Republicans alike
We are all interested in having a soun l and
stable currency founded upon gold and silver.
We cannot by law fix the value o f either metal
or coin or of any of the articles that enter into
the wants of life.
“We had, July l, last, in a-etnal circulation
among the people of the United ttate*, $l,>09,
72),£iM, as stated by the report of the treasury
department. We had also at that date ?8<4,
1119,981 in the treasnry, mostly gold and silver,
hold for redemption of United State* notes and
Bilver certificates.^ All those forms of money
have bo°n maintained by th> government at
par with gold and they travel the circle of the
world without diminution of their purchasing
power. Though silver bullion has fallen to
nearly one half its former value yet wo have /
used it an 1 maintained silver coins made from
it at a paritz with gold at the ratio of IB to I.
“But now we are brought face to face with a.
proposition which, if agreed to, w.U make sil
ver the sole standard of value for all debts and
credits, for the wage* of labor and the pur
chase and 8 ale of property. If the free coinage
of silver is authorized, then the market van*
of silver bullion becomes ths standard far pay
ments on a:l contracts made in the past, the
present or the future and 41 '*% grains of
standard silver bullion, worth noto 51 cents,
can, with free coiaage, be coined into a dollar
npon the demand of any holder of such b ill ion.
The government does not undertake to
maintain its relative value with gold. The
government stamps it ‘This is a dollar.* Its *
purchasing power is fifty-three cents but its *
debt paying power is one dollar of debt It it
the doctrine of tho Populist and Anarchist, o
but it is in direct opposition to the traditional
policy of Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and tho
Democratic party.
“It i8 sometimes said of creditors that they
are bloodthirsty Shylocks, aristocrats, blood
suckers. extortioners. It may be that there
at** among mouey lenders some m»n who merit
epithets, but the great body of tho creditors of
nur country are among the thrifey, industrious
and intelligent men aad women of every com
munity.
“One groat body of creditors here is the 970,
)>0 Union soldiers, their widows and orphans,
who are creditors of the United States to the
amount of over $l«0,03),o00 a year for 8?rvices
ani sacrifices in the Union array. It would be
an act of perfidy and meanness beyond expres
sion for this great country to pay them witk
money of loss purchas ng power than gold roiu,
merely because tho overproduction of silver in
the United States has re 1 uced the market vain* -
Df silver bullion contained in a silver dollar.
To take advantage of this decline in order to
reduce the value of the pittance to those pen
sioners is worse than to rob the graves of tho
“By far the greatest Injury resulting from
the free coinage of silver trill fall npon the
workingmen Their wages are now based upon
mono/ of tho highest value npon gold coin of
standard value. Under free coinage of silver
the value of the silver dollar will fall to fifty
breo cents in gold, or as I have already said,
the 10) cents of the gold dollar will be worth
1W cents of the silver dollar. With free coin*
age of s.lver every working man oan and ought
to demand enough silver for his daily wages to
he equal to the purchasing power of his pres*
snt wages iu gold. Tho straggle between
workingmen and employor will then Commence
sn 1 no ohe knows better than the workingman,
how difficult it is to got nn advance of pay. We
have 'trikes and strifes enough now, when the
working mau gets his pay in g>id coin, or Ha
•quivalent but what will be the condition
when he is paid in cheaper money of tho same
nom nal amount but of lees purchasing power?
Every sintim nt of justice will boon tbo side
of the workingman in his struggle for good
money or increased wages in cheap money.
* Of all tlio evils which a government can in*
lift none can be groator than cheap money,
whether of coin or pa ,er. , That dollar is the
host dollar that buys the largest quantity of
Food and clothing. That dollar is the gold
dollar, for it buys m< rj foodand clothing than,
any other dollar and will also bny a silver dol
lar for fifty-: hree cents, if the coma ro of silver
is made free at the ratio of 1, to 1 of gold.
“Export mce has shown that the United
States can make the silver dollar bny as much
re-the gold dollar, hut it can only bi done by
the government buying silver bullion as needed
and coining it into d ltars on government no*
soant This has been triel.
‘ This matter of t in free coinage of silver and.
the degradation of the stand,rd of value in
volves not only qnes ions of money, but of
honor and good faith. Wnen tluir honor is in
volved. the people never fail to roipdud They
have complied witli ovor/ promise and pail
every debt contracted siuco tho orga liaation
r>f the national govsrnmont, a< it became due.
I'll ay have paid Tour-fifths of the debts con
tracted during tho civil war, and the prospect ,
was hopeful that all of it would l.o paid before
the clo e of this century, hut this reversing
aur standards of value line, liko the Are bell at
sight startled and alarmed our people.’’
“Let u« settle it br following tho action of
Washington, Hamilton. J off or Son Benson,
Hunter, Liucoln end Grant. Lit ns maintain,
lilver and gold at par wi b each otbir at the
legal ratio of i > to I until a conference among
lations can prescribe common standards of
value. In tho ineantimo lot no act b' done,
so policy bo nilontel. Doomed! At resorted to
hat will tarnish the honor of the groat repab
Assassinated by Sloonshlnen.
Little Kock, Ark., Aug- —News of
tn assassination reached here to-day
from the moon tain fastness of Sevier
:ounty. As the result of a ra>d made
by moonshiners Reed Jones, 6 years
>ld,is now in his grave and hit brother
William, 16 years of ago, is danger—
>usly injured.