ftf. ^ ... ... REPUBLICAN PARTY. Defense of the puatform ; ANO party record. . .jlv. - ■■ -“ - ShfaM IM of Upl Tmd«r — ttnm Flttr a OlfUtto Vm4—Mmr* About iDomoa tt lutlon — «!*•» DoluloM — : Ciuplft Soto*. ' f' TmImi Kind* «f U(*l T*nd»r. >)The Fourth National bank In the city dtf New York haa Uaued a leaflet, which ^fVe* the following concise and cor rect statement of the various kinds of | legal tender under the present laws of te United States: Gold coin Is a legal tender in all par ents, without any limit as to 'amount. *VThe silver dollar of the acts of 1792, 1£87 and 1878 is a full legal tender to any amount The trade dollar was a \ legal tender to the amount of five dol lars, but had no legal tender quallflca . tlons now. All fractional silver coin now minted la S’ legal tender to the amount of ten dollars. - Iflnor coin Is a legal tender to the amoilnt of twenty-five cents. Hatted States notes ("greenbacks”) •rma legal tender In payment of all delta, public and private, except for duties on Imports and interest on the public debt Gold certificates are*not a TelaTten d«fe;>ut may be Issued In payment of Interest on the public debt and are re ceivable in payment for customs, taxes aai all public dues. -& ; » • Silver certificates are not a legal ten- j der. but are receivablftarcuatoms, taxes and all public dues. ^ ■ ! Currency certificates ere ;na|; a legal tender tor any purpose, hut may be counted as part of the lawful money reserve of the banks and may be ac cepted In the settlement of clearing house balances. United States treasury notes of 1890 are a legal tender In payment of all debts, public and private, and are re cfivnble for customs, taxes and all pub lic dues. They may be counted as a part of the lawful reserves of the banks and are redeemable in gold or silver coin in the discretion of the secretary1 of the treasury. National bank notes are.pot a legal. ^ JSfPder except that the.y are receivable; dor all dues to the united Elites except defies on Imports and for all debts and demands owing by the United States, except Interest on the public debt and ln.redemptlon of the national currency. Xjach national bank Is required to re ceive at par for any debt or liability to |t, the notes of every other national hdak.—Albany Argus. teen mistreated by the. United Staten Thlnjk of it! Prior tQ the “crime of 88tt" only eight millions of silver dol lars were coined by the government and there was free coinage then. But •lace that “notorious crime” the gov ernment coined $420,000,000 in silver Sliars and purchased $160,000,000 In ver bullion and Issued treasury notes thereupon. Of course .that was con tracting the currency. ■ The “crime" seems tq hate been du* ;* . to. the fact that the more silver the r» United States purchased the less Its Htmforlt' i '• ■ ■ ■ t ‘ tRvery Bbre of his being thorough); f* ■: ' 4 American." — ■—.-__ & > vbulllon value. If silver depreciated bo tepidly la value when It was bought ta comparatively small quantities, will It not necessarily follow that when the United States colas It free at the mints la enormous quantities it will be jfvm >'• '• mote overproduced and Its value «on =££ etantly shrink? The fact is that there has been such a great production ol * gllvor. such Competition amqpg tp« • asUsere themselves.that the supply ex . needs the demand and sliver ts reallj |: no longer, unless international agree 'aseat can ho secured for Its eolnage, i money metal, ft has become a com ,v- merslnl commodity only and Js nos SW- nteadlly decreasing la value escep >■" ' wherein speculative demand hag artlfi sun? increased Its market quotation! The United States has 'been' exceed . % t1I* .... i ingly friendly to silver and tbc time came when the Increasing of the gov* eminent's 'stock by the ; purchase of 4,500,000 ounces monthly became a menace. Silver was falling so rapidly In value and the wide divergence be tween It and gold, at the existing ratio, widened so'constantly that the flooding of the nation with the depreciated coin Was dangerous and the difficulty of maintaining It at a parity with gold Was so great that congress repealed the law providing for the purchase of the bullion. The country was simply In danger of being swamped by silver. Now the silver bugs would have us ,undo the good work performed by the repeal in 1890— made necessary by the growing lack of confidence in the gov ernment’s ability to continue all monies at a parity—by coining all the bullion In the United States, that of France and Chins' as Well, and all old silver coffee pots and silver spoons into money which would be worth less, by reason of Its excessive tfupply, than fifty-three cents to the dollar. ' r Thus free silver means giving the nation a currency depreciated at least 47 per cent and compelling the laboring man to accept a silver dollar whose purchasing value could hot be more than 68 per cent of the dollars now in circulation In lieu of money worth the world over one hundred cents to the dollar. The demand for allver coinage now la a fraud, a bunco game, and the Victims selected are the wage-earners, for they, less than any one else, can af ford to have the purchasing power of their money reduced 47 per cent or more. The laboring man who wants a good dollar Will vote fpr McKinley. That Is necessary or he votes to destroy his ability to llva.aa well as he does now. Eloquent periods and blasphe mous metaphorh cannot change the sit uation. Free silver Is a gigantic fraud. —Springfield (O:); Union. , a,. ailvwlt* Dtlailoaa. v The tomenters of hatred among the people pretend that the allver agitation It consists of Impudence and wind. Before 1873 there had been no allTer dollar* In circulation In this country for thirty years. This was because the silver In the silver dollar would sell for more money as bullion, to be used in the.arts, than the gold in the gold dol lar., The gold dollar being the cheaper had driven the silver dollar out of cir culation, so that in 1873 few men under forty years of age had ever seen one. For this reason when a law was enacted in 1873 codifying all previous acts in relation to coinage so as to simplify them and adapt them to modern condi tions, then obsolete silver dollar ^aa‘ dropped from the list of coins provid ed for in the act. Subseqently to this— in consequence chiefly of the great re lative increase In the production of s)U ver and of the closing of the mints' os Germany and other countries to Its free coinage—silver began to decline rapidly in value. So that in a short time it became cheaper than gold. Then ihe owners of silver mines began to clamor for reopening our mints to die free coinage of silver dollars. As sil ver was then cheaper than gold, if this had been done the cheaper silver would have driven out the gold. Congress, therefore, refused to yield to the de mand of the silver miners; but in 1871 it reopened the mints to the coinage of all the silver that could be main tained at par with gold. Since that time we have coined 430,000,000 dollars and have authorized the coinage ol about 150,000,000 more, which is over seventy times more silver dollars than had been coined in our mints during the entire history of the nation before 1873. These silver dollars are a full legal tender for all debts. Silver had been practically demonetized by the coinage act of 1834, which raised the ratio from 15 to 1 to 16 to 1, with the result of driving all silver from circu lation. By the acts of 1878 and. 1890 we have remonetized silver to the enor mous extent mentioned, and then hav ing reached the farthest limit where It was possible to maintain our silver dol AND LABOR WILL AGREE WITH HIM. < i, ' : di f -■ ' ■ • i ?. J ,f tji C '-vv j ,• . — • “I believe It Is a (o«d deal batter to open up the mills of the United 8tatea to the labor of America than to open up the mint* of the Unit ed States to ths silver of the world.”—Major McKinley to His Old. , Comrades. • Is for the benefit of the many against the few, for the poor agalnat the rich. Should the country' descend to the de predated standard of silver the dupes t>f this belief would discover, when too late, that the fatal tendency of tbe Cheap Money policy would be to strengthen and Increase the possession of wealth among the few. While mul titudes of thrifty and prosperous peo ple would undoubtedly be ruined by the desperate experiment, not a dollar of their wealth would find Its way to the possession of the many; It would make the few who control and command large amounts of money only the richer in affording them opportunities for profitably speculating on the general distress. Such has been the universal experience’1 In all epoohf of depressed currency and financial panic:’ So far from being widened, the circle of the prosperous and rich would be duly nar rowed by the reefcleea policy pf the sll veHtee. The power of the “gold bugs” end "money sharks,” against whom the etlvbrlte warfare Is foolitthly waged, would be greater than evei1, and would be more unscrupulously exercised than ever before. The gleam of factitious prosperity under a system .of debased and Inflated money would ao*n pass away, and would be followed by a long night of industrial and social gloom. There la. In short, no form of econ omical, social or political development which the free silver scheme Is not cal culated to arrest more violently than If a disastrous war, a famine or an Egyptian plague should strike fhe land. Yet the Illusory prospect of treating weal .a and prosperity oat bt^nothlng by deeply debfcsfagthe nation's stand ard of value seems to have s strange and unaccountable fascination tor mul titudes of peop\e—something like the attraction of the lighthouse lamp on the seacoaat, which lurep Innumerable flocks of migratory birds to their cer tain- destruction. But the simile badly limps. It would, perhaps, not matter so much If these persons should shatter their own wings only. If their course did not threaten so many millions ol Innocent people^-Phlladelphla Record. Mn« Aheet DimmUMIu Nashville Canter, Martin County Minn., Aug. 2—To the Editor: l notic* in your column of Note# ana Queriei in your paper ot July 23, in answer t< the question whether a person ii obliged to receive silver dollars in pay meet ot a debt, you answer that he is silver dollars being legal tender to an; i amount. Now, this being so, in wha or ot what does the demonetisation o silver consist? \ , George Boler. ' V. < ^ V , •*'*•*' r v . r. . , . larg on a par with gold, we stopped the further coinage of silver. Just as It had been stopped In all the great silver us ing countries of Europe for the saipf reason.—St Paul Pioneer Priss. -" s ! V: ' / ..." l' , ■. . ‘ ■ , . ( - . CAMPAIGN NOTES, The way In which some’free sliver democrats nowadays refer to the doc trines of Jefferson Is absurd. Thomas Jefferson was as strong a sound money man as Alexander Hamilton. He fa vored the use of both silver and gold as mtfney, as do most sound mon'Cy men now; but only on the basis of a ratio that would maintain the parity between them. In other words, he con tended that the ratio should be the com mercial ratio existing between the two metals. That Is heaven wide from the doctrine of the free silver men. They nowhere propose to make the silver dollar equal in commercial value tc the gold dollar. It la an essential point In their platform that the silver dollar must be a cheap dollar.—Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. It la impossible to make sale of pig iron because of the agitation for fret silver. The use of iron is so general In nearly all forms of Industrial under taking that the demand for it, or th< lack of demand, is a sure indication ol the condition of the, business pulse The stoppage of the sales of pig iroi has led to the stoppage of the produc tion of ore In the Rockefeller mines at Bessemer, Mich., throwing 7,000 mei out of work'.: - The continuance of th< silver agitation will, no doubt, furthei aggravate and Intensify the condition! of doubt and Insecurity which compe prudent men to a wise Inactivity uriti the storm shall have blown over. 1 Philadelphia Record. Advqcates of free silver, argue* tha the Increased 'demand—which wouli be a forced and not a real demand would raise the price of silver bullioi so that the make-believe ratio of on to sixteen would become the com merclal ratio. That Is a guess base on a fallacy,. The experiment has bee: tried and found a dismal failure. Unde the Bland law the government coins $2,000,000 worth of silver a month; bu the price of silver bullion kept droj ping. Under the Sherman bill tb > government bought 4,600,000 ounces < i silver a month; but silver kept droi - ping. The “boy orator’’ pledges hint , self to do what no nation on earth h« ’ ever been able to do—keep gold an : silver on a parity at a ratio other tha f the real or commercial ratio.—Blni hamton (N. T.) Republican. HENPfilXS SPEECH. TALK ON MONEY TO MOROCCO MANUFACTURERS. OI»4 Thar A** Hot Ashing it Hitt Lwlkw B«maa.tli.it. ' — Tails Why Clam Shall* Wara Damoaatlsad—Cl.il Isailon u4 Etolatloa Advancing. The Shoe and Leather Reporter pub lishes the following speech made by the Hon. Joseph C. Hendrix at the dinner of the National Morocco Manufac turers’ association of the United States at Manhattan Beach early this month: Mr. President and Gentlemen—I am glad to see you, “men of small brains and large capital.” I am glad always to faoe successful men in an American industry. You represent a trade which fears ago furnished material tor the money instrument. There was leather money once and plenty of it You have never set up any cry because of the de j monetization of leather, never asked redress for the “crime” of the abandon ment of the use of leather as money. You do not now ask for its remonetisa tion. nr. oiein—«or ior tree tannage. Mr. Hendrix—No! Therefore, I have great respect for two people, the North American Indian and the morocco manufacturer. Along these sand dunes from Manhattan to Montauk point, the antiquarian can point to great heaps of shells where the old squaws used to sit and practice the free coinage of wampum. After a while a smart Yankee Invented a turning lathe which trans formed the clam shells into money too fast This led to the demonetization of the Long Island clam. (Laughter.) The poor Indian has passed off to the plains and we hear no more of the free coinage of clams. These are simply evolutionary steps. You look back to the beginning of your industry and marvel at the changes. The world advances. Civilization re fines. Commerce requires exact terms and measures. It insists upon certain ty, fixity in the standard of values. It must have something upon which it can depend. It has found out that it must depend upon some one thing. That is why it has veered to the single stand ard. It has quit stepping from one standard to the other. It makes its election. It votes, for gold because of its great value in small compass and because of the fixity of that value. So it is thSt1 one great nation after an other, under tho command of its best intelligence, - has 1 come to the gold standard. It is because they have found it the cheapest, beet and most effective standard by which to measure all val ues. What does a standard mean? What is its primary significance? It comes from an old Latin word meaning some thing to turn to. When you are in doubt you go to the standard. I don’t care what line of business you are in or what course of life you pursue, a stand ard governs it somehow or other. You ride on a railway on a standard guage, you sit at a table of a standard height, and so on through the list. The stand ard muBt be the thing it stands for. If you have a standard of weight, it may be of diamonds or precious stones, but it has got to have weight—that is the first thing. If you have a standard of length, it must have length. And when you come to the question of the stand ard of value, whatever it is made of it has got to have value. You can talk about the whole ques tion of finance in 100 different lights. But this is. the main point—you must hkve a standard of value. That stand ard must have value. We choose for the standard the metal which fluctuates the least in value. That is the whole story of the gold standard. (Cheers.) Our friends out in Chicago claim that the gold standard is a British policy which we are seeking to enforce in this country. Did you ever hear anything about British policy in con nection with the law of gravitation or a British policy of good health against bad health—good clothes against shod dy? There are other countries in the world besides Great Britain. We do not have to look to Great Britain to know what is a good thing. (Great applause.) We are old enough and big enough to know a good thing when we see it. Ours is a country that for 60 years has been under the gold stand ard. You have never known anything else. All you have was built upon the gold standard. The greatness and de velopment of this country have been attained under that standard. How is the world lining up on this question? China, Japan and Mexico are for free ' silver. Great Britain, Germany, France and the great empires of Europe are for gold. Where do we belong? There is only one answer. Can any one fancy that our great population, made up ol 70,000,000 of the best examples of the 1 Anglo-Saxon race, mixed with Irish 1 wit, Scotch cunning, German thrift, U 1 going to step from the high plane where we stand to the lower one beneath! What strange madness has come lntc . the American people to make it seen I possible that they could do a thing ol . that kind? (Applause.) We can live on a silver basis aftei we get there. Our great rivers will follow their courses to the sea. God’i sun will kiss the earth. The crops wll spring forth. Children will be bori and grow up. Enterprises will go for ward. But are we going to take thi leap in the dark and try an experlmen fraught, with such risk and panic? i gerei French economist once said tha when he was 40, he thought he under stood something about finance. Whei he was 60, he felt he did not know a much about it as he did at 40, and a 70 he began to doubt whether he knei anything about it at all, and scarcel; v | dared to open his mouth. Mr. Glad I stone pondered over the question til i-' 1 ' vV ' . he raid that It seemed almost to defy human intellect, but Ben Tillman, trope South Carolina, knows that the gold bugs of Wall street and vampires of Lombard street are “agin the farmer,” and the way the farmer can get even Is to cut his dollar In two. (Applause.) We are living In a grand and awful time. But the newspapers are printed every day, and the Americans are not asleep. The brain of the American people Is not dull. Their hearts are not dishonest. These heresies come and go as the tide flows, and sometlmet in the thickest of the night we may not appear to see the stars that are shining. But you- remember on one historic occasion, when the sky was all covered with fog, some one asked, “Oh,; say, can you see by the dawn’s earl; light the star spangled banner yet waving?” And It was there! (E» thuslasttc cheers.) i Vkm in (he BeneflUT If 50 cent silver dollars should dou ble the prices of farm products, it is ; quite as certain that the prices of all the products which the farmer con-' sumes would double in the same way. In that case it Is not easy to see how the farmer would gain anything by the - free coinage of silver. Even the wages of labor, the last to rise in an epoch of depreciated currency and inflated prices, would finally, after much dls- | tress of the workingmen, straggle up to the common level. But whether the farmer should re ceive $100 for 100 bushels of wheat and pay out $90 tor the necessaries of i living or should receive $200 for the same wheat and pay out $180, in both! cases the balance on hand would have* just the same purchasing power. But in accomplishing the degradation of the monetary standard, which could; do neither the farmer nor the wage-: earner any good, an enormous depre-; elation of values and confiscation of ac-! cumulated earnings, Involving public I and private credit in a maelstrom of destruction, would inevitably ensue.! Are the farmers and workingmen of the country willing to invoke such a catastrophe?—Philadelphia Record. False Hopes for Labor. .SMC*. Tha bane In Pare Silver. Stop bothering your head about the figures 16 to 1, leave the gold standard out of the question, for there Is no 1 direct issue upon it, and consider the real Issue, sliver. A lump of silver of a certain size, 371% grains In weight, is to-day worth 63 cents. The Bryan proposition is that the government shall stamp it a dollar. That would be flat money mak ing of the same sort as the govern ment’s setting its printing presses to work and turning out without limit dollars of paper. It Is flat dishonesty. It is pregnant with trouble for every man, laborer or capitalist, who lives by industry, and it would leave to the United States the hurt of lasting mistrust in the mind of every industrial investor and lead er, American or foreign. Beat it as the American voters beat the populists four years ago—by 10 to 1.—Exchange. Tha PiDiloilBr'i Dollar. The government pays about $140,000, 000 a year to pensioners. The payments last year were $141,395,229. Every one of theBe dollars was worth 100 cents and equal to a dollar in gold. If the policy of the Chicago platform and party Bhould be made effective by legislation, every dollar thereafter re ceived by a pensioner would be worth only 68 cents. It would be called a dol lar, but in the purchase of a pensioner’s supplies it would go only so far as 53 cents go now. The buying power of the pensioner’s monthly allowance, like that of the depositor's money, still to be paid out of the savings bank, and the value of policies to be paid by life insurance companies, would be reduced by nearly one-half.—New York TImea 1 DrantMa Not tha Goal The silver men give away their ease when they say that free coinage will "increase prices.” The one universal human interest is cheapness. The ideal condition would be one wherein all de sirable things were produced without any cost at all. Every advance toward that condition—that is to say, every cheapening of the necessities of life— is a great gain for everybody. On the other hand, every increase in the price of the necessities of life is a direct and grievous hurt to the people. Fro* Cnlnac* >* a Nutshell. A fine ounce of gold is worth $20.67. Sixteen ounces of silver are worth $11.20. Congress can legislate until it is • black in the face without making the ■ ounce of gold worth less or the 16 ' ounces of silver worth more. — New i i t r l York Press. Cheap and trashy money in which to pay wages, high prices for every kind of goods which labor buys—these are the blessings of free silver for the American workingmen. Hwkanl a la Italians. An Italian fashion for cooking fresh mackerel ia to make a dressing-Irqflpyt tablespoonfnl of butter, mixed with • little minced aballota, parsley and the green tope of young onions. Spread this on the fish, wrap them well in ■< strong white paper, saturated with, olive oil, and boil or bake them in a quick oven. Garnish them with lemon and parsley. Sweet peas, seasoned with shallot and minced parsley, are also sometimes served with fresh mack erel. Salt mackerel is very good cooked after the English fashion, that is, by immersing it half an hour in water containing a handful of fennel and dash of vinegar. Drain and serve with hot gooseberry sauce. Toe l.ate to Mood. There la a point beyond which medication cannot go. Before it is too late to mend, penons of a rheumatic tendency. Inherited or acquired, should use that benignant de fense against the further progress of the super-tenacious malady—rheumatism. The name of this proven rescuer is Hoetstter’s Stomach Bitters, which, It should also be recollected, cures dyspepsia, liver com plaint, fever and ague,dsblllty and nervous ness. To Suit Any Weather. A pretty, yet servicable gown, which was Imported lately, would suit any kind of ordinary weather. It was mad in moss-green canvas, lined with a bright shade of pink. The tight-fit? ting basque bodice had long, square revera of white satin, over which fell cascades of coffee-colored lace, and the vest, of white chiffon, was also veiled with lace. Pink ribbon encircled the waist and the neck, which was finished with pointed motifs of lace. Haifa Catarrh Cara la a constitutional cure. 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