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Olereland. Carlisle. John Sherman and
McKinley are all JBimetallists
When They Talk
SEPUBLIOASS BEGAN THE GAME
They Grabbed all the Money and Then
Left the Democrats to Play it Out.
'Coin1 Always Means Goli When Either
Oae is ta Power.
Editor Independent: The following
article was prepared for the Crawford
Beacon, which I hare been editing for the
past eight weeks, from the farm. This
week when I was ready to hand in my
copy, I found no populist paper, as it
had been bought from under us and
turned into a republican sheet, with a
sycophantic editor. As there are some
things in this article which the public
should read and consider, I send it to
you, hoping you can use it.
It is hardly possible that the republican
politicians will be able to fool the people
who are groaning under the pressure
of the gold payment policy, into again
putting them into power. The current
talk among them is that the republican
party is in favor of bimetallism. Under
this kind of talk and in repudiation of
Cleveland's gold policy, a republican con
gress was elected at the last election.
But the first vote taken gives the lie to
this profession of bimetallism. Cleveland
and Carlisle have always averred that
they were in favor of bimetallism, and
that the way to bring it about was to
givi the creditor the option and pay in
the kind of money he demanded. Now
the republican politicians, from Reed and
Sherman down, are in favor of bimetal
lism of the same kind. Not six months
ago Sherman said that the country was
as safe financially in Cleveland's hands
as it would be in the hands of a republi
can. But these fellows all talk different
when they are at borne from what they
talk and vote when at Washington.
Their talk is for the people, but their
votes are for the money kings. The
financial policy of the republican party
is the same as that of the democrats.
To verify this we will give some facts
and figures from the record.
The present financial difficulty as far
as the public treasury is concerned is di
rectly traceable to the two following
statements: It is held that the word
"coin" where it appears in the law means
gold. This construction was placed on
the law by President Harrison'sadininis
tration and put into practlcein the same
manner as the Cleveland administration
has done.
When Harrison took his seat, he re
ceived from the outgoing administration
eighty-four millions in round numbers.
According to the secretary's report when
he retired, he turued over to the demo
crats twenty-five million, mostly in sub
sidiary coin. These two amounts are
both exclusive of the gold reserve. When
Secretary Carlisle was called before the
house committee on appropriations,
January 21, 1895, in his examination
we find the following questions and an
swers. Mr. Sibley: I would like to ask you
what objection there could be in having
the option to redeem either in silver or
gold reHt with the treasury, instead of
the note holder?
Mr Carlisle: The secretaries from the
beginning of resumption have pursued a
policy of redeeming in gold or silver at
the option of the bolder of the paper.
During the last three years of Harri
son's administration, there was with
drawn from the treasury in gold $117,
212,258, nnd dunngthe lastuiue months
thereof, $98,746,008 this brought the
Harrison administration to the bond
issue, with an empty treasury and the
reserve depleted. It is not generally be
lieved that the renublicans would have
issued bonds but the following order will
certainly satisfy the most skeptical.
Treasury Depaktm ent,
Office of the Secretary
Washington, D. C, Feb. 20, 1893
Sir: You are hereby authorized and di
rected to prepare designs for the 8 per
cent bonds provided in senate amend
ment to the sundry civil bill now pend
- ing. The denominations which should
first receive attention are $100 and
$1000 of the coupon bonds and $1000
and $10,000 of the registered bonds,
This authority is given in advance of
the enactment in view of pressing con
tiugencies and you are directed to hasten
the preperation of the designs and plates
in every possible manner. I inclose a
memorandum for your guidance in pre
paring the script for the body of the
bond. Respectfully lours,
Charles Foster, Secretary,
To the Chief of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing:
As another item of evidence in the case
we find on page 70 Special Report No,
2621, the following:-
Mr. Turner Taking into consideration all
theae conditions which Ton anticipate, what In
your judKment would be a fair conjecture of the
condition of the treasury at tbe end of the next
fiscal year t
Secretary Foster I should say the next fiscal
year would show a deficit.
Mr. Turner Can you give an approximate esti
mate according to all the dataaccesnable to yon.
Secretary Foster I will only say this, that if I
was to have the management of the treasury I
Bhould insist upon an increase of revenue to tbe
extent of $ .O.OOO.OuO.
Mr. Turner In order to meet those conditions
which yon anticipate?
Secretary Foster Not only those conditions,
but the gold conditions as well.
These conditions come about under the
highest tariff the world ever saw under
the McKin ley bill, and will satisfy any
one who thinks more of country than of
party, that the republican party is
managed by the same kind of bi-metallists
as the democratic party, and will also
sntisfy them that it was not the tariff
but the construction placed upon the
word "coin," by the treasury officials,
and the second cause, "giving the option
to the creditor."
The government receives certain rev
enues and is supposed to use these
revenues to meet expeuses, but as soon
as it surrenders the option of payment
to the creditor, they all demand gold and
it follows as sure as day follows night,
that the revenues are paid in something
else, and thus the revenues are not avail
able to meet this demand. These same
officials who are such sticklers about gold
payment when it is going out do not de
mand gold payment to tbe government.
( therefore the revenues are paid in silver,
' greenbacks, and national bank notes,
and they issue bonds and borrow gold
to keep up the order they themselves
have made. The republican party
adopted this policy as we have shown
and pursued it until the treasury was
empty. Then tbe democrats took it up
just where the republicans left off and
pursued the same course. This may not
be pleasant for tbe republicans to know,
but it is the fact. The corpse being in the
possession of tbe democrats, the public
generally supposes that they did the kill
ing. But such is not the case. It was
dead when it was turned over to them
and they are simply mutilating the
"ntiff
If the American people do not know
any better than to elect another republi
can president or congress, they lack the
necessary intelligence .to maintain a
government of the people which the
fathers planted and left to their care.
H. G. Stewart.
WORDS THAT WILL LIVE
Compare the Bombast of Thurston with
What Our Allen Said on the
Monroe Doctrine
"Mr. President, back of all this rises
the vision of an oppressed, patient, toil
ing people, asking for relief; and while
we have indulged here in empty phrase,
their condition has been daily growing
worse. Is it not the better part of valor
the higher and better part of statesman
ship to meet the just demands of a plead
ing humanity by giving our country re
lief; by giving to our people a greater
volume of money ; by making their toil
more remunerative, their property more
valuable? Shall we not awaken in their
breasts a new hope, a new life and a new
energy by giving renewed activity to in
dustry, and gladden their hearts by
bringing to the wife and children of him
who labors a smile of gladness and sun
shine where the clouds of poverty and
sorrow sit, and by putting into their
mouths a new song?
"If, unhappily, the time shall come,
which God grant that it may not, that
American valor must again be displayed
on the field of battle in defense of Ameri
tan institutions and against foreign
greed and aggrandizement, we may con
fidently expect the sons of America to
march under the flag of the free, conse
crated by the blood of a hundred years,
to permanent and glorious victory.
Then for every Grant there will be a Lee;
for every Sherman a Johnston; for every
Thomas a Jackson; for every Sheridan a
Stuart; Mason and Dixon's line will be
blotted from the map of the United
States, and true Americans, North and
South, welded by the blood of the Revo
lution, the war of 1812 and the war with
Mexico, renewed by the estrangement of
1861, as lovers renew and intensify their
affection by estrangement, soothed and
sustuined by a united and splendid
American womanhood, will give to the
world a lesson in valor that has never
been known before. And when the end
comes, as it surely will come, and the
storm that has racked us in a great civil
strife for renewed American freedom
shall have subsided, and shall arise once
more from the ashes of its deadly conflict
with the enemies of human liberty,
crowned with a new glory and encircled
with a new halo, shall we not place the
songs of our recent civil strife, with the
sacred memories of other days, aud sing
that sweeter, grander, more inspiring
and God-like song, dear to all American
hearts: s
"My country, 'tis of thee.
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring."
creasing as compared with last year.
We insert Dunn's report for last week:
"Failures for the week have been 323
in the United States, as against 281 lost
year, and 63 in Canada as against 58
last year. The wonderful success of the
popular loan alters the face of events.
January operations become ancient his
tory as the nation mounts above all
doubts and fears to a solid certainty
that the people can and will uphold their
government. The influence of this event
upou all manufacturing and all trade
cannot be lightly estimated. It strips
the silver situation of all its power to
hurt."
Dunn tries to think that the country
will get on a boom and that the "silver
craze" has actually been killed, but the
figures that he gives tells a different
atnrv Tim fnilnrpH Inst week were 42
more than the same week last year in
this country and in Canada five more.
Total this year 1505, Canada 273. Only
a little more thau one month of the year
gone and the failures nearly three times
as large as they were during the whole
year of 1865. Failures for that year were
only 530. We had enough money during
1865 to do the business of the country
with. There can be no permanent pros
perity in this country until there is a
large increase in. tbe money volume.
Chauncy II. Depew Bays it is Glorious John It
Thurston Says it will Start Things a Booming.
The gold bug and plutocratic State
Journal as well as nearly all of the old
party press have been for years deceiving
the public. They would say that a com
munity was prosperous when it was run
ning in debt for every improvement that
was being made. It would seem that all
the old party politicians think tuat a
city, county, state or nation is pros
perous just in proportion as it runs in
debt. As an illustration we quote some
choice statements made by old party
leaders Chauncey M. Depew says, "This is
glorious, the new loan will act like an
elixer of life upou the nation, things will
boom from this on." No man having
the experience that Chauncey M. Depew
has had should make such a reckless
statement. Is it possible that those who
call themselves the leaders in the east do
not understand the situation iu the west
and south. The real result of this $100
000,000 loan will be to lock up in the
vaultsat Washington $112,000,000 and
of course it will contract our circulating
medium or currency just as much as the
people pay into the treasury for the
bonds, aud yet that great alter dinner
statesman suys it is glorious aud will
act as an elixir of life upon the nation.
When this money is paid in there will be
about $289,000,000 of our currency
locked up in the vaults at Washington.
One buudred millions of it will be gold
and the other $189,000,000 greenbacks.
We quote a statement made by ex-
Secretary Foster which follows: "With
national credit sustained, business im
proving, every body cheerful and the
outlook cheerful, a new epoch of Ameri
can prosperity ought to start from this
date." It is very evident that ex-Secretary
Foster has not been among the
people west of the Mississippi river very
much during the last two years or he
would not have said that the outlook
was cheerful or that everybody was
cheerful or that business was improving.
Everybody knows thctsuch statements
are absolutely false. Even our John M.
Thurston, Nebraska's senator, had to
say: "The new loan will do more to start
things a-booming than anything else
could possibly have done; it is a testi
monial of the people's faith in their
country." Just think of it, to add to
our debt $100,000,000, to plaster this
fair land of our with $4,000,000 of in
terest each year for the next thirty years
and to lock up $112,000,000 of our
money circulation, John M. Thurston
has the audacity to say that that will
ptart things a-booming in this country.
Thurston certainly ought to know that
there is not a dollar west of the Missis
sippi river to boom anything with.
Every day and every week shows that
failures, bankruptcies and misery aro in-
HE DRESSED THEM DOWN
Allen Tells the Lords of the Senate What
He and the People of Nebraska
Think of Them.
In a discussion in the senate February
10, Senator Allen said:
Mf? President, I have observed every
time the appropriations committee
walked into this chamber with a bill that
every other man is supposed to take a
back seat and not question their author
ity or what they want, but to tamely
submit to dictation I was going to say
obstreperousness, but perhaps the re
mark is a little too harsh until the ap
propriations committee havegot through
and see fit to announce that they are
ready to retire and consider other bills.
I want at this time to record my pro
test, however feeble it may be and it no
doubt is feeble against the system which
has grown up here I do not know how
long it has been in existence of the sena
tor in charge of an appropriation bill
walking into the chamber, buttoning bis
coat up tight to the throat, and saying,
"We want unanimous consent to con
sider all the committee amendments be
fore any other man is heard," and after
that is done to sit like a watchdog and
object strenuously to every amendment
which may be offered by any other sena
tor. I am perfectly willing to concede, Mr.
President, that the committee ou appro
priations knows much more than the en
tire senate; I think possibly their selec
tion indicates that aud forecloses the
questiou, and that we who are seut here
to represent states which are not repre
sented ou the committee on appropria
tions are supposed not to be iuterested
in the distribution of the public moneys
of the country, and that our states shall
have no voice whatever in such distribu
tion, except as that voice may be indi
rectly represented by the appropriations
committee.
Mr. President, I am a little bit loath to
say this, because I have some favors to
ask of the appropriations committee
not favors, but I have some measures
which are to go upon appropriation
biils, and I am a little loath under those
circumstances to make this statement;
but it does seem to me that the true and
the natural and proper thing to do is to
give the eutire senate, as representing
the entire nation, an equal opportunity
in the formation and enactment of ap
propriation bills. I do not think it was
ever contemplated by the fathers of this
country that two or three men should
control the appropriations of this na
tion, amounting to $450,000,000 or
$460,000,000 a year.
What I say is not prompted by any
personal dislike for any member of the
appropriations committee, for I think
they are all my personal friends I cer
tainly feel friendly to them but this
practice is raising up in the senate of the
United States a government of the com
mittee. We have been taught to believe,
especially wo who live away in the inter
ior of the nation and are therefore sup
posed to know but little about public
measures and public men, that this is a
government by the people, for the peo
ple and of the people; but, Mr. Presi
dent, the American people must unlearn
much they have been taught within the
last few years. They must learn tbe
great truth that, so far as the senate of
the United Stales is concerned, it is a
government of the committee, by the
committee, and generally for the com
mittee, anil not for the country.
A RELIC OF THE PAST.
Surgical Operations for the Cure
of Piles and Rectal Diseases
The Dominant Issue.
The political prospect is that this year
of 1896 will witness the, most thorough
and searching discussiou of the whole
financial question that has ever taken
place in the entire history of civilization.
And whether the reformers of all schools
are pleased with it or not the monetary
question overshadows all others in the
politics of America at the present time
There are many sincere and honest re
formers who believe that the land ques
tion is of immensely greater importance
than the money question, and should be
given precedence and settled first .Others
equally sincere and honest insist on the
greater importance ol the transporta
tion question. Others, still, that the
referendum and initiative should be the
first issue fought out to a settlement.
But there are" times when the political
activities of the people drift irresistible
in a certain direction, and nothing can
turn them aside. Such appears to be
the outlook with reference to the money
question in the campaign of 1896. Men
of all parties and ol all shades ot opinion
on the money question are becoming
hourly more and more profoundly inter
ested in forcing some kind of a settle
ment of that, at the present time, most
unsettled of questions. Journal of the
Knights oi Labor.
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ly annoying trouble, piles, was practi
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a surgical operation, and this belief has
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"I knew an operation would be death to
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Major Dean of Columbus, Ohio, says he
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two packages of the Pyramid cured him.
Mr. D. E. Heed of South Lyons, Mich.,
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and not the slightest trace of the trouble
has returned.
The Pyramid Pile Cure is sold by near
ly all druggists at 50 cents aud $1 per
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They Extend a Helping Hand to
the Silver Men.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted by the Reform Press Asso
ciation of Illinois, Febuary 10, 1896.
Whereas, The silvr party has called
its National convention to meet at the
same time and place as that of the peo
ple's party, for the purpose of uniting
and operating with us iu thecoming cam
paign. And,
Whereas, The silver party hasno press
of its own, in which to publish notice of
committee meetings, and calls for con
vention and conferences. Therefore be it
Resolved, That the reform press asso
ciation of the state of Illinois looks upon
the silver party as a friend and ally, in
the impending struggle between the
masses and classes.
Resolved. That we heartily extend the
columns of our papers to the silver party.
for the purpose of publishing their calls
for conventions, Conferences, and com
mittee meetings, and do what we cau to
aid them in their work, not inconsistent
with the principles of, or loyalty to the
people's party.
Resolved, We assure the silver party
that it will always find the reform press
an earnest exponent of the principles it
advocates, and we kindly ask its mem
bers to subscribe for our papers: and cir
culate them among their friends.
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This Was After he had Sold Himself to
the Devil, and was Playing: to
Keep Down Open Revolt
Treasury Department, )
July 15, 1878.
Dear Sir: To that part of your letter
of the 12th inst., in which you ask my
views of the matter confided in the mon
etary commission, I have some delicacy
in replying very fully. During the mon
etary conference in Paris, when silver in
our country was excluded from circula
tion by being undervalued, I waa
strongly in favor of the single standard
of gold, and wrot9 a letter which you
will find in the proceedings of that con
ference, stating briefly my view. At that
time the wisest of us did not anticipate
the sudden fall of silver or the rise of
gold that has occurred. This un
certainty of the relation between the two
metals is one of the chief arguments in
favor of a monometallic system, but
other arguments, showing the danger
ous effect upon industry by drovnins
one of the precious metals from the
standard of value, out-weigh in my
mind all theoretical objections to the
bimetallic system. I am thoroughly
convinced that if possible for the leading
commercial nations to fix by agreement
an arbitrary relation between silver and
gold, even though the market value
might vary somewhat from time to time,
it would be a measure of the greatest
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Fot tier's Brunswick. A compact growing general
crop cabbage, having medium sited to large thick beads
and many onter leaves. It Is a good shipper. Pkt. 6c
Large Late Drumhead.. A favorite winter variety,
z& and by some considered a little later than the Flat
Dntch, although many large cabbage growers fall to see anr material ditterence between the two.
Heads large and flat, short stemmed, tender, and of good flavor. One of the beet of keepers.
Pkt. 6c
CUCUMBERS.
Early Frame, or Short Green A popular early sort, of medium site and ranking among the
best ol the pickling clem. Fruit straight, smaller at each end, crisp and tender. Also an excellent
aort for the table. Pkt. 6c.
Nlchol's Medium Desirable for all purposes alike. As a pickling sort It has few superiors, and
is adapted for early forcing or main crop. It is very productive, of medium site, and always
straight and smooth. Pkt. 6c.
Long Green The leading late variety, 12 to 16 Incnes long, and of excellent quality; dark green,
firm and crisp. The young fruit Is suitable for pickles, and when ripe, for sweet pickles. Pkt 6o
LETTUCE. ,
Prize Head Forms a mammoth plant In which the outer leaves are crisp and tender, changing
from a dark green in the center to a bronze at the edge. It la of good flavor and very hardy. Pkt. 6o.
MUSK MELON.
Nutmeg Thia Is one of the standard varieties, growing to a fair else, with thick, sweet flesh ot
a light green shade. Tbe rind, though not thick. Is tough, and on this account stands shipping
Terr well. Shape nearly raaml, somewhat flattened at earn end, and deeply ribbed. Pkt. 6c
'Montreal Market A mammoth melon weighing from 15 to 20 pounds; shape almost round, very
deeply ribbed, skin green, changing to a grey when ripe, flesh very thick, light green, coarse, but of
good flavor. Pkt. 6c
, ONIONS.
Westerfleld Large Red Grown probably more in this conntry twice over than all other varie
ties of onions combined. It is essentially a late cropper, and undoubtedly the heaviest ylelder In
the American market. The bulbs are of large site, round form, eomewhat flattened, but thick
through; skin deep purplish red; flesh purplish white, moderately fine grained, aud of rather
stronger flavor than the yellow onions. There Is no better keeper. Pkt. Sc.
Veliow Globe Danvers This sort is excellent for general cultivation, either for the market or
home garden, and is a splendid keeper. Pkt. 6c.
WATER MELON.
Mountain Sweet. One of the oldest aud
best of the early melons, good eltherfor home
or market garden use. In shape oblong, with
a deep green akin, and red flesh; solid and of
good site, considering Ita earliness. Pkt. 6c
Cuban Queen Skin beautifully marked with
dark and light green; the flesh is bright red,
solid, crisp, and sugary. An excellent keeper.
Pkt. 6c
Ruby King. A very desirable and profit
able pepper for tbe market and family use.
Plant !sr;re. bearing prnfnslnn of largcdeep
red, and mild flavored peppers. This aort la
often used for salads, pickling, and stuffing.
Pkt. 6c
Hollow Crown. This variety has a smooth,
clean akin, and is easily distinguished by
the leaves arising from a depression on the
top or crown ot the root. Has a small tap
root, and grows almost entirely beneath tbe
inrface. Pkt. 6c Ccbam tlusia.
PEAS,
American Wonder This Is a comparatively new sort, but has already taken first place among
the extra early sorts on account of its extra flue flavor. For sweetnees and tenderness It is abso
lutely unequaled. Qt, 15c.
Bliss' Everbearing Vines about 18 Inches In height. Will continue to bear tor a long while
They are of the largest site, wrinkled, very tender, cooking quickly. Ft. 15c
PUMPKINS.
Small Yellow Sugar Fruit round, about ten in. in
diameter. An excellent keeper. Pkt. 5c.
Large Cheee One of the best varieties for cook
ing purposes. Flesh thick, sweet, and tender. Pkt 6c.
SQUASH
Early White Bush Scallop Fruit early, flat, scal
loped shaped; color white; fllesh pa'e white, and well
flavored. Very productive. Pkt. 6c.
" Hubbard By all odds the standard variety
throughout the northern states and the best winter
Keeper known. Pkt. 6c.
RADISH
ijT Mi Early scarlet A etanaaro. eanj mruip mrn.j.
,mi Root of a scarlet color; flesh crisp and tender. Pkt 6c
d:W:l Char tier A long, scarlet variety, large, handsome
"and attractive. Bright ecarlet color, shading into
J,-.'1'.3white at the tip. Retains its crlspness and tenderness
' for a remarkably long time. Pkt. ec
TURNIP.
Extra Early Purple Top Munich Very popular among gardners. Of I
Is flat, sweet, and under. Pkt. 6c. ...
Purple Top Strap Leaf This Is the standard variety. Boot large, flat, hardy and Tery prolino
Pkt. 10c
BUTA BAGA.
American Purple Top The roots grow to large site under favorable condition and are the
most desirable of all. Pkt 5c s
TOMATOES.
Acme A handsome early variety, ot medium site, la a good ylelder. Pkt. 6c.
Livingston's Beauty A decided favorite tor the home or market garden; It U early, hardy, sad
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