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THE AMERICAN. Another Great Cash Offer ft n WE WILL send THE AMERICAN to any address in the United States or Canada from now until JANUARY 1st, 1898, for ONE DOLLAR. CASH MUST ACCOMPANY THE ORDER. H arc already paid in advance $1.00 will carry you one year from the expiration of the time for which it is paid, There will be no change from the present price of $2.00 a year in advance, and all arrearages must be paid at the $2.00 rate. This $i.oo Offer is Only Good Until January ist, i897. NO TELEPHONE as you do to-day, and would be a loser from 25 to 30 per cent on ever dollar you got for your wheat or for your stock or for your labor, since neither farm products or labor would Increase 100 per cent. That would be a claim that the most blinded free silver advocate would not Tje brave enough to make. They admit that farm products will not increase as rapidly as silver, and that labor will be the last thing to increase in price if their si-heme to have the free and unlimited coinage of silver saddled on this country carries. They all admit this. To contend otherwise would ue an evidence of a lack of thought upon this subject. In a preceding paragraph we have shown that the enormous output of silver from the mines of the United States from 1870 to 1894 had the effect of reducing silver from $1,328 In 1870 to $1,152 in 1878 and to 65 2-5 cents in 1894 to less than one-half. Let us see wnat nas ueen me eneci oi me bauie Republican convention at St. Louis, immutable law upon the price of farm from Lnt0n down to McKinley, would products. be acceptable to the A. P. A. The In 1870 the south produced 3,150,000 committee sent to interview Major Mc fcales of cotton as against 9,900,000 Kinley relative to his attitude toward bales in 1895, and cotton was worth 11 tne A p A consisted of Rev. B. F. cents in I860 and 12 cents In 1890-91. Hudelson, state president of the A. P. The American hay crop amounted to A ot California; Mr. King of New 25,085,100 tons in 1870; and to 65,776 , York, and another minister, unless our 158 tons in 1895. More than two and a memory serves us false, from Ken half times as much. j tucky. Those men went to Canton. The oat crop for 1870 was 282,000,000 ( They had an interview with Major Mc bushels; for 1895, 825,000,000 bushels. Kinley, and their report was that that More than three times as much as was gentleman had unhesitatingly and une saised in 1870. I quivocally endorsed the principles of The wheat crop for 1870 was 288,000,- tne A P- Ai lf Major McKinley was 000 bushels; lor 1895, 470,00o,000 accentable to the A. P. A. supreme bushels, or nearly twice as much as council, if he unhesitatingly and une was raised in 1870. Take this in con-1 quivocally endorsed the principles of nection with the fact thai Russia and ; tnat order, then he must have commit India and Argentina have developed ted 8ome flagrant act since June if he into great wheit exporting countries has acquiesced in the demands of Rome since 1870 and you have tne solution jt0 that extent that he would be unac f the problem of cheap wheat. ceptable to the great body of patrl- It will not be out of piace to state ( otjc citizens composing the A. P. A., here that the finance committee of ihej ule grandest American order ever in United States senate made a report in stituted. But what was that act? Was 1893 showing the price of farm pro- it wnen he wrote his letter of accept ducts from 1840 to 1890-1. In the re-, ance and Bad 0f the priest-ridden and port barley was quoted, in New oik, i at 77 cents in 1860 and 95 cents in 1890-1; corn was quoted, in Chicago, in 1860 at 43 cents, and in 1890-1 at 58 cents; oats on the same market In i860 at 34 and in 1890-1 at 58 cents; wheat, No. 2, spring, on same market was quoted in 1860 at $1.02 and in 1890-1 at $1.03. But, after all, prices are belter today than they were before the war when we were under the beneficent pro visions of the act which was repealed in 1873, and this fact more than any thing else convinces us that the war and not the statute which was wiped off the statute books in 1873, was re sponsible for the good times which we enjoyed at that time. Lest some critic may say we have reasoned falsely as to the law of sup ply and demand in relation to either, silver or farm products, we will sarwe hnnA taban IntA Anna HnvnHAn V nnt iiTV .7 i ' " i i i I.. that silver increased nine times while wheat increased less than one time. So from this we conclude that the secret of our prosperity was not in an abun dance of cheap money but an abun - dance of work for all classes-when thoro vna a morirot for nil laW oc well as for all products, J)enl the mills, and the Bhops and the fac- tories, let us put the idle workmen back to work, let us enact a high pro- i t. l 1.1 1! itxu.c tmiu lu.m p.uiauuu auu lur the protection of our fanners and our manufacturers, and we will have ap- proached nearer the millennium than ever ueiuie. Just one more thought, and then we ocratic nominee was on that commit will dismiss the subject for this week. I tee. He stood with those Romanists, Contrary to a general belief, the pres-; and he has since told a friend of ours ent silver dollar is a legal tender for all debts, public and private, of what ever amount, except where otherwise specified in the contract. SILVERITE OBJECTIONS AN SWERED. Several weeks ago a gentleman con tributed an article to our columns fa voring free silver, also W. J. Bryan for president. In the same issue that the free silver article appeared, will be found our answer to his arguments, which was as follows: Our friend says: "You refer to Mr. Bryan's record in opposition to the compulsory teaching of the English language in the public schools of New Mexico, for which, of ORDER WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT THE CASH. ate M!ICAN PUBUSJUNQ COMPANY, 911 course, he stands condemned by a large majority of the American people; quite forgetting that William MsKln ley, in common with a large number of the political men of our time, sought the good will of the Uomlsh church by acquiescing in her demands. You refer to the warm friendship of some prominent Romans for Mr. Bry an; do you discover no equally zealous Romans, loud-mouthed in tneir cnani pionship of William McKinley? How about Kerens, Lauterbach, Ireland and others?" Our friend has simply followed a common free silver plan of argument in the above. He meets a well established fact with an assertion. Last June the supreme council of the A. P. A. was in session in Washington, D. C, and the records of the several Republican can didates for president were fairly and impartially discussed. The conclusion reached was that every candidate wnose name would be presented to the p0pe cursed class of criminals, paupers and contract laborers of the old world that we had no room for them? Oh, no; our friend says, it was when he permitted John Ireland and Lauter bach to dictate the platform and when Dick Kerens was placed in charge of the state of Missouri. Now is it true that he permitted either Ireland or Lauterbach to dictate what went into the platform? Is it not a fact that the platform as first drawn had in it every principle contended for by the A. P. A., and was not that plat form submitted to William McKinley, and did he not approve of it? The members of the A. P. A. who were present at the St. Louis convention have so stated, and they have also eiatori that tho aoonnri nlntfrtrm tha Dn aa ,.,. ratac.A h. Major McKinley. We will admit the Kreat Republican party was cowardly when it threw aside the first draft of the platform endorsed by its candidate, William McKinley, and took up and adopted one molded on the lines indi- cated by John Ireland, We condemn the party for that act. However, shall ' . . . wo hlnmA MrKin dv Wanao a thnu sand men were too cowardly to endorse what he approved? Would such action be just? Most assuredly it would not. But how was it with the platform com 1 " j""-"" ' , mittee of the Democratic party? A Romanist from Georgia and one from r-niifrirrli!1 and adoption of an anti-A. P. A. reso- I lution. The man who is now the Dem- an A. P. A., a Junior and a Mason, that he understood the plank adopted was an anti-A. P. A. plank, and that he favored it because it was. Well, why did he place Dick Kerens In charge of the state of Missouri? He did not. He had no more to do with it than you had. Tho delegates to the national Republican convention chose their own national committeeman. A. P. A. men on the Missouri delega tion to the national convention were really responsible for his election. They voted for Major Warner the Ed Rosewater of Kansas City instead of Chauncey I. Filley, while Warner voted for Kerens. Our friend then says: "You fail to note that there is a great difference between the amount of money in existence and the amount in circulation doing business." We did not note that fact in our arti cle. We did not think it was so. The amount of money in actual circulation was $21.10 per capita. But our friend does not agree with us as to the reason for this small shrinkage since the end of the year 1893. He-says it was a conspiracy on the part of the bankers to force the repeal of the Sher man purchasing clause. If his asser tion wef? true, times snould be better to-day than they were in 1893, or in 1892 prior to the repeal of the pur chase clause of that act, but we sub mit the question to you, Are they better? You know they are not. Then our friend's theory is not the correct one; and it must be because, as we stated last week, capital will not be in vested while there is any possible show of tne country going to a silver basis. This government Is nothing but a great corporation. Every citi zen has a vote to cast to decide what policy shall be pursued. We are the president of a newspaper corporation. We are one of the stockholders. Sup pose we were to say to the rest of this community, "We do not propose to use the same money you use; it is too dear; we will print a lot of our own and you will have to take it in exchange for what we owe you, and for what we buy of you," would you not get hold of all the money possible and hoard it up until the stockholders of our company got together and took a vote on the proposition? Most assured ly you would. You would say, "I know this money Is worth every cent its face says it is worth, but I do not know that the money you issue will be worth more than the paper on which it is printed." So it is with the capitalists to-day. They see one set oi our people a very respectable minority crying for cheap money, and they have sim ply said what you would say, "We will keep this money that we know to be good until such time as this money question is settled; then, if the free silverites win and their theories prove to be susceptible of demonstration, we shall let our money out into the chan nels of commerce; but, if they prove to be pure fallacies, we shall continue to hoard our good money." You would do exactly the same thing had you more money than you could use in your business. Our friend next says: "If there be free and unlimited coin age of gold, the gold bullion will be worth its coin value, and If there be free and unlimited coinage of silver, tne silver bullion will be worth Its coin value, for who would sell his bullion for less, when he can have it coined free? If the coinage of either be lim ited to below the amount produced, the surplus will seek a market with the highest bidder, and this fact ex plains the depreciated value of silver." For the sake of argument, let us admit that the price of bullion will not go below its coin value under free and unlimited coinage. Now, let us go a step further: Let the silver kings of America take their mountains of silver that are waiting for a market; let them take them to the United States mint; let them take their pay in silver certifi cates, and return to their homes. Have you any of that money? Has your neighbor any of it? Can you get any of it if you do not work for, and can you get work if the shops, the factories and the mills are closed? Can you get any of it unless you have something to sell, and can you sell to those sil ver mine owners more than you d to-day? You say, "Certainly; they will want to got their money in circu lation; they will want it to be earning them something; they cannot afford to have it lying idle." We are not so sure about that. Has not our friend said that the money in circulation had decreased to little more than $13 per capita because of a conspiracy on the part of the bankers? May not these silver mine owners, who are also bank ers and railroad magnates, may they not also conspire, and, in order to get a greater price for their silver than even the face of that silver dollar calls for, may they not hoard their money, thereby forcing the price of money lip and the price of labor and of farm products down? This proposition is just as reasonable as that advanced by our friend in his article. It is just as liable to prove true, also. We cannot see where we would be benefited by 101 Howard Street, pitching the present financiers over board and taking on a new outfit, more unscrupulous, equally as selfish, and not a bit more honest than are the gen tlemen on Wall street. For our part. If we are to choose between Wall street bankers and silver mine owners, we prefer the bankers, because they live and vote In this country, while, unless common report Is wrong, a ma jority of the owners of silver and Bllver mines are foreign capitalists. Our friend then admits that the present capacity of the mints of the United States would be inadequate to the demand if we had free and unlim ited coinage, as he figures that there would bo sent to our mints, provided the mines of the world produced each year hereafter as much as they did in 1895, one hundred million ounces oi silver, which would be worth, accord ing to free coinage figures, $129,500,000. He fails to take into consideration that during 1895 the production from Amor lean mines was much less than it will be hereafter, otherwise the argument of the free silverites to the farmer that free coinage will open our mines and put a large number of men to work who will have to buy their products, is groundless and of no weight. The free silver advocates have repeatedly told us that the silver mines were closed; that they could not afford to mine sli ver at the prices which have obtained for several years. If this Is true, lf It Is a fact that the silver mines are closed, then instead of our having $129,500,000 worth of silver to coin free, we may be called upon to coin one-half as much more, which would raise the amount to nearly $200,000,000 or more than $3 for each man, woman and child in the United States. Then if that plan was pursued for seven years, we would have twice as much money for each man, woman and child as we have to-day, but it would be In the silver mine owner's pocket, and would remain there unless you had something he wanted to buy either labor or products. Our friend then speaks of keeping the balance of trade In our favor, and seems to think that It will be accom plished very easily if we have free sil ver. To secure for ourselves a larger share of the trade of the world than we have to-day, must, in our opinion, re sult in the cheapening In some way of the article offered for sale. Countries (the people In the aggregate), like In dividuals, buy where they can get things the cheapest. If China and Japan, which are silver countries, offer an article for sale that was manufac tured by people earning less than a dol loi O nraAlr V rttir in rt Vi t A am Inn n manufacturer, who pays from $1.50 to!pn"ttnoa; DUl vou wisnea to give your $3.50 per day to have the same thing self to u, and nothing could stop the produced; how can he competo with coii'se of your love. Divine Saviour, the Chinaman or the Jap unless he t am at V0UP feet to worghlp you to lowers the price of his laborers wages , . . , , to a level with the standard in those 1 Pralse 'ou- and 10 COD8ole yu- 1 countries? He can avoid this in should wish to repair so many Insults, int a. tv i. iiKtrr van mc rtllirri n till but one way by buying the material oi some prooucer wno nas rincefi nis wages than have the Japs and the Chinese. Don't you believe, friends, that we can obtain the balance of trade of the to 'the levefV those" paid in Vhe'r sil-1 ' aU f hea V6D 8DTd earth' Lea ver countries. And free silver will'als0- m081 8wect Jesus, to implore you not control the markets of the world for all those wandering souls who for the farmer's product any more than blaspheme jou and outrage you. For sLwyofuVhye itTS""1" country. She is a great wheat pro- yu olTer yurself each day at the holy ducing country. She also has cheap j mass. On, Jesus, have pity on them; labor. She will go into the markets ' couvert them, gave them. I beg it of of the world and offer her wheat ..I , the f W in the raised by a man who probably received I . ' for his year's work one-tenth as much I D8ra" or mercy. i as the American farmer had to pay his In the naaoe of His Eminence Cardi jhclp. Does the farmer believe he na, Xacherea u," writes Mgr. Begin In could pay ten times as much for help . , ' ,, , ' to raise and market a crop as the Rus- a urculir' ' as wei1 as in m? capacity sian farmer does, then take his product j of administrator of the diocese of Que j to the world's market and undersell bee, I hasten to congratulate the Anti- 1 h' wp,fy 'rn"8e T0, hay n' fT Moni Uaon the happy id, a oHn coinage of silver and have given the . . , . ,. . I silver baron twice as much as his prod-1 vltlnE tlie Catholics of Canada to lake , net was worth? Does it look reason-j part in this cru-a:!eof a now kind under side? Take it home. Suppose you and taken against Freemasonry. More- r!fhw ea'1',:. 11 lover, I formed a diocesan eommkt,e, .load of wheat to market, and that his i , , c , , , ' cost him five cents ner bushel to n.-o-i composed cf five laJ'men and throe ec- j duce, while yours cost you fifty cents per bushel, could you go on the mar ket and undersell him? If you can't do it at home, can you do it abroad? When you hear a free silver man talk, go home and think the thing over by yourself, and it won't have so rosy a hue. OMAHA, NEB. NOSEGAY FOR MASONS. Crusade to Be Made on Freemasonry by the Hierarchy. Komati Catholic Furnished With 1'rajer and IiiNtructed to Fight the Order. Montreal, Aug. 24. "As we said last Saturday," says La Si muine lkli ytcu.se, "an International and anti Masonic congress will bo held on Sep tember 2(5, 27, 28, 20 and 30, at Trent, la Austrian Tyrol. "This coagress, let us again repeat, has r-een organized under the auspices of the holy see. ' On this occuslon Christian souls, stirred by the revelations made for some time past concerning the Iniquit ies of all kinds which are inspired by Freemasonry, will wish to multiply their prayers. "They will ask of God, not only to favor with Ills heavenly guidance the labors of the congress, but also to grant the graoe of a 8 Ice re conversion to these poor unfortunates, lod astray, and held bound In the fetters of an in famous sect. "They will apply themselves more particularly to repair so many profa nation committed against the sue rod parson of our Divine Saviour. "Here is a beautiful prayer, com- posed for these different purposes, that pious persons, communities, confrater- tlcs and brotherhoods miy make it their duty to repeat during the period at which the sestionB of the antia Masonic congress shall be held." The prayer reads: "Oh, Jesus, word Incarnate, really present in the holy eucharlst, I protest against the outrages offered you there. You knew, when you instituted that divine eaorament, how much it would be blasphemed, treated with contempt, I . , . - . and 1 should wish to give you a thou- gan,i times as much love as the demon and hlho8t Klv you of hatred. To aid my Impotence, deign to accept the sentiments of the heart of Mary, vour august Mother, the homage of all your clesiasties, all persons distinguished by their virtues and social positions, all desirous of responding to the desires of the vicar of Jesus Christ. This com mittee placed Itself at once in communi cation with the executive committee in R me, and assists it as much as it can. A few week ago tho president of our diocesan committee received from the central executive committee at Roma the newt that our committee was con stituted as the Canadian national com mittee. We cannot, my dear brothers, remain strangers to this movement, from which the holy father expects so much. As his eminence Cardinal Pa rocchl recently said: 'It is necessary to organize tho social and logical de fense of our faith against the Invasions of Freemasonry. The Freemasons sav satan must reign. We Catholics say Christ must reign. Let us not rest on our armB and cease our struggles until Jesus Christ Is conqueror of hull.' "Here in Canada the bishops have always bad a watchful eye to prevent the wolf entering the fjld. Nearly all the provincial councils of Q lebeo have placed the faithful on guard against these secret and shady societies which the followers of Jesus Christ cannot enter. In spite of this great solicitude on the part cf pastors, the enemy has known bow to make some breaches in our walls, and we bare seen too great a number of Catholics enter those so cieties under different pretexts. "It cannot escape anyone that Free masonry, under the different forma which it takes in order to better de ceive, ex seises a certain influence in our country an influence underhand, veiled, disguised, hypocritical, whloh infiltrates like a subtle poison in asso ciation apparently very inoffensive. It is for that reason that Catholics ought to distrust their own judgment so miicb and place their confidence com pletely In thj sentinel whom the church has placed in each diocese." American Tyler. We guarantee satisfaction In all our Photographs. Hughes & Sandberg, 205 N j. 16th. St. Churchmen Speak Out. The Ntw World, the oSlcial organ ot the Catholic church in Chicago and the northern section of Illinois, contains a scathing editorial denouncing the posi tion taken by Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul. As is well known, the New World is practically under the management of Archbishop Feehan of the Chicago diocese, and refl -ctg his personal views. It is edited by William Dillon, brother of John Dillon, the famous Irish states man and reformer. Until this last Issue the publication occupied a neutral position on the financial puestton, and its bold stand for free silver has created a decided sensation In this section of the country. Archbishop Ireland and Edward Lauterbach of New York will have to divide honors as to which is the Burchard of this campaign.- World llerald. Do people bny Ilood's Sarsaparilla Jn preference to any other, in fact almost tr, the exclusion ot all others 7 They know from actual oe that Hood's is the best, i. e., it cures when others fail. Hood's Sarsaparilla is still made under the personal supervision of the educated pharmacists who originated it. The question of best is just as positively decided in favor of Hood'a aa the question of comparative sales. Another thing: Every advertisement of Ilood'i Sarsaparilla is true, is honest. Sarsaparilla, lithe One Trae Blood Purifier. AH druggists, fu Prepared only byC I. Hood & Co., Lowell, ltaaa. u ji run vuij piuj to livuu a riiut viu moms aartaiaruik WEiy Hoods
