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charged into tho crowd, firing right
and loft and tho police and others
dragged away the dead and wound
ed, numbering more than 130 into tho
neighboring court yard while tho ter
ror stricken demonstrators fled, pur
sued by a mob of ruffians who at
tacked them as they ran."
Dispatches from other sections
show many horrible massacres in
which hundreds of Jews liavo been
brutally beaten, and many killed out
right, i
President Itobbins of tho Armour
car line, and Trafllc Manager Sproule,
of the Southern Pacific company, de
clined to answer questions put to
thorn in tho private car lino inquiry
November 3 before the Interstate
Commerce commission. An effort
was made through Mr. Robbins to
show that tho Armour car lines
through Armour & Co., or other firms
are interested in business other than
that of leasing cars to railroads and
refrigerating perishable shipments.
Mr. Sproulo was asked regarding an
alleged pooling contract between the
Southern Pacific and Southern Cali
fornia railroads. Both witnesses declined-to
answer, and dispatches say
that the hearing adjourned "indefinitely."
Greenbacks and Silver Dollars
Charles J. Devlin, widel known as
a coal mino operator, and who recent
ly went through bankruptcy with lia
bilities of more than five million dol
lars, died November 1 at a Chicago
hospital from a stroke of paralysis.
Michigan members of the national
manufacturers association, at a meet
ing hold November 1, adopted resolu
tions endorsing President Roosevelt's
position on railroad rate regulation.
. Tho New York chamber of com
merce has adopted resolutions favor
ing the admission of Chinese of the
"better classes" to this country on
the same terms as now applied to trav
elers from any other country.
Walter Wellman, Washington cor
respondent for the Chicago Record
Herald says that there is little likeli
hood for any action on tho tariff
at the next session of congress.
Charges have been made involving
an alleged graft of $320,000 from the
Korean government, which charges
are said to implicate a former Ameri.
can minister and a number of Ameri
can contractors who built a street
railroad in Seoul.-
ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENT
The directors of the Louvre are
being urged to get rid of the many
spurious works of i -t which have
found their way - into the galleries.
It is pointed out that the clearance
need not mean - -a financial loss to
the institution, as such objects- could
easily be sold to wealthy Americans.
Punch.
Can't. Do It
Heart affections will not get well of them-
selves; neither do they remain Innotlvo. If
the cause Is not removed, they continue to
grow in number nnd severity,
They are the outtrrowth of exhausted nerve
force, nnd the heart cannot stop to rest, as do
until completely dlsaHed. and-thnt's the end.
On the very first Indication of heart trouble
you can stop all progress and effect a cure bv
the use of
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
the most effective heart remedy known. It
builds up. feeds and strengthens the nerves
and muscles of the heart, and restores it to
perfect health. tu
"I had Sertoli's heart troublo; for two month
. nay life seemed to hang by a thrond. when my
attention was called to Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
I commenced talcinpr tho Heart Cure, and Nb
vine, and n two months they restored mo to
comparative pood health."
. REV. W. A. ROBINS, Port Elgin. Ont
The first bottle will benefit, if not, the drug
Slst wil) return your money. b
The United States Monetary league,
Joseph N. Stephens of Denver, na
tional secretary, has issued a protest
against the proposed retirement of
tho greenbacks and the destruction
of the silver dollar. This protest has
been widely circulated and tho offi
cers of the league will see to it that
a copy of this protest is placed upon
tho desk of every member of congress.
Mr. Stephens asks that newspapers
generally reproduce tnis protest, and
that the same be circulated for sig
natures in every county, after which
it should be forwarded to some mem
ber of congress.
The protest follows:
"To the House of Representatives
and Senate in Congress Assembled:
"We desire to enter our respectful,
but very earnest protest against the
congress of tho United States as
suming tho manifestly unconstitu
tional authority recommended by the
president in his late message to con
gress, in the following words, to-wit:
'The attention of congress should
bo especially given 10 the currency
question, and that the standing com
mittees on the matter in the two
houses charged with the duty take
up the matter of our currency and
see whether it is not possible to se
cure an agreement in the business
world for bettering that system. The
committees should consider the ques
tion of the retirement of the green
backs and the problem of securing in
our currency such elasticity as is
consistent with safety. Every silver
dollar should be made by law redeem
able in gold at the option of the
holder.'
"We protest against the power of
congress being perverted in the man
ner indicated in the message. The
congress is authorized to create
money. Currency proper is not
money; it is a substitute for money,
a wicked, vicious device by which
corporations inflict upon the pro
ductive industries of the nation some
thing in lieu of money, by means of
which the producer of wealth is com
pelled to contribute of his earnings
to fill the coffers of unholy greed.
"We protest against the retirement
of the 'greenback' and the substitu
tion therefor of the national bank
note. A promise to pay is not, nor
can it be made, monev.
"We protest against the introduc
tion of a largo volume or any volume
at all of corporate credit into the
'currency' of the nation. We deny
and repudiate the claim that corpor
ate credit devices are necessary or
beneficial, or that such substitutes
for money can in any manner pro
moto the general welfare, which
should be the only purpose influenc
ing the congress of the United States.
"If credit promises to pay are a
necessity in the money system of the
nation (which we emphatically deny)
that credit should be national, not
corporate, and national credit with
out interest is far better, uifer, wiser,
more acceptable to the people than
is .any corporate credit, no matter
how diligently fortified by deposits or
other devices, or of so-called securi
ties. "A government promise to pay,
without interest, rests upon precisely
the same element of security that the
interest-bearing bond has; both are
bottomed on the faith- and credit of
the nation. One is as good, as safe,
as valuable, as the other. Neither
the interest-bearing bond nor non-in-terost-bearing
note can be collected by
judgment issued out,of any court in
the Innd.
"We protest against the congress
of the United States .'wasting Its time
m an uuomnt to legislate in relation
to an 'elastic currency,' whatever
that may bo ponstrued tp.'mean. We
protest against such absurdity. 'An
elastic currency is an irridescent
dream. To put the control of the
enlargement or the contraction of the
volume of paper substitutes for
money into tho hands of the bank
trust, upon tho supposition or theory
that such power would be used to
promote the general welfare, rather
than to use it in the interest of
greed and avarice, would brand the
congress as incompetent or corrupt.
"An emergency 'money, issued and
controlled by the secretary of the
treasury, administered in the interest
of productive industries of the nation,
to the exclusion of the corporate
stock jobbers, pools, trusts, and of
all other combines, who contribute
nothing to the wealth of the nation,
would; if well thought out, prove bene
ficial. But probably no such purpose
is suggested in that portion of the
message referred to.
"It is claimed that the large and
unprecedented production of gold has
justified tho wisdom, as well as the
expediency of the 'gold, standard.'
We protest against this half truth
being accepted as the basis of the
legislation for the whole people. We
readily admit the fact of the
phenomenal increase in the produc
tion of gold in the United States.
But such production is in no way due
to the gold standard. It is due to
the indomitable will, energy and per
severance of the American people,
and in spite of the hostile legislation
by congress, and of administrative
acts. w t
"On tho other hand, corporate
credits have increased in the same
years in a ratio ten, twenty, and in
some cases perhaps one hundred per
cent greater than the production of
gold. And in this connection, we
call upon the statistician of the
treasury department to prepare and
publish for general information a
table of the increase In credit de
vices, such as capital stock, preferred
and common, bonds, first, second,
and third issues, and all other forms
of credit issued, appropriated or se
cured by the promoters thereof; and
we suggest that ho commence with
Standard Oil, United States Steel,
Amalgamated Copper, together with
all and -singular the bic and little
imitators of the captains of finance,,
tne pirates or tiie stock exchanges.
"We protest against further legis
lation by congress at the dictation of
the banking trust; the prolific mother
of .all trusts. The system is danger
ous. It is class legislation, hostile
to the general welfare. Every finan
cial 'panic which has devasted the in
dustries of the people has been and
will continue to be bank panics. With
a sound monetary system in the
United States, a money panic (really
a credit panic) would be impossible.
"With the immense nroduction of
I wealth, the Industry of the people,
leruiuy oi tne son, permanence and
richness of the mines of coal, iron,
copper, zinc, silver, gold, a money
system that promotes financial panics
is a shame, a disgrace to the nation's
intelligence, honor and patriotism.
"We. protest against perpetuation
of a financial system which promotes
panics, breeds paupers and tramps,
fills the lunatic asylums, causes sui
cides, ruins homes, encourages false
hood and trickery; benefits a few and,
robs the many.
"We protest against the proposed
retirement of the silver dollar. It
is now money; it enters into the cir
culation; it is the- only form of
money, except the greenback, seen
by the great mass of people, unless
they gaze at a small pile of gold safe
ly enclosed with steel bars.
"To retire the volume of silver now
in circulation in coin, or in coin cer
tificates, and substitute therefor na
tional bank notes, . would be an act
of treachery to the productive in-
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 4J
HOG CHOLERA
TfaNw rUthod of Treating thi n ,
treatment mailed Iree.
The new treatment for now r-v,
Swine Plague has now been thornuS? 8nd
by a number of tho most cxneK, hl Jestca
tical hog raisers and breeders n "P
States. It has proven a success Lv,en,FDl,d
tion. These men tried the remprt 1 nd es"
mem. Its successes phenomena lind fni1
mains for our farmers and hoy ? Srs H -this
now method of treatment to si i tnnr, ,. im
aI restore his herd to thrift in a few dav X
QH,r;aVfvSch0Uler' Worcester ilns.; A?n
Stultz. Richwood. Ohio; O. D. im Kendal a
nVn.,Xn,A:,flmesdal1' Lebanon. Oh o nnd Dr
David Allrire. of Marco, Ind who is n "cteri
narian of high standing and has practised hb
Profession 1 orty years. These men La ve used
this treatment for several years, and they are
parasite, and putting them into such a perfect
state of thrift that there is no material Ker
of disease striking them. It is also an inexpen
sive treatment, because it oiear a herd of
every character of worm and puts him Into
such a thrifty condition that the extra gain he
will make from its effect in a few montlis' time
will return the farmer live times, in this extra
gain it produces, as much as this treatment has
cost him.
The Snoddy Remedy Co., of Alton. 111., is now
putting up this wonderful treatment. Thoy
ha.eabook which fully explains the process,
tii at will be sent free to anyone who will bend
their name and address to The snoddy Remedy
Co., Box 22, Alton, 111. Every farmer should
write at once for this free book.
terests of the nation of such mo
mentous consequence to the general
welfare, that no sound economic law
can be found to warrant, or to ex
cuse it.
''The nation is now shivering on
the .verge of financial disaster, nor
can that disaster be long deferred,
though the treasury department trans
fers uncounted millions of national
credit, together with all its surplus
money, into the hands of tho 'pet
banks' of the administration, and for
the relief and support of the trusts,
their combines and credit schemes of
plunder and financial chicane. Tho
system is vicious, and must go
down, and out, before the rebellion
of an "Ssnlightened public sentiment.
And when that time comes, the sil
ver dollar will be at a premium over
gold as it was in New York City, in
August 1893.
"The silver dollar is particularly
the money of the people; and we pro
test against all legislation, or con
struction of legislation, which shall
impair the rights of the people to
enjoy its use, receive the benefits
and share in the prosperity which an
abundant volume of money in use, in.
circulation, not locked in banks and
safe deposit vaults, but out in use,
performing the beneflcient purpose
for which money was created."
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