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tl m W i if T THAT INSURANCE GAG DREENE'S LETTER TO POLICY HOLDERS ANSWERED. .If Soma Insurance Cornpanlet Conld Pay 3 Tor Cent to Holder They Would Do Jt Colonel Itobertt Calls -Attention to b'omn Cold Cacti. Tollcyholders In the Connecticut Mu tual Llfo lnsuranco company recently received a lotter from Col. Jacob L. lOreene, president of tho company, call ing their attention to tho probable et foct tho victory of free silver would have upon life Insurance policy hold ers. Tho letter begins with tho assertion that It nover was thought necessary to provide that either premiums or poli cies should bo paid In any particular kind or quality of dollars, It being as sumed that the American people were eufflcloTitly honest to keep their dollars worth tholr face value. But now, Col. Greene says, comes a political party avowing Its purpose to mako a dollar mean three distinct and different things to wit: A gold dollar, worth as bullion 100 cents; a silver dollar, now worth aa bullion only 52 cents; a pa per promise of a dollar to bo Issued "hereafter by tho government, redeem able In 100-cent gold dollars, 52-cent or less) silver dollars or in new prom- iseo to pay, at the option of the debtor or redeemer. Tho least -valuable of these dollars would remain In use. Wo should be on tho single 52-cent dollar basis, and then tho purchasing power of policies would bo cut In two. "Tho change to a silver basis," the letter. continues, "would stimulate the production of silver. Tho ores now ore easily accessible In such vast quan tities that under such changed condi tions the price woud steadily decline. On a sliver basis your policies would for the present bo paid in dollars worth only about 50 cents, and tho bulk of them probably would bo paid In dol lars worth from 25 to 33 cents. We therefore warn you that ns it is your duty to make this provision for your families so it is your present duty to see that no part of that provision is lost." J. C. Roberts of Chicago recently mailed tho following reply to Col. Greone: "Jacob L. Greene, Hartford, Conn.: "Dear Sir A copy of your circular to your policy holders has been handed to mo and I havo examined It careful ly, and In my opinion you are treading upon dangerous ground. Thcro Is an old adage which runs something llko this: 'Folks that live in glass houses should not throw stones.' How ever, you havo thrown down the gaunt let, and as an advocate of free silver I accept tho gauge of battle. "I havo had Bomo experience with life insurance companies, both as a vic tim and as an attorney. I have been called upon five times to defend the widow nnd orphnn against the scoun drellsm of life lnsuranco companies, and have won my suit in each case. 1 havo ever found that the weaker and more defenceless tho beneficiary the moro arrogant and unscrupulous was the lnsuranco company, and from my knowledge of tho companies generally ' I doubt If there 1b an .Insurance presi dent alive that would not sit up nights from now until the November election to study out some scheme to beat tho policy holders out oi ten cents on the dollar. "As a business proposition your cir cular is a falluro, for if there is any thing the American people never will submit to It la coercion, especially upon their right to exercise their own judg ment in voting. As a political propo sition you have done moro to help the cause of free Bllver than any other rich man in America. "Life insurance is something that the public knows but little about. These Institutions have posed as eleemosy nary coucerns, when as a matter of fact they rank but llttlo If any above the old Louisiana lottery. "But you have declared war, and to the utmost extent of my power the public ohall bo fully Informed upon tho methods and schemes of your class. I shall make 150 speeches upon tho stump between now and election in all of which I shall advertise the life ln suranco business, and your company In particular. The war will not end with election. I shall carry tho fight to the elate legislature of Illinois and to the congress of tho United States, and en deavor to secure the passage of laws to restrain the present companies from further power to continue their Illicit gains. "I am well versed In the statistics of life insurance, but shall leave no stone unturned nor spare any expense to se cure all tho evidence necessary to show that your interest is not in your policy holders, but that as the largest money lendoro in the world, you want to make moneyut of Its scarcity. "1 will show that It does not cost 10 per cent of the money filched from tho people to pay the death losses; 87 per cent of all the policies lapse. Of the other 13 per cent, 7 die and 6 live; the last G pay in more money than they receive. These facts, together with one other, which la that the principal ex pense of life Insurance is the salary of Its officers. This wjjl prove very in teresting to tho unfortunate victims of your scheme, and show how you have amassed $01,000,000 in less than fifty years. "Tho impudence that you and a few other life insurance presidents, assist ed by a few national bankers of tho same stamp, havo exhibited in Issuing thews circulars, surpasses my under standing nnd is only equaled by old Bob Toombs, who In 1859 threatened to call the roll of his slaves at tho foot of Bunker Hill. And It Is equally as Im potent, but tho spirit is the same. "Pleaso think thU oxer. Itemombor thla ia your country nnd that we aro American!, that tho spirit of 1776 till lingers In tho votnB of very many of our people, and what tho Amorlcan people bollovo to bo right they will havo in splto of life Insurance presi dents. Respectfully yours, "J. C. Roberts." PBOSPEROUS MEXICO. Sltrer Monomrtallltm It Itettcr Than the Gold. Through correspondence with promi nent men in Mexico, W. P. Allen, of this city, has, through tho Penny Press, presented Bomo very valuable informa tion bearing on the silver question. Of courso tho mere statement of tho ques tion as tho "silver question" Is mislead ing, from tho fact that Mexico is on a monometallic silver basis, whereas tho bimetallic basis Is what we expect for tho United States, Instead of the mono metallic gold basis. Recently Mr. Allen received a print ed lotter from Mexico, some of which he referred to an eminent Mexican authority, Mr. A. V. Temple, who Is manager of tho bureau of Information of tho Mexican Central Railway, City of Moxlco. Answering the same under date of 13th Inst., Mr. Temple writes: "In tho letter to Mr. Elder, to which you refer, certain data was given with the view of establishing the fact that the Institutions of this republic are in a prosperous condition. It is a fact that during tho tlmo of my rosidonco in this country (26 years) tho PUR CHASING POWER OF THE MEXI CAN DOLLARS HAS REMAINED ABOUTTHE SAME. Although Mexican currency has fallen In value about 50 per cent as measured In tho money of the gold standard countries, imported goods, woolens, etc., enn now be pur chased in this country at nlmost EX ACTLY THE SAME PRICE IN MEX ICAN MONEY AS WHEN GOLD WAS AT PAR. I believe that this fact Im plies THE APPRECIATION OF GOLD RATHER THAN THE DEPRECIA TION OF SILVER." This Is exactly tho point, nnd Is the nub of the whole discussion. Prices have fallen in U1I3 country alraoct exactly In the ratio that silver has fallen, cr gold risen. What we want 1b not a 50-cent, nor yet a 200-cent dollar, but such a dollar as that it is the same which the farmer gives his products for, and pays for hla taxes, interest and mortgages. He will get that with the rise that the restoration of silver will give. Further in a most interesting letter, Mr. Temple says: "In reference to real estate values: The coffee plantations of this country havo risen In value from ?75 to ?80 an acre, which was their price when gold was at par, to from ?500 to $800 an acre. This, I believe, to be duo to the fact that wo havo an ABUNDANT SUPPLY OF PRIMARY MONEY circulating among our people, and also that tho rate of exchange has Influenced In vestors of gold standard countries to Invest their money in this country. The rato of exchange has also had the effect of k-jeplng our money at home, and has stimulated Its Investment In irrigation schemes, the cultlvctlon of large tracts of land, tho establishment of manufactories and various other home Industries. "Tho foreign investor nearly doubles his capital when bringing It here, and, at the same time, has the advantage of our cheap native labor and sells hl3 products for gold on their exportation. Tho native manufacturer has prospered under silver at the expense of the for eign merchant and importer. Silver contracts Imports and stimulates ex ports." All reports agree that Mexico .pros pers under Bllver, and we know that with both gold and sliver as primary money wo should prosper again. Don't Worry. Some of the papers are suggesting that the silver party will not get a chance to voto for Bryan and Sewall because it is not a party recognized by the law. It Is to be hoped that no gold' lte will become inspired with confidence on so slender a foundation, and that no sliver man will permit himself to worry over anything so ridiculous. A silver democrat can certainly voto the straight democratic olectoral ticket. So can a silver republican. Wherever It Is deemed necessary and tho law will permit, tho silver party will make Its own nominations, but In naming elect ors It will, of course, Belect the same men whose names appear on the demo cratic ticket, for they are too shrewd to divide the silver vote. Where the law will not nllow tho same name to appear twice on the same ballot they will vote tho straight democratic electoral ticket Men who hellovo the silver Issue para mount to all others, and who have broken away from their party on that Issue, are not going to allow themselves to be disfranchised by a mere party name. Tho silver men will all vote and do it in such a way that their votes will bo counted. Don't worry. Wenr. the Wall Street Collar. MaJ. McKInley tried very hard not tb commit himself on the monetary lesue In his speech accepting the Re publican nomination and came near succeeding. One statement, howover, which ho let slip removes all doubt as to I1I3 position. He said: "The plat form adopted by the Republican na tional convention has received my I careful consideration and has my un qualified approval." That meanB that the Ohio man is unqualifiedly in favor of the gold standard. Let us hear no more from the insincere fellows who arc trying to lot themselves down easy 1 by mlsripresentlng McKinley'o finan cial views. McKInley Is a goldbug, and they are frauds, ton. Cal. The Mall, Stock- REPUBLICAN IDEA Tho man with SMALL lncomo, who Tho man with GREAT lncomo, who pays BIG interest and taxes. RECEIVES b'g interest nnd pays small taxes. OPPOSED TO INCOME TAX, BUT INTEREST MUST BE PAID IN GOLD. LABOR IS IN CHAINS. FORCED TO COMPETE WITH THE ASIATIC PRODUCERS. Mor.ton Frewen, the Gold Standard Frophet of London TelU a London I'nper That Kogland Neeili to Take Warning from Hi. Moreton Frewen, writing In tho Lon don Dally Chronicle, Bays: "Your request for a short Btatomont of tho causes which havo forced the silver question to tho front in Amorl can politics is not very easily met. In writing for tho Dally Chronlclo I should havo wished to deal particularly with tho labor nspcctB of tho Ibsuo, which, during tho past four years, has proved a liberal education to tho Amer ican workingman. Tho Interest of la bor In the silver question has been admirably summed up in tho speech to his constituents in 1894 by tho present Bpeakor of the house of representatives, Mr. Reed, of Maine. Referring to tho closing of tho Indian mints by tho government of India and tho great fall In tho prico of silver which followed, Mr. Reed said: Quote. Speaker Iteod. "We have learned from that object lesson that tho yellow man using whlto money holds at his mercy tho Industry of the white man using yellow money. This now historic sentence crystallizes tho position admirably. Tho valuo of his silver coin for tho Chinese and Ja panese races Is today as great as over, that Is to say, while silver has fallen one-half In gold value, yet its pur chasing power nt their homes Is no whit diminished. Tho result Is that tho fall in the gold prlco of silver oc casioned by tho closing of tho Indian mints, tho repeal of the .Sherman act and those other excesses of class legis lation intended, in the stock phraso of tho day, to appreciate gold and en rich bankers and other money lenders, Is today creating in tho far east a mushroom growth of industrial enter prises in mine, In field, and In factory, the exports of which Oriental indus tries compete with products of whlto labor In the markets of Europe and America on terms of great advantage because of the fall In tho prlco of sil ver. Wettern Labor Hart. "Cheap silver in tho east, silver cheapened by western legislation, In volves cheap men and women In the west, and not merely cheap men and women, but, Indeed, great masses of men and women who can get no em ployment at all. "It 1b this which has now at last awakened tho American nation, and this awakening to tho most imminent race danger which has over confront ed western nations can bo rolled upon oro many days to educate also captains of Industry in Great Britain to the murderous industrial competlon fos tered by cheap silver, by silver cheap because Its historic money demand has been restricted or oven abolished. McKInley'. Defeat Tredlcted. "The political forces behind silver appear to me to presage tho defeat of Major McKInley and his party of gold. More than anything else free silver In America stands for agrarlanlsm. There aro somo 7,000,000 farm voters In the United States a vast, scattered host, quite undisciplined, difficult to com bine, and, therefore, Impossible to buy. "I can Imagine no moro serious financial catastrophe for English In vestors than to bo lulled into a sense of false security by dally assurances of tholr New York correspondents that Mr. Bryan's candidature Is hopeless. lleneflta- of Free Silver. "Fre wllver will nt one rw change rates between Europe and all Asia, and also between Europo and South America, thereby greatly stim ulating our export trade to four-llfths of the Inhabited world, and will also at the same time secure expansion of the exports of tho United States to Europe. For lack of this expansion and consequent favorable trade balance, that great debtor nation Ib to-day In solvent, borrowing Its pay with dif ficulty and at high rates, and piling higher that debt burden which becomes more and more intolerable with each fresh fall of prices. "Whatever the United States in rais ing tho level of silver exchanges ac complishes for her own benefit she ac complishes equally for every whlto farmer and whlto working man every where." The cost of housing wheat after' thrashing is greater in the New Eng- j land states, averaging from 68 cents in I Vermont to 96 cents in Massachusetts. OP FINANCE. CAN'T HIDE THE TRUTH. The Ornate. t of Gold Standard Llart Lett the Cat Oat of the Hag. Tho Chicago Trlbuno la tho leading exponent of tho gold standard lunncy. As such it is doing great service for bimetallism. From a recent issue of that paper wo clip tho following lotter nnd reply. Comment Is ontlroly un necessary. Tho clipping was brought to this offlco by threo Republicans who havo changed their views to Bryan slnco tho latter appeared In tho Trib uno's columns. THE LETTER. , Chicago, July 31. (Editor of tho Trlbuno.) Will you please Inform mo why silver was demonetized? I am a Republican nnd expect to voto for Mc KInley, but It seems to mo that nohead way can bo mado declaring "16 to 1" a dishonest dollar until tho present dol lar is Justified. If "16 to 1" was nn hon est dollar beforo demonetization it would again bo nn honest dollar unless you Justify demonetization; If you can do that then tho dishonesty of "16 to 1" would bo as plain as tho noso on a man's face; but among tho lay advo cates of gold I havo not found ono man who could give a singlo reason, either good or bad, for demonetization. It seems surprisingly strango to mo that tho gold advocates do not see tho abso luto necessity of Justifying that act every day of tho week as a premise to tho charge of dishonesty against "16 to 1." I know among tho middle classes with whom I associate this has got to bo dono or overy mother's son of them will bo converted to free silver. This question Involves Just exactly one-half of tho "silver and gold" controversy, and yet you aro silent on this point If there is no fair and square reason for tho so-called "crime of '73," tho pooplo are going to know it in a very few weeks, and they are going to voto for silver. J. W. Curry. THE TRIBUNE'S REPLY. Tho coinage oC silver dollars was stopped in 1873 for tho solo reason that such dollars coined at tho ratio of 16 to 1 were more valuablo than tho gold dollars and consequently would not circulate. They wero molted down about as fast as they were coined and nothing was to bo gained by coining moro. (Had congress increased the amount of gold In the gold dollar in stead of wiping out tho silver dollar, thcro would havo been no crime. But tho destruction of one-half of our money was the design, and it was car ried out by this act) Tho 16 to 1 dollar of 1873 was too good. If tho bullion value of silver wero today what It was in 1873 tho sil ver dollar of 371 Vi grains would bo so good a dollar that no owner of bul lion would have his silver minted, for It would be worth moro uncoined. The dollar would bo so good it would not circulate. Free stlvcrites would not havo such a dollar on nny terms. But silver is worth only about half as much per ounce today as In 1873. Therefore a freo colnago dollar of 1896 cannot be tho honest silver dollar of 1873. Tho freo colnago of 371 grains of silver now will not and can not re sult In a dollar worth moro than about half as much as ono coined out of the samo quantity of silver nearly a quar ter of a century ngo. Silver costs to pioduco only about half what it did then. Comment Is unnecessary. The Dear, Good Hunker.. Depositor Hero's $5,000; I wish to leave it in the bank for ono year at 1 per cent. Cashier Wo don't want It; take it somewhere else. Depositor (amazed) What's tho trouble bank insolvent? Cashier No, the bank is all right, but you see the directors are afraid that Bryan will bo electod, free coin nge adopted, nnd that as a consequence, nt the end of tho year wo would have to pay you back in fifty cent dollars. Depositor (startled) Well, this Is tho first bank I ever struck that refused to mako a profit of fifty per cent. Good day. (Ho is still wondering what the world is coming to). finance or Tariff. First Printer Yes, I'm getting as much wages as I ever did, and what's belter, it buys more than It over did before. Second Prlntor That's all right; so do I whon I work, but tho great troublo 1b I don't get any work to do. P. P. That's on account of the low tariff. S. P. But the tariff is Just as high, and a little higher, than It was from 1870 to 1890. (See U. S. troasury re ports.) I'll voto for free silver this time. TO THE PRODUCERS. MANUFACTURER TELLS WHY FACTORIES ARE CLOSING. The Wlclcmt dreed of the Money l'mir In Iterating tn Kxtend I.oant to Km ploy.rt of American Labor Vote Them Donn, ' To tho Lnborlng Man. -You no doubt havo read what Banker Williams has to say. It 1b truo that you aro about to bo called on to voto for your country's good, and it is to correct tho falso im pressions of mon whoso interests aro to incrcauo tholr wealth nt your oxpenao that I wrlto. It Is nocessnry to havo a yardstick to mensuro tho length of a yard, but the stick is not tho yard; tho yard is tho distanco between the two points at tho two ends of tho stick. Tho Btlck can bo mado of plno or It may bo mado of Bteol. A steel yardstick will not mcasuro any hotter than ono of wood. Now, our government has Btntod what shall bo tho valuo of our dollar. Originally this dollar wbb tho valuo of 412V4 grains of Bllver, nine-tenths fine. Everything was bought and Bold by thiB standard of valuo; wo mado very fow Bllver dollars, but. llko tho yard- j stick, wo mado money tho parts of a dollar and tho multiples of a dollar of var'euB things; wo used gold and wo used silver, nickel and copper to mako raonoy of. Tho half-dollarB, quartor dollara and dimes aro not full weight. For years wo havo UBed only enough Bllver in two half-dollars to weigh 38R.8 gralnB. Yot all this tlmo thoso hnlf dollars represented half of 412V6 gralnB silver. Wo mado money of gold and it wbb changed at varlouB timeB to try to keep it oven with our unit of valuo 412V& grains of Bilvor. In tho year 1873 a bill was passed that changed this Btandard of valuo from 412 gralnB of Bllver to 25.8 grains of gold. Tho samo nnmo was used for this now unit tho word dollar. From that tlmo until now our mensuro of valuo haB been 25.8 grains of gold. AtBamotlmo this chango waB mado Bllver was restricted to pay ments Icsb than J5 and silver (half dol lars, quarters nnd dimes) wbb refused freo coinage. Whatever Bilvor colnago has been dono slnco that tlmo tho silver bullion has been bought by tho govern ment for that purpose Slnco 1873 mil lions of dollars of silver havo been coined by our government at tho Bamo standard weight, every dollar repre senting 25.8 gralnB of gold, nnd a law was mado that silver dollars Bhnll be full legal tender for all dobts.publlc and private, unless a contract Is made to the contrary. Every tlmo you rccelvo a silver dollar In payment for labor it represented tho valuo of 25.8 gralnB of gold, because our government will tako it in payment of dobts duo them such a3 taxes, rovenuo and duties on imports equal In valuo with gold dol lars. Tho full legal-tender law is what fixes their value. Tho Btatomont that our government will redeem silver in gold, nnd that our government keops tho valuo of sliver dollars up In that way, is false. For years past money has been get ting scarce and things which you pro duce havo been going down in price. Mnchlnery has lncrensed your ability to produco, and for that reason tho prlco of labor has not gone down nB much as goods. Had tho price of goods remained where it had been you would now got twico as many dollars for a month's work. If money had increased In quantity equal with your productions prices would have kept uniform. Man ufacturers borrow money and employ labor. When It takes moro of tho prod ucts of your labor to get tho raonoy to pny back tho debt we havo less profit, and whenever profits are cut down so wo do business at a loss we are obliged to stop our factories and you go unem ployed. That Ib tho situation now. Slnco 1833, when the banks of this country called In their loanB and de pressed business, prices havo been bo low wo manufacturers could mako no profits on borrowed money. Thereforo you are out of employment half the time or more. It Ib to your interest to increaso prices and open up the mining indus tries of our western states that will take away part of tho Idle laborers pnd lesson the number of men competing with you, which keep3 the prlco of labor down. Free colnago will increaso tho number of dollars, yet every silver dol lar represents the value of twenty-fivo and eight-tenths grains of gold. We do not propose to change our standard of value or chango tho present ratio as those gold monomctalllsts would havo you believe. We propose to bring down the valuo of gold by giving silver free colnago nnd Increasing tho amount of redemp tion money In tho nation. Tho reason you are unemployed is Because mo banks hold nearly all tho money out side the national treasury. Freo coin age makes it so that you idle laborers can go to work and dig money out of tho mountain sldo and buy tho provis ions from the farmer, the factory and the store. This puts moro money in circulation and employs more laborers. Remember that all our money Is stamped by our government and is money because of the legal-tender law nnd must be worth whatever value our government will redoem It at in pay ment of debts duo them. They tell you that freo coinage will enable men to buy bullion worth 53 cents and make you take it for a dol lar In pay for your labor. This asser tion is false. Freo coinage will in crease the value of sliver bullion Just the same as for any cause wheat would rise In value. But whatever rise there will be in silver bullion puts moro actual value in every sliver dollar In tho United States and lessens the value of gold bullion in a like amount. It will make every sliver dollar worth the Bamo when melted down an It Is in coin. It will stop tho need of keeping such n largo quantity of gold lying idle in tho treasury, as no ono will prefer gold whon tho silvor dollar nnd tho silver bullion aro of tho samo vnluo as the gold. Tho cause of tho fall In price of nllvor bullion was because demand for It as money was destroyed by stop ping freo colnago. Now rcstoro freo cotnngo and Its valuo will rlso again nnd bo will tho price of labor and goods. This country produces plenty of ovorythlng to mako us prosper, but our lawB prevent ub from using part of our resources that part most vital to tho prosperity of any nation lt monoy supply. You laborers should protect your rights, should voto for free colnago and prosperity. M. H, Daley, Manufacturer. WHAT WILL THEY DO? Antl-fillrrrltei Have Kxhau.ted Supply of Jtldlcnln. Horetoforo tho advocates of tho gold standard havo attempted to settle the question by abusing and ridiculing overybody who bellovea In tho freo coinage of silver. Tho lssuo has now reached a stage at which even tho moot oxtreme gold organs recognlzo tho ne cessity of something moro substantial and moro convincing. When threo great national partlos, representing considerably more than one-half the voting population of tho United States, makes tho freo coinage of stiver para mount to everything else, it should be apparent that It Ib something moro than a "craze." And it Ib aparont. Eplthots and Invective will not win In 1896. "Fifty-cent dollar," "sound monoy," "honest money," "crnzy fan atic," "annrchlst," and nil that array cf goldlto phrases with which wo aro bo familiar aro absolutely without mean ing and prove nothing. Tho people want nrgument and will havo It. If tho gold men cannot furnish satisfactory nrgument on their Bldo the causo is lost. Somo of tho lending papers In tho country now clearly perceive the truo situation. Tho action of tho Chlcngo Record In throwing open Its columns for a discussion of tho silver question Is a very auggcBtlve circumstance. Not long ngo a freo silver paper in Chicago was regarded almost as an un clean thing, and "business men" were nctually nfrald to advertise in ono lest it might Injure tholr business. But things nro changing. Now tho Chlcngo dally having tho largest circu lation of any paper In tho city is actu ally engaged in giving its readers the silver Bldo of tho controversy. Nothing but discussion is needed to decide tho question for freo coinage. In view of the uuBatisfactory conditions existing for, lo! these mnny years under the gold Btandard, the plan of the silver men ia surely worth a trial. No goldlto hns shown or really attompted to show how It could do any harm. They simply shout "ruin!" "disgraces" "dishonor!" but they provo nothing. Let us have argument. National Blmctnlllst. 8,000,000 SILVER SPEAKERS. Thero aro 8,000,000 blmotalllst voters In tho United States. Every ono of them Is for free and unlimited coinage of freo Bllver at tho established ratio of 16 to 1. Thero are about 5,975,000 voters In tho United States who aro not yet ready to accept freo silver, but who are greatly opposed to the present single gold standard. Thero are about 25,000 voters who favor tho singlo gold Btandard the monoy owners. What is needed in this contest Is to carry on a personal campaign of reason with tho 5,975,000 honest men who aro as yet undecided. Tho eight million free-silver advocates can accomplish much in that direction during the next few wcoks. They nro patriots, overy ono of them, and havo tho mighty truth on their side. It is not unlikely that they aro doing a great deal now, but re newed effort Is demanded, .Every Bll ver ndvocate should become a speaker for tho cause, oven though his audl onco consists of ono person. Tho Amer ican Bimetallic union, 134 Monroo street, Chicago, will be glad to hear from silver men about to start out per sonal crusades of this character. Don't Vote for Thlt. As soon as tho gold standard shall bo fixed upon tho people of thiB country tho next movo of tho monopoly bosses will be to establish a property qualifica tion for voting; then an educational one with tho usefulness of our schools cur tailed, and in tlmo tho peoplo of this country will be entirely in tho hands of a landed aristocracy. See how foreign ers are already getting hold of millions of acres of our lands. With a continued gold basis, as we are now under, there will not be one farmer In ten who can pay the Interest on the loan on bis farm, and then thoso lands will go into the hands of the landlord, and wo will have a system of tenantry, instead ot men's owning their own homes. It Is going that -way rapidly each day. Journal, Ord, Neb. Don't Vote for an Impoi.lblllty. A somewhat moro remote effect ok the silver bolt, even as the matter stands now, will be that, in the event of McKlnley's being elected, there will be no Republican protective legislation passed next congress. For four sena tors, Teller, Pettlgrew, Dubois and Cannon have left the party; and they are on record, as Senators Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, and Mantle and Carter, of Montana, are, that without free coinage no Republican tariff will be allowed to pass. Republican legisla tion will therefore be deadlocked in the senate, and tho Fifty-fifth congress, oven it the g. o. p. win an unexpected victory in November, New Orletnu Times-Democrat,