V | [ REPUBLICAN PARTY. BS j DEFENSE OF THE PLATFORM II AND PARTY RECORD. H 1 Y rlou Kinds of l snl Tender I'ipo iH 1 1 * * Silver it ClsitnMo Fraud More Alx.ut H I X > ctnont.tix.ttloii Silver Dulujloiu B I C.iiiiiial ii Notes. H "Various Kinds of I > cal Tender. M The Fourth National bank in the city H Of Now York has issued a leaflet , which H fjives the following concise and cor- H rect statement of the Various kinda pf H i | legal tender under , the present laws of H | i < | the United States : H j8j • Gold c ° in is a legal tender in all pay- BMl 'mentswithout any limit as to amount. HS | The silver dollar of the acts of 1792 , Bs | . 1837 and 1878 is a full legal tender to Bflg any amount. The trade dollar was a Hk | _ legal tender to the amount of five dol- HBjj lars , "but has no legal tender qualifica- Hj | | tions now. HR All fractional silver coin now minted Hff i * s a legal tender to the amount of ten HHj dollars. n Minor coin is a legal tender to the HS 'amount of . > twenty-five cents. ffj United States notes ( "greenbacks" ; H | | we a legal tender in payment of all B ! debts , public and private , except for Hh ! duties on imports and interest on the Hff ! public debt. H | Gold certificates are not a legal ten- H | < 5er , but may be issued in payment of Hj ' f interest on the public debt and are re- HbI p ceivable in payment for customs , taxes k . and all public dues. Sg | Silver certificates are not a legal ten- BE Ger. but are receivable for customs , M taxes and all public dues. Hp Currency certificates are not a legal Bf | tender for any purpose , but may be B counted as part of the lawful money H reserve of the banks and may be ac- BM -cepted in the settlement of clearing- H louse balances. Bg | ' - United States treasury notes of 1890 H § -are a legal tender in payment of all H -debts , public and private , and are receivable - § 1 -ceivable for customs , taxes and all pub- Kgl ' lie dues. They may be counted as a if part of the lawful reserves of the banks Hpf and are redeemable in gold or silver Hf | coin in the discretion of the secretary * Klf -of the treasury. HE National bank notes are not a legal Rfi tender except that they are receivable Hg | lor all dues to the United States except Hb duties on imports and for all debts and H | demands owing by the United States , H except interest on the public debt and Bj in redemption of the national currency. Bj Each national bank is required to receive - B -ceive at par for any debt or liability B to it , the notes of every other national * H bank. Albany Argus. * * Hj Free Silver a Gigantic Fraud. H J It is really awful the way silver has H j teen mistreated by the United States. B fThink of it ! Prior to the "crime of B 1873" only eight millions of silver dol- B I lars were coined by the government B and there was free coinage then. But Hj since that "notorious crime" the gov- H ernment coined $420,000,000 in silver H dollars and purchased $150,000,000 in B . - „ - • silver bullion and issued treasury notes B thereupon. Of course that was con- B trading the currency. B The "crime" seems to have been due B to the fact that the more silver the B United States purchased the less its B > j God XS1C3S Him for It. H w/w v Hp W sis/Mm. ! m wSbSmBm * | H "Every fibre of his being thoroughly B American. " 1 'bullion value. If silver depreciated so | rapidly in value when it was bought in B comparatively small quantities , will it H not necessarily follow that when the H "United States coins it free at the mints H in enormous quantities it will be even H more overproduced and its value con- H stantly shrink ? The fact is that there H has been such a great production of H ' silver , such competition among the H miners themselves , that the supply ex- H cecds the demand and sliver is really H no longer , unless international agree- H anent can be secured for its coinage , a H money metal. It has become a com- H mercial commodity only and is now H Etcadily decreasing in value except H wherein speculative demand has artifi- H cially increased its market quotations. H The United States ha ? been exceed- B i i { IM . .mi . . . i.i.i..i. . i nrtniimfi ' ' • ' 1 , * ° w3 * ' " ' " _ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' - ' " • * . 'MLr-i * * - ' - - ' "r , I s i s i i I ingly friendly to silver and the time came when the increasing of the gov ernment's stock by the purchase of 4,500,000ounces monthly became a menace. Silver was falling so rapidly in value and the wide divergence be tween it and gold , at the existing ratio , widened so constantly that the flooding of the nation with the depreciated coin was dangerous and the difficulty of maintaining it at a parity with gold was so great that congress repealed the law providing for the purchase of the bullion. The country was simply in danger of being swamped by silver. Now the silver bugs would have us undo the good work performed by the repeal in 1890 made necessary by the growing lack of confidence in the gov ernment's ability to continue all monies a a parity by coining all the bullion in the United States , that of France and China as well , and all old silver coffee pots and silver spoons into money which would be worth less , by reason of its excessive supply , than fifty-three cents to the dollar. Thus free silver means giving the nation a currency depreciated at least 47 per cent and compelling the laboring man to accept a silver dollar whose purchasing value could not be more than 53 per cent of the dollars now in circulation in lieu of money worth the world over one hundred cents to the dollar. The demand for silver coinage now is a fraud , a bunco game , and the victims selected are the wage-earners , for they , les3 than any one else , can af ford to have the purchasing power of their money reduced 47 per cent or more. The laboring man who wants a good dollar will vote for McKinley. That is necessary or he votes to destroy his ability to live as well as he does now. Eloquent periods and blasphe mous metaphors cannot change the sit uation. Free silver is a gigantic fraud. Springfield ( O. ) Union. Silverlte Delusion * . The fomenters of hatred among the people pretend that the silver agitation is for the benefit of the many against eke few , for the poor against the rich. Should the country descend to the de preciated standard of silver the dupes of this belief would discover , when too late , that the fatal tendency of the Cheap Money policy would be to strengthen and increase the possession of wealth among the lev : . While mul titudes of thrifty and prosperous people ple would undoubtedly be ruined by the desperate experiment , not a dollar of their wealth would find its way to the possession of the many ; it would make the few who control and command large amounts of money only the richer in affording them opportunities for profitably speculating on the general distress. Such has been the universal experience in all epochs of depressed currency and financial panic. So far from being widened , the circle of the prosperous and rich would be only nar rowed by the reckless policy of the sil- verites. The power of the "gold bugs" and "money sharks , " against whom the silverite warfare is foolishly waged , would be greater than ever , and would be more unscrupulously exercised than ever before. The gleam of factitious prosperity under a system of debased and inflated money would soon pass away , and would be followed by a long night of industrial and social gloom. There is , in short , no form of econ omical , social or political development which the free silver scheme is not cal culated to arrest more violently than if a disastrous war , a famine or an Egyptian plague should strike the land. Yet the illusory prospect of creating weaKa and prosperity out of nothing by deeply debasing the nation's stand ard of value seems to have a strange and unaccountable fascination for mul titudes of people something like the attraction of the lighthouse lamp on the seacoast , which lures innumerable flocks of migratory birds to their cer tain destruction. But the simile badly limps. It would , perhaps , not matter so much if these persons should shatter their own wings only , if their course did not threaten so many millions of innocent people. Philadelphia Record. More About Demonetization. Nashville Center , Martin County , Minn. , Aug. 2 To the Editor : I notice in your column of Notes ana Queries in your paper of July 23 , in answer to the question whether a person is obliged to receive silver dollars in pay ment of a debt , you answer that he is , silver dollars being legal tender to any amount. Now , this being so , in what or of what does the demonetization of silver consist ? George Boler. _ , , . . , . , . * . . i ii ' . . . .V' ' i . " J" ' " ' " " ' ' " U' ' " ' " ' " _ _ . . . . - . ; , , _ ' ' ' " ? . „ . , , lmn . . ' % f * ' I ii * - - 'i- ' ' . ' j * -gg - * < * . 'T" " ! ' ' " " ' "r ° ; 'J' ' y. " " y _ _ . , . ! V , . - . .j 4 It consists of impudence and wind. Before 1873 there had been no silver dollars in circulation in this country for thirty years. This was because the silver in the silver dollar would sell for more money as bullion , to be used in the arts , than the gold in the gold del lar. The gold dollar being the cheaper had driven the silver dollar out of cir culation , so that in 1873 few men under forty years of age had ever seen one. For this reason when a law was enacted in 1873 codifying all previous acts in relation to coinage so as to simplify them and adapt them to modern condi tions , then obsolete silver dollar was dropped from the list of coins provid ed for in the act. Subseqently to this in consequence chiefly of the great re lative increase in the production of sil ver and of the closing of the mints of Germany and other countries to its free coinage silver began to decline rapidly in value. So that in a short time it became cheaper than gold. Then the owners of silver mines began to clamor for reopening our mints to the free coinage of silver dollars. As sil ver was then cheaper than gold , if this had been done the cheaper silver would have driven out the gold. Congress , therefore , refused to yield to the de mand of the silver miners ; but in 187S it reopened the mints to the coinage of all the silver that could be main tained at par with gold. Since that time we have coined 430,000,000 dollars and have authorized the coinage of about 150,000,000 more , which is over seventy times more silver dollars than had been coined in our mints during the entire history of the nation before 1873. These silver dollars are a full legal tender for all debts. Silver had been practically demonetized by the coinage act of 1834 , which raised the ratio from 15 to 1 to 16 to 1 , with the result of driving all silver from circu lation. By the acts of 1878 and 189G we have remonetized silver to the enor mous extent mentioned , and then hav ing reached the farthest limit where it was possible to maintain our silver dol- AND LABOR WILL AGREE WITH HIM. "I believe it is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open up the mints of the Unit ed States to the silver of the world. " Major McKinley to His Old Comrades , lars on a par with gold , -we stopped the further coinage of. silver , just as it had been stopped in all the great silver us ing countries of Europe for the sams reason. St. Paul Pioneer Press. CAMPAIGN NOTES , The way in which some free silver democrats nowadays refer to the doc trines of Jefferson is absurd. Thomas Jefferson was as strong a sound money man as Alexander Hamilton. He fa vored the use of both silver and gold as money , as do most sound money men now ; but only on the basis of a ratio that would maintain the parity between them. In other words , he con tended that the ratio should be the com mercial ratio existing between the two metals. That is heaven wide from the doctrine of the free silver men. They nowhere propose to make the silver dollar equal in commercial value to the gold dollar. It is an essential point in their platform that the silver dollar must be a cheap dollar. Burlington ( Vt. ) Free Press. It is impossible to make sale of pig iron because of the agitation for free silver. The use of iron is so general in nearly all forms of industrial under taking that the demand for it , or the lack of demand , is a sure indication of the condition of the business pulse. The stoppage of the sales of pig iron has led to the stoppage of the produc tion of ore in the Rockefeller mines at Bessemer , Mich. , throwing 7,000 men out of work. The continuance of the silver agitation will , no doubt , further aggravate and intensify the conditions of doubt and insecurity which compel prudent men to a wise inactivity until the storm shall have blown over. Philadelphia Record. Advocates of free silver argue that the increased demand which would be a forced and not a real demand would raise the price of silver bullion so that the make-believe ratio of one to sixteen would become the com mercial ratio. That is a guess based on a fallacy. The experiment has been tried and found a dismal failure. Under the Bland law the government coined $2,000,000 worth of silver a month ; but the price of silver bullion kept drop ping. Under the Sherman bill the government bought 4,500,000 ounces of silver a month ; but silver kept drop ping. The "boy orator" pledges himself - self to do what no nation on earth has t ever been able to do keep gold and silver on a parity at a ratio other than the real or commercial ratio. Binghamton - hamton ( N. Y. ) Republican. t , . . . . i..ihi- > imiii ii wni i i.m i wmu ' ! miimsahiAsy w1 . : ; . . . r " : y - sRr &JT | ! UlriXa-MUJM I" W f * * * ' I IlT.l . i MMIIII | WP4I IMI'IW " HENDRIX'8 SPEECH. TALK ON MONEY TO MOROCCO MANUFACTURERS. v Glad They Are Not AsUlnj ; to Have Leather Kemnnetlzoit Tells Why Clam Shells Were Demonetized Civil ization arid Bvolutlon Advancing. The Shoe and Leather Reporter pub lishes the following speech made by the Hon. Joseph C. Hendrix at the dinner of the National Morocco Manufac turers' association of the United States at Manhattan Beach early this month : Mr. President and Gentleren I am glad to see you , "men of small brains and large capital. " I am glad always to face successful men in an American industry. You represent a trade which years ago furnished material for the money instrument. There was leather money once and plenty of it. You have never set up any cry because of the de monetization of leather , never asked redress for the "crime" of the abandon ment of the use of leather as money. You do not now ask for its remonetiza- tion. tion.Mr. Mr. Stein Nor for free tannage. Mr. Hendrix No ! Therefore , I have great respect for two people , the North American Indian and the morocco manufacturer. Along these sand dunes from Manhattan to Montauk point , the antiquarian can point to great heaps of shells where the old squaws used to sit and practice the free coinage of wampum. After a while a smart Yankee invented a turning lathe which trans formed the clam shells into money too fast. This led to the demonetization of the Long Island clam. ( Laughter. ) The poor Indian has passed off to the plains and we hear no more of the free coinage of clams. These are simply evolutionary steps. You look back to the beginning of your industry and marvel at the changes. The world advances. Civilization re fines. Commerce requires exact terms and measures. It insists upon certain ty , fixity in the standard of values. It must have something upon which it can depend. It has found out that it must depend upon some one thing. That is why it has veered to the single stand ard. It has quit stepping from one standard to the other. It makes its election. It votes for gold because of its great value in small compass and because of the fixity of that value. So it is that one great nation after an other , under the command of its best intelligence , has come to the gold standard. It is because they have found it the cheapest , best and most effective standard by which to measure all val ues. ues.What What does a standard mean ? What is its primary significance ? It comes from an old Latin word meaning some thing to turn to. When you are in doubt you go to the standard. I don't care what line of business you are in or what course of life you pursue , a stand ard governs it somehow or other. You ride on a railway on a standard guage , 3'ou sit at a table of a standard height , and so on through the list. The stand ard must be the thing it stands for. If you have a standard of weight , it mav be of diamonds or precious stones , but it has got to have weight that is the first thing. If you have a standard of lengthritmust have length. And when you come to the question of the stand ard of value , whatever it is made of it has got to have value. You can talk about the whole ques tion of finance in 100 different lights. But this is the main point you must have a standard of value. That stand ard must have value. We choose for the standard the metal which fluctuates the least in value. That is the whole story of the gold standard. ( Cheers. ) Our friends out in Chicago claim that the gold standard is a British policy which we are seeking to enforce in this country. Did you ever hear anything about British policy in con nection with the law of gravitation era a British policy of good health against bad health good clothes against shod dy ? There are other countries in the world besides Great Britain. We do not have to look to Great Britain to know what is a good thing. ( Great applause. ) We are old enough and big enough to know a good thing when we see it. Ours is a country that for 60 years has been under the gold stand ard. You have never known anything else. AU you have was built upon the gold standard. The greatness and de velopment of this country have been attained under that standard. How is the world lining up on this question ? China , Japan and Mexico are for free silver. Great Brhain , Germany , France and the great empires of Europe are for gold. Where do we belong ? There is only one answer. Can any one fancy that our great population , made up of 70,000,000 of the best examples of the Anglo-Saxon race , mixed with Irish wit , Scotch cunning , German thrift , is going to step from the high plane where we stand to the lower one beneath ? What strange madness has come into the American people lb make it seem possible that they could do a thing of that kind ? ( Applause. ) We can live on a silver basis after we get there. Our great rivers will follow their courses to the sea. God's uun will kiss the earth. The crops will spring forth. Children will be born and grow up. Enterprises will go for ward. But are we going to take the leap in the dark and try an experiment fraught with such risk and panic ? A gerat French economist once said that when he was 40 , he thought he under stood something about finance. When he was 60 , he felt he did not know as much about it as he did at 40 , and at 70 he began to doubt whether he knew anything about it at all , and scarcely dared to oppn his mouth. Mr. Glad stone pondered over ihe question till ' " " • VHWJ' JBBBBBWBBIwiBiBiT T < m i33HWhBPHI W he said that it seemed almost to defy human Intellect , but Ben Tillman , from South Carolina , knows that the gold- bugs of Wall street and vampires of Lombard street are "agin the farmer , " and the way the farmer can get even is to cut his dollar In two. ( Applause. ) We are living in a grand and awful time. But the newspapers are printed every day , and the Americans are not asleep. The brain of the American people is not dull. Their hearts are not dishonest. These heresies come and go as the tide flows , and sometimes in the thickest of the night we may not appear to see the stars that are shining. But you remember on one historic occasion , when the sky was all covered with fog , some one asked , "Oh , say , can you see by the dawn's early light the star spangled banner yet waving ? " And it was there ! ( Ed' thuslastic cheers. ) Where Are the Benefits ? If 50 cent silver dollars should dou ble the prices of farm products , it is quite as certain that the prices of all the products which the farmer con sumes would double In the same way. In that case it is not easy to see how 'the ' farmer would gain anything by the j , free coinage of silver. Even the wages j I of labor , the last to rise in an epoch of depreciated currency and inflated prices , would finally , after much dis tress of the workingmen , straggle up to the common level. But whether the farmer should re ceive ? 100 for 100 bushels of wheat and pay out $90 for the necessaries of living or should receive ? 200-for the same wheat and pay out ? 1S0 , in both cases the balance on hand would have just the same purchasing power. But ( in accomplishing the degradation of. the monetary standard , which could ! do neither the farmer nor the wage- earner' any good , an enormous depre ciation of values and confiscation of ac cumulated earnings , involving public and private credit in a maelstrom of destruction , would inevitably ensue. Are the farmers and workingmen of the country willing to invoke such a catastrophe ? Philadelphia Record. False Hopes for Labor. \ t J v The Iue In Pure Silver. Stop bothering your head about the figures 16 to 1 , leave the gold standard out of the question , for there is no direct issue upon it , and consider the real issue , silver. A lump of silver of a certain size , 3714 grains in weight , is to-day worth 53 cents. The Bryan proposition is that the government shall stamp it a dollar. That would be fiat money mak ing of the same sort as the govern ment's setting its printing presses to . work and turning out without limit dollars of paper. It is fiat dishonesty. It is pregnant with trouble for every man , laborer or capitalist , who lives by industry , and it would leave to the United States the hurt of lasting mistrust in the mind of every industrial investor and lead er , American or foreign. Beat it as the American voters beat the populists four years ago by 10 to 1. Exchange. The Pensioner's Dollar. The government pays about $140,000- 000 a year to pensioners. The payments last year were $141,395,229. Every one ( of these dollars was worth 100 cents ' • and equal to a dollar in gold. j If the policy of the Chicago platform and party should be made effective by legislation , every dollar thereafter received - { ceived by a pensioner would be worth ! only 53 cents. It would be called a dollar lar , but in the purchase of a pensioner's ' supplies it would go only so far as 53 \ cents go now. The buying power of the j pensioner's monthly allowance , like f that of the depositor's money , still to j be paid out of the savings bank , and the value of policies to be paid by life insurance companies , would be reduced by nearly one-half. New York Times. Dearnos * Not the foaI. The silver men give away their case when they say that free coinage will "increase prices. " The one universal human interest is cheapness. The ideal condition would be one wherein all de sirable things were produced without any cost at all. Every advance toward that condition that is to say , every cheapening of the necessities of life is a great gain for everybody. On the other hand , every increase in the price of the necessities of life is a direct and grievous hurt to the people. Free Coinage In a Nutshell. A fine ounce of gold is worth $20.67. Sixteen ounces of silver are worth $11.20. Congress can legislate until it is black in the face without making the ounce of gold worth less or the 1G ounces of silver worth more. New York Press. Cheap and trashy money in which to pay wages , high prices for every kind of goods which labor buys these are the blessings of free silver for the American workingmen. 7 } | 1 Mackerel a la Itallcac \W i H I An Italian fashion for cookln ? * "ah 1 % i H , mackerel is to make a dressing ; from ' # * . i H I tablespoonful of butter , mixed with ft $ J V little minced shallots , parsley and the „ Vl . t preen tops of young onions. Spread v fjf H this on the fish , wrap them well m \g. • ? IBM ' strong white paper , saturated witlx'l H olive oil , and boil or bake them in Tfe. ' j | H quick oven. Garnish them with lemon 7\ii H and parsley. Sweet peas , seasoned J ri H with shallot and minced parsley , are 1 | | K also sometimes served with fresh mack- ( l H creL Salt mackerel is very good cooked Mf H after the English fashion , that is , by * fjJ H immersing it half an hour in water ij A i H containing a handful of fennel and H \ * J H dash of vinegar. Brain and serve witu J y ji H hot gooseberry sauce. ; Jf | Too T.ate to Blend. SJ I There Is a point borond which modlcatlon ifi l cannot go. Hoforo It Js too lata to mend , * 9 l ' poraons of a rheumatic tendency , inherited 3 | I or acquired , should uao that benignant dp- BL H fenso against the further progress f the supor-tonaclous malady -rheumatism. Ihe name of this proven rescuer Is llostotter J1BBI Stomach Bitters , which , it should also be fs BI recollected , cures dyspepsia , liver comISBBfl plaint , tover and aguodeblllty and nervous- \HB | ness. t-UBBh To Suit Any Weather. * ! A pretty , yet servicablo crown , which , / | H was imported lately , would suit any i | kind of ordinary weather. It was \ | Bfl | mad in moss-jjreen canvas , lined with < * i Bfl a bright shade of pink. The tightfitS / I H ting basque bodice had long , square • . ! H revers of white satin , over which fell \ j | ; cascades of coffeo-colored lace , and the ' • l l vest , of" white chiffon , was also veiled uL V | | with lace. Pink ribbon encircled the ' / * # - ' J H waist and the neck , which was finished > j < - Sf B with pointed motifs of lace. \ * MH | Tlall's Catarrh Cure $ J iBBl Is a constitutional cure. Price , 75c ' • 'iBBl % The ltcason Why. § < CfBHI Party- with Demijohn Why don't ' ' : Hh you lay in a stock of whisky for Sun- ' < J § § - . day on Saturday night , the same as I > I U do ? / * ( H Other Party Man alive , do you sup- } 0 rB H pose I would be able to sleep if I knew H H there was whisky in the house ? I'd jB H bo walking the floor the whole night. ! Truth. ! 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H l0fSp n Circulars eivins full descrip- / M tion of the Rich . Mineral. Fruit and Agricnhuffr M ? & et MIsi , write to / - \2irlZ5Y { anaserof the Missouri , JH QTE A BIV WE . PAT CASH WEEKLY nd V H UlCRUI "ant men everywhere to SEU. W M , PATENTS. CLAIMS I PENSIONS " W. N. U „ 031 AHA-37 L896 I When writing Jto advertisers , kindly j | mention this paper. J ( JH • Sit M