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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1898)
1 i i Ui ft h H ife i i f 4 i I r r yE - U 3i r -- V - HIGH OR LOW PRICES Tho following question vras asked of - Mr Owen fusion candidate for Con press In Minneapolis Supposing Vna present amount of money is doubied and that prices in consequence should increase in llie same proportion where would the benefit come in For example A now sells 1000 bushels of wheat for o00 after the increase in money he gets 1000 for his wheat but he can buy no more with his 1000 than be could ivirh his 300 Mr Owens answer was as follows If one is to spend his entire income as he goes along gives no thought to accumulation and is out of debt it would make no difference providing everything weut up or down in exactly the same proportion But no man is prosperous unless he sells more than he buys The laborer must sell his la bor for more than it costs him to live or he is ever a slave the farmer must get more for his crops than it costs to produce them or he will be in the same fix the merchant must sell more than he buys including cost of doing busi ness or he will soon lie a bankrupt If a farmer sells 1000 bushels of wheat for 300 and expends in the operation 400 he has 100 left If he gets double price for his wheat and pays double expenses his balance is 200 If he is in debt and that is the condition of most farmers unfortunately the dif ference to him is enormous for he can pay iwice as much debt with the same eifort as under low prices But it is not true that all products will advance exactly alike Destroy trusts for in stance and without that no monetary system will afford much relief and many articles of necessity would not advance because they are already high er priced than they would be if com petition obtained in their manufacture and sale And again processes of mak ing many things the farmer has to buy are cheapening much faster than the methods of producing farm crops and while more abundant money would make the price of the lirst higher they would ever be relative to cost of pro duction Railroad transportation would net be higher because it has not de creased locally with the decrease of price of commodities Taxes would be no higher by reason of more money for taxes have not decreased by reason of lew money And certain other fixed or arbitrary charges are in the same condition But better than all figures and theories are the fact of history and experience and they prove that pros perity is always more general and trade and industry flourishing the peo ple more contented and happier in pe riods of high prices At the close of J8iT Hugh McCulloch Secretary of the Treasury reported oliicially that the people are now substantially out of debt and that was after a period of excessively high prices and high taxes There is no better test of the real pros perity of a people than their freedom from debt In periods of high prices people can and do buy more homes are better and better furnished and their inmates better clothed deprivations and want are minimized labor is better employed merchants are busier rail roads have more to do factories are crowded with work and farmers are in their best estate The worlds ages have been dark or light as money has been scarce or abundant or prices high or low No theories of those who now want to enslave the worlds producers by the bond method can dissipate these facts of historv Coinage Ratio Wiiy should the coinage ratio be tween silver and gold be fixed at 1G to IV Because that is the proportion as near as can be ascertained in which the metals exist in the earth It is therefore the true ratio Although for several years the pro duction of one metal at that ratio ex ceeds the other yet in a long series of 3cars the total amount produced is very near sixteen times as much silver as gold or at coinage value about equal 1 The table of the production of silver and gold from 1741 to the present time shows that there was produced in that period 300459124 ounces of gold and n727S41723 ounces of silver Divide the silver by the gold and you will ob tain as the result 13 8 9 That demon strates that for the period of more than 150 years there was almost exactly 10 times as many ounces of sliver pro duced as of gold and that the coinage value of the same was about equal Our geld friends tell us that the mint is open to the free coinage of silver in Mexico and ask why does not that es tablish the parity of the metals They talk of Mexico as if it were a gigantic power Do you know that the com merce of Mexico is not equal to that of the State of Illinois and would you ex pect the State of Illinois unaided by the rest of the States in the Union to establish the parity of the metals The reason Mexico does not establish the parity of the metals is because it is not sufficiently powerful in commerce to do so but when you compare Mex ico with tihe United States you compare a pigmy to a giant You must remember that this great nation is composed of forty five great States and that an act of Congress is simply an interna tional agreement in itself among those forty five great States In determining what a powerful -effect such a nation as tho United States would have in establinhing the parity of the metals you must take into consideration the pivotal position that it occupies as to the monetary r tems of the world The silver stand ard nations which make their demands upon silver alone for currency consti tute one fourth of the nations of the world in commercial importance Silver Kemonctizatiou Republicans who are extremely anx ious to convince the people that silver sentiment is dead are saying that events have changed the conditions since 1S9G In what direction have the conditions been changed Is the op pression of the people because of the gold standard relaxed in any degree Are the prices of real estate advanced Has the farmer experienced any bene fits not brought about by foreign causes such as the famine in India and the short crop of wheat abroad As a matter of fact the necessity of bring ing about the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1 is more apparent to day than ever And as another matter of fact there are more people to day in the United States who favor such a change than there were in 1896 In the south the silver question is very much alive but not more so than in the west and northwest So far as labor is concerned the conditions are such as to demand the remonetization of silver In this connection the At lanta Constitution says In certain classes of labor the cot ton operatives of New England wages are in some instances below the pauper labor of Europe A gold standard ad- rtetP lines are now being definitely asstrrea and all material bought People are beginning to buy lauds outside of city limits The suburb5 are all showing a healthy growth and in the heart of the city the tearing down of old build ings and replacing them with modern ones goes on without cessation And this seems to be an example of condi tions throughout the republic How is k possible that a gold stand ard paper in geld standard New En gland can give publicity and credence to such reports about a silver standard country a countiy of S0 cent dollars How about that other countiy com posed largely of the same kind of peo ple that inhabit Mexico that gold standard country Spain A written answer is not necessary everybody knows it Only a little over a year ago the foregoing description would have applied to Japan as well as Mexi co Japan was a silver or bimetallic country and was developing and pros pering in a marvelous manner She was buncoed into adopting the gold standard and is now in the market as a heavy borrower of gold to relieve the severe business depression she is ex periencing War may distract atten tion from it for a time scarcity of prod ucts may for a few months seem to disprove it but the passing jears pro claim with doleful emphasis that the gold standard is a blight that withers wherever it strikes Japan Was Buncoed There was no country in the world more prosperous than Japan until she was induced to adopt the gold stand ard When the usurers got their clutch on her throat strangulation speedily ensued War indemnity is not the trouble Germany was prosperous un til she fell under the gold standard She conquered Austria and France and created the German Empire under tho SPREADING IT ON Vindication of St Alger Chicago Democrat vocate will either not admit this or he will say that it is not a serious matter but it is a very serious matter Indeed By cutting off a part of our money sup ply we have suffocated demand in our home markets To remedy this we have reduced wages to the European pauper level in order that we may compete with the products of this pauper labor in its own natural markets Can that which gives the whip hand to misery poverty distress and degradation in this country be called a great victory for American trade No indeed silver sentiment is not dead nor have events changed the con ditions since 1896 The monetary ques tion is the great issue of to day and will continue to be the great issue until it is settled and settled right Sixteen to One or Bust In response to a letter of inquiry writ ten to Secretary Gage the treasurer of the department at Washington states the total cost of the Spanish war from the beginning until August 31st after the close at 105000000 This is less than half the amount of the gold the McKinley administration is now hoard ing in the treasury yet it has had the hardihood to force an issue of 200 000000 in bonds to draw interest from the scanty earnings of American laborl This money was not borrowed for war purposes but to prevent the circulation of other money of the 200000000 in Mr McKinleys Wall street war chest The -Wall street plutocracy compels the producers of the country to pay interest on one bond issue after another in order to maintain the gold reserve that is to keep over 200000 000 in gold locked up out of circulation in order to increase the demand for and interest on national bank notes A na tional bank note represents the extreme of inflation It is 100 cents less than nothing To demonetize silver and lock up gold in order to force the inflated and valueless paper of private corpor ations into circulation on the public credit is not only to invite but to com pel panic after panic For the business of the country not less than for the Democratic party it is 1G to 1 or bust St Louis Journal of Agriculture Gold Silver Prosperity A City of Mexico special to the Bos ton Herald says The general rise in real estate value is noteworthy Many large industrial concerns are being established here and large tracts of land near the rail way have in six months quadrupled in price while suburban lots show a continual upward tendency The city is growing as never before in its his tory and electric traction street cr silver standard Her troubles began when the usurers induced Bismarck tc accept the gold standard That great man bitterly repented what he called a great mistake claiming that he had been misled by the financiers Cleveland Recorder To Whitewash Alger It is quite just to call the committee appointed to investigate the conduct of the war McKinleys committee Mc Kinley appointed the members of this committee to investigate the proceed ings of Alger who was also appointed by McKinley and it looks as though the whole thing would be stricltly a family affair The whitewashing job has begun The Chicago Democrat feels justified in calling it a whitewash ing job from the fact that a large work ing majority of the members of this committee is made up of strong admin istration partisans and from the con duct of the committee since it arrived in Washington It is alleged that all of the members of the committee seem to be very friendly to the administra tion This is significant of the kind of verdict that will be rendered Should the committee continue to work In se cret it will demonstrate its inability to understand the temper of the people and its findings will have little or no weight when they are made public Reform Needed in Army Affoira The only way in which we can avoid a repetition of the misconduct of our armies in case we again become in volved in war is a reorganization of our military system on the latest and most approved lines of the science of warfare and to absolutely eschew poli tics in its administration We do not require a large standing army but we do need a thoroughly modernized uni fied system capable of standing any strain that niay be put upon it De troit Free Tress An Incredible Report Washington dispatches state that Mr McKinley is considering an order changing the civil service rules so as to permit a large number of appointments without competitive examinations to offices now under the civil service rule We shall not believe it unless we are compelled to Such a changewould be in direct violation to the party platform and of his own still more explicit vol untary public pledges New York Times Just So McKinley was elected President be cause he was powerless to do aught but the will of his masters Of a quiet dis position -orderly and well disposed he takes care of his family goes to church and leaves Lombard and Wall streets to take dare of the state 2SZSSm5mtaiSlgy yigPF visTss amRaSBsa5SSSSS5 Cultivating in an Orchard Young fruit trees greatly need to have the soil about them cultivated In working about trees however the whifiletree is almost sure to bruise the bark sometimes quite spoiling the tree unless the greatest care is exercised The cut shows a neat little device for avoiding this difficulty A bit of old KmJSir ffjj trace is tied to the whifiletree and car rier about its end as shown It is then tied to the trace when it will prevent the whifiletree iron or wood from bruis ing the bark of any tree it happens to strike The importance of preventing injury to young trees is recognized by but few If badly hurt the tree never fully recovers Farm Poultry Houses It is much better where large num bers of fowls are to be kept to build several houses for them and to make them light enough so that they can be drawn on a stone sled from place to place thus avoiding contamination of soil and the disease which will almost certainly follow if the same land is used for a hen run From twenty to thirty hens are enough for a single house If more are kept they will be in each oth ers way and it will be strange if egg eating or other bad habits do not be come contagious among them The most important thing about the location of the poultry houses is ihat all the land around them shall be underdrained This will enable the plow or cultivator to be used almost any time when the ground Is unfrozen Drained land is much dryer for poultry than the hill side or knoll which is often recommend ed for that purpose Honse for Winter The cut shows a method of securing great warmth in- a house that can be used either for poultry or for the stor age of fruit in winter An exeavation c 4 Wlj P THE EXCWATIOy is made in a side hill as shown- in the first picture A stone foundation wall is then laid and the house shown in the second illustration erected Not a great amount of excavating is required as the earth that Is thrown out helps build up the bank that is- to protect the house on all sides A drain laid below the nousn COMPLETE foundation and brought around to the south entrance will take care of the water that comes down from the higher ground Late Piss Pigs farrowed during September will get a good start before winter Late pigs are liable to be checked by severe cold The most profitable pigs how ever are those farrowed in the spring and slaughtered late in the fall as they need not be kept over winter Farmers do not now give much atten tion to raising pigs farrowed in the fall unless they are patrons of a creamery and have an abundance of material for feeding which only the pigs will con sume Unripe Corn as Seed It is a mistake to suppose that only after corn has glazed it is fit to be saved for seed It will grow equally quickly if in the milky stage provided due care is taken to dry it out before it is frozen This unripe corn loses a great deal while drying and makes a very shrunken appearance But the germ is in it and it will sprout more quick ly than grain that has a larger amount of starch But the germ is not so strong as that from well ripened corn that has been well cared for and the latter is therefore always to be prefer red in saving seed There are some- sTFlfeg vT PM MH WW TW times seasons when It is hard to find well ripened corn for seed and it raayj interest some to know that unripe corn can bo used for seed in such cases Harnesses to Pit Hornes Whenever a horse is sold the harness In Avhich it has been used to working ought always to go with the bargain Xo two harnesses were ever made to fit alike and especially where the pres sure comes on the shoulder or neck in drawing The skin under the old har ness has been gradually toughened by pressure on one spot But with the new harness the pressure is shifted it may be only an inch or two but it comes where the skin is tender and will quick ly break when exposed to the collar If the whole harness cannot go be at least sure -to secure the collar with any new horse purchased so that the ani mal can work without being tortured The collar once used for one horae never ought to be used for another Uncleanly Milking The souring of milk is caused by bac teria which are in the dirt on the cows udder milkers hands pails strainer and cans and in the dust in the air i Under favorable conditions these bac teria double every twenty minutes and a single germ in a pail of warm milk increases to eight germs in an hour sixty four in two hours 409G in four hours and at theend of twelve hours if the growth was unchecked it would require eleven figures to write the number of bacteria springing from a single germ With careless milking 500000 germs have been found in a cubic inch of fresh milk United States Bulletin To Propagate Gooseberries Gooseberries are propagated to some extent by cutting but generally by layers The earth is heaped In a mound around the bushes and the young sprouts will strike roots They should be planted in rows 4 by 4 on a rich heavy soil well cultivated and heavily pruned The fruit grows on the buds formed on a 2-year-old wood and on spurs and buds of older growth Prun ing should be directed to cutting back the new growth and occasionally cut ting out extra shoots Some cultivate in low tree form but the shrub form is the more natural way of growing Denver Field and Farm A Gate that Will Not Sasr Most farm gates begin to sag at the outer end after a little use thus rnOPKKIF COXSTKtTCTED GATE ing oftentimes much inconvenience If the upright at the hinges can be kept rigidly in place there is no reason why a gate should sag if it is properly con structed A proper construction is shown in the accompanying Illustration two braces being used both of which hold the outer end of the gate rigidly in place Farm gates are often made of material too light to tie strongly pinned at the ends of the bars This is a mis take as secure pinning is necessary in order to give the braces a chance to do their work Orchard and Garden Lrook out for the black knot on the plum trees Cherry culture is the simplest of all fruit culture Wood ashes is a valuable fertilizer for the raspberry Worm fruit in the orchard is the best disposed of by sheep Cutting of roses may be made as the wood acquires firmness Cut out every cane affected with rust among the blackberries Cutting out is about the only sure remedy for the peach borer Old bones buried near trees or grapo vines will have a good effect Luck In planting is the result of good common sense and judgment In budding the scions should always be of the current seasons growth Cut off and burn all branches found affected with the tent caterpillar Clear the raspberries and blackberries out well treating all useless sprouts as weeds Every farm should have one orchard for home purposes proportioned to the needs of the A mound of earth built up hard and sharp around the stem of young trees will help to protect them from mice The orchard may be made to serve two purposes one the production of fruit and the other as a range for poul try If the trees need priming it is easier to prune as soon as the necessity shows itself than after several seasons of neg lect It Is rather poor economy to produce fine fruit and then by bad packing and careless marketing lose the proper reward Where the old berry canes are re moved in the fall always burn them to destroy any disease or insect pests that may be on them Plants that appear healthy and yet make no growth are very often starved Give them a good mulching of manure after stirring the ground One objection to late cultivating both in the orchard and among small fruits is that it tends to induce a late growth that does not have time to ripen A good shaped tree has much to do with the appearance of the orchard and the earlier they are looked after the easier will be the work of properly caring for them l MADE IT HIMSELF j Jhc Treasurer Knew the Money Was Good Ex Treasurer Jordan frequently amuses his friends by telling of an ex citing experience he had while urer of the United States Mr Jordan cfiniiTT fn iokins re- marks uttered with a serious counte nance It was the indulgence of this proclivity says the Washington Star while connected with the Treasury De partment that came near resulting in his introduction to a pair of handcuffs and incarceration in a dingy cell Mr Jordan had occasion to make a trip to Nov York just at a time when a new 5 bill was issued by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing It happened that the treasurer on the day of start ing on his trip drew a portion of his salary and the cashier handed him a bunch of the new 55 bills which had reached the office within an hour When he arrived in New York Mr Jor dan proceeded to purchase some need ed articles and handed the clerk one of the new bills The clerk had never seen money that looked like that bill which was spotless and uncrumpled by hand i ling He examined the alleged money and the man who gave it to him with equal care Mr Jordan watched him with suppressed amusement and re marked in a way Its good money 1 made it myself That was enough for the clerk who went to the cashiers desk with the bill There was a hurried conference and a message was sent to police headquar ters over the telephone In a short time a couple of detectives in citizens attire were standing on either side of the treasurer of the United States They waited there to watch developments fumbling their handcuffs in their pock ets In the meantime the cashier stud ied the new bill further looked care- fully over his counterfeit detector and rummaged through treasury circulars relating to the issuance of money Fin ally he came across a description of the new 3 bill which was to be issued1 by the Treasury Department His mes sage had not yet reached the clerk who was exchanging significant glances with the detectives and watching Mr Jordan when the latter getting tired waiting for his change and realizing that his new money was probably puz zling the cashier produced his card At he same moment the cashiers message that the money was not counterfeit reached the clerk the dectectives wan acred off with crestfallen countenances xnd the treasurer proceeded to the near est bank where he exchanged his new bills for money that had passed through i thousand hands and was far from be ing sanitary HTE MAJORS EXPERIENCE From the Detroit Free Pres One of the stanchesr supporters of the deep water way from the Great Lakes to the ocean is Major A C Bishop of 715 Third avenue Detroit a civil engineer jf wide experience and considerable prom inence in his profession He was assist ant engineer on the Hudson River Kail road in ISoO and has since conducted large engineering operations He has been located in Detroit since 1S15 and aas a large acquaintance among the busi ness men and citizens of this city Two years ago for the first time Major Bishop was in the hospital For two months he had the best of medical at endance but when he was discharged be was not like the Major Bishop of old Vhen asked regarding his health he said When I had my last spell of sickness and came out of the hospital I was a sorry sight I could not gain my strength and could not walk over a block for sev eral weeks X noticed V v ffiA U Yhfm Jlajor Bishop some articles in the news papers r e -warding Dr Wi lliams Pink Pills for Pale Peo P 1 e which convinced ma that they were worth tryinjr and bought two boxes I did not take them for my com plexion but for strength After usins tknm T better and know they did me worlds of good j am pleased to recommend them to invalids who need a tonic or to build up a shattered constitution A- Bisnop - - t u ul sworn to before me this- i u uu oi January ioua ROBERT E HULL JR Public Notary Best Dreused Man m peting Jung Lu the new viceroy of ChihLV Is one of the most popular generals in the imperial army He has always bee a dandy in dress and bas a repu tation of being the best dressed man in Peking while the gilded youth axnon the Manchu nobility always copv his dress and swear by Jung Lus stvle His horses and mules also have ever been the finest in Peking not even cepting the emperors stud and he lov s to mount the most fiery and restive cat tle when riding out This has ld to several picked horses sent as tribute to the emperor from Kuldja and Mon golia but which no one could ride ow ing to their untamed and restive spirit being specially presented to Jung Lu by the emperors command This is the man who now holds the responsible post of guardian of the dragon throne at Tientsin Peking and Tientsin Times How to Strengthen the Eyes A simple and excellent plan to pre serve and strengthen the eyes is this Every morning pour some cold water Into your wash bowl at the bottom of the bowl place a silver coin or other bright object then put your face into the water with the eyes open and fixed on the object at the bottom Move your head from side to side gently and von will find that this morning bath will make your eyes brighter and stronger and preserve them beyond the ordinarv allotted time r x z