watyatr"- JSS S3S: ?J?S?f9S55! SjifiO1 i;-3is issaf -?- i . jf- fLrJ"" Zi-i., -. -- 7-JMeV-. S &fi '&i -T. "U .?- Jfc VVSt! sTI? k-i"" 'p "-Jl ! H -?" "-"iW iV T-V" -- "-. t ei 'rra 5? " wV- -."n. . r: ?' , ' - m I. p- -f- . ! . !l - ?' .- . " i,I . SI ir . e if. . b M t.- Uifc -. fasaaasjdheai Bit, And now IumlmsgomrnaL AC. :. TURNER fc CO.. Oae rear, by mail, postage prepaid. suxmoaths. .75 IkiMi WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER M. 18. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Preudeat: williah Mckinley. of Okio. For Vice Preeideat: : GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey. TATE TICKET. Ootbtbot.. JOHNH.M'COLL LiMtflBUitOoverBor. ORLANDO TEFFT 'SecreUryof SUte JOEL A. PIPER Aoditor. PETER O. HEDLUND Trauarer CHARLES E. CASEY ' Sapt. Pub. last HENRY R. CORRECT Attorney General. ..ARTHUR 8. CHURCHILL Com. Pub. Lands and Bldg....H. C. RUSSELL " n u r. - ) ROBERT RYAN JbScm Sapreae Court.. J MOSK8 p. KIN RAID Recent State University... ..W. G. WHITMORE . PreMdeatial Elector. FRANK JL8ADILEK at-Laie 1 J. E. HOUTZ FintDktrict. A. J. BURN AM SeeoBd District A. C. FOSTER Third District SOL DRAPER Foartn District G. A. DERBY Fifth District J.L.MTHEELY SiEth District M. L. FREESE Ticks. For CoBcressataa Third Disttrict, ROSS L. HAMMOND. uttorial Ttakat. ' For Heaator Twelfth District. SIDNEY C GRAY Csmaty Tiekat. For RepraseatetiTe GEORGE C. SMITH For CoaBty Attorney C. J. GARLOW TiAIKE ! I The latest as we go to press from 7 Monday's election is an estimate, based .on returns from 900 towns, of 52,000 republican plurality for the state. Re publicans may well congratulate them selves; the plurality in 1892 was 1503. -SssasPsssBMUaasr - Hcbkah for Maine. With McKinley and Protection- ffc sJtall have more employ ment, more work, and more wages. I TSK KKPOBUCAX PAKTT BTAKD8 FOB '. I lOXDT XOXKT AND THE CHAKOC TO BABX '. 1 IT BT HONEST TOIX- WaL McKlXLXT. f A law goes into effect in (Sermany the first of next year, forbidding future contracts in grain and mill products, as manipulated on the exchanges or boards of trade. The Telegram says that thousands of democrats will cast their vote for Mr. Hammond "in preference to voting for a ,. renegade republican whose only princi ple in life has been office-seeking by any road that promised success." CARLISLE'S ERRORS. A CHAIN OF FLOUNDERING FINAN CIAL FORECASTS. OaUr. Im 1898 Secretary Carlisle gave his 'Int estimate of the 1895 fiscal year, an tJcipatJHg auxplas of revenue over ex penditure of $, 120,959. A year later. im 1894, he revised this estimate and frecEoted a deficiency of $20,000,000. Both prognoaticatioBS were wrong, for the deficit reached $42, 805, 228. In 1898 he was $49,000,000 out in his financial fioaa. and in 1894, only six months be fore the dose of the 1895 fiscal year, be i $22,805,228 wrong. In 1894 Secretary Carlisle gave ns his ; prophecy as to the current fiscal year, ending June 80, 1896. Then he looked for a "comfortable surplus" of $88,814,920. But again he was away cat, and five months ago changed his fig res to a deficiency of $17,000,000, a alight difference of nearly $46,000,000 in these two estimates. The indications are that the actual excessiof expenditures over revenue for the 1896 fiscal year ending June SO will be $82,000,000! This will be a difference of $60,814,920 front his estimate in 1894. and a differ aee of $15,000,000 from his guess of five snonths ago. Wat the fiscal year 1897 this free trade tnsnrier expects another "comfortable amrphut," though hardly so "comforta Me' as his first expectations for 1896, as he puts it at only $6,908,927. Let us tabulate briefly the Democratic financial expectations and realizations from "a tariff for revenue only." They will be Imady facts to carry around. RB TBABE nXAXCtKBDa. ia's Reveaae Revenue Reveaaede t cixpecUtlon, teaUaatioB. faleatloa. rorBscaiTear eadiBcJoaeW. IBM. .saB.ta.aa5 t30i.tae.rn KSMMm For aaealrear eadiac Jaae ailM. . M.caua5 - ( Bl SM.ttai ForasoaiTi .an.sw.sv7i iH.a87.r H.9K.107 fort itka. With such an exhibit of free trade financial incompetence, how can any Ihmaocratto politician or any Democratic newspaper have thebrasen impertinence to offer advice or suggestions to Sepub lican loaders or to the American people npesi any fiscal subjects? Ma tart is cUetr a iUes.-Sew York World. we have a tariff of of hard no money to nay the 9 BQIIM e aW aanaBBBBBBnenB tSttt Rwmmatsjm at fear JfWffS, the aW to wbish suae wtorristsas 6 saM or ae. " naBBsaBBBnaae' UmeeSSSStSmtaSmmlr of the writer. W emerve the ngn to rajest any msssirript. a - - w Kb tA absia MV aJMAta earniiiniiit la ftr 1 iltilct of . run. wMtr. cw j lJw."!!Jrt, Itebto U nn w. WclM ptaUr. M Km Mpwatolr. OifassJtakk - sja4:- mad ausMnencies. H& tees with no ntoney to nay toe taxes BUBBv BSBSbbYJbbkvs BasjBscshaM. aaataatsaa BSfiKt MSB-M-lsT n " BiaVUSSB fiWL, .- eraauTdnn AFFECTS FARMERS. FREE SILVER AGITATION IS SERIOUS LY CROWDING THEM. ha gaayHaat. "We wiU bring back the good times which yon had before the crime of '73" is a favorite argument of the free sil ver demagogue, especially when ad dressing an audience of farmers. All the Ills and woes that mankind has fall heir to since the memorable day. when congress is said to have rele gated silver to its natural position as subsidiary coin are recounted and smmtlplied with harrowing details for the purpose of impressing upon the minds of theruralvotertaatthepanacea for all ills is the free coinage of silver at 16 to L So persistently has this been dinned into the ears of the farm er, months and months before this campaign opened, that It has in many places come to be considered as an in controvertible fact, just as the theories that the earth was fiat or that the sun moved were for centuries regarded as beyond question. Within the last few weeks, however, there la more than an indication that farmers are beginning to have their misgivings on the free silver millen nium, either present or future. Things are not ripening as they had been led to believe would be the case. The only thugs that mature are mort gages, ud, while in past years there has been little or no difficulty in re newing these at the borrowers' own terms, this year things are Just a little different. The consequence is that farmers are doing a little more than their usual amount of independent thinking and are not slow to discover, that the glittering promises made by the silver agitators are only silver plated at best, and that if things con tinue to rub the wrong way a little while longer,as they have acquired the knack of doing recently, even the silver-plating will wear off and leave but common pewter. The silver agitator has invited farmers to look back over the past in order to cossr the picture which he holds out for the future. And farmers, especially the farmers of central Illinois, have begun to look back, and this is the picture they see. Olaaea at the Past. Away back in 1866, when the "crime of '73" was still unmatched, the great corn belt of central Illinois was settled vy the sturdy yeoman who, following Horace Greeley's advice after the close of the war, had "gone west." The Il linois Central Railroad company, the greatest of all pioneers in this state, had for sale sections of land from one end of the state to the other which were then being freely sold at S6 to SS an acre. Men who knew next to noth ing about farming beyond realizing that it meant hard work settled upon this soil which by dint of assiduous labor they presently converted into rich farm lands. While these fanners were toiling and sweating to make the best of the opportunities offered them, the dark "crime of '73" was perpe trated. The panic of 73 which no body has yet accused of relationship to the "crime" of that year, like wise intervened to offset the prosperi ty, which was settling in all over he country. Disasters enough to momentarily shock the very foundations of national commerce fell thick and fast. Tet despite all this havoc and ruin, he unskillful la borers who had become farming "business-men," as Bryan calls them, found themselves in 1876, three years after the panic and "crime," in a posi tion to sell their holdings pf Illinois lands for an average of 825 an acre, or more than three times as much as the land had cost in the "good old days" before the "crime of 73" was perpetrated. The effect of this era of prosperity soon became manifest. Where former ly miles and miles of prairie farms had been innocent of the vestige of anything like a municipality, villages and towns sprang into existence. Men who had gone into the farming busi ness as a venture and who had for saken the beaten paths of ordinary commerce "to go west and grow up with the country" found themselves pos sessed of a snug little capital upon which to embark in more congenial business than that of agriculture. The "business-men" of the villages were the men who had sold their farms, still leaving a goodly portion of their capital invested In the shape of mort gages on their lands. True, there was not quite so much in it for the lender on farm mortgages as there had been in the good old days when 8 per cent to 10 per cent, interest and 5 per cent, commission was the regular rate for farm loans. But still there was enough to warrant the retired fanners loaning their savings or acting as brokers for other small capitalists seeking giltedge security for invest ment. Ptasaerlty Fellows the 'CiisBa." For nearly twenty years under the changed condition of affairs conse quent on the "crime of '73" farmers and their creditors managed to strug gle along somehow without any very keen agitation for free coinage of sil ver at 16 to 1 worying them. The en tire country blossomed and prospered, farmers grew rich, many of them re tired to Join the ranks of small capi talists, while those who stuck to the plow were so content with what na ture and then own industry gave them that no sooner was a pieo of land spoken of as being for sale than there were a docen farmers whose lands ad joined, bidding for the farm that was on the market As machinery im proved the task of cultivation became easier and the crops grew more and more plentiful. To clear off a farm mortgage from the proceeds of the farm during the existence of the mort- j gage became the rule rather than the exception. New obligations were un dertaken almost exclusively for the purchase of additional lands, and the proceeds of the mortgage in actual cash going to swell the savings of the quickly increasing ranks -of village bankers and tradesmen. Thousands of anccmsful firms, anxious to give their children the benefits of city education, moved to Chicago and many of these men are today counted among the leading citizens of the western metro polis. Meantime the price of the farm land in central Illinois has risen from 825 an acre in 1876 to 875, 880 and in some cases 8166 an acre in 1894 andl895. And as every succeeding rise in value of land meant a corresponding addition to the number of small capitalists eager to invest their savings in farm competition for this class of investment grew proportionately keenr, leaving the borrowing farmer the option of picking and choosing who should he his creditor, and, in short, practically dictating Ids for the loan. Not a word about the free coinage of silver, except here and there by n few agitators whose nobody heeded outside the arete of village leeiers at the corner at to Outara Kateaal sfajay-liwsl ts Chmrj AVitt BMeaUf Xsrtsaea Varaaer Dtatator mt Tersaa Tts es groceries. The "crime a( TS" atopt; peaceably in' its grave, and vea "Coin's Financial School" aa4 not yet started on its mission of to convert contented farmers into dis gruntled and contentious agitators. An era of .low prices for agricultural products, not confined to this state only, nor yet to this country, but uni versal wherever men obeyed the scriptural injunction to "till the earth." offered the first setback to the uninterrupted quarter of a century of progress and plenty. Farmers all the world over, who never heard and probably never will hear, of the "crime of 73." suffered no loss than the farmers of Illinois from the fact that nature and science had outrun the demand of the non-productive por tion of mankind. . Commercial disas ters, such as the business community . passed through twenty years previous- I ly. made the summer of 1893 memora- ' ble as an epoch of general ruin. Rnr nnlilro th nanlr of tatTTsn mmn vhan the ivrlpiilhinl masiinllv quickly recovered after the spasm had 1-1.1.. .J tV. - .-.! passed, the year 1893 brought in its wake a blight more lasting and more hurtful than anyone had dreamed pos sible on the former occasion It brought the free silver agitation. Levelheaded farmers, unswerving in their loyalty .to sound political princi ples, dazed by the unnatural and pro longed depression, fell easy victims to the sophistries of the free silver agita tor. That something was wrong the farmer realized. Speculation and overproduction had injured his mart, and for the first time In the history of American agriculture a lasting set back threatened the fanning communi ty. And at this juncture the free sil ver agitator caught the unsettled farm er, instilled into his mind the per nicious doctrine of repudiation, and for a while at least threatened to con vert the honest farmer into a dishonest repudiator of his just aeots. Fortunately for the good name of the farming community the free sliver agi tation has reached its zenith just at the time when its effects begin to show with telling force upon its misguided followers. Already the difficulty of renewing mortgages has shown farm ers that the will-o'-the-wisp which they have been pursuing can but lead them to a quagmire. Already the haste to renew loans, which will not mature for months to come, betokens a changed state of affairs between farm er debtors and creditors more forcibly than tons of campaign literature could depict Men who for decades have dictated their 'own terms to lenders suddenly discover themselves in the position of suppliants anxious and humble as the ne'er-do-weels who were the scorn of the community for their shiftlessness. The consciousness of a wrong intended makes moral cowards of men who have grown gray "look ing the world in the face." And the beginning is but yet. if this insane 'free silver agitation is not speedily expurgated from the agricultural com munity. Chicago Post Why Not Be Hoaest? Chicago Eight Hour Herald (Labor): The silverite wants a larger volume of money, but professes to want sound money every dollar at par. At the same time he insists on the ratio of 16 to 1, and opposes every proposition to restrict the coinage ' to United States silver. Then the question sug gests itself, if the silverite is honest in his demand for a larger circulating medium, why does he insist on a ratio of 16 to 1 and that the United States mints be open to the coinage of the world's silver? If our only desire is to coin gold and silver on a common level why do we not agree to put a dollar's worth of metal into both coins and restrict the coinage to the product of American mines until the supply proves inadequate? Simply because when we talk free silver we are talk ing for a depreciated currency and in flated prices. Cart, Then Hone. No better customers for the farm ers' products can be found than the workingmen of our own country, but 'they cannot be customers unless they have employment and wages. Our Democratic friends, as usual, get the. cart before the horse. They would have the price of the farmers' prod ucts increased without giving the farmer customers. There are more 'consumers than there are producers of farm products, for while the farmers themselves are producers, they are also .large consumers of their own prod ucts while men of the shops, mills and factories are only consumers of the xarmers products. When labor Is fully employed at good wages there is no trouble about good prices and large production cf the fruits of the hus bandmen's toil. Mansfield (O.) News. NOT DOING MUCK VaaaaylvaalM Railroad Steals Use Devresalaaw Owing to the general depression in business the work the Pennsylvania Railroad company commenced late last year is not being pushed as vigorously as it was the intention to da While the work has not stopped, the bears to the contrary notwithstanding, the amount to be spent each month is limited. No new operations are being sanctioned, but as soon as there is an improvement several large undertakings will be com menced. Wall Street Daily News. It scarcely seems possible that this can be true of the Pennsylvania Rail road company.' Hardly a month has passed since its president, Mr. Roberts, discussed the political situation and said, "The tariff can wait," while he knows perfectly well that the business prosperity of the country depends upon a settlement of the tariff question in favor of protection. The work on Mr. Roberts' road will be ''pushed as vigor ously as it was the intention to do when a protective tariff policy is re stored or its restoration is assured. Then Mr. Roberts can employ all hands at full wages without "reducing expenses." i The CMiaatf Qaistlsa. The official record of the entire 91 months of the Gorman tariff shows a deficiency of $88,853,407. The details are as follows: MM. Receipts. Expcaditarea. Deficit. September... 8g.an.aft g8.0U fi&LS October WjaVMO 32.713.ttB) UJRjm November ld.4H.4flB 28.477.188 t.K,7S December.... tljmjM Z7.UMM UsUM IBB. Jaauary S7.80U SiaM47 4.7MJB47 February.... smajft? 2UM.0B zjwjn March. 2M7&73 S5.7UVS57 StfJK April U2GJM a&ajajn 8.742JSI May 257407S S3Hia. ftVMjai Jaae- 23415.474 2UBBJ8SI SjB,44ft Jaiy mjmjm ufimtm ,476vm Aagust. aBjNSJM SUBUM SJK.4BB September... 27.64M7 SUH.4S1 SBUM October. 27.SH.749 StSSMSS ifgLMTt November.... JamijStS S7JSSJ8I WB.T8S December.... SJSMS7 3M14JI7 474A 18H. Jaauary 2MB.C9 auNjaW S,4U February.... 2MBVBS SSJ4MM ) March SM4U4 Z7JU4JW Umjm April UJKjm SSJMJMI ASSAM May.. 54jt4t.71T 38.4SMK SjatjCT Total- .tmjmjim tmmjc mm,w Sarplua. TKet deficit, BBWSSSaSBaSSMSBaSMSSBaBHBBJSaB It looks as if 60,00,000 t - A SOLDIER OF FREE 8H.VEIL BT T. C. HAMAUGH. A soldier of free silver lay dying on the plains. The crimson tide was ebbing from his Populistic veins. . ' A comrade knelt beside hint to wipe the gore 'away And also, incidentally, to hear what he might say. The silver warrior blubbered as he said In accents low: "Like my fifty-three cent dollar, from this land I soon shall go. , But I would send some.mesages todls j tant friends of mine. For I was bom at Salem near the In I jeanny line. . "Tell Sewall that his railroad bonds 1 will comfort his old age. For I was but a noodle head who thought himself a sage. I hoped to beat McKinley. of that I had no doubt; But alas! I won't be "in It" when the i VOteS are Counted OUt A long to see the other, land where all our troubles cease. To share some silver paradise with Mary Yellln Lease. To see on Fetter's blessed beard the ra I A, diant sunlight shine. it shines on distant Salem hear the Injeanny line. "Tell Jones who got me in this scrape to add unto his pelf. To crawl behind some chicken coop and gently kick himself. And whisper unto Tillman with the South Carolina eye. To fall upon his pitchfork quick and like a Roman die: Upon free silver's battlements, which now the foemen hold. Go hang my borrowed crown of thorns, i my stolen cross of gold: . ' I tried to cheat the people with a dol lar's bogus shine. But no one would believe me on the In jeanny line. "There's another, not a sweetheart: he will weep when I am dead. You'll know him by the crimson rag that floats above his head: 'Neath anarchy's red ensign which was once his hope and joy He lead my columns to defeat 'way down in Illinoy. Go tell him not to mourn for me, nor sigh with drooping head When McKinley goes to Washington with gay and glorious tread: But when the cold frosts dallies with the modest pumpkin vine To think of one from Salem near the Injeanny line." His voice grew faint and fainter till he failed to raise his nead. And the soldier of free silver on the battlefield lay dead: The comrade gently closed his eyes and breathed a prayer so low. And on them lay two dollars that were coined in Mexico; A golden moon rose slowly and winked as she looked down Upon that ghostly battle plain with silver's wreckage strewn: But proudly on Sound Money's spears her ambient light did shine. And no one thought of Salem near the Injeanny line. Dayton (O.) Journal. RAILWAY EMPLOYES. THEY ARE ORGANIZING FREE SILVER. TO FIGHT All Over tha Coaatry the Mas Who Da pead a the Railroads Car m Uvlag Ave Declariag for Soaad Jtaaey sVagtcal Ar guaaat for tha Wage Earaer. The clerks and other employes of the railroads here are organizing a sound money club to fight free silver. Mis sionary work will be set on foot and the work will be energetically carried on. These clubs are being organized all over the country. The total numoer of railroad employes in the United States is in the neigborhood of 800,000. It is thought by those who are inter ested in the organization o. sound money clubs among these employes iat before the campaign is over there will be 1,000 such clubs. While the arguments used among railroad men are especially applicable to them, the logic of the arguments is applicaL.e to all wage earners. There is no class of wage earners who would suffer more under free coinage than railroad employes. This would apply to the general manager as well as to the more humble flagman at a cross ing. The railroads are probably the largest debtors, outside of the banks, in the country. They owe many mil lions of dollars for which they have given their mortgage bonds. When they borrowed this money they got it in gold or its equivalent. Seventy five per cent, of these bonds are in terms payable, principal and interest, in gold And with the premium on gold that would be one of the first re sults of free coinage, the gold debt of the railroads would be increased to just that extent. On the contrary the railroads would not only have to accept from passen gers and shippers a 53-cent dollar, but would not be able to change the rates, as these are generally fixed by law. The upshot of it all would be that the fixed charges of the road ! would be doubled while tuelr earnings would at best remain where they are. Under these circumstances they could hardly be expected to increase wages, and these wages would be paid In 53-cent dollars. Erven if the roads could stand this strain and would not be compelled, many of them; to reduce the number of employes, those em ployes would still be working for the old wages while the prices of every necessity of life would be rapidly doubling. While this presentation of tte case applies with special force to "railroad employes, the logic of the argument applies to every wage earner. If the wages of some of them should go up, they will find that the prices of cloth ing, furniture and food would go up ten times as fast, and ten times as high. Columbus (O.)Dispatch. Mr. Free Silver, lfll Laborer "Mr. Free Silver, if it is so hard for me to find any chance to earn enough to buy a bushel of potatoes now, how will it help me. to have the price of a bushel doubled?" Farmer "Mr. Free Silver, if it Is so hard for me to find any man to buy my bushel of potatoes now, how will it help me by charging him twice as much as I am now offering them at?" Mine. Owner "Mr. Free Silver Jf you are going to give those fellows a 50 cent dollar, how are you going to keep your promise to me to double the price of my bullion?" Debtor "Mr. Free 8ilver, if you are going to double the prices of the bull ion of those silver kings how are you going to keep your promise to me that I can pay my debts at 50 cents on the dollar?" Old Soldier "Mr. Free Silver, if debtors are to be given the chance to pay what they owe at 58 centa on the dollar, how can I get more than half of the pension which Uncle Sam owes Financier "Mr. Free Sliver, if you are going to make a 188 cent dollar, why ant use the present dollar. If you are going to change the present dollar., why trade it for one worth not half so muchf Uacle fiam-"Mr. Free Mlver, if I hnJM the mill, work for nothing, and pay all the why should I let you and take all the grist?"' Heads' of departments and other em ployes holding supervisory positions on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul road are distributing copies of the following circular among the work men under them: "Ton have before you an opportuni ty such ns has rarely been given to any class of men in history the opportuni ty to be the controlling influence in saving your country. "Therefore, organise! This Is no question of Republican or Democrat, but of your own protection as wage earners. Organise for the preserva tion of sound money in defease of your own wages in support of the country's prosperity and the country's honor! "Let railway men of every class act together. It is as noble a cause as ever man pat his hand to. Organise now and work, and when November comes and free silver is defeated the people will know that the railway men did their part nobly for the country's salvation," Sound money clubs with an aggre gate membership of nearly one thou sand have been organized by the em ployes of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road at various points along the com pany's lues in Maryland and West Virginia. The movement was only started about two weeks ago and it is estimated a total membership of 5,890 or more will be reached before the election. The organizations are strict ly non-partisan, the obligation taken by those Joining merely binding them to vote in favor of sound money. "Kvexy Fiber af Bis Beta Thoreachlj HOW "MELTONS" ARE MADE. British "Weeleae" 8h!sB4 Here Wltheat at Oaace of Wool. Bradford, July 6, 1896. "Well, Ben, and how is trade?" This I said by way of introduction to a man ager in one of our shoddy factories just outside town, and I got the confessional answer: "We're very busy indeed. In fact, we are thinking soberly of enlarg ing our place, not being able to get goods out fast enough. I want to tell you how we make our meltons. Here is a blend of materials typical of all the lot; it's just come off the machines 1,750 pounds of mungo, costing pence per pound ; 84 pounds white Texas cotton at 7 pence per pound. This yarn, when mixed together, is scribbled and spun to nine skeins weft yarn. We find that scribbling, spinning and weaving cost us 1 shilling (25 cents) per yard per whartron (6 pounds equal a whar- tron); so, then, a pound of yarn, when made of this shoddy, costs at the rate of 6 pence, or 18 centa, per pound in the cloth, which is indeed a marvel of obeapness. Ype making these unions a Lancashire cotton yarn -is used for the warp, which costs about 6a. 6d., and this nine skeins shoddy weft is used for filling. For weaving these pieces, from 90 to 100 yards long, we pay the weaver 8 shillings (or 81.92). Our weavers earn from 10 shillings to 18 shillings per week on an average. We find that when all other charges are added, such as mill expenses, dyeing and finishing (which I will give later), we are able to produce a melton cloth weighing 11 to-12 ounces to the yard, 50 inches wide, at the nominal figure of 9J pence (19 cents) per yard." "Why, that is very cheap," I said. "And how much profit do you reckon you have when you have sold a whole piece?" "We generally find that we get la. 9d. clear for every piece turned out, and that we consider a fair, respectable profit.' This is just one sample of how this shoddy is done and made up, and your buyers, I have good grounds for know ing, are paying 11 pence (22 cents) per yard for this class of goods in Bradford. Of course there are better qualities, but when yon get up to a 84 cent dress mel ton, 60 inches wide, it is considered here that yon are buying n good article, while Charles Soarth of Morley and Leeds is making snob stuff at 5 pence (11 cents), 49 and 50 inches wide. Is this the stuff to keep out your blizzards and cyclones? Yaxkkr. Wall Oared Ver. Southern states and American farm ers will have their interests well cared for as long as Hon. Jeter C Pritchard of North Carolina is a United States senator. When the house bill to amend section 3805 of the revised statutes, concerning the distilling of brandy from fruits, was before the senate, he offered an amendment providing for special rates of duties upon clays or earths, lime, marble and stone and their manu factures, iron ore, lumber and its man ufactures, leaf tobacco, live stock, bread stuffs, hay, rice, honey, eggs, onions, beans, potatoes, dairy products, vegeta bles, fish, fruits, meats, lard, poultry. pork products, tallow, hemp, wool, coal, coke, and last, but not least, a duty of 5 cents per pound upon all raw cotton imported into the United States. Sena tor Pritchard is a firm believer in the policy of protection for the United States. With an upright candidate, a sturdy platform and the utmost confidence in the justice of their cause, the Republican party will place William McKinley in the presidential chair, to the gratifica tion of the great majority of the people of the United-States and to the advan tage ef the country as a whole. Bos ton Traveller. fiai Weal Basalts. With imports of 81,828.805 pounds of foreign woolen cloths during nine months of the current fiscal year, as against imports of 14.411,388 pounds during the corresponding months cf the previous year, it is small wonder that our woolen mills are shut down or run ning only on part time. Varna. geftte iiPHlHrW APmsBsmn Te naturally gravitate to Chicago as the great nnmrnwrnal center. Psswngers vnuung friends or relatives in the states always desire to "take in" en route. All classes of paaaaa will find that the "Short Line of Milwaukee St. Paul Rail way, Tin Omaha and Council Sluffa, affords excellent facilities to reach their destinations in n manner that will be sure to give the utmost satisfaction. A reference to the time tables will in dicate the route to be chosen, and, by asking any principal agent west of the Missouri river for a ticket over the Chioago, Council Bluffs k. Omaha Short Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee k St. Paul Railway, you will be cheerfully furnished with the proper passport via Omaha and Chicago. Please note that all of the "Short line trains arrive in Chioago in ample time to connect with the express trains of all the great through car lines to the principal eastern cities. For additional particulars, time tables, maps, eta. please call on or address F. A. Nash, General Agent, Omaha, Neb. DARN THAT HOG. THAT THE FORTT-8EVKNTH TIMK taia weak he's taken aa ezcarsioa trip. Well, old maa, are you solas to spead yoar life chaaiag hoea? Coaw.ut aad set aomeof that Pace Worea Wire Fasciae aad see bow easy it is to keep theta where they betoas. Sold aad pat ap by C.H.KA8TON.Aeeat, Mfebtf Cohuabas, Nebr. a P. DUFFY. WM. O'BRIEN. D" LAWYERS. Special attention given to Criminal Law. Office: Comer Eleveath aad North 8ta. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. ALBERT REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office oyer First National Bank, COLUMBUS, HKBIU8K.4. tljaatf W. A. McAixistkb. W. M. CouHaxitm WeALLBTEm COBUfELIUS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OOLOhTBVS, NXBKASKA Sljantf PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. . The following proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of Ne braska, as hereinafter set forth in full, are submitted to the electors of the State of Nebraska, to bs voted upon at the general election to be held Tues day, November 8, A. D.; 1896: A joint resolution proposing to amend sections two (2), four (4), and five (5.) of article six (6) of the Consti tution of the State of Nebraska, relating to number of judges of the supreme court and their term-of office. Belt resolved aad eaaeted by the legisla ture of the State of Nebraska: Seetioa 1. That seetioa two CO of article js . O) of the GoBstltuUoB of the State of Nebraska be amaaded so aa to read aa fol lows: Seetioa 1 The sapreme eoart shall aatil otherwise provided by law. coatist of Ave CO Jadges. a majority of whom shall be aeces eery to form a quotum or to proaoaaoa adeeisloB. It shall have orfguud Jarieitutioa la cases relatiag to reveaae. civil cases ia which the state shall be a party, i ao warranto, habeas corpus aad such appellate Juriadictioa. as may be provided by SactioB 2. That seetioa four (i) of article six (S) of the Ooastitutloa of the State or xteoratta, oa ameaded so as to read aa fol lows: Section 4. The Jadges of the sapreme court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large, aad their term of oflce. ex cept as hereinafter provided, shall be for a period of sot leas thaa tve (5) years as tha Mghuature may prescribe. Section 8. That seetioa tve (5) of artiole six (J) of the CoBstitatioa of the State of Ne braska, be ameaded to read as follows : Seetioa fi. At the Irst general eteotioa to be held ia the year IMS. there shall be eleeted two CO Jadges of the supreme eoart oae of whom shall be elected for a term of two 00 years, oae for the. term of four O) years, aad at each seaeral eteotioa there after, there shall be elected oae Judge of uw nprcwa eoars xor iae term or W yean, unless otherwiso provided by x-ruTnuju. inav ine jaaces or iae sa preme court wbiwe terms have aot expired at the tine of holding the general elec tion of law. snail contlnun to hold their office for the remainier of the term for which they were respectively' commis sioned. Approved March 89, A. D. 1885. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section thirteen (18) of article six of the Constitution of the Stats of Nebraska, relating to com pensation of supreme and district court judges. Be It resolved by the Legislature of tha State of Nebraska: Seetioa L That seetioa thlrteea (IS) of arttele six ( of the Ooastitutloa of the State of Nebraska be ameaded so aa to readaa fol lows: Sec IS Tha Indma af the nnnw, uA district courts shall receive for their sarrlees sach compeaaitioa as may be provided by law. payable quarterly. -.rae ie lesdslatare shall at las Srat arter the adoption of this ameadmeat. three-fifths V the members elected to each house ooaearriag. establish their aoSipensatloa.. The compeasatioa so ee- taplisaeri shall aot ha ahaaaad thaa oaea la fear years, aad ia bo event swo-iairaa oc aha members etaatsd to saeh house of the legislature t hernia Approved March 99, A. IX Use. A joint resolution to of of amend section twenty-four (84) article five (5) of the Constitution the State of Nebraska, relating to com psasation of the officers of the executive department. JHL' 2&n$k2 " hT LafJaJatore of the State of Nebraska: Seetioa L That seetioa twenty-four (24) of article tve (S) of the Ooastitutloa of the State ot Ncnrnsba be smeaded to reads Sol- . Seetioa M. Tae oflkers of tha executive sqwwau w iae state goverameat receive aor isatr aervtees a eoi so. a i tnr Ibiv rkla aL.ll w. aaither utenaisd aor diminished duriag the 5- . !A they ahaU kSSTmSS issmasa aaa tasy aaau aot racetve to their ay Ms. eosta, tatsreste. aaoa puatie mibatr beads or uader thelreoBtroL. fas bbyuubuws .of ofltae or other aamoB aaa au rem that slier ha aavabla hr taw tor asrfarmsd by aa osscar provided far la Bs article shall be paid tat advaaea U to the aate iianij. xne rat sesakm after tha shall at Its of thtaamead- meat, thrsa-flftaa of the alac tad to carrtac, eambhah ths eateries of auaes ha thai arttda. Tha so aatabnaated shall aot toehaassd baa onea to four yeara aad te ao twohirds of tha 0 Saeh aeuasof tha legislsture MtA-DLhwi. A joint uroposistossne (m a mm - m. - . -i - .-0. BL. ..-.. ,-. SS- , . i . . . . a (1) of artisJe nix (t) The Inter IfttattMts Wl BY 8uTAII DAM.Y (nlUmrt DAILY (wstaSai iy).. ) The Weekly Inter BBTtii.:.. Asa aBBarTBK wets. It t ALL THE NEW5 AND THE ThcVtfoekly litter Ootan AS a Fily Ituus ssmethjas of interest TOTJTarSDSFAHTMIKTJsthaTar AJIX ffJEAT UKXS are uaaqualsd. ItmnTWXLYB PAGE PAPER aad coatatasthe Xewnef the Wsrid. POLITIC ALLT IT IS REPUBLIC tswaMsstdlseussiems em all live political topics. It is aaatminasotdwitathcpsopZeoftlwWeSttahaakneMtlaSSnitti Please tsmamhsr that the pries of TMX WXKKLT IVTSB OGsUM is OHLT OXS 0OIXAS PKB TXAJL Address THE the Constitution of the State of Nebras ka, relating to judical power. Beit resolved aad eaaeted by tha Lasashv tareof the mate utNebratlu: " SaettoaL That eclioiioa(l of artiole six ) of the Coaatitattoa of tha State of Nebraska be BBwded to read aa follows: Ueettaal. The Jadlt-Ui power of this state shall be vested la a auareaae eoart. district esarte. aaasty courta jaatlcea of tha aaace. police afatratca, aad 1b sach other eaartBiaieriortotht aaaratae couit as aiar be eraatsd by law la which two-third of tae iaers elected, to AasroTadMsTch.A.D.WH. A joint resolation proposiag to amend section eleven (11) of article six () of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to increase in nam bar of supreme and district court Be it resolved aad eaaeted by the Legislature af the State of Nebraska: Seetioa L That aaetioB elerea (11) of article aiz (a) of the Coastttatioa of the State af Nebraska be aaaeaded to read mt fol lows: flsetlaa 11. Tha legia!atare, wheaever twe thirda of the members elected to each house ahaU ooacar thereia. may. la or after the year oae thoamad eight haadred aad aiaety-asTea aad set ofteaer thaa uaee 1b every toar veara. the aamoer or lodges of preme aad district courts, aad the jadical wiemciB oc tae state. Such districts formed of comDact territory. bounded by county ttaes; aad such la crosse, or aay chaste la the bouadariea of adietrict. shall aot vacate the otXce of aay Judge. Approved March 8J. A. D.US6. A joint resolution proposing to amend section six (8) of article one (1) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to trial bj jury. Benresolvedaad eaaeted by the LegiaUtare af the State of Nebraska: Seetioa 1. That awtln oJv fK atM na rav CD of tha CbBstituttoa of tk Hti Dot the OoBstitutloB of the State of Ne- braaksMte smeadud to read aa follows: Seetioa 8. The riant of tHml h dn aktii ?P iolate. bat the legiiatare may pro vide that ia civil actioas nve-sUths of the Jury stay reader a verdict, aad the legislature way atoo authorise trial by a Jary of a less number thaa twelve men. ia courts iaferior to tha dis trict court. Approved March 39. A rxiSSa. joint resolution proposing to section one (1) of article five (5) of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat ing to officers of the executive depart ment. BaitreMlved aad eaaeted by the Legisla ture of the State or Nebraska: m"MMVam' Seetioa L That section oae (1) of ar tfcle Sve CO of the Ceaatiiatioa of the SUte of Nebraska be ameaded to read ai fol lows: Seetioa I The executive department shall ?!.?' r fwraor. lieateBaat-goveraor. secretary of aUte. aaiitor of pablle accouBta. Waasurer. aaeriateadeat of pabUo ia stractioo. attorney gvaeral. coauaisMoaer f public leads sad baiidiun. aad three rauroad commietioBsfs. each ot whom. 2f?.pti.,k5 "f1 commissioners, shall hold hia oOce for a term of Iv V"!"" STr. wn xaursdajr after the Swt TBeaJay ia Jaauary. after hiseleotioa. aad aatil bis successor is elected aad qnaUBed. Sach railroad com BtiioBer shall hold his oause for a term of tares years begiaalagoa tha Irst TbursJay K1 Jf1 Toewy ia Jaauary ater bis atectioa. aad aatil hi soccee or la elected aad qtnllaed: Provided. "" laac . at the Srst ceaeral etee- tloa held after the adontioa i tki. ,. swat there shall be elected three railroad sommlssioaers. oae for the period of oae year, oae for the period ot two years, aad sua for the period of three years. The gov araor. secretary of state, auditor of pub lie accoents. aad treasurer shall reside at tha capital dariag their term of offioe; they shall keep tha public record, books aad papers there aad shall perform such du Mas as Btay be required by Uw. Approved March 89. A. D. 18U. A joint resolution proposins; to -. 9 a m. ncueno secnon twenty-six (26) of ar ticle five (5) of the Constitution of the 8tete of Nebraska, limiting the num ber of executive state officers. 'Be it resolved aad enacted by the Leg Mature ot the State of Nebraska: Seetioa L That seetioa twenty-six (31) of 27 ." ws J CoustltBtioa of the State of Nebraska to ameaded to read as follows: BecttoB M. No other executive state oa ears except those aamed la seetioa oae (l) ef thai article shall be created, except by an act of the legislature which is eoueurred la by aot leas thaa three-fourths of the members eleeted to each house BBBBuWaMmf Provided, That aay oflee crested by aa aet of the legUtotara may be aboUsbed by the laghuature, two-thirds ot the mem bers alia to each house thereof ooacar-rhag- Aparoved March Ml A. IX. lstS. A joint resolation proposing to amend section nine () of article eight (8) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, providing for the investment of the permanent educational funds of the state. Bait resolved aad eaaeted by ttoLoghua- of the state of Nebraska: Seetioa 1. That section alae (9) of arttele eight (S) of the Conetitatloa of the State T Nebraska be ameaded to read as fol- lawWai Seetioa 9. All f uuda beloagiag to the state far edaeatioaal purposes, the iatereat aad jaiams whereof oaly are to be used, shall to deemed trust faade held by tha state. aad the state shall -poly silte-iS ttert at that may la aay maaaer accrue, so that i "! .? riimsla forever lavlolato aad undiminished, aad shall aot ha la- or leaaad except oa Halted States seeurmee. or reaiaurad nutr or resist sred aeaool dJatrint haiUnf wa asa, aaa sues rasas with the later- -J?e?IMl. taereof are hereby solemn ly pledged. for the purpose for whi.hthey are graated ha traaaferr . aaa sec aaart. aad shall nos to aay other faadfor other ProvtSad Tha ereatad by seetioa 1 ot this arttda is ami to sen rrom te to time aav of the aeenrtti belmiB te the pirmiasat school faad aad Uveal JH'hm rtshtg therefrom in aay of the rtttsa eaaaieraisd la thw seetioa bear a biebar rate of tateraat. wanumv amaamortuaitr tor batter tavestmeat ispre- naa proviaea rurther. That whea wnrraas aaoa. tae state treasurer esaurar rag- eured by the ymeat. shall warty issues nt pursuaaea of aa a atiaabytha laghuature aad secured levy ac a .tax for its peymest. i as preaaatod to tha state treasurer for payment, sad there shall aot be aay aaeaey la the proper faad to pay such warraat, the board created by seetioa 1 of this arttele may dtaaet ths state treas urer to par tha amouat due oa such war raatfram moaeya la bia hands beloagiag to the pane as sal school faad of the state. sad he shall hoMsaU warraat as aa la- Aparoved March Ml A. D. 19SX joint resolstion proposing an t to the Conetitation of the of Nebrsska by adding a new to article twelve (12) of said to be numbered section two (8) relative to the merging of the t of doss of the jsmtro- 1 the government of push oittoj an Ocean $4.MfsT Ocean Cf .00 ' WEST OP OBKBNT UtmAtmL Ppf an WtC to each AM. sad gives i ENTER OCEAN, CMca. located. Be it resolved aad eaaeted by tha rw u mmm nwi vi teraaKB: Seetioa L That article twelve Og) of the Coastiiatioa of the State of Neorsaha.be amended by a!dii-to ud article a aew see tioa to te BBmbered seetioa two d) to read aa follows: Seetioa 2. The goverameat af aav attar af the metropolitan clasa aad the gev- ST,mV . omBl' to It hi looatfel mav be mi r gad whaHv er la part whea a proaoeiUoa so to do baa baea sabmitted by aathortty of law te the voters of each city aad coaaty aad re ceived the asseat of a majority af the.. votes cast la sach dtr aad aha L-.- M IM fwn ceo .H of thoM east hs Saeh l H .k. .K. .A M-m. .W A T etoetloB. Approved March a A. D. 1 A joint resolution amendment to section six (8) of article seven (7) of the Ckmstitution of the State of Nebraska, prescribing the iuer in which votes shall be cast. Be it resolved aad eaaeted by the '-aiilifr re of ths State of Nebraska: ' " Section L That seetioa six CO of arttele seven IT) of the CbastitaUoa of of Nebraska be ameaded to read aa fal sa wa: Seetioa C All votes shaU be by haUot,ar each other method as may be areaaribsd by law. provided th secreer of vottSg be naVcanw) lBMaL Approved March . A IX lsM. A joint resolution amend section two (8) of article four. teen (14) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relative to donations to works of internal improvement i a manufactories. Be It resolved aad saaatsd by the Lat- falatare of ths Stete of Nebraska : Sactlon 1. That seetioa two CO of artiale foarteea CIO of the Coaatttudan of tha State of Nebraska, be tairadrd to read aa follows: Sao. 2. No jUy. coaaty. towa. araotaet. municipality, at other aubwvistoa of the state, shall ever make doastioaa to aav' works of iateraal imarsvamsat. ar T8.?'7' - propoaMtea aa te do shall have beaa Srst sabmlttas te ths aaalihed alectora aad ratiaed by a twe talrua veto a aa electioa by nafhorUr of Uw; Provided. That such deaatieas ef a coaaty with the rtnastleae ef saeh aabaV yWoaa ia the aagregate shall aet exeeed tea per ceat of the assawid nlastiaa af each coaaty: Provided, farther. That aar mo or county may. fcy a thras-f vote. lBcreaM such tedebtedaeas ceat. ia addition to such tea per BO boada or evideaeaa of laibkta issued shall be valid ualesa th asms aave enaorjet tBJreoa a certtacate by tha secretary and aaiUtop of snowing that the same ia hamel pursaaatto law. Approved March 2. A. D.. UuT. I, J. A. Piper, secretary of stats ef the state of Nebraska, do hereby certify . that the foregoing proposed smendments to the Constitution of the State of Ne braska are true and correct copies of the original enrolled and engrossed bills, as passed by the Twenty-fourth session of the legislature of the Stole of Nebraska, as appears from original bills on file in this oflce, ; that all and each of said amendments are submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Ne braska for their adoption or rejection st the general election to be held on Tuesday, the 3d day of November, A. D., 1890. In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lincoln this 17th. day ef July, in the year of our Lord, One Thou sand. Eight Hundred and Ninety-Sis, of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Twenty First, and of this stete the Thirtieth. (Seal.) j. a. PIPER, Secretary of State. . C. 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