Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 October 1898 — Page 3

FOREIGN TRADE

Its Condition Before and After the Act of 1873.

By Flavins J. Van Vorliln.

The uioro carefully tho reports of th •'treasury department are examined, thi more (lo tho figures there given o.upha size the intimate relation that exists between our foreign commerce and the money question. The real significance of the figures there given can only be iirrived at by computation and comparison. Not every one is inclined tc make such careful examination. Everj mail ought to do so who represents 01 desires to represent the people, or attempts to discuss the subject. For 2E

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rs there has been an awful draft bj foreign trade upon our resources. Il can hardly escape attention that there has been a constant loss since 1873, and that the loss has been increasing evei since. There can be no doubt that this annual loss goes to pay interest to foreign holders of our debts dividends tc foreign holders of our corporation stocks and rents to alien landlords.

This is clearly shown by the tables of annual exports and imports of merchandise and of exports and imports ol gold and silver from 1835 to 1897 to be found in every monthly report except those of May and June last. It is worth while, in view of present conditions and the repeated assertions made by certain papers and speakers that our foreign trade gives evidence of prosperity, to see what these tables contain. The fisc:il yi ur prior to IS43 ended'm Sept. 30. Since tliar date it lias ended on June30 Draw a lint! across the rubles between 1S73 and 1^74. dividing the whole rime 1rom September, 1-S34. to June 30, 1'9 into two periods. An estimate ol Hi exportS and

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the nr'iiev mefa .(gold and silver) during the first per.oil .it 38 years and nine months will .-now thai the wealth of our country was increased by foi.nun trade by sjV»ii7,000,937. This was an average ai.iiual increase of over $14,300,000 for- tho entire time. During the last 'JO years of the period the net average aiinv.il increase of wealth was nearly $19,000,000 during the last 15 years it was over $28,000,000 during the last 10 years it was over $12,500,000 during the last five years it was ovor $55,500,000. During the last year, ending June 30, 1873, the net gain was $57,000,000.

The showing is different for the second period of 25 years, beginning June 30, 1873, and ending June 30, 1893. In stead of our wealth increasing by foreign trade, we lost during the time $3,517.087,104. This was a net average annual loss of nearly $142,000,000. Drop out ot the calculation five years at a time, beginning with the earliast date, and note the rapidly increasing loss down to the year 1898. During the last 20 years the net average annual loss was nearly $148,500,000. During the last 15 years it was nearly $154,500,000. During the last 10 years it was nearly $200,000,000. During the last five years it was over $280,560,000. During the last year the net loss reached the enormous sum of $535,000,000. In the face of such a showing what comment is necessary? Prior to June 30, 1873, our foreign trade brought a gradually increasing balance in our favor. With our increase of population and business, our wealth increased until in the last year the excess of imports of merchandise and money metals over exports reached nearly $57,000,000 of balance 011 our side of the ledger. In the next- year, ending

June 30, 1874, we lost over $57,000,000. In 1875 we sent out of the couutry an excess of over $71,000,000 in gold and silver alone. In 1870^6 lost over $120,000,000, of which $40,000,000 was gold and silver in 1877 over $167,000,000 Between the years 1880 and 1890 there was some decrease in the annual loss, caused, 110 doubt, by the beneficial effects of the Bland-Alli

Hidden Weakness. Just as we sometimes seeS a tree or pole a a 1 1 a

rushing down with a sudden crash because of some undetected process of decay, so no matter how good an appearance a woman may present, if she is subject to any hidden weak ness, gradually sapping away and undermining her vitality, some day her entire constitution will give way and leave her a prostrate physical wreck.

The average doctor gives a little something for the headache and a little something else for the backache and still another thing for the nerves and so on, never once reaching the hidden weakness in the distinctly feminine organism.

The vast experience and special practice of Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y., in treating women's diseases, enables him to understand and cope successfully with these particular ailments. Any woman may feel the utmost confidence in consulting him by mail. She will receive, free of cost, sound professional advice whereby her health may, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, be promptly and permanently restored. All correspondence is held to

be sacredly

confidential. A lady living in Coshocton Co., Ohio, Mrs. W. T. Stanton, of Blissfietd, writes: "I had female weakness very bad for nearly three years. Had dragging down pains in and above ray hip9 and dreadful pains in the back and top of my •ifu Uustas though someone was lifting me by the hair). Had no ambition, would try to work a few days then would liave to lie in bed for a longtime. No ton I endured. I hai nods. I doctored a physician as there is in the state, but had no »£Se 'J'V3'

1 was

quiet and off ray feet and

tnen I had more or less pnin ill ray head. When 1 began taking Dr. Pierce's medicines I weighed 102 pounds, and was very pale and weak. I took twelve bottles of his Favorite Prescription' 111a seven of the 'Golden Medical Discovery.'

NOW

I ,eel like a different person. Have no pain

iny head, can do all the work for myself, jiusbaiKl and one child am gaining in flesh I leel it is through God's mercy and your wonderlul medicines that I am cured."

son law, i'0111 the year I^SO, however, the loss has continued wit li increasing rapidity, notwithstanding our great in-cieaj-e in population and business, until it ha reached it* present, tremendous piop H'iiov.-i. li is difficult for the .student ot economics and commercial movements to avoid the conclusion that the difference between the two peri, ds depends upon the demonetization aot

passed in 1873, by which the destruction of bimetallic option wa9 commenced. What will be the ultimate limit of this foreign demand cannot bo certaiuly predicted. It is certain that there is not li. 1,v ativ tendency to a decrease of the aggregate amount of interest, dividends and rents to be paid each year tc aliens. O'l the contrary, the net excess of merchandise and silver necessary tc secure us any return of gold will, and must, continue to increase with more or less regularity until the bimetallic option is restored. How long we will be able to stand this no man can say. Our resources are great and our productive powers almost unlimited but oui foreign trade is but a small part of out commercial transactions. If this was all the draft upon our industries and our productions we could stand it for a long time. If it is true, as we claim, that the destruction of the bimetallic option that has been the governing power and the balance wheel of commerce for more than 1,000 years has produced this result in our foreign trade, the same appalling consequences have fallen upon our domestic transactions and is rapidly concentrating tho wealth of the country in the hands of the creditor classes. If interest on credits and dividends on stocks held in foreign countries and the rents tc alien landlords have created so large and continually increasing draft, what must be the magnitude of the aggregate draft caused by interest on credits, dividends ou stocks and rents on speculative investments held by our own citizens? If the demand caused by credits, stocks and speculative investments held at homo have, increased in the same proportion that the figures show those held abroad to have increased, the time is near at hand when the entire production of the count vill not be sufficient to satisfy it. What then? Already, according to intelligent estimates, 250,000 people of the United States own 80 per cent of all the wealth.

How much longer can this concentration of wealth continue before the point is reached wheti nothing but revolution will stand between our industrial and producing classes and slavery to the holdeis of wealth? Tho course that has been pursued since 1861 and still is being pursued by the great financial interests and creditor classes, is bringing about a conflict between wealth and production. If the American people desire to remain free they will be compelled to take care of debtors and let the great creditor classes take care of themselves. If American institutions are tc be perpetuated the policy of this country must cease to be what it now is—tc promote speculative schemes for public and private robbery. The policy must be an honest attempt to promote legitimate business interests.

HORSES' ACTIONS IN BATTLE

Some Keep Their Heads In the Mad Rush Some Lose Theui. A man seldom cries out when hit in tho turmoil of battle. It is the same vrtth a horse. Five troopers out of sis, when struck by a hnllet, are out of their saddles within a minute. If hit in the breast or shoulder, up go their hands and they get a heavy fall if in the leg or foot cr arm, vhey lall forward and roll off. But even with a foot cut oil by a jagged piece of shell a horse will not drop. It is only when shot through tho head or heart that lie comes down.

He may be fatally wounded, hut he hobbles out of the light to right or left and stands with drooping head until loss of blood brings him down. The horse that loses his rider and is uuwonnded himself will continue to tun with his set of fours until sonio movement throws him out. Then he goes galloping here and there, neighing with fear and alarm, but will not leave the field. I11 his racing about he may get among the deatl and wounded, but ho will dodge them, if possible, and in any case leap over them. When he has come upon three or four other riderless steeds, they "fall in" and keep together, as if for mutual protection, and the "rally" on the bugle may bring the whole of them into the ranks in a body.

A horse which has passed through a battle unwounded is fretful, sulky and nervous—the same as a man—for the next three or four days. His first battle is also the making or unmaking of him as a warhorse. If the nervous tension has been too great, he will become a bolter in the face of danger, and thereby become a danger in himself. If the test has not been beyond him, he will go into the next fight with head held high and flecks of foam blowing from his mouth as he thunders over the earth.—Washington Post.

In For It.

you do, Miss

"How do you do, Miss Leslie? So awfully glad to see you again. So very sorry you weren't at Lady Brown's dance last night. There positively was not one pretty girl in the room." "I am not Miss Leslie, but I was at Lady Brown's dance last night."—Loudon Punch.

It is an old saying that those "who were born in the last six months of the year will have a great change of experience every seventh year, and their dreams will have signifloanoe daring the full of the moon.

Strange as it may seem, the origin of the miter is to be found in Acts ii, 8, "And there appeared unto them oloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." The miter is supposed to be a representation of these oloven tongues.

DEM.

TO VOTERS

How to Mark Ballot

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Secretary of State,

DEM.

.SAMUEL M. RALSTON.

DEM.

For Auditor of State, JOHN \V. MINOR.

For Treasurer of State.

DEM.

''HUGH DOUUUERTY.

For Attorney General, JOHN G. McNUTT.

DEM.

For Clerk Supreme Court,

HENRY WARRUM.

INSTRUCTIONS.

If you wnnt to vote a STRAIQHT DEMOCRATIC? TICKET make a cross thus, X, within the large clr cle containing the ROOSTER atthe top of the tioket. If you mark In the LARGE C1R JLE you must not make a mark anywhere else on the ballot or you will lose your vote.

If you want to vote a mixed tloket you must not mark within the large circle, but must make a cross thus X, In the SMALL SQUARE opposite the name of each person, for whom you desire to vote.

You mui o^t mark on the ballot with anyth out the BLUE PENCIL glvep -'cu -oy the poll clerk. If you by rnr nk»- mutilate your ballot return it to tin fou otark and get a new ballot.

You must fold your bailot befcra coming out of the booth so thatthe face will not show, and so that the Initials of the poll clerks on the buck will show.

A Croaking Fanatic.

A certain minister said in his pulpit last Sunday that Crawfordsville was without a mayor and polite protection last week. The police court docket shows thiit there were 148 arrests made anil on Friday night the jail contained 17 inmates. Either this minister deliberately and wil'ully lied or else Major Rimore is guilty of making false entries in his docket.

Out November 3d.

Arrangements for the mustering out and discharge from service of the companies composing the 158 regiment have been completed. Company M, with other companies, will be relieved from further duty to tho government November 3rd.

To Or«nd Rapids.

Most of t,bp canvass s^ows xhibiting 1 here at the street fair left on a speci»l train Sunday lor Grniid Rapids, Mich. 1 he Hag' aback animal show went to Vn d^rsburg.

Novelties for Tnilnr-Mtule COHIIIIIICS. We have just- i« ceived a new and beautiful line of all wool cheviots and clothi in black, army and rnyal blues, brown and green, also fancy broken plaids. These are fashion's latest edict for tailor-made costumes, and we will sell them at special prices in the Great Rebuilding Sale Louis BISCHOK,

The Big Store, temporary quarters in Y. M. C. A. block.

Spain's national debt now amounts to l,()00,0)0,000 francs. p-,::

Home Heekcrs' clienp Exenraiona. On October 18, November 1,15, Hecember 6 and 10, the northwestern line will sell home seekers'excursion tickets, with favorable tirqe limitn, to numerous points in the West and South at exceptionally low rates. For tickets and full information apply to A. H. Waggener, 7 Jackson place, Indianapolis, Ind., or W. B. Kniskern 22Ffth avenue, Chicago, III.

A diamond for cutting glass lasts about three months.

To Core Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 250. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.

THE MARKETS.

Wheat 60 63 Corn 27 28 Oats 15 18 Rye 35 Hay, baled 5 6 00

Clover Seed Chickens, young... Turkeys EggB Potatoes, new Butter

"For five weeks 1 lived on cold water so to speak," writes a man who suffered terribly from indigestion. le could hardly keep anything on bis stomach. What etayed, wasn't properly digested and gave him terrible pangs. 'lhis is not an uncommon case. Dyspeptics don't gut enough nourishment. They tire generally thin and weak.

They may eat enough, but they don't digest enough. Much of what they eat turns into poison. If this keeps on there 110 telling what disease they may get nest.

That's why it is IKst to take Shaker DigestivejlCordial, as soon us symptoms of indigestion appear.

It cures all the evils of indigestion, and prevents the evils which indigestion causes.

Sold by druggists, price 10 ce-its to $1.00 per bottle.

The smallest cows in the world «re t.n be found in the Samoan islands.

Clinmplon Shot of the orM-

IVIIBB Annie Oakley writes: Myself and many of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Co. have given Allen's Foot-Ease, the powder to shake iDto the shoes, a most thorouch trial, and it dees all if not more than you claim. It instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Aliens Foot-Ea6e is a certain cure for hot' aching, rervous or sweating feet. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25,Sample sent FHEE. Address Allen 5s. Olmstead, Le Hoy, N. Y.

.UcclH Your NCPIIm.

When yen feel tired, languid, nervous and are troubled with pimples and eruptions, you will find Hood's Sarsupurilla exactly meets your needs. It purities and enriches the blood and imparts tu it the qualities needed to tone tho nerves and nourish the wh -le system. It cures all blood humors.

Hood's Pills cure sick headache, nausea, billiousncB and liver ills. Price 25 cents. A

CASTOIIIA Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature if

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The breaking Btrain of an inch rope is 9,000 pounds.

To Cure CmiHt|mtion Korever. Talte Ciiscarets Citiuiv CaUmruc. 10c or'.Sc. C. C. C. full lo eurts, druggists ri'funU money

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Mi-s Clara Smith, of Alamo, has been the gucet ot Lew Willis anil family this week.

Chlche#lerV Enellah Diamond Brand.<p></p>PILLS

PENNYROYAL

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boxes, sealed with blno ribbon. Take VJS' no other.

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(ions OTID irattiuioiu. Druggists, or send 4c. In Stamp# for particulars, testimonials and "Keller for Ladle*," in letter, by return MalL lO.OOO Testimonials. Name Paper.

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22=inch, $10.00

24=inch, $12.50

E: 28=inch, $15.00

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Exercise

Our line of Carpets, Furniture,

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AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS.

WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE INCLUSIVE USE OF "PITCHER'S CASTORIA,'

March*4'im-2d^

THE COURTS OUR 1UGIIT TO THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND AS OUR TRADEMARK..

I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hijannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "CASTQRiA," the same that has borne and does now bear on every the fac-simile signature of wrapper. This is the original "CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.

LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it 19 the kind you have always bought on the and has the signature of wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.

Do Not Be Deceived.

Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he

does not know.

"The Kind You Have Always Bought"

BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF

Insist on Having

The Kind That Never Failed Yo

,THF CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY.

gr Peace Jubilee and Street Fair^

^_Four Days1 Rush of Excitement,

Magnificent display ol costly Merchandise, bewildering 8ggregation of

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and artiste, dazzling electrical displays,

superb bands, carnival days with merry masquers, immense horse and live stock show, and lor all this the headquarters m— will be found at -!D

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.VVinos, Liquors, Alchohol and Cigars.-

ammmmmm mmmm mmmm mmm mm mmm mut ITHE UMPIRE ESTATE I

The "Umpire Estate" is the name of the only genuine air light stove that ever was made. Built upon fccientific principles, their extraordinary lire beeping qualities, elements of air tightness, fuel saving capacity, control of fire and rapid heating, and durability of the materials used, all combine in makiDg them perfect stoves.

for a moment your own mechanical judgment apply it to a critical examination and comparison as between the construction of the Umpire and others of this type of heaters, and your ver-. diet will, we are sure, be that reached by the experience of those whose words follow below:

SMARTsBURG, Sept. 12, '98.—The Umpire Estate stove tint I bought of you is the best heater that I ever owned gives splendid satisfaction would not exchange it for any other kind keeps fire, is cleanand takes but little fuel. I can recommend it to any friends wanting a good stove.

NEWMARKET, Ind., Sept. 14, 'QS.—The Umpire heating stove I bought of you last fall oives the very best of satisfaction and will gladly recommend it to my friends as the stove to buy. it uses less wood and holds fire longer than any stove I ever saw or ev owned. Respectfu ly,

DARLINGTON, Ind., Sept. 1J, '98.—The Umpire estate bought ot you last season is the grandest stove I ever used, Holds fiie longer and burns the least wood of any stove I ever saw, and I cheerfully recommend it to any one wanting a good stove. LOUIS A. LOVE.

NEW MARKET, Ind., Sept 14, '98—You have asked for my opinion of the Umpire Estate as a heater. I can only say it has no equal as a heater. It holds fire longer and U' es less wood than any stove I have ever used. Have used mine two winters and would not trade it for any stove made.

Dishes,

you. They are loaded down with everything for the dining room and kitchen. Don't overlook them.

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HACK CO

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Three Sizes. :2

22=inch, $10.00 Es

2i-iiick, §12.50 3

28-inch $15.00 3

WM. J. LYNCH.

LARKIN H. BRANCH.

JAS. GILLILAND.

and Tinware is complete. Our bargain counters want to see

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