Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1898 — Page 6

The — Cruel Knife! It is absolutely useless to expect a Burgical operation to cure cancer, or any other blood disease. The cruelty of such treatment is illustrated in the alarming number of deaths which result from it. The disease is in the blood, and hence can not be cut out. Nine times out of ten the surgeon’s knife only hastens death. My son had a most malignant Cancer, for which the doctors said an operation was the only hope. Theoper- _ ation was a severe one. as it was nvcesEary to cut down to the jawbone and gerajve it. Before a Fl great while the Can- Whr wc W cer returned, and be- BW gan to grow rapidly. I 1L \ *7 We gave him many V»L remedies without re- 7 lief, and finally, \ J I i upon the advice >f a /VnAI friend, decided to .JjX try S. S. S. (swift's Specifie). and wit b.sSF ~~ a Tcwyfr the second bottle he *■ “ - , began to improve. After twenty bottles had been taken, the Cancer disappeared entirely, and he was cured. The cure was a permanent one. for he is now seventeen years old. and has never had a sign of the dreadful disease to return. J. N. Murdoch. 279 Snodgrass St., Dallas. Texas. Absolutely the only hope for Cancer is Swift’s Specific, S.S.SS. Blood as it is the only remedy which goes to the very bottom of the blood and forces out every trace of the disease. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable, and contains no potash, mercury, or other mineral. Books on Cancer will be mailed free to any address by the Swift Specific Co.. Atlanta, Ga.

Embraced by a Devil Fish. A diver engaged iu -Moyne river in Australia had a terrible experience with a sea devil. Having fired off a charge of dynamite and displaced a large quantity cf stones he went to the bottom cf the river and while engaged in rolling over a large stone he saw something moving about in front of him. This object quickly came in contact with him and coiled about his arm. The divig- walk 1 slowly and painfully along with the sea devil’s feelers twined about his body and legs. He made tracks for the ladder and gained the boat, a curious looking object indeed, with this huge ugly thing entangled about his body. With the help cf the sailors he was in time freed from his submarine companion. The body of the octopus was only about the size cf a large soup plate, with eyes like a sheep's, but it possessed nine arms, tach four feet iu length, at the butt as thick as a man's wrist and tapering off at the end like a penknife. Ail along the under part of the feelers of this strange se.s creature are suckers every quarter of an inch, giving it immense power. A Policeman. The Golden Penny tells an amusing story—seme readers may think it improbable—concerning the examination of a young man who desired to be ap pointed a member of the Hampshire county i England i police. He putin an appearance one morning, accompanied by his mother and was taken in hand for examination by the inspector. This progressed satisfactorily until the inspector observed: “Os course you're aware you'll have a let of night work to do? You are not afraid of being out late, I suppose?’’ Before the candidate could reply his mother electrified the amazed olficial with the<statement: “That’ll be all right, sir. His grandmother’s going round with him the first two or three nights until he gets used to it!” Matrimonial Exports. In the early days of Virginia, when the adventurers were mostly unmarried men, it was deemed necessary to export such women as could be prevailed upon to leave England as wives for the planters. A letter accompanying one of the matrimonial ships, dated London, Aug 12, 1621, says: “We send you in the ship a widow and 11 maids as wives for the people of Virginia. There hath been especial care taken in the choice of them, for there hath not one of them been received but upon good recommendations. There are 50 more that are ready to go. For the reimbursing of charges it is ordered that everyman that marries them give 100 pounds of best leaf tobacco for each of them.” The British Empire. At the present moment the British empire is 53 times the size of France, 52 times that of Germany, times that of the United States of America, thrice the size of Europe, with treble the population of all the Russias. It extends over 11,000,000 square miles, occupies one-fifth of the globe, contains one-fifth of the human race, or 350,000,000 people,. embraces four continents, 10,000 islands, 500 promontories and 2,000 rivers. Almost Ready to Quit. When the dog licenses were collected by the collector of queen's taxes a few years ago. a Sussex farmer was written to to pay, and among other charges was one for a dog. He wrote back, “Now, Mr. Browt, I’ve paid this tax for two years and have not had a dog, and I pay it this time, but if you don’t find me a dog at once I will not pay it again.”—London Telegtaph. What It Was For. Mr. Green —Now. I’m going to tell you something, Ethel. Do you know that last night, at your party, your sister promised to marry me? I hope you’ll forgive me for taking her away I Little Ethel—Forgive you, Mr. Green! Os course I will. Why, that's what the party was for!—Punch.

THE DISHONEST DOLLAR Silver Good Enouflh For the Soldier, but the Bondholder Is Paid In Gold. The Government For Year, Made and Circulated "Dishonest Dollars," Only to Find It Out In 1873, and Five Years Later Went Into the “Dishonest Dollar" Itu.loess Again. If the people of Indiana, believe the half, or the 100th part of one-half of the monthings and vaporings of the gold bugs and their henchmen about the silver dollar, they must conclude that the government, from its foundation, has been engaged in coining “dishonest dollars,” and that when it was not coining “dishonest dollars” at its own mints, it went into the business of making Mexican, Spanish and the dollars of other nations "dishonest” by affixing a dishonest value upon them and made them pass current at such value in the United States. Under every administration, from Washington to Grant, this thing of coining “dishonest silver dollars” proceeded unquestioned, but, in 1873, that paragon of integrity, John Sherman, saw the monstrous dishonesty of coining silver dollars of 412 l 2 grains of standard silver, and by perpetrating a fraud in the interest of Judas Iscariots, the money bag holders of the nation, put an end to the coinage of “dishonest dollars.” No one knows, or will ever know, the amount of swag John Sherman secured by this act of treason to the people. It is only known that, on $5,000 a year, he became a multi-mill-ionaire, was kicked out of office by William McKinley and left, in his old age, to reap a more abundant harvest of obloquy than has fallen to the lot of any native American since Benedict Arnold set the example of selling his country for British gold. The fraud perpetrated by John Sherman delighted every goldbug in the land, just as Arnold’s treason w’on the applause of the Tories in the war of the revolution. But, it appears from the records, that the people of the United States were so enamored of the business of coining “dishonest dollars” that in 1878, after living five years with the mints closed to the coinage of “dishonest dollars,” a fearful epidemic of dishonesty seized upon the people and swept over the countrv. And again the mints were opened to the coinage of “dishonest dollars,” and this swelling tide of in- i iqnity and astounding cu.-sedi'ess rolled ] on till more than 400,Ots* 000 of “dis- I honest dollars” were coined—dollars ■ which in the high wrought indignation of a Republican campaign openers declared to be "two-fifths lies,” and sees no reason why the government may not go tn the extreme and coin a whole silver dollar lie, upon the ground, that if ■ the government puts In circulation a 1 dollar which is "two-tifths” a lie, it may | with equal propriety put in circulation a dollar five-fifths a lie—in fact, go into I the counterfeiting business under the constitution and laws enacted in conformity with the constitution. If any one will go to the trouble of reading the campaign opening address of Hon. Albert J. Beveridge st Tomlinson hall, delivered some week* since, it will ba seen upon what sort of oratorical rations the distinguished speaker fed his audience. It is not to be assumed that the Republican campaign opener, though a regular Vesuvian orator, made any converts from the ranks of silver Republicans, or in any wise demoralized Democrats, but his reference to the dishonest American dollar indicates quite conclusively the kind of financial literature that suits the Republican party. The American dollar, which the gold bugs delight in denouncing as dishonest and "two-fifths a lie,” if these epithets were warranted, would present the United States before the world as a nation of knaves, coining dollars "twofifths” a lie, and compelling the people to accept them as if they were honest dollars. To quote Mr. Beveridge verbatim, he said: "If the government stamp can make a piece of silver which yon can buy for 45 cents pass for 100 cents * * * and if the government lies two-fifths in declaring that 45 cents is 100 cents, why not lie three-fifths and declare that nothing at all is 100 cents?” This sort of rant is accepted as financial gospel by the Republican press and the Republican managers of the campaign, aud yet, when their attention is called to the fact that the dollar they denounced as dishonest, and as lies, are paid out to soldiers, they are then compelled to accept the Democratic position relating to the honesty of the silver dollar, that it is a standard coin, irredeemable, sound as gold, constitutional and primary money, a legal tender for all debts, public or private, and that its coinage now, as in 1792, meets every requirement of sound money. To this the Republican goldbugs are driven, or be compelled to admit they have paid soldiers in “dishonest” money. But this fact in no wise relieves them of the odium of mendacity which they have earned by their puerile and studied slanders, heaped upon those who have sought with patriotic persistency to remonetize the silver dollar in the interest of all the people. But the Republican party, by paying silver dollars to soldiers and refusing to pay them to bondholders, has placed itself on record as a party making a distinction between soldiers aud bondholders. The party regards silver as inferior money and gold as superior money. In paying the bondholders it suirenders its option and pays them in gold. In caving soldiers it exercises its

option and pays them in silver. If silver is good enough for soldiers, it is good enough for bondholders, and this, if the case were submitted to the people, would be the verdict. And the Democratic party does submit the question to the people of Indiana and asks for their verdict at the polls on Nov. 8, 1898. The facts are as stated. The government is placed under obligation to soldiers of a higher character than its obliI gations to bond holders. These soldiers i performed patriotic service; they placed their health and their lives in peril to 1 serve their country. It has been said, and truthfully said, “There is nothing too good for soldiers.” If the Republican party believed that, it must pay its soldiers in gold, because it says "gold is the best money.” It is the money which it pays to bond holders, but it does not pay the soldiers in the money it pays to bond holders. Bond holders will not have silver dollars, which Mr. Beveridge characterizes as "two-fifths” a lie, but it does pay such silver coins to soldiers, and does not permit them, as it permits bond j holders, to choose the kind of money they will accept. If, as they are compelled to do, admit that silver dollars are "sound money, sound enough to pay soldiers, why not pay it to bond holders? Let Republicans answer, if they can. Indeed, the Democratic party of Indiana insists they shall answer, or sit as dumb as so many bronze dogs on the front steps of a plutocrat's palace. FOREIGN TRADE Its Condition Before and After the Act of 1873. By Flavius J. Van Vorhis. The more carefully the reports of the treasury department are examined, the more do the figures there given emphasize the intimate relation that exists between our foreign commerce and the money question. The real significance of the figures there given can only be arrived at by computation and comparison. Not every one is inclined to make such careful examination. Everyman ought to do so who represents or desires to represent the people, or attempts to discuss the subject. For 25 years there has been an awful draft by foreign trade upon our resources. It can hardly escape attention that there has been a constant loss since 1873, and that the loss has been increasing ever since. There can be no doubt that this annual loss goes to pay interest to for eign holders of our debts, div..funds tc foreign holders of our corp,.>u stocks and rents to alien landlord*. This is clearly shown by the -ables of annual exports and imports ~t merchandise and of exports and imports of gold ana silver from 1835 to 1897 to be found in every monthly report except those of May and June la*t. It is worth while, in view of preset i conditionsaud the repeated assertions made by certain papers and speakers that our foreign trade gives evidence of prosperity, to see what these tables contain. The fiscal year prior to 1843 ended on Sept. 30. Since that date it has ended on June 30 Draw a line across the tables between 1873 and 1874, dividing the whole time from September, 1834, to June 30, 1898, into two periods. An estimate of the exports and imports of merchandise and the money metals (gold and silver) during the first period of 38 years and nine months will show that the wealth of our country was increased by foreign trade by $557,090,937. This was an average annual increase of over $14,300,000 for the entire time. During the last 20 years of the period the net average annual 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 $42,500,000; during the last five years it was over $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, 1898. In stead of our wealth increasing by foreign trade, we lost during the time $3,547,087,104. This was a net average annual loss of nearly $142,000,000. Drop out of the calculation five years at a time, beginning with the earliest 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. Daring the last 10 years it was nearly $200,000,000. During the last five years it was over $286,500,000. Daring 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 on our side of the ledger. In the next year, ending Jane 30, 1874, we lost over $57,000,000, In 1875 we sent out of the country an excess of over $71,000,000 in gold and silver alone. In 1876 we lost over $120,000,000, of which $40,000,000 was gold and silver; in 1877 over $167,000,000. Between the years j 1880 and 1890 there was some decrease j in the annual loss, caused, no doubt, by I the beneficial effects of the Bland-Alli-son law. From the year 1890, however, i the loss has continued with increasing rapidity, notwithstanding our great increase in population and business, until it has reached its present tremendous proportions. It is difficult for the student of economics and commercial movements to avoid the conclusion that the difference between the two periods depends upon the demonetization act

passed in 187?, by which the destraction of bimetallic option was commenced. What will be the ultimate limit ol' this foreign demand cannot be certainly predicted. It is certain that there is not now any tendency to a decrease of the aggregate amount of interest, divi dends and rents to be paid each year tc aliens. On rhe contrary, the net excess of merchandise and silver necessary tc secure us any return of gold will, anc must, continue to increase with wort 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 out foreign trade is but a small part of out commercial transactions. If this was all the draft upon our industries aud our productions we could stand it for a long time. If it >s true, as we claim, that the destruction of the bimetallic option that has been trie governing | power and the balance wheel of commerce for more than 1,009 years ha-1 produced this result in our foreign trai the same appalling consequences ha fallen upon our domestic transactions and is rapidly concentrating the wealth of the country in the hands oil 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, aud continually increasing draft, what must be the magnitude of the aggregate draft caused by iuterest on credits, dividends on stocks and rents on speculative investments held by- our own citizens? If the demand caused by- credits. ] stocks ami speculative investments held , at home have increased in the same proportion that the figures show those held abroad to ve increased, the time is near at ham, when the entire production of the county will not be sufficient j 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 befo-e the point is reached when nothing but revolution will stand between our industrial and producing classes and slavery to the: holders of wealth ? The course that hat been pursued since 1861 and still is being pursued by the great financial inter ests ami creditor classes, is bringing I about a conflict between wealth and] production. If the American people desire to remain free they will be oom-1 pellet! to take care of debtcis and let the | great creditor classes take care of themselves. If American institutions are tc be perpetuated the policy of thia eouu-1 try must cease to be what it now is—tc promote speculative schemes for public | and private robbery. The policy must] be an honest attempt t > promote legitimate business interests. PRESIDENT'S WAR The New York Tribune, good Repub- ] lican authority, st vs "From beginning co end it has been ] the president’s war. aud today it is the I president’s victory.'' That settles It. Dewey, Sampson. ] Schley, Merritt. Shafter, Alger ano : Long are back numbers. Only Major ' McKinley is to be recognized. The: Tribune further says; “We do not mean he (Major McKinley) sought the war, or wished it or en- ] tered upon it with feelings other than of reluctance and of detestation.” Right again, McGinley is no war horse. His "neck” is not “clothed with i thunder,” and but for the Democratic party, the Caban patriots would be still living under Spanish rule. The Rothchilds proclaim that they have nothing to do with silver, that their transactions are all in gold. The same is equally true of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the Wall street Shylock. These speculators in gold have no use for silver, the money of the producing classes, who rarely if ever see a gold coin. When Major McKinley joins the "inmemorable caravan” etc., there will be I a chance for men like Whitelaw Reid, | in writing his epitaph, to say, “The ] cemetaries where lie buried the men I who fought all the American wars from ' 1776 to 1898, do not contain as many : heroes as this solitary grave.” — In the United States, where every i volunteer soldier is a sovereign citizen, there is no reason under heaven why they should not be treated by the government with as much consideration as the officers. In w-ar the rifle is of more consequence than the sworn. The nations of the earth unstintedly praise the American nation for the way it conducted the war with Spain, aud yet Whitelaw Reid says McKinley entered upou the war with "feelings of reluctance aud detestation.” Admiral Schley is a Democrat, and that is the reason the administration has tried to suppress him, and has kept him from maintaining his place on the naval roll. William Rockefeller, a multi-million-aire and tax-dodger is fighting the New Jersey officials for a reduction of taxes. He is the fellow who refused to pay a poor tailor for mending his breeches. Dingley’s protective tariff produced its first year a deficit of $98,248,108, but it put many millions in the pockets of the men who subscribed to Mark Hanna’s fund to elect McKinley. Free coinage is inalienably allied to the free institutions of the country, without it we pass to the vassalage of ' the plutocracy. — The Republican goldbug speakers j have yet tc learn that the advocacy of i sound money demands sound argu- ■ meats.

Snow Trad- In Sicily. The principal export from Catania is snow, in which a most lucrative trade is carried on in Malta and parts of southern Italv. It is collected during the winter in hollows in the mountains and covered with ashes to prevent its thawing. It is brought down in panniers on mules to the coast at night. The revenue derived from this source is immense and renders the Prince of Paterno one of the richest men in Sicily. Snow is the universal luxury from the highest to the lowest rank and is sold at the rate of 4 cents for 30 ounces. The poorest cobbler there would rather deprive himself of his dinner than of his glass of “aqua gelata. ” It is extensively used in hospitals and a scarcity of it would be considered almost as great a misfortune as a famine and would occasion popular tumult. To guard against such accidents the government at Naples has made the providing of it a monopoly, the contractors being required to give security to the amount of 60,000 ducats, which sum is forfeited if it can be proved that for one hour the supply has not been equal to the demand. A gentleman who w-ent out with Stanley to Africa took with him a number of birdcages, in which he hoped to bring back some specimens of the rarer birds of the interior. Owing to the death of his carriers he was obliged to throw away the birdcages with a number of other articles. These were seized by the natives in great glee, though tbev did not know what to do with them, but they eventually decided that the small circular cages were a kind of headgear, and, knocking off the bottom, the chiefs strutted about in them with evident pride. One chief, thinking himself more wise than the others and having seen the white men eat at table out of dishes, thought they were receptacles for lood and took his meals from one, ceremoniously opening and shutting the door between each mouthful.

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