Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1895 — Page 5

Beveridge’s Wildest West. - Beveridge’s Montana Wildest West, which is booked to most originally amaze and amuse thousands at Decatur on .lune 6, is from all accounts, and the high official documentary evidence with which its claims are fortified, by all odds the most extensive and extraordinary exhibition that has ever visited this section. The four hundred savage Cree refugees from Canada, which it absolutely controls and has been organized to specially pro vide for, are the only Indians subject to no governmental control ami are their own masters. They are no pretty effeminate squad, permitted to leave their reservation under re strictions, but as free, fearless and uncivilized as when they took part in the Riel outbreak. More numerous than all the Indians in all the so called Wild West shows combined, they are also their uncouqueredsuperiors, both in physical attributes an<l unregenerated barbarism. Evi dently then their reproductions of equestrian battles, savage sports, ceremonies, customs and nomadic home lite must be proportionately granderand more realistic and thril ling, and they are. They populate a village of fifty wigwams, and fill a stupendous, real border arena with the very wildest and most unique of sensations. And this es entially great, educational a'd attractive entertainment is backed by a regiment of rough riders, lariat experts, a cowboy camp, a SIO,OOO challenge congress of crack shots, led by the worlds-famous ('apt. A. H. Kogardus; the champion Abdai lah Arab troupe; the most noted heroines of mid air gymnastics, and a big border hippodrome, presenting an unparalleled programme of pageants and races, in which over four hundred persons and as many horses participate. Still another exclusive feature is the famous Belgrade Bucking Bull, and if any of our readers can ride him they will pocket the snug sum of S2OO. The Wildest West morning public parade is a monster pageant of far frontier life, such ascivilization has never before seen and a free illustration of the resources of a most stupendous, singular and meritorious enterprise. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Dave E. Smith is at Pittsburg, Pa. Prof. Winans was at Fort Wayne Monday. Judge Studabaker was at Berne Monday. Roy Ifotteaberg vas at Bluffton last Friday. George Ilaetling is hauling stone for a new house. Rev. Aspy was a visitor in the city over Sunday. Mart Acker of Ohio City, was in the city last week. L. C. De Voss went to Frankfort Wednesday on business. Robert Case went to Willshire Wednesday on business. An excursion to Rome City is on the bill of fare for June 5. George Zimmerman was a Bluffton visitor last Thursday. Mr, More madea business trip to Toledo, Ohio, last Saturday. You should patronize home—all home ice is good, solid and pure. Mrs. Roll Stepenson of U niondale, is visiting friends here this week. Sam Simison of Berne, went through to Fort Wayne Monday. Cliff Hood was selling groceries to the retail trade here Monday. Ross Stone, Sam Evans and Roy Botenberg spent Sunday in Bluffton. County Superintendent Snow will hold examination for teachers license next Saturday. Ben Hale and family of Willshire, were visiting friends in the city Monday and Tuesday. Deputy Sheriff Erwin was in Toledo Tuesday, w here oilicial busi ness presented itself to view. T. E. Maun is manipulating a brick yard at Ceylon and is turning out a very high grade article. Winchester has a crack ball club, , upon whose ability to play ball they will wager their very al). Surveyor Fulk was looking after official business in the vicinity of Ceylon several days this week. The Grand Rapids sold twentythree tickets for Ringling Bros, circus at Fort Wayne yesterday. The newly elected officers of Geneva have been sworn in and are now doing business at the old stand. J. S. Bowers was looking after the gas business in the southern part of the county’ several days last week. Coffee & Baker have onions, lettuce and most all kinds of green vegetables, a fact you don’t want to forget.

“Coin’’Talks Money Before a Chicago Audience. “The first reason why I am io favor of . independent action by this country is that we should not be subjected to the influence of the governments of Europe. When our forefathers declared their political independence from Europe it was to free themselves from the class legislation of those governments, justly termed plutocracies. If people can be reduced to poverty and the prosperty of the United States can be ruined by hanging to the financial policy of Europe, then we can be reduced to thesame condition by financial legislation as a war of conquest would reduce us. If we are right, and our friends, the monometallism >av: “We admit bimetallism would be good, if we could get international bimeI talliam”—in other words, they agree that there is something radically wrong, but i claim that we are tied to the financial policy of Europe. So that, if a war of conquest in this country by the monarchies ■ of Europe, whose form of government is I different from ours, would reduce us to a I condition that the people of these governments are in, and they can accomplish the same purpose by financiel legislation, then there is a necessity for independent action. Where there is a necessity there is a remedy. Suppose you were to say to a man of common sense, “We are compelled to adopt the financial policy of Europe,” and he replied, “The country is going to waste and ruin, and desolation is spreading from ocean to ocean,” ana demonstrates that the cause of it is our adoption of the financial policy of Europe, and we say bask to him “It makes no difference, we are compelled to adopt the financial policy of Europe.” i The answer wouldn’t be acceptable to the hard headed citizen of this country. The government* of Europe are plutocracies. They squeeze the lemon for the people about ever so often. The few control class legislation and the masses are hewers of wood and drawers of water for the titled few. Like the farmer who goes out and lobs the bees’ nests, they rob the people and then give them time to fill the nest again before going out to rob it again. We have certainly not forgotten the history giving the reasons why our forefathers established this government—and that was the reason. Now, if financial legislation is one of the classer of class legislation by which many are robbed, and the few are enriched by the lemon that is squeezed, then it is one of the institutions of the European governments that we, as a nation of people, republican in form, should declare our independence of. That is the first reason why independent financial action should be taken by the United States. If they say we must have the same money that they have in order to carry on business with them, my reply is that the biggest business we ever did carry on with the balance of the world, and particularly in Europe, was the time when they had gold and silver as money and we had neither. It is one of those peculiar arguments that j wears itself into a man’s brain when reiterated and monotonously given out by the daily press that we must have the same . money that the other great commercial nations have. We never stop to investigate. It belongs to the catalogue of arguments that existed prior to 1492, when a majority of the people of the world said the world was Hat. and a few men, including Columbus, contended that it was round. . Those interested in purposely cultivating through ages an international money on lines marked out by them have the same possession of the public mind as the critics • of Columbus had, and those who contend : for financial independence from Europe I can be classed with the followers of that , great navigator whose minds were in advance of the age in which they lived. This nation can have an independent financial system without any reference whatever to the balance of the world, and carry on its own commerce by ocean and by laud with the other governments of the world notwithstanding. We do not now settle our balances with Europe in coin except on its commercial value and by weight. 1 Our coinage has nothing to do with it. Primarily balances of trade are settled with trade. We give them our wheat and take their silks, and the balance that we may owe them or they may owe us will be settled just as the merchants between the importing points may agree to settle it. They can settle it in gold for so much a pennyweight, as measured in the money of their ! country or our country, or in so much silver or so much copper, or so much of any other merchandise as may be agreed upon between them in their trade relations There is no such thing as an international money. What we are contending for is the opening of the mints to the free coinage of silver (they are now open to the free and unlimited coinage of gold, and have never been closed to that metal), and the establishment of bimetallism on those simple and fixed principles that were adopted by ,I those statesmen who had in view the interest ■ 1 of no class, but of all the people. What we want is bimetallism, and scientific bimetallism is this: “1. The free and unlimited coinage of both gold and I silver; these two metals to constitute the primary or redemption money of the govj ernment. “2. The silver dollar of 371} . 1 grains of pure silver to be the unit of value and gold to be coined into money at a ratio to be changed if necessary from time to ' time if the commercial parity to the legal ratio shall be affected by the action of foreign countries. “3. The money coined from • both metals to be legal tender in the payi [ ment of all debts. “4. The option as to I which of the two moneys is to be paid in the liquidation of a debt to rest with the

debtor, and the government also to exercise that option when desirable •hes paying out redemption money. The mints are now open to the unlimited coinage of gold. Such portion of the product of that metal as does not find an immediate demand to be used in the arts and manufactures is taken to the mints and coined into money—into money—and beI comes at once theobjeet for which all other products seek the market. It thus has an unlimited market as the mints are open to all of it that comes. This was true also as to silver prior to 1873, but by operation of Section 21 of the act of that year the mints were closed to the unlimited coinage of that metal. Hence, when silver now seeks the market and exhausts the demand supplied by the arts and manufactures and the small purchases of the government to coin it into token money, the demand for it ceases. ■ Gold has an unlimited demand, silver has a limited demand. Silver is now a commodity to be measured in gold. It is an object to be gored and kicked by bulls and bears. It is shut out from the United

States mint. It is token money. It has been deprived of that umlimited demand it enjoyed prior to 1873. We would re-tore to it that unlimited demand. We would ' open the mints to it again. We would | leave the mints open to gold as they are now. We would give silver the same privilegeasgold. Restoring to it this unlimited demand would cause the value of silver to rise as compared with gold. This is what we want. This is what we would do. We would again make the standard silver dollar the unit of value as it was before 1873. It would thus be a dollar, and the bullion in it would be worth a dollar, as the number of grains of bullion in adollar would have the right to walk into the n int and be coined into a dollar. No man . would take 80 cents for it when he could . have it coined at pleasure into a dollar. . We would make gold coins of the value . of so many silver units or dollars, as the • law existed prior to 1873. • Silver is the people’s money. It was so . regarded by our forefathers and was the , favored metal of the two. It was given tbe position of honor in the coinage of our two . metals by having the unit of value made . from it, and gold, its companion metal, , measured in it. Gold was and is the money i of the rich. This was to be a government . of the people, and the people's money was . to be the most favored. Twice when the commercial ratio between the two metals . made it advisable to change the legal ratio i the change was made by recoining the gold . coins. This was in 1834 and 1837. The t spirit of our forefathers then lived in their , sons. The gold coins were changed in size f and weight. In 1834 the gold eagle had . twelve grains taken out of it. In 1837 the . gold eagle had two-tenths of a grain added . to it. No change was ever made in the > quantity of pure silver in the silver unit, i There was to be no two yard sticks. The I rich man’s money—gold—was recoined when the commercial ratio changed to in- . terfere with the legal ratio. This is the .’ law we would re-enact. , We would make both legal tender in the . payment of all debts. We would repeal I the law of 1878 and the Sherman Jaw of 1890, authorizing contracts, (bonds, notes and mortgages) to be taken payable in gold , only. We would allow no discrimination I to be made between the legal tender character of the two metals. We would allow no private individual to dictate to the ; government what its legal tender money ’ should be. We would place the white me- ; I tai on an equal footing with the colored metal without regard to previous condiI tion of race or servitude. We would give the option to the debtor, if there was any t preference, as to which of the two he would use in the payment of a debt. A break in the commercial parity causes t the cheaper metal to be used. This incre ses > the demand for the cneaper metal. This | increased demand restores thevalue of metal | that had thus fallen below, a parity and . brings it back to parity. To give the op- , tion to the creditor causes the dearer metal . to be demanded, and it thus grows dearer and dearer and a parity is permanently . broken, and the gap grows wider and wider, i A true knowledge of bimetallism and the > simplicity of that system died with our r ancestors. Selfishness stalked into the . American congress at a time when neither I . metal was being used as a primary money I r —our primary money was then paper . money—at a time when corruption was P rife in our national legislature, followed . by articles of impeachment against Vice-: ■ President Colfax for complicity in tbe Oaks j , Ames ass air, the resignation of Secretary of War Belknap for bribery, the charge of cori ruption against nunuroiis congressmen in s connection with the Credit-Mobilies ecan- . dal and the land grant swindles. At a time . I when statesmanship was dwarfed in perr soual selfishness, men who knew what the . I effect of such changes in our financial pol- . icy meant, organized successfully the first ■ trust to be benefitted by national legislatj tion in this country. It was a money trust. It was tbe demonetization of silver. The . money of the people was destroyed. Silver e , at that time was at a slight premium over i I gold. By this act the mints were closed e ' to the unlimited coinage of silver, except . the trade dollar, which was over vflued by | eight grains and intended only forexport e to China, and it was shut off' by the act of 5 1876, except asthesecretary of the treasury 3 might permit it to be coined. 1 What is the remedy—let us have noth- . ing more to do with the men who have as--1 sisted in tying the hands of this great nation -I and delivering its financial policy over to 3 the gold gamblers of the world. The bank i of Rothschilds in England is now behind e I the United States treasury. They are our

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financial agents; our financial managers. We are paying them the princely salary of ; $8,000,000 for each six mouths of their val- ' liable services. We are in the hands of the , pawnbrokers of Europe. How long is our reserve stock of gold to last? How are we to 1 replenish it? There is only one way. and that is to borrow it from those who have it. and < that means England. And that is what we | are doing. That means more interest, more I gold annually to be paid to England. Where ’ will it end? It means the •‘dismal swamp” ' i and “hell’s half acre” beyond. This is what : I having a gold standard means, a money that < iis easily cornered. But how are we to pay these debts to England? It is in this way: Restore silver; put it in competition with 1 1 gold on a legal ratio of 16to 1; repeal all laws ; ; allowing a discrimination between the two < metals; stop gold notes from being taken. Put silver in competition with gold as soon I as possible. Where gold contracts do not ex- : ■ ist silver will go at tpice into competition I I witli gold atid this will take some of the de- . mandoff of gold. To that extent it will lower k | the value of gold. The extra demand for sil- ’ j ver will raise its value. cry thing will ad- ' vance in value at once, When our silver adt ■ vances and the prices of all our products ad- , j vance and wheat and cotton go back to their ] old prices, we will be more able to pay our * I debts. The only way to pay England is to j ! I advance prices permanently, not spasmodir cally. as is now being done on a few articles. r We can show gold we do not depend on it for j money. It will then be our slave. It is now our tyrant. It will come back and beg us to L i take it, as in 1873, when it—one of those gold r dollars—was worth two cents less than a silt ver dollar. When a great government like . I this United States says here is an equal ex- ’ change, 16 for 1, gold for silver, a man in 7 France is not going to part with his silver for ( gold, unless he gets that much for it, unless ' he gets as much for it as the United States will pay for it, less the cost of exchange. So that when a government that is big enough a to take all the silver in the world, if it wants n to test its capacity, a demand is created by k an influence that is able to sustain that de- , mand. so that a man nowhere in the world is 3 going to sell his silver for gold for any Less r than he can get for it in the United States.

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But we wiii not have to go it alone, We|would start with the western hemisphere, with China i and Japan in the eastern hemisphere and with France and the United States, two of the greatest governments in the world. The way to resume is to resume. The way to remonetize is to throw our mints open and we have got it. We will have higher prices once more. Everylxjdy can make some money. 1 There is not that paralyzed and deadly feeling that comes with destruction of prices and ■ the hoarding of money. Our trade with for- 1 eign nations is only 4 per cent, of our business < and our domestic business is ‘.Hipercent of all i our business. Which do yon want, legisla- ' tion in the interest of the 96 per cent., or the ; ] 4percent? If an undue and unrighteous in- , fluence by schemers and trickster* abnormally enhances the value of gold so that a commercial parity of 16 to 1 can not be main- I tained. then do as our forefathers did. change the ratio, and make the change in the weight ; and size of the gold coins. Monroe and Jacksou did it. They wen* not called dishonest , ! for doing so. They were legislating in the 1 interest of the people, and not in the interest ! ■of the favored few. We are not compelled to ! keep the legal ratio at 16 to 1; we can change it to *3O to 1 if necessary, to fix the legal ratio J to correspond with the commeacial ratio, but if the change is made, let us make it in the rich man’s money, and not in the poor man’s money. This is a question of capital on one side and humanity on the other. Os sound money—the sound of the clod on the coflin — i ‘on one side and sound money—the sound that has the honest ring of the peoples money : in it —on the other side. It is a quest ion of an i i English policy or an American policy— , which shall it be? We want to call your attention to the new Standard dictionary. It is the diction- . ary for doctors, lawyers, ministers, business ,' men, teachers and everybody. It is edited .! by specialists in all its departments, insur- • ing completeness of vocabulary and accui racy of statement. It has 301,864 words , from ato z; 48,000 additional in the appendix; over 5,000 illustrations; 247 emi- - nent specialists on editorial staff. It is the 4 handiest for reference and the best diction- - ary for you. Get it. J. A. Anderson, . agent, Huntington, Ind.

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Wildest West—June 6. Merchant Rosenthal is at Peru. A picnic in the Filling settlement is on tap today. Miss Rembarger of Ridgeville, is visiting friends in this city. Charley Murray and George Zimmerman were among the show passengers last evening. Miss Grace Groves returned home to Bluffton Saturday, after spending a few days with Frank Miller and wife. Judge Heller came home from his judicial work Saturday, and remained over Sunday with his family. Flour gone up, bread gone down. Coffee & Baker sells two large loaves for a nickel, and the size of the ; loaves are the same as before. Yours to please, Coffee & Baker. You should patronage that which furnishes labor at home. Who can ask for better ice than was harvested here last winter. The business man should use home ice and the laboring man should use home ice because it furnishes work for our home laborers. A sample of good gravel is being ' exhibited about town today by Dr. Devilbiss, the same being found on J the Cal Kunkle farm at Monmouth. ■ It undoubtedly is the thing for good roads, so our people don't “ need to lag behind the band wagon on account of no gravel. Let’s investigate.