Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 22 March 1895 — Page 2

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN".

W. S. MONTOOMKKY, Kilitor ami Publisher.

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ing a four through the t-outh, is sick at a liotel in Thomnsville, Ga.

MORI-: than 8,000 hills have been introduced in tile York legislature, with more to follow. Great Scot!

IT is said that President Cleveland was in his younger d^ys a teacher in a Mind asylum. He is now a0 the leader of Democratic party representing "blind leading the blind."

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A MA.roun of the inembeis of the Professional \Vonmu\s who at tended the weekly niec-tin.il at New York declared at the close of an aniin-iteil dis-cu-sion ilu-ir intention of ariayir.g all their loicv' airainst, the "'wave of hypnotism which is swelling over the land." This dt'tovmination was not reached without a struggle The jii«nil»i-r.s listened first- to a favorite aniuilysis of the subject of hypnotism and its phenomena, presented in a paper written by Dr. R. Osgood Mason, a painstaking student of psychology) who represented the London Society for Psychological Research. The paper was read byr the presiding ollicer, Miss Ada Bleecker Winnie, and was termed "Trilby, a Psychical Study." Many other speakers gave it as their opinion that hypnotism was dangerous and should be regulated by law.

The Sons of Veterans will meet at their hall next Wednesday niaht. M. K. Cummins, Will Hughes and liis brother Sammy, went, to Indianapolis to-day.

.•i Misses Pearl and Flo Randall went to Indianapolis to-day to spend to-morrow with friends. They will attend a party there to-night-

Arthur Conklin, of Delphi, Ind., is visiting his uncle, Riley AIcKowu, of this city, and his grandfather, J. H. McKovvn, at Charlottesville.

J. 11. Moulden, receiver of the nail works, will start up the mills and begin making nails about April 1st. This will give work to a number of men.

David Roan was yesterday* sentenced to two years in the penitentiary lor stealing clover seed from Dr. C. A. Robinseu, of Fountaiiitown. Gibbs & Thomas, of tbis city, purchased some of the seed and Mr. Gibbs went, to Sbelbyville as a witness.

The last will aa uslanient of the late Benjamin JlcXanii-w-, was ottered for probate yesterday, but a prates':- had been tiled by Mrs. Emma Asheraft, one of his daughters, who claims that undue infiuenee was used when he made his will, and that his mind was unbalanced. R. A. Black represents James McNamee,aLd Marsh & Cook, Mrs. Asheraft.

Friday evening, March 22, the Presbyterian Y. P. S. C. E. will give Living Pictures at Masonic Opera House. In connection with this euter^ainmeut there will be several choice selections rendered. Admission 15 and 25 cents. Get your tickets of the Endeavorers and at White House Grocery. 97t5

We have received from The Inter Ocean advance copies of their new series of Art Supplements to be given free with their Sunday issue. They show the highest excellence in the art of lithography, and the subjects are an evidence of the elevated taste of the publisher. This magnificent gift of The Inter Ocean cannot be duplicated by any newspaper published, and we advise readers to have their orders in early.

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PART I.

Anna Randall and Sam

Duet—Mrs. Millikan. Recitation—Mrs. S. M. Kreer.

Solo—Mrs. W. E. Huston. LIVING PICTURES. 1 1. Birthday greeting. 2. Mother's greeting. 2. Babes in the Woods. 3. Five Foolish Virgins. 4. Faith. 5. Hope. 6. Charity. sf: 7. Picture of Bliss. 8. Galatea. 9. Light of Other Days. 10 1. Comrades. (2. Comrades.

PART II.

Duet—Mrs. Anna Randall and Mrs. Huston. Recitation—Will E. Huston.

LIVING PICTURES.

11. Moon Fairy. 12. Fauna. 13. Doctor. 14. Hod Carrier. 15. Jndith. 16. Catherine at the Stake. 17. "Quit That." 18. Mother Goose. 19. A Hopeless Case. 20. Cain and Able. 21. Midnight Stitches. 22 {1. Spitefulncss. 2. Revenge. 23. "Come On." 24. The Courtship of Miles Standish. 2G. Flower Girl. .26. "Good Night." Admission 15 and 25 cents. Reserved seats at Strickland's White House Grceery.

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A young man who lives at Philadelphia, and whose name we were unable to learn, came over yest -relay and "tanked up" considerably. He said he was robbed last uight of £10, but could furnish no clew. The pocket book was found in whiskey alley this morning but the money was gone. The fellow left for his home on the 8 0o this morning.

Timothy Hay For Sale.

The undersigned has a lot of good timothy hay for sale at his farm, two and a half miles northwest of this city, at £6.50 per ton. Call at my oflice. ld&w DK. M. M. A CAM?.

For Cash.

2,000 lbs No. 1 sugar cured hams at 10,uc per pouud. 1,000 lbs pure home-made lard at ?}c per lb. This sale is for Saturday oniy at WIN. Tollen & Co.'s market.

Kew Ollice.

Andy List desires to announce that he has opened an office in the Odd Fellows building, where he will be pleased to take your measure for a suit of clothing. He is connected with the Wanamaker & Brown Clothing Co., and has a fine line of samples to select from. 89tf

DKATIIS.

As reported by C. W. Morrison & Son undertakers. Arthur Jones, age 17 rs., son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Jones, near Morristown, of typhoid fever, Thursday night, March 21st, funeral at Christian church in Morristown, Saturday at 2 p. Rev. Demundreu. Interment at Cemetery.

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Newman in #):ul.

Jacob Newman, the man who recently tried to leave the impression that he had drowned himself in Blueriver, near Morristown, grew tired of his exile and returned to the parental roof Wednesday. The sheriff of Shelby county was notified and he placed Nevvmau under arrest. He was taken 'o Shelbyville, and his bondsman, Dr. Wm. Pierson, of Fountaintown, was released. Newman is now in jail.

"Nine Klgluy-iive."

Is what it cost Charles Lucas, who lives south of town, for the pleasure of carrying a revolver yesterday. He was I brought here by Marshal J. L. McCune, I of New Palestine, this morning, and I taken before Mayor Duncan, who assessed him in the sum of £9.85. Lucas is only one among hundreds who carry concealed weapons, many of whom live in this city, and should be arrested for the violation of the law. Only cowards and fools carry I revolvers.

A Nice Ottice.

Dr. N. P. Howard, Jr., can now be in is of N 1 4 W Main street over the Citizens' Bank and desires to announce to his friends that he can be found at the office at all hours unless professionally engaged. We were shown through the office and found that it was very conveniently arranged and has all the latest improvements for surgery work, etc. The office is fitted throughout with antique oak furniture.

Beware Of OiiitmeiitM For Catarrh That Contain Mercury. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure he sure you get the genuine It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. U^TSold by Druggists, price 75c per bottle

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Why John Bull Favors a Single Money Standard.

SOME GOLDBUG- ABSURDITIES.

Paradoxical Statement That Free Coinage Will liaise tlie Value of Silver to Miners Alone—All Products of Labor Have Declined Willi Silver—A Bit of History.

The recent changes of position by eminent men on the issue of bimetallism con: titnto a remarkable and interesting I chapter in tho history of opinions. I Americans know that our own public

nl PJir men have fluctuated wildly that former

the! JHull Oti Ullll. t/llw advocates of silver havo yielded to tho Cleveland pressure and become gold-

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bugs, while former monomutallists now confess their error and even John Sherman shows sonio signs of relenting at view of the appalling ruin ho has wrought. When the fall of prices under conditions which •would normally create a rise compelled belief that some malign influence was at work, he said in the senate, May 31, 1S92: "Whim tho law of 18 io was passed, the only trouble about it was that, wo were not as wise as tho Almighty Ruler of the universe. We could not see ahead."

Ic is not so well known, however, that abroad tho conversions to bimetallism havo been far mora numerous and important. There is not today ono monometallist in Great Britain who denies the great appreciation of gold. Mr. Gift'en, in my opinion tho clearest headed of them all, does not even condescend to argue tho matter, but starts his discussion on that basis as a fixed fact and speaks of it as the startling phenomenon of this age, while tho members of tho parliamentary commission sneer at the futile attempts of Hon. David A. Wells to prove that gold has stood still whilo everything else has moved. The reasons is obvious. Those Englishmen aro under no political' bias or commercial pressure against the truth they frankly admit that it is tho interest of tho creditor nation to have dear money, and as tho gold basis gives them that they seo no cause to object.

Decline In tho Value of Products. Interesting indeed is the case of Hon. Henry Hucks Gibbs, director and former governor of tho Bank of England and delegate to tho conference of 1878. He was thero an ardent advocate of the single gold standard, but has changed his view and become president of tho English Bimetallic league, and in explanaton thereof says that tho price tables of such economists as Soetbcnr, Karl and Sauerbeck are conclusive. Nover beforo were tho statistics of prices so carefully collected, and never were thero such striking agreements between those of different nations. If one great nation, or even ono great statistician, had arrived at a different conclusion, there might have been room for doubt, but from the United States bureau of statistics down to the agricultural minister of little Roumania thero is absolute harmony in the statement that with the declino of silver, as stated in terms of gold, has gono an equal declino in all tho jjroducts of human labor, save the very few where tho tendency was successfully counteracted by other causes, and that a very small part indeed of this decline is duo to tho gain of production over consumption. Whole libraries of sophistry on this last point are swept away by one undisputed fact. Tho decline has been as marked, though not so great, in staples of which there is an admitted scarcity as in thoso of which thero is supposed to bo a surplus, if indeed there can be a surplus in arti( of which all mankind want more th they can now buy.

Evils of tho Gold Standard Foretold. In 1892 Alfred D. Rothschild, even whilo arguing that England should maintain tho gold standard, wrote to the Brussels international monetary I conference that if other nations did not maintain the coinage of silver "there

would be a depreciation in the value of that commodity which would be frightful to contemplate and would cause a monetary panic, the far spreading effects of which it would be impossible to foretell. The panic has come, and all our goldbugs venture to promise is that somo time in the next decade South Africa gold will help us out. Mr. Goschen, a great authority in England, has recently declared that monometallism has beon carried too far. In 1888 parliament appointed a royal commission on gold and silver, composed of six bimetallises and six monometallists, and as a result of the facts collected by it Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, leader of the latter, has announced his conversion to

Danger of Popular Revolt.

Even as I write comes strange news from Germany, whose capitalists have been most obstinate and insultingly arrogant in their contempt of bimetallism. The reiclistag has declared for a bimetallic conference after a heated discussion in which it was loudly declared that the present policy is ruining the agricultural interests and is simple destruction to debtors. Within five hours of the publication of this fact in Washington our own senate took most significant action. Public men in both houses hinted at their belief that the war on silver had gone too far, and on the next day Senator Chandler openly confessed that New England was alarmed at the general tendency of

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bimetallism. Professor H. S. Foxwell, consume by far the largest amounts of professor of political oconomy in Uni- intoxicating liquors, and the one fact is versity college, London, in a recent letter announcing his own conversion, names eight other prominent English economists who have made tho same change. Even Hngh McCulloch, who has been both an American and English banker and was our secretary of the treasury and a monometallist, wrote in 1887 that the burden was becoming too great and closed his letter thus: "Debts contracted when both metals are used as money would be a burden too heavy to be borne when measured by a single standard."

prices and business. lie said, and It was a most amazing confession for him, that the present policy was most unjust to debtors that if tho Republicans did not carry out their pledges in aid of silver thero was danger of a popular revolt that England as tho great creditor nation had destroyed bimetallism in I her own selfish interest, and the United States had acquiesced to the injury of its people.

Several English writers havo recently "been honest enough to put their advocacy of bimetallism on tho ground that thero has been such shrinkage of the securities on which debts aro based that hundreds of millions of bonds have been made worthless. Mr. David Murray, I addressing the London capitalists in regaril to Australia, says "Banks adI vanced on securities at as safe a margin I as their advances were made 20 to 30 years ago. These margins havo now disappeared. The produce of the colonies has fallen in value one-half tho estate*, the runs, the mines, the farms, all producing factors, have fallen in like ratio, not from scant production, but from diminished prices." Ho gives a loud warning to the British creditors that their debtors can b:ar no more. Need 1 repeat his warning to our own money lords? Need I point to the continuous and rapid decline in farm values, to tho 15,000 farms in the west taken in by mortgage in one year, to the fact that thousands of farms are now worth less than even tho most I cautious loaning companies were willing to advance on them ten years ago, and that in consequence our farmers, once the most conservative class in the world, are now the most radical political innovators? Will western toilers submit to pay £2 whero they agreed to pay but $lr

Irnrn "Coin" to Gold.

A brief bit of history is here in order. It is witnin the memory of all men of my age that during our civil war tho government inflated tho currency at least 150 per cent that in 1805-70 it was suddenly contracted by tho retirement of interest bearing notes, by tho drift of money to tho south and to tho new west, and that the people were confronted with tho task of paying public and private debts in a money worth at least 40 por cent moro than that in which they were contracted. The strugglo was long and doubtful. Even with all their wondorful prestige from the success of war and emancipation tho Republicans twice lost Ohio on that issue and twico carried it by less than 10,000 plurality. We v,-ho advocated resumption in coin—and I trust I may without egotism mention my own experience as a speaki and writer in tho

Monometallist Absurdities. Tho reasons advanced for monometallism have been many and ingenious, and new ones havo been urged as the old ones had to be thrown aside. Tho first was that silver is too bulky, but that is now obsolete. Wo do not carry large sums of coin we use paper. Next it was urged that we should be at a disadvantage in tho exchange with our foreign customers, but everybody knows that was no trouble when our only money was depreciated paper, and that exchange must be calculated just tho same so long as tho coins of different countries vary. Any schoolboy can make the calculation on any trade in one minute. The claim that we should pay gold and be paid in silvor was too foolish to impose long on any one. Our people certainly had senso enough to charge prices that made up the difference in coin and greenbacks, and will they be less sensible with silver? Much has lately been said to the affect that tho most progressive and highly civilized nations are on the gold basis. It has also been repeatedly proved that the same nations

worth as much as the other. Of all the goldbug absurdities, however, I think the most absurd is their paradox that free coinage will raiso the value of silver to the miners and not to others. In adjacent columns of many a metropolitan paper can be seen these statements:

First.—The silver kings want free coinage so they can bring 50 cents worth of silver to the mint and get $1 fot it—that is, with free coinage the silver dollar will at once be on a par with the gold, and the government will pay out both indifferently.

Second.—With free coinage all our paper money would drop to the silver basis, and we should have 50 cent dollars—that is, silver is to be worth no more as money than it is now as bullion valued in terms of gold.

This is but one of a thousand contradictions and absurdities whioh show how completely their false assumption as to tho immutability of gold has destroyed their capacity for reasoning on the subject. They cannot extend their view of any measure beyond the effect it will have the noxt day in Wall street. Their conception of a nation's finances are summed up in one word—"stocks.'! Truly, they need warning that debtors may be poshed too far.

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cause—had flun al us daily tho charge that we wero helping tho bondholder and usurer to rob tho producer. Wo could make but one reply: It is tho lettor of the contract: gold and silver are the money of the constitution. It is hard indeed t.o pay £1 where only 70 cents was promised, but tho country awards it, and tho law doth givo it. Tho people hesitated long, but with a I sigh confessed that tho letter of the contract- was against them, and with sublime heroism voted to keep it. I

Scarcely, however, had tho verdict for "honest money" been rendered when I wo were confronted with tho claim that in place of the old specie basis in which the debt had been contracted wo must I pay with one coin. In vain did wo point to the written contract. Our eastern friends, admitting that it was according to the letter of the constitution, declared that the spirit and understanding of it wero for payment in gold alone. As between greenbacks and coin wo had urged the letter. Now as between gold and silvor wo were to observe the spirit.

J. H. BROWNING.

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We will occupy the room vacated by Mr. Randall, No. 20 West Main St., two doors west of our present location, as soon as it can be put in proper condition. We will continue in the future as we have in the past, offering the greatest possible bargains, special Sale for ten days. It will pay you to call and inspect goods and learn prices.

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Is to furnish the people with HKJ BARGAINS IN SHOES, and oil? Saturday and Monday next we will sell Ladies' Slippers, Baby Shoes. 3 to (5, for 18c Misses' grain School Shoes, 11 to 2, lor 50c Ladies' $1.50 Button Shoes for 05c Men's Plow Shoes, worth $1.25. for 7-tc.s A\7c carry the famous Vicuna Skin Shoe for men, only *2, and the great line of Krippendorf Shoes for women. BKI SALK Saturday and Monday.

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