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THE REPUBLICAN.

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W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD INDIANA

STOR'ES TOLD ABOUT SHEEP. Iffhrtfamf at Two Band* That' PerilBt#d fa'"Following the leader." ,:••

Several "sheep meaV from the Inland Empire wero '.giithtired around tho «t©ve at-one of

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cussing the prospects for niutton this -winter and at last tltey got lo telling «tories about-sheep, says the Portland Oregonian.

One told about the captain of a «ehooner who had a band of sheep on tfcho-deck of his vessel. As lie tras turning and twisting the wheel-to keep the «ehooner on her course, tiie old ram who headed-the flock. taking umbrage at his motions, came up bcliiad him and at one full swoop butted him over the-wheel. The en rage* 1 captain seized bis •woolly--assailant and throw him overboard, when, presto! away went the whole flock, popping over the rail.onc otter another, into I lie sea. "oats were lowered, and with much labor a •portion of the ilock was saved. -Another told a story which Illustrated the samo follow-my-leadcr trait in the character of sheep. At a port on the sound one eve ing just after the deck hands had

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stowed away there camo down 500 •iiecp to be put on board. All hands were vexed because of the delay and trouble connected with shipping them, but linally a pen was made of hurdles between decks and a

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And in the dusk all was ready to take the sheep on board and they v/cro started down the gangway. The first me, as he struck the" deck, saw an •opening in the other side of the boat across which a hurdle had been placed. Instead of going along to the corral prepared-this sheep made a running jump, cleared the hurdle and landed in the salt chuck alongside. Every one of,the band followrd suit and in a short time 600 sheep were struggling in the •water. The captain, having seen the last one go down the plank, veiled out. vAll right down there?1' An answer •came back, "All right, sir send 'era down." "Send 'em down," roared the captain "haven't you the sheep do'.* •there?" "Not a sheep, sir," was the reply, and investigation showed that •t-here was not a sheep on the boat. The •captain .cor.kl not delay any longer -and so steamed away, and only a small number of .tlie fclu-.ep ever got .ashore.

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I CURRENT COMMENT. 5

OUR HOOSIER PRESIDENT, InQianapolis Journal.

Four years ago, when General Harrison was making his first race for the Presidency, the Journal appealed to Indianians to support him on the ground of State pride. It reminded them that, while Ohio and Illinois had each furnished two Presidents, Indiana had uotyetiurnished one that* General H^rrlsati was .the first person ever nominated'for President from this Sfcate, and that his election would be a #reat credit and honor to the State and do more to advertise it favorably than anything that had- ever occurred. There is reason to believe that this argument had some effect at all events General Harrison carried Indiana and was elected. Now that he is again a candidate, it is in order to aslc whether the old argument of State pride has been sustained and whether it still holds good.

It will not be denied that President Harrison has fully sustaineJ the expectations and predictions- of his friends. Everybody admits that lie has made an exceptionally good President. It is a common thing to read such expressions as that he is "the greatest President since Lincoln '••the best equipped President we have ever had "a man of great ability and re:ource?:" "noman ever grew so rapidly and steadilj' in popular estimation," and so on. These and similar expressions by hundreds have come from leading men and papers. Every Republican convention that has met during the last two years has indorsed the President in strong terms. The national convention gave expression to the sentiment of the/party by renominoting him. In short, there is abundant evidence that he is held in the highest po-sible esteem by the Republican party and possesses the confidence and respect of the people in an ordinary degree.

It would be absurd to say that Indiana is not honored by the position thus accorded to one of her sons. If President Harrison had proven a failure, or had brought dishonor on the high office he fills, every citizen of Indiana would have felt humiliated, and the State itself would have been dijgraced. Suppose, if such a thing is possible, that President Harrison had been guilty of notorious corruption or had done something to Qau-e his impeachment and removal from office, Indiana could scarcely have recovered from the disgrace. It would have clung to her for a hundred years. President Harrison hashadjt in his power to make the name of Indiana a hissing and a by-word among men. Instead of that, wha,t has he done? He has carried himself in such a way as to win the plaudits of his countrymen and the admiration of the world, thus bringing great and lasting honor to the State that sent him forth. He has caused the State to be mentioned with respect everywhere. He has stopped the mouths of those who used to sneer about Hoosierdom, and has demonstrated that when it comes to a contest of brains and intellect Indiana is at the fore. It is not alone wheat and corn, farm products and live stock, stone quarries and coal mines, commerce and manufactures, natural gas and petroleum, that makes a State great it must produce great men also. It is no exaggeration to say that President Harrison has done as much to give the. State a wide and favorable advertisement as all the material progress of the last twenty years.

If he has done so much and so well for the State during one four years, why should he not be tried another four? What has Indiana to gain by the election of a New York man to the Presidency? Why should any citizen of Indiana want to honor and advertise New York instead of his own State? It ought to be a matter of pride to every resident of the State to know that there is an Indiana man in the White House? If President Harrison is defeated this year, it is not likely the child is born who will live to see another President electca from Indiana. Why should lie be exchanged for a President who has no regard for the interests of Indiana, and no sympathy with its people, except as they may be nsed to advance his personal fortunes? The people or Indiana could not do a setter thing for the State than to record its vote in favor of the re-election of Harrison, and they will make a great mistake if they fail to do so.

THE 1873 SILVER ACT. The act of 1873, which dropped the standard silver dollar from our monetary s3'stem. has in recent years given a reat deal of mental perplexity to some people. It is said in these later days to have been the result of a conspiracy by which a creditor class unjustly and surreptitiously added heavy burdens to the debtor class. The idea is conveyed that a radical chinge in our currency was thus designedly and corruptly brought about.

The act of 1873 was a general one, revising all of our coinage statutes. The bill was introduced in April, 1870, und a large number of copies printe1 with wide margins and distributed among experts and to whomsoever showed any interest in the subject. It finally became a law in February, 1873, being before Congress and tne public nearly thtee years. Dunng that tirtie it was printed in ft11,with the amendments, by order of Congress, eleven different times, and twice, in addition, in official reports. The debates upon the

bill in

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six columns, andin tha House sev-nnty-eight columns, of (be Congres 'fir

Senator Stewart, then as now represfnting the State of Nevada, Voted for it, and there is nothing in the debates to show that anybody was seriously interested in the silver dollar.

The reason why no one was interested is simple. For fifty years previous the amount of bullion- irt-ja-sil-ver dollar had been worth from 101 to 104 cents, and nobody was taking it ta the mint -to be stamped 100 cents. The total number of silver dollars to be coined from the establishment of our government down to 1873 was less than-the-'issue' of any two months of 1891 or 1892. It was not until under the increased production the price of silver began to fall that the privilege of free coinage was valued or missed. When 412} grains of standard silver, instead of being worth 101 cents became worth only 90 cents the silver producer began to ask where the mint was located. He wanted the government to stamp 100 cents on it. By the time it was down to 90 cents he was stirring himself to re-establish free coinage, and, as it has continued to fall under the continually increasing production, he has .grown in the opinion that the act of 1872

was au

outrage and procured by a conspiracy. The argument that the act was passed in tho interest of creditors has a-Haw-in-it. Silver was then dear money, and gold, as compared with silver, cheap money. A gold dollar was worth 100 cents, and a silver dollar 102.65 cents. We are asked to belifcvc that creditors sought to compel debtors to make payment in 100-cent dollars instead of 102cept dollars.

There is a flaw also in the tho theory that the act of 1873 caused the decline in silver. The only way in which it could occasion a decline was by lessening the demand. The same act which dropped the standard silver dollar authorized the trade dollar which contained .more silver, and during the next four years'we coined three times as many trade dollars as we had coined standard dollars in all our history prior to 1873. So it was not a cessation of our mint demand which started silver downward.

Silver is cheaper because oi an increasbd supply, and because the uncertainty of its value has led to its disuse as money, by so many nations. The United States, by buying every two months more than its total coinage down to 1873, and by its ttfforis to establish an international basis for free coinage, is doing its full duty to sustain the value of the white metal. PECK, PEELLE. PARSONS ET AL.

If the Democrats, mugwumps, free traders and Adulamites of all sorts have been .as anxious as they have professed themselves to be to make inspection of the figures whereupon Commissioner Peck based his report of increased waj^er ^pd increased production since tne passage of the McKinley bill, they will un,te in a vote of thanks to our distinguished though youthful contemporary, the New York Recorder.

Of course they will do nothing of the kind, for the figures justify tho report but all seekers after truth will thank the Recorder for this special record. The accuracy of the figures presented in several pages of seven columns each is sworn to by Commissioner Peck and by all the clerks in his office. They prove conclusively that wages are higher and the output of manufactures larger in New York State during the first year of the new tariff than in the last year of the old one. Commissioner Peck's statistics are unimpeachable.

But the unimpeachable statistics of Mr. Peck, who is the Democratic Commissioner of Labor for the State of New York, are not the only testimony from Democratic sources in favor of the beneficent, operations of the McKinley bill.

There is the testimony of Mr. P^ele, who is the Democratic Commissioner of Statistics for Indiana.

There is the testimony of Mr. Parsons, who is

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Democratic Com

missioner of Savings Bc^nks in New^ York. There is the testimony of the Labor Commissioner of Massachusetts, who ^serves under the Democratic Governor of the State.

Peck's Democratic report proves that wages are higher and manufactures more abundant in New York since the passage of the McKinley bill. This report rests upon the tes-

Parsons' Democratic report proves that the savings of labor in New York are greater since the passage of the McKinley bill.

The Massachusetts Democratic report proves that the condition of labor is in every way improved since the passage of the bill.

The protectionists of America appeal to the

jury

timony of more than 6,000 employers _e»nploymenfc to of labor. hundreds of men and a home market Peelle's Democratic report proves .that wages are higher in Indiana since the passage of the McKinley bill. This report rests ^ipon the testimony of wage earners.

of the people for

judgment in favor of protection upon the evidence given by officials of that party which has made absolute free trade to be the chief clause of its political creed.

GEN. WEAVER AT THE 80UTH. The letter of General Weaver giving bis rea:ons for making no more speaches in Georgia can hardly fail to produce a profound impression. The decent people of Georgia must feel humiliated, and the friends of free speech, everywhere, Democrats and Beoublicans, must eee in it a National disgrace and menace. The American neoplc have long flattered themselvesithat the days of Garrison and FhHltpptafl gone |orever« or at -mirniAv--

fair hearing to political discussion, if it did not take the turn of revivwar and reconstructiod questions, or any phase of the old issue of negro domination. General Weaver was indeed a soldier*of the Union but that was not the trouble. He is engaged in an attempt to weaken the majority party which ever that may be. At the i\o/th it is the Republican party in the South the Democracy.

That this Weaver movement is encouraged by the Democracy at the North, was relied upon by General Weaver and his associates to secure for the People's party fair treatment at the South. But that fact* does not seem to cut much figure. The South cares very little about National politics, except as it bears upon what they call "'home rule," which really means ring rule. The ruling class which has run the politics of the South from the first, will brook no interference with their combine. White opposition is quite as exasperating as colored, and it does not matter whether their opposition be called Republican or Alliance.. The old monopoly must be maintained alike against old and new comers.

The Alliance movement at the South was an attempt to control,not antagonize, the Democracy. That it has gone beyond that in Alabama is due to animosities growing out of the recent gubernatorial campaign and not to any prearranged plan of the programme. Nothing was farther fi#om the original purpose of that movement than to wage a crusade in the interest of free speech and honest elections, but that secondary feature of the movement may prove the one to give it place in history.

The'South is as impatient of free discussion in politics now as the whole country was in the early days of the abolition movement. The rotten eggs thrown at General Weaver and his party were laid in the same nest as those thrown at Garrison, Phillips, and their associate pioneers of anti slavery. Macon and Atlanta may plead that they are no worse than Boston and Baltimore were in those evil. days. As in those, days, so now public sentiment needs the awakening influence of an outbreak. A great many well-mean-ing citizens could not believe that the South was under the domination of an unscrupulous oligarchy they thought the trouble was that the only organized opposition to the Democracy at the South came from a party which put down the rebellion and reconstructed the Union on the basis of negro suffrage. That delusion has been dispelled, which is of itself a very important point gained. —r~ BYNUM'S SHINPLASTER MONEY

PLAN.

Indianapolis Journal.

Now that Mr. Bynum, after being the strenuous advocate of free silver coinage for years, has made the discovery that only silver-mine and sil-ver-bullion-owners would be benefited by that scheme he has mado himself the leading champion of State banks of issue in Indiana. Evidently ignorant of the experience of the country with Slate bank money, he declares for a system which, when in force, robbed the people annually. He does not fully explain his scheme, except that State bank issues shall be based upon

State

At present there it no law on the statute books regulating banks of issue. If the 10 per cent. United States tax on such circulation were repealed, the legislature would be compelled to pass a law, regulating such banks,, unless the secretary of State should assume the power to issue charters to them as ne does other corporations. Such a law would be like the old law. There would in In-

for hundreds of farmers for articles which would have no valuo but for the glass industry.

6LOW RUIN.

Crawfordsville Journal,

Mr. Cleveland, in his letter of acceptance, says that the Democratic party does not contemplate "tho precipitation of free trade." Precipitation, as defined by Webster,means "great hurry, rash, tumultuous haste,'',r etc. It is comforting to have an assurance Irom Mr. Cleveland that the Democratic party is not going to rashly favor free trade, that they are not going to urge free trade witn tumultuous haste—that is that they are not all going to rush pell-mell, heels over head, to the support of free trade. Still we are kept entirely in the dark as to the manner in which they do intend to move. We are assured they will not be rash that they will not go in tumultuous haste not in the helter-skelter manner for free trade. But the country is kept entirely in the dark aa to the particular speed with which they will go for free trade. Our mechanical industries are not to have their liead chopped off at a tingle blow, but| rather killed oft bj ailoir poison of my ettrij ucti^no^U^UMFiff till ¥M""

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municipal bonds. There is but one system by which the note issues of any bank can be made reasonably sound, and that is for the State print, issue and redeem for banks all of the notes to which their security deposited with the State would entitle them. That is the plan of the present federal banking law. It involves an extensive engraving and printing establishment and a large official force to prevent fraudulent issue. How many States could afford to create such a s\'stem? Does any intelligent man believe that an Indiana Legislature would duplicate the national system for the printing and issuing of State bank notes? It is out of the question.

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