Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 September 1896 — Page 4
Of the past week we have decided to continue our Clrarmice Sale of
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'"eolen Underwear. On • week longer, ami if yon } eople that have not already taken ad" \ d ig< of tliis sale > ill . nlj I! and exjaminc the goods and see tin prices and expect to need them during the winter, you will soon be convinced that scarce as money is it is your duty to make it g 'as f ir ns possible, and that you can do by making your pu: chases now, before tlie n< xt week is over, and save money by it.
Clothing and Hat House.
,F. A. HAYS.
T M P ^ O^pDjpCC The cause of free s’lver coinage l i \ Em O I M»t*» trill gain ten rotes front the Re] Kra.nk A. Arnold, Editor and Proiirietor. P:l11 party for every vote they lose by - - '• ^ bolters from the Democratic ranks.
Saturday, Sept. 1‘J, 189*>.
TEHM8 Oue Dollar per Year
The Republicans predict a financial panic if Bryan is elected. Well, well,
Entered at the rostoflke. Grttncaslle.Ind. we ll: I f true, 'tWould be DO Change kb secomi-c.asri mail matter. j , ” i — for the worse. We have had, and still We waut a good correspondent at each , . . . , ijostoffice in Pu t nam county" Those now act- Sillier Utluer a panic brought about lY e rthe"a%^r^.\rp!!er 1 o“nA 0 i ad y and hy '‘the present gold standard.” we will forward the same to them promptly ^
Democratic Ticket. President, William J. Bryan. Vice President, Arthur Sewell.
^ The free silver cause has nothing to fear save the use of boodle by the
Qorernorl'Benjamin f\ ShTv.iy. “pmsent gold standard” devotees, Lieutenaut-Goveruor, John O. Lawler. 1 and over COUlidence Oil their own
Appellate Judae, First District, Edwin i . .
Taytor. part. 1 he road to victory is constant ^Appeliate Jndge, Second Distrcit, Frank E. cfrort atld increa8ing v igil ance .
Appellate Judge, Third District, Theodore
11 Appel late Judge, Fourth District, A. J. THE It,? Loiz. bring 1
Appellate Judge, Fifth District, O. E. Ross. Secretary of State- Samuel Ralston. when Auditor of State, J. T. Fanning. .,
gan Chandler. Sliver,
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Attorney General. J. U. McNutt. unf i Reporter of the Supreme Court, Henry HUU Warrum. things Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. *
B. St. Clair.
Treasurer of State, Morga A t torney General. J. (i. McNutt.
Congress, John C. Ridpath. Represeotative, John II. James. Treasurer, James L. Browning. Sheriff, Richard M. Buuten. Coroner, E. H. Kleinbub. Surveyor, James F. O’Brien. Assessor, Johnson C. Herod. Commissioner, 'id Diet., James E. Talbott ( ommiMioner, id Dist.. William 8. Burris Prosecuting Attorney, J M. Rawley. Joint Representative, George J. Reiser. Joint Senator, L. A. Stock well. The “present gold standard” has doubled the wealth of the creditors; down with “the present gold stand-
ard.”
One of the notable converts from the Republican party to the cause of free silver is W. H. Chapman, of Parke county—he is doing great good to the cause by precept and example, is the report from Parke. I.v another column will be found a letter from Dr. Parkhurst, formerly of this city, in which he gives his ideas in regard to free silver. The Doctor makes a strong showing for the righteous cause of silver coinage, e’en if he is off on other issues.
perity “ ... »u assured fact. The ix>ssibiUies are that the people
could stand the shock to their nerves threatened by Republicans, when they prophesy that if Bryan is elected, the silver of the world will be dumped in on us, and as a resultant
fact, money will become too plenty. The gold advocates talk much of
intrinsic value in gold. Their theory is that to destroy the money demand for gold through demonetization would not lessen its value. Opposed to this doctrine is every political economist and statesman of the past and the present. Reason also contradicts this theory. The supply of gold in the world is sufficient to meet the demand of the arts and manufactures for the next sixty years, and yet it is claimed that the law doesn’t create
value!
The claim made by McKinley that free coinage of silver and gold on a ratio of 10 to 1 would debase our
Republicans pretend to deprecate currency, is made ridiculous by the the arraying of one class of citizens fact that in the next breath he advo-
against another in the present campaign. This is all rot. Mark Hanna began the onslaught, by combining all the millioniaries and corporate weath in the country on the side of McKinley ; the pe^j !•> were driven to the stand they have lit ken for selfprotection. THE State Central Committee talked of electing Tom Taggert as chairman, but he could not afford to accept it, because, it is alleged, “the money interests of Indianapolis threatened to ruin him financially if he accepted the chairmanship.” That this presidential campaign is a fight between the people and the millionaires grows plainer every day ; if the people do not wish to become abject serfs to the money power they should make Bryan’s election absolutely beyond doubt, and that too, by ibe largest popular majority ever i iven a presidential candidate.
Bryan and free silver—your reward will be great—you and your’s will be bench tied. “Don t want liat money’’ is the oftrepeated argument of gold bugs They prefer fiat bonds, that are valuable simply because they are backed by I'ncle S.im and all the property of the people. The “grand old man,” Hon. . E. Gladstone, said in a recent speech that England would never consent to an international agreement, because she was a creditor nation and is interested in a dear dollar.
It is disgusting to listen to poverty stricken men who won’t work ; who haven't had a good meal for a year, talking about wanting a “muney that is good in Urup." Evidently they haven’t any other kind. “Bet you $25” is to-day a stock ar gum cut of gold bugs. It is appropriate. It belongs to the vocabulary cf the money changers. It is pre-emi-nently the best argument of the gold standard. Wall street furnishes the lucre and gold bugs the gas. Foil thirty years the Republican party has been saying that this nation is strong enough to protect Us own interests and to stand alone, and now when protection is offered that will protect the weak and independence is advocated that will make I'ncle Sam supreme, the Republican party begins to bowl about international agreement. The Republicans say that “the present gold standard” is all right, and business will go along swimingly when confidence is restored. They fail to note the fact that confidence cannot be restored so long as “the present gold standard” keeps on increasing the <U>bts of the people and keeps on filling the cofers of millionaire and corporate greed. The resignation of Chairman Holt of the Democratic State Central Committee is heralded with great glee by the Republican newspapers, but for what reason it is ditficult to imagine. Mr. Holt resigned because he could not agree with the committee as to the management of the campaign, and Parks Martin, of Owen county, who is elected to succeed him, is a shrewder politician than Holt ever was or ever could be, and Mr. Martin can get along peacefully with the committee, so that harmony wTll result, and from harmony ensues strength and a larger majority in November.
cates free coinage if England and other European nations will consent to it. Would the consent of other nations change the facts. Would our currency be more debased if we adopted free silver coinage without the consent orapproval of the princes
and potentates of the earth?
The people, by their votes, will restore silver to the place in our coinage that it occupied prior to 1873, and as a result “the gold trust will be destroyed, the contraction of the circulating medium will cease and business wHl revive. Every obligation of the American people is payable in gold or silver, and when our government abandons the policy of redeeming all obligations in gold the value of a silver dollar will rise and the value of a gold dollar will fall to its legitmate purchasing power.”
A writer in an Eastern paper says : “The gold men tell us that if we have free silver foreign nations will unload on us. Well, the only way they will us will he to pay us for lucts. Again, they say the will be cv*' run with cheap In all the time we had free diver dollar was worth 100 it now, under a gold standard, a silver dollar is worth 53 cents. Again, they say a man can take 53 cents’ worth of silver to the mint and get $1 for it. But if the dollar is worth only 53 cents I don’t see how the man that furnishes the bullion will make anything there. They don’t tell us that under the gold standard a few bankers can corner the gold and force the Government to issue bonds at their pleasure. We know it, however. I am only a poor old hayseed, not noted for intelligence, and don’t wantthe earth ; but give me all the silver dollars I want and don’t worry about me. I won’t freeze.”
“Who could not run a country newspaper?” In the minds of a good many otherwise sensible people it is only necessary for the editor to look over his exchanges and clip and paste, until the form is fall, when out the sheet comes and everybody gets their copy of it. That would be very nice indeed. But such people forget the acres of paper the editor will look over to find a paragraph that may prove of interest to his readers or the time it takes him to condense a half column into a paragraph. Then he should be out around town looking up items of local affairs and at the same time his place is in his office looking after the work there and providing copy. He should also be out around the country looking up work and advertisements, for even the most obtuse will readily see that the annual $100 for the price of the paper will not keep the pot boiling or the press in motion. He acts as his foreman in making up the form, be proof reader, reporter and editor all in one. After doing these things to the best of his ability, and brought out paper he is met by the sapient remark: “I find a word mispelled here, a word was left out here.” Is it any wonder that the country editors grow bald, turn gray and die young?”
Is Dr M M. Park.hur«tt Former Pastor of College Ave. Church. Dr. M. M. I’lirkliurst, of Chicago, who was formerly pastor of College Ave M. E. Church, this city, was noted as a friend of free thought and fiee speech, when he w as a resident here, and he kept things moving and also kept some of the brethren in hot water because he dared to express his sentiments, and advised others to do the same. The Doctor w as also noted for the interest he took in politics, and the outspoken manner in which lie advocated what he thought was right, and condemned that which was wrong in his estimation. A gentleman residing in this city recently wrote to 1)'-. Parkhurst, asking him to give his views in regard to the present political issues, and the reply received was as follows Evanston, III , Sept. 11, 18%. My Dear Bbothei: — Yours is just at hand. If the election was to-day and my vote would decide between McKinley and Bryan and there was no Third Party ticke t, I would not vote. 1 think the split at Pittsburg has nearly destroyed the Prohibition party, and that most of the members will go to silver or gold. I doubt if 1-5 of the vote will be cast for Prohibition. I have been at eight assemblies this summer, from Western Nebraska to Maryland, and have heard Bryan, ilorr, Harvey, Rosewater and others on both sides of the currency question. Much that is said in the papers is simply foolish and misleading. My sympathies ami judgment are with the Silver side. My fears for business friends keep me from saying much, as I fear that thousands will be bankrupt. But I believe that bimetalism must come, and that it is the only safe course for tiie protection of the people against the greed of the Money Power. The debtor must have the right to pay in either or the creditor will corner gold as at present. This has been the rule for 4,(100 years. All U. S. Bonds are made payable in either gold or silver. Suppose you gave me your note for $1,000, payable in dry goods, and then I should go and get a law passed to the effect that cotton goods were not dry goods ; then I should proceed to buy up all the woolen goods and make you pay me $1,000 in woolen goods, and buy them of me at my price, to pay them back to me. Or, suppose the $1,000 was payable in grain, and the law said that both corn and wheat were grain. Now I get the law changed so that only’ wheat is legal “Grain,’’ then I corner wheat and make you pay me twice its value for it to return it to me for your note. Is not that the exact condition of all U. S. Bonds to-day? Does the fact that the money power did the same to Great Britain after the Napoleanic wars in 1810, and to Germany and France after the Franco-Prussian war in 1873, make it our duty to submit because the R. R. interests influenced Congress to make gold the only standard in 1873, so that millions of R. R. Bonds, Brewery Bonds, etc., etc., would be taken by European brokers? No, my dear brother, the more I study this question the more my convictions are with the people and against the money power. High Tariff would do little good. Merchant iron in Glasgow, plus the present tariff, is higher than the prices at Chicago and Pittsburg, and this is true of most foreign goods. Hence importations are diminished and revenue for the Government is deficient, what good will higher tariff be to us if the present is prohibitive? I know both Bryan and McKinley to be good Christian men and believe that both would do the best they could for the Master, as they see duty. I thank God for two such men and feel safe with either. Both are better than their parties. Newman’s attack upon Mr. Bryan is a shame to Methodism. Bimetalism by America alone would be a hard fight, but it would be in the interests of the struggling masses of Europe, and it may yet appear to be our duty to lead in the struggle. If I see it clear in that light, I shall fearlessly help the weak against the strong at any cost. To-day, I should vote for Bently; what I may do in November, I can’t say. Yours respectfully, M. M. Park hurst.
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VV r as eminently satisfactory. 17 Putnam county ladies attested their confidence in (heir hens by contesting for the #3 00 Shoes offered by us. Miss Grace Farrow
was the fortunate one. The
she brought weighed
dozen
eggs
One Pound, Fifteen Ounces and Fourteen Grains (I !,t>. i't Oz. I I (Jr.) And the shoes will he forthcoming when she calls for them.
buying shoes
of
Every customer draws a prize.
“Money's Worth or Money Back."
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MILLINERY
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
Fall and Winter Styles
My varied stock embraces everythim; mjuired in an up-to-date Millinery establishment. Headquarters for correct styles and desirable goods at popular prices. Children’s Hats, Caps, Baby
Bonnets and Veiling.
MRS. LILLIE ALLEN, 18 South Side Square.
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The Banner-Times genius who writes on the money question ought to take a few lessons in political economy. There are hundreds of fanners in Putnam county who have forgotten more political economy than the aforesaid B.-T. genius ever knew. The average fourteen-year-old boy could give the B.-T. pointers. There are people who really believe that bimetallism, a double standard of silver and gold, is a new and unried thing, and that monometallism, or a single standard, is the old, tried, true, and safe system of currency. This is all a mistake. The United States, from 1792 to 1873 had a bime tallic currency, and it proved satisfactory and safe to all except those who were immensely wealthy, who wished to double their wealth without exertion, at the expense of the masses. In 1873 we changed our system, and have been having trouble ever since. All we want is to restore things to the condition they were in prior to 1873. We had the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver then, and no one ever heard of a gold and silver scale of prices at that time. Neither w’ould we have them if we went back to the original American monetary system. The gold men are always getting up scarecrows, but when you investigate them you find they are wooden frames with a bondholder’s hat and coat on them.
Brunerstown.
James Johnson and daughter. Flora i visiting relatives in 111 David King Cayuga, 111,, this week to the fair. T again in our inidsl and claims Hattie J ~ ' ;er Jr. Itoth died Su
ease, consumption. Mil preceded her to rest mat i lived with her uncle. Jot
goes
- Death
— ;t v- --- ——— —Hattie llatcli and John Haysinger Jr. Both died Saturd of the dread disease
Hattie's parents
years and she has ... c „ w .. u .,«r uncie, job Dobson. Her health failed last winter; sin that time she had bore her sulfering with womanly faith and often wished she could 1 with her associates. She was in her nin teenth year and leaves neither brother or si ter. John liaysinger died at the home of h father, Samuel Baysinger. His health faih last May and since that time he had sut fast. He identified himself with the M church and died a Christian. His only regr was to leave his mother and relatives. I was eighteen years ofage in April, and leav father, mother two brothers, and three si ters, besides a great many relatives at
friends to mourn nis loss.
Once they crossed the river Jordan,
But they cross it no more.
The angels have welcomed them home.
To their bright golden shore.
George Marshall and wife, of Metcalf, IlL.ai visiting their father, .Saul Marshall, th week Thecbildren across the hue in I’srl county, were surprised when they went shoo! Monday morning to find that Zei White was their teacher. They had expect. Mr. Richardson, ol Lena, as their instructo Belle Thqmss came home trom Edward
Sunday evening, very sick with typhoid ver. She was taken to Dr. Welch’s a cared for until Monday, when she was able be moved home Look out for a weddi soon Oscar Thomas will teach the hi school branches in the school this
xt '"v sciiooi tins yei _ . Noah Carpenter left for Roachdale, Sati day. where he will teach school this year.. . protracted meeting will coinineuee at Lon branch the fourth Sunday and montinu ^eek A basket meeting will be held Pleasant Hill the fourth Sunday by Rev A heart The festival was well attended the church Saturday night Mrs. Naui Is in poor health again Some of the scht houses are being repaired this week James Downing is suffering with badly po oned eyes, as is Robert Reeves also, the sultofcutting corn. xx
A quart of ordinaryeighteen ounces
cornmeal weighs
Floyd Township. Hadleys clover huller is in this vicinity Rev. E. J. Bouber. ot Oakland City, preaci at the Grove land G. p. Church last Sunt Miss Effle Foster has been staying Nelson Wright’s ..Geo. E. Buis went Oreencastle on Monday Some ofour c< cutters are receiving 8 cents for 12x12 shot '"’it “ Yel a n d seems to be improving— will have a meat market in the near full -Lloyd E. Summers is attending sch at New Maysville. x
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Indianapolis Live Stock Market. CATTLE—Receipts, 250, shipments, light.
Market slow.
Choice export grades ft 25(94 75 Good to choice shipping 4 OO.iy-l Fair to good shipping 3 75(^1 Stockers and feeders 2 5093 Good to choice heifers 3 5093 75 Fair to medium heifers 3 1593 50 Good to choice cows 2 7593 25 Fair to medium cows 2 2592 75 Good to choice bulls 2 6593 00 SHEEP—Receipts, 260; shipments, light.
Market steady.
Good to choice sheep |2 7593 00 Fair to medium sheep 2 1092 75' Good to choice lambs. 3 75(11 00 HOGS—Receipts, 4,000; shipments, 1,500.
Market active.
Choice medium and heavy f.) 1093 30 Mixed and heavy packing 3 10 n3 25 Lights 3 1593 36 Pi*» - 2 2583 30
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