Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 September 1895 — Page 3

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CLEARED FOR ACTION.

F fl Hl E COINAGE FIGHT IS SURE TO COME. .Silver 71 vn Have No Per.son to I)cHpuirof Success truest ion tltat Over shadows the Tariff Money and the Price of Farm Products. The Issue Define!. The lit M is fast being cleared fur a .straight up and down free coinage fight next year. We have Mr. Balfour declark.g that he dots not believe a monetary conference of the nations would accomplish anything at the present time. This is equivalent to saying that no conference will be held. We have English and Herman gohlbug papers receiving the declaration with .applause and the comment that it settles the matter of an international conference lor good. In this country we -have the pen oral confession of the selfstyled .ound money" men that when they speak of sound money they mean cold aliT.o or currency redeemable in gold aoa. This is being admitted everywhere, so that there will be no skulking l.ehind disguise hi the campaign. Tne question has heretofore .narrowed down to the proposition that the United States shall re-establish free coinage without the co-operation of any other ecu n try. or that the pold standard shall continue in force for an indelinite period. This is precisely the issue that the News long ago claimed must In- face!. We have never had faith in an international conference. 1 eva use the sellish interest of England is opposed to silver and England will dominate any conference. The great papers of Knpland that are controlled by the money owning classes jnake no concealment of the fact that the sir. pie pold standard operates for the benefit of money owners alone and against all other classes. We would that the English press were more widely read in America. The vast amounts of interest which Great Britain draws from this country are piveti twice their legitimate purchasing power while the -foods and products which Britain buys are lowered to one-half their legitimate price. An interview with Mr. William Perry sLows that the people of Knpland iauph at the United States for our foolisaae-s in playinp into their hands "by our financial policy. Mr. Perry is an Englishman with interests on both sides of water and he speaks with .knowledge. If the f r; e coinage men of this country are wise enouph to allow themselves to be guided by patriotism there is no reason to despair of success even so e-arly as next year. The Tory policy of modeling our institutions to suit Europe cannot be continued lonp without produe'.i.p a revolution of povernment. The o::e ginnt that stands in the way is rurty. It blocks the path to freedom. American attachment to party is a strange thing. The party name continues to charm lonp after the principles on which the orpanizatioa was founded have been lost. A sentiment of loyalty to a name leads men to vote to enslave themselves. Parties are not rix cd and unchangeable. Theve was a time when all those now existing were called into being. Tlmy were created for the purpose of advocating certain policies and when they have eeased to serve the ends of patriotism there is no reason why they should command the .a!Jeg!ai:-e of any free man. The party machir. i a powerful engine in the .hands of those with money to buy men. those who deal in hupe trusts and corporations. It is largely manned by ollice-h Mers in whom the instinct of avarice overcomes higher motives. These :v o forces entrench themselves and ar dilhYult to displace, but the people hold the power after ail. and it is upon the sound common sense etf the people that reliance must be placed jf the oligarchy of greed is to be crushed and the republic be maintained. The News hopes that silver men everywhere will not let themselves be led .ist ray but will come together and in tinion triumph. Denver News. Mcncy and the Producers. If any faot is established beyond controversy, says (I. C. Merrick, it is that where prices of farm products are very low the great consumers of manufactured poods and wares cannot purchase, cannot consume; therefore the manufacturer cannot sell and of necessity must employ the wage earner on short time and starvation wages or close his works entirely. (Jo ask the carpet weavers in tin? city of New York, who had but six days' work in live months, how low prices benefited Ihem. Ask the wheat grower of eastern Washington, who parted with the crop of ISO! at from ".."i to ."2 cents a bushel, much below the cost of production, to explain what surplus he had with which to buy goods of any kind. Ask him if he would not rejoice with exceeding great joy could he see that his wheat in ls'.r would sell for $1 a bushel, payable in full legal tender silver dollars. Ask the cotfoii planter of (Jeorgia. the empire state of the cotton lelt, what benefit he or his employes on the plantation have derived from low prices of cotton. Ask him if lie can see anything before him but the destruction of his industry, the loss of his property, destitution and want. And when he has answered, as he must, that the blight and curse of a monetary famine are destroying him and his then ask him, if lie could be .assured of receiving for his crop the average price ef cotton for five years, 1 SSO-1 SSI, both inclusiv? viz, H.OS cents a pound In lawful silver money, whether in that event he could not see Immense advantages to his Industry, to himself, his family, to his employes on the plantation, to the merchant, manufacturer, railroad and to all his State and nation. And would not that ;general increase of price extend to all

other products of this soil? Ami would not the benefits of this increase of price reach Lack to the shop, mill and factory in an increased and increasing demand for goods and merchandise V

The Discission lloilcd Down. If the silver standard has left Mexico in such a deplorable condition as some of the guldhugs assert, why is it that the Democrats of Texas, who are eye-witnesses to the so-e-alled monetary degradation of the Mexican republic, sli uild be almost unanimous in favor of the restoration of silver, despite the fact, that the members of the cabinet and other agents of Wall street are going about the country declaring that the independent free coinage of silver wiil Mexicanize the country? Ace-ording to these agents of Wall strict, the United States have no more iuHuenee on the trad" and commerce of the world than Mexico has. They have no more to sell than Mexico and no more to buy. Being in a stagnant e-ondition with respect to the world's commerce, as Mexico is. the restoration of silver to its eld place as a money metal would add no more to its e-om-niercial value than the open mints ot Mexico have done. This is the sinister and unpatriotic contention of those who are trying to commit the party to the perpetuation of the British gold standard. Declaring that the restoration of silver will "Mexicanizj" this people, they maintain that we are alnady worse than Mexicanized since our foreign trade and our inllueiice on Kuropean commerce would have no more effect on the commercial value of silver than the open mints of, Mexico now have. If we are already thus Mexicanize-d in fact, why hesitate alout putting euirsclvcs on a level with Mexico and n-ap some of the benefits that Mexie-o is now reaping? Hut if we are not already Mexicanized, why not restore silver to its old place, and thus restore its value, by depreciating the value. of gold, which will no longer be in exclusive demand as the money of final payment? Honest voters who are keeping an eye on the ins and outs of the discussion would do well to bear in mind those lottom facts; that the Mexican dollar will buy as much in Mexico as the gold dollars will buy in the United States, and that the same Mexican dollar will buy more wheat ami cotton in the United States to-day than the gold dollar would buy in 1ST.". As we have said a hundroel times before', the whole controversy hinges on prices The producer, who deals in the products ef his labor, wants these products to buy as many debt-paying dollars as possible. The men who deal exclusively in money want the'ir dollars to buy as much of the products of human labor as possible. On the one hand the producer is intereste-d in making his produce more valuable'. On the other the money dealer is interested in making his dollars more valuable. This is all that there is in the whole discussion. The force of the argument is with the producer, for whatever enhances the value or price of his products puts more money in circulation and gives an impetus to all business and to all industrial enterprises. Atlanta Constitution. It Came to Puss. In July, 1M., the Loudon Statist, in discussing the edesing of the mints to silver in India, printed the following prophetic Avoids. In two years every prophce'y of the Statist has come to pass: "The new policy of the Indian government is likely to intensify the appreciation of gold. We have pointed out elsewhere that the new policy is tentative and provisional and that the most powerful member of the llersch11 committee, who, in fact, carried the committee wit.li him, looks, forward to the adoption of gold as the Standard of value and utimately to the accumulation of a gold reserve, while other members consider that the new policy cannot be carried out unless a gold reserve is accumulated ::.s soon us may be. "We are bound, then, to assume that by and by India will become a larger consumer of gold. The point to bear in mind is that all the world will understand that the new joliey is provisional and that by and by India will ende'avor to accumulate gold. That being so, all the other governments will be anxious to anticipate India and the likeliliood is that the scramble for gold will ree-eive a new Impetus. If it does, then we have to look forward to a further fall In prices, to frequent fluctuations in the value of money and to occasional severe spasms in the money market. If the Indian government succeeds, silver, in fact, ceases to be a precious metal and gold In the future will have to supply all the monetary demands of the civilize'd world. It follows necessarily that the value of gold must steadily rise, unless. Indeed, new mines are discovered and the production is immensely increased. "One consequence of the further appreciation of gold will be to intensify the agricultural depression all over Europe. Most of the charges on land have been fixed heretofore; they will weigh more and more heavily on the land owners as gold rises in value in other words, as prices decline. So, again, rents will become more onerous, and. it will be found that the settlement of the last few years was only provisional, and that a further reduction will become necessary. Also it is evident that the burden of lebt not only upon Individuals, but nnm the governments, will Ik? much increased. K very where the burden of debt will necessitate increased taxation, and so will weigh very heavily upon the general population." It is a habit with some people when they wish their own virtues to look the whitest, always to use the faults of others as a background.

ATLANTA'S MG SHOW.

MARVELOUS BEAUTY OF THE SOUTHERN EXPOSITION. its Future Now Depends Upon the Public-President Cleveland Touched the Button to Put the Wheels in Motion A Super") Inhibition. All the World Represented. Th" Atlanta Exposition is a reality. On Wednesday, at ":öt p. in.. President Cleveland, at Cray Oahhs, toticlu'd the button, and as qui. hly as tin' current could lly from th" coast of Massachusetts to the inland metropolis of Ceorgia the buzz of ma hinery was heard, and the Sonth's great show was open full speed. Like all gnat enterprises of this kind, the Atlanta exposition was not in a emplete condition on its opening day. The finishing touehes will have to be put on many buildings and inueh of the exhibits were not in pl.iee. But this is not discouraging to the promoters of the exposition. 1 hey do Hot expeet to be in good running shape until Met. lO. The exposition's future depends upon the public. Al'.mta hrains. and pluck, I . 1 n ii l emrgy. and perseverance have done their best. Th" money of the citizens of the stirring Southern city has Peen invested in the enterprise without stint and without hope of profit. The universal desire is to better bring to the attention of the I'nited States, to the attention of the world, the advantages of the "New South." its manifold resources, its enterprising business men. and its hospitable people. The highly trained Iilor of the most Advanced countries of the globe is to contribute its best endeavors to the show. DI.'NKA V EN "I won't play with France. Cerniany. llusia. England, and Italy have sent their best products in liberal arts and in th" seien es. The fertile South has emptied the choicest fruits of its fields and hills and factories into the exjMisition. The highest types of agricultural products possible to the rich lands of the Southern States are here in attractive arrangement. The products of the Smith's factories are heaped in abundance in the buildings. The great resources of mine and forest show the vast po.-sibilities of this section. The countries of South America wiil be most creditably represented. There is no doubt that one of the cardinal purposes of the exposition, the opening up of better trade relations between the Smith and the South and Central American countries, will be realized as a result of the enterprise. Cur own government is not behind. It presents its riches in a manner that will arouse the patriotic pride of very loyal American. Kelipscs New Orleans. The exhibition at Atlanta will completely eclipse that given at New Orleans with, its dearth of facilities of all kinds. Not withstanding the .overnnient helped it more than a million and a half of dollars, the latter was an unsuccessful local lair. That at Atlanta will represent all parts of the country, though naturally and appropriately it will be largely devoted to an exposition of the progress which lite South has made since the war and of its reMiurces not yet fully developed. A peculiarly interesting bat tin' of it will be tinsect ion devoted to tl- negro. For the first time tie colored people will have their own building and wiil show tinworld what they can do in the nrts and industries and how much they have accomplished in the upbuilding of the Smith. Indeed, Atlanta has everything in its favor a united people working harmoniously together, ambition, public spirit, business enterprise, and local patriotism. Miniature World' Fair. The Atlanta Exposition wiil be a World's Fair only on a reduced scale. Those who visited ami admired the White City in Jackson Park cannot fail to find pb-asure in a look from the entrance gate in Piedmont Park. The Midway of the World's Fair is reproduced. It is not of the same magnitude. Some attractions are to be seen not on exhibit in Chicago and many of the old Midway features are missing on Atlanta's thoroughfare of nations. Over

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2"0 Chinese arrived direct fr-m the ITowery King-lorn. They were on exhibition opening day in the Chinese Village. They were as much astonisln -i as w re the early seekers after the sights, who paid a quarter p. get m.-ide the gates. The seeide railway is ! i:ig hu-daess rigid along. :i.d a sc oud edition of the Ferris wheel is turning around with carloads of people. It is not marly as large as tiie original. The streets of Cain is an attraction, with its camel, donkeys, and dancing girls. Shooting the chutes can ' o enjoyed, with all the accessories to ii had at Coney Island. Atlantic i'iry. or "."d street in Chicago. A roof garden wiil be constructed on the top id the Forestry Building, and an enterprising theatrical manager of Atlanta has built a. theater on the Midway, where vaudeville shows of a high ordi r will be given. The Mexican Village, with its bull lights, the Illusion Hall, and a dozen other attractions will tempt the dollars out of visitors" pockets. At tii" east end of the Midway life in the South before the war is depicted by a troupe of colored people. A rude theater has been constructed of wood of historical interest. It was first cut in ISIS on Piedmont Park, where the exposition buildings are erected. A houe was built from it. which remained in the park until Cen. Sherman took possession of the country. Cen. Sherman destroyed the buildings and used the lumber in the breastworks he built at Atlanta. At the close of the war the lumber was purchased by Henry H. Smith, an Atlanta cotton merchant. The lumber has been used in six buildings before being put in the present negro theater and has every evidence of hard usage. There will be a continuous Ceorgia barbecue on the grounds and life in the mining camps in California in l'sp.i will be depicted true to life, Electric cars from the business center of Atlanta run to the

vou anv more. main u trance of the exposition. At the entrance is the Administration Building and jt.sf east of it the Fire I epartment House, where several companies and apparatus will stay during the exposition. History of the Kuir. Now that the exposition has thrown open its gates to visitors from all parts of the world the story of the cmieepticn of the enterprise will be read with interest. In a recent conversation on the subject Editor Clark Howell, who has been one of the hardest workers for the success of the undertaking in Atlanta, said: "On the morning of the 17th of December. l"SIo. only two months after the closing of the World's Fair. Colonel William A. Hemphill snggtsted to me in casual conversation that Atlanta ought to inaugurate some movement which would act as an antidote for the hard times from which the winde country was suffering. I promptly acquiesced in the suggestion that something must be done. I do not know.' said he, and then, suddenly stopping: 'I have it: h l's have an exposition!' whereupon he developed th( idea that the best way in met the genera! depression was by launching an undertaking which would bring mir people together and give them something in do while otin is were talking about disaster and depression." Mr. Howell then told how the people were inspired with the exposition idea, of the business men's me. ting when the tit-si active steps were taken, the appointment of a gem ral subcommittee ami the determination to raise a preliminary fund of at least :' m i.o. :o. Continuing, he said: Put it was necessary that there should be some distinctive central idea, around which the exposition should be built. It Would Hot do to go before the world that Atlanta was getting up an exposition with the sole idea of stemming the title of depression. Out of the discussion was evolved the keynote mi which the music of the whole movement was based. It was that the exposition should have as its leading purpose the establishment of closer trade relations between the Fnited States and the Central ami South American republics. The suggestion met the immediate approval of the industrial anil commercial ent rs. "The S-Mn.MH needed as a preliminary fund had been pledged in cash subscriptions in less than a week, ev -n the newsboys and the children contributing their mites, the city appropriating STo.tHto, the additional S1üö.mio being raised in personal subscriptions. To this the county added Tö.ttOO in work, ami when the EegUNCLE SAM TO (JOHN BULL) 'Got any aiore records to smash?'

isiatur mot the following fall it gr.v -.". .'O more, making the aggregate subscriptions from the city, the State and the county j?.".oO,om." After referring to the work of p meinem organization, when it was found that the movement had assumed such magnitude that it had even then far surpassed the most liberal expectation, or hopes of its founders. Mr. Howell continued: "The story of lie light for congressional recognition and of the government's appropriation of Si'i i: .i (tu ) is mo long to tell at this time, but snilice to say that we got it. and from that moment the success of the movement was assured, and the cntt rprice. already beyond the hounds of our most sanguine expectations, doubled in scope at once. Commissioners were sent to every State in the Fnion. t every South and Central American republic and to every European country. From April, Wl, for nine months, these commissioners traversed every part of the globe explaining the purposes of the exposition and inviting the participation of the world. Fvery State in the Fnion appointed commissioners, as did many Kuropean countries, and almost every South and Central American republic. The plain and specifications of the buildings were approved in t vSir'.v l':i't of the present year. Thm--hundred thousand d liars in bonds, guaranteed by the gate receipts, were issued, on which cash was promptly advanced, so that the exposition soon found itself in possession of ample funds wit h which to push the work of const ruction. The movement has progressed without a hitch from that day to this and the result will be seen by the more than M h i,t m ;t visitors wh are expected this fall."

WILL NOT EXECUTE THEM. Chinese Refuse to Punish Murderers of Missionaries. Advices from Foo-Clioo. China, say that the Chinese refuse to execute murderers implicated in the massacre of missionaries unless they are assured "that with the execution of the men accused all other demands shall cease. The work of the British and American joint commission is therefore stopped. Without the presence of a foreign licet no punishment for the massacre is probable. The vegetarians are relying on otfieial sympathy to begin again seizing and torturing Christians. The Chinese otiicuds at Ku Cheng are proving obstinate over the results of the inquiry into the outrages upon missionaries and are unwilling to sentence the guilty. They offer one life for each European who was killed and no more. HE'S READY TO RETIRE. General Selioficld' Farewell a Notable Jivcnt. Tie: olhcials of the War Department, at the direction of Secretary Lammit, made preparations for the farewell to Lieut. Ceti. Schofn-ld. commanding the army, on the L'Pth of September, the sixty-fourth anniversary of his birth. It had long been proposed -to make his leavetaking a notable one. many ollicers, both in the army and navy, personally presenting the retiring old warrior with some token of the friendship and esteem they feel for him. Personally Cen. Schotiehl has made a popular commanding otlicer of the army, lie puts on no frills with those who ara brought into social or business intercourse with him. His door has always been open 1 those who desire to call upon him in Ids ot'ice in the War Department, and while he is dignitied and business-like in his dealings, yet his manne is at once courteous and even cordial to those who have even but a slight acquaintance with him. With Cen. Schotichi's retirement the title "lieutinant general of the army" ! dies. He has onlv he'd this ollicial title L:4k 1 IM MEt T. f!KX. s ItoFIKI.I. since February last, when he was nominated to it by the Presidt nt in accordance with an act passed by the last Con gress. His former title was "major general commanding the army." His successor will hold that rank ami title until Congress, if it chooses, creates him lieutenant gemral. The examination of William E. Brockway, "king of counterfeiters." was continued before FniteJ States Commissioner Ilomaine, in Jersey City. The commissioner decided that n prima facie case had been made out against Brockaway ami held him to the Fnited States grand jury. A iopuIar actress announces that she will soon begin a starring tour in "The (Jueen of Liars." Will her leading man he Tom Ochiltree, Eli Perkins or .be MulhattonV Chicago Times-Herold.

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AFTER THE HUNT.

How the PmtTaloes Were Divided Up Among the Indians. No man was in haste i claim his game the inim-nt it fell, because his arrows had st.n.e peculiarity in their decoration by which they could be identified, and later his bullets were marked. The Omahas were expert hunters, and many a man could boast of having sent an arrow clean through on buffalo to lodge in a second beyond. The Haying ami cutting up of the animal takes place up, n the field, ami the meat ami poits are pad til upon the ponies in charge of the boys. The method of skinning and dividing the buffalo, elk ami leer is according to fixd rules; there are twelve cuts, four specified ones, with the hide, belonging to the slayer of the animal. The. first man who comes to assist in the cutting up of the game entitled to his choice of two of the remaining pieces, with the oxcr-plioii of "the breast," which is always the property of the last to give his services. This elisposition of the pieces gives opportunities to the poor ami the luckless to obtain provision for themselves and their families. If a hunter has borrowed a horse r wvapori, half of his share must go to the owner. Women nover go upon the huntingfield unless t assist a childless husband in taking care of the game. After the laden ponies have retched the camp, the lutios of the women begin in the preservation of the meat. They cut the hindquarters into thin slices, and king them tip on frames to lry; the muscle over the ribs is cut in strips, dried and braided; and when the meat is well urod pemmican is made. The elrylng or tanning of the skins then re quires attetion; the summer pelts are used for moccasins, clothing, and teiltet vers; for robes ami for bedding only the winter skins are used. For the latter purpose the hide of the bull is preferrel leause of its weight, and the animal is -ut ami Hayed elilTercutly from the others. Century. Electric Snow. The story of a most remarkable snowstorm, says the New York Tribune, is told by Lieut. John P. Fin ley, ;te of th.e best-informed meteorologists in the country, wiio encounteril the storm in making an ascent of Tike's Teak. lie says the storm could be described as a "shower of cold tire." Ia reality It was so charged with electricity as to present a scene more ea.vly imagined than described. At first the flakes only lischarged their tiny lights on coming in contact with the hair of the mule on whic'.t tlie lieutenant was mounted. Presently they began coming thicker and faster each Hake emitting its spari: as it sank into drifts of the s::w, or settled on the clothing of the lieutenant r the hair of the mule. As the storm increased in fury and the Hakes became smaller. ach of the icy particles appeared as a trailing blaze of ghostly white light, and the noise produced by the e-onstant electric explosions eo!ivv'd the impression of Nature's pow-r which Lieutenant Finley will never forget. When the storm was at its he'ght and -ach Hake of snow was like a !rop of lire, electric sparks were shaken in streams from tln Lieutenant's lingor-tips. as well as from his ears, beard and nose, and a wave of his arms was like the sweep of flaming Mvortl-bladcs through the air. -very point of snow touched giving ou: it3 little snap and Hash, of light. This phenomenon, though rare, is by no means new to meteorologists, it having been recorded several times before. It has by sein' ibservers been treated as a sort of ph isphoresccm-e. but in the -ase above cited -;:c:i l'.ike appears to have been chat god with static electricity. Clerical Horsemen. One of the most noted figures in Kotten Row is the Archbishop of Canterbury, who in point of residence ranks immediately alter the royal family, befoiv even tin lord ham-ollor. his wife, however, having no oliicial status or precede: i-e. The .archbishop rides w ith a very light hand and nev-r uses the whip. His favorite mount is a mare called Seivna, for which he paid :?l.-"Vo and he has taught her all kinds f tricks, which his grace delights in showing off to his friends. The funniest thing is to sc' her trot all alone from her stable to the entrance of the Lambeth pahu-e as soon as sin sees tlio primate waiting there for her. The Bishop of London, whose salary is $00,ooo a y-ar, with two fumish'l palaces in lieu f the aivhbishop's $7.V00 and thriH palan-s, rides a white horse, ami is likewise a conspicuous and notable tigure in the row. A Spendthrift Tio n. .7. M. Pavis. f Creensburg, Kan., who was a member of the lual State Legislature luring tlie memorable session of ls'.rd, in an interview staled that the population of that town had dwla. elletl from Lro live years ago to 1'2. The bomled indebtedness of the city incurrel In the establishment of water works, electric lighting ami other Internal improvements is $Iö.kh. Farmers have bought up the majority of the houses for a song ami moved them away, and the handful f pev,de that still remain refuse to pay taxes. The outstanding bonds atv worthless. Wichita (Kan.) dispatch to New York W)iid. The man w ho says to his w if "Civo me the baby, lear. and I w ill try ami put it to slep." is greater than he who taketh a city. Alverslty is not without comfort your enemy may be in harder luck than -oii. The blossom may smell very sweet and yet the fruit be bitter.