Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 25, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 September 1896 — Page 4

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NAPPANEE NEWS. Nappankk, Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. liy fiOUDON N. MURRAY. Party Platforms. REPUBLICAN PLANK. The Republican parly is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 18194 since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measurs calculated to debase our currency, or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to pro. mote, ana until such agreement can be obtained, the exisJug gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency now in circulation must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. DEMOCRATIC PLANK. We are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to Loudon. It is not only un-American but it is anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by stifling that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed' our political independence in 1770, and won it in the war of the revolution. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal raiio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standurd silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for tha future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. It beats the d—l how this “silver craze” has grown! Next Monday is Labor Lay, and a legal holiday in Indiana." Not unlike many others who have the chance to do so, we will labor on that day, notwithstanding. The newspaper men will have learned more when this campaign is over than was ever afforded them by any one campaign during the history of the country. It is even a relief from the humdrum of the.campaign to read that Jim Corbett and Tom Sharkey are rexpected to flght, and in the meanwhile occupy some space in the newspapers. WfiAT has become of the rainmaker, is he, too, lost in the shuffle? Perhaps he has gone into quarters with the fellow who thought the drouth was caused by excessive ditching and tiliqg. - ■ 1 ' f Zau Zau, a clairvoyant, has been giving the Goshenites the razzle dazzle. It is thought that the politicians patronized the prognosticator of human destiny to a great extent. With what result, is not known. Questions: If an “honest dollar” is a dollar in which is embodied the greatest purchasing power, which is of course, when prices are low; does advancing prices make the dollar dishonest in the same proportion? If it does, then, is it possible for one to favor an “honest dollar”—so called, and yet favor higher prices? Tiie Bourbon Mirror has been purchased by A. Zimmerman, of the Plymouth Independent, who vyill take charge, and change its policy from a gold standard paper to the support of bimetallism. I. Mattingly, who for so many years published Abe pappy, has retired on account of his advanced age, being nearly 90 years old. Baeklen’a Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, , and positively cures Piles, or no pay re Squired. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J S. Walters. J

Rev. John McKinley who died at Muncie, this State, was an uncle of the distinguished candidate for president, Mayor William McKinley. The parents of the late minister are buried in the cemetery at South Bend. The deceased was 78 years of age. There are quite a number of funny situations in the campaign. With a Democratic measure to raise revenue for government expenses and a Republican congress to spend the money, how can the people decide whether it is a case of under-production or over-consumption? s. Question: What kind of a law is it that allows the secretary of the treasury to continue to discredit the legal tender quality of the silver dollar in a transaction between the individual and the government, and at the same time compels the individual to recognize that legal tender quality in an individual transaction? Inasmuch as there are so few people who disdliss the money question from the premise laid down in the platforms of the two dominant political parties upon the all-absorbing topic, money, that the News this week quotes both platforms for the information of all who take an interest in these matters. That same old proud bird with the olive branch and bunch of arrows, etc., and perhaps the suggestion that, as a nation, we trust in God—all this will remain with the silver dollar under bimetallism, together with its functions as a money of Anal payment; and even Uncle Sam will deprive a citizen of his liberty for counterfeiting it, but somehow or other “the government will not be behind the silver dollar under free coinage”, it is contended. The newest forgery claimed in politics comes from the Mexican authorities who say that the so-called Mexican dollar being used in the United States for political illustration is a counterfeit, and that it has already become a question of international investigation as to the source of this counterfeiting of the Mexican dollar. As to the -truth of this claim, the News does not vouch, because found only as current newspaper political news. It is seldom that strikes benefit working men. The Indiana coal miners have just found this out, having been out since May Ist last. Too many men out of employment to force matters. It is estimated that seven million men are now idle in the United States. 9 These are startling figures when one thinks of them. Nothing but that which will induce more people to dig their living out of the soil will ahjsorb the surplus labor in this country, so long as it comes in at Castle Garden at the rate it has been coming. The outing season is coming to an end.and people begin to desert Wawasee. Some of them will only have to go home to talk over during the winter what they will do next summer. Os course, the major portion of the which summers at Wawasee is an ever changing quantity—that is to say, that people come and go every week and the crowd remains about the same jn numbers. .However, there are those who put in their appearance with the first warm weather and are cut off from their outing pleasures only by the frost. This is the particular clsss to which we refer. Dangerous Drinking Water. Death lurks in impure water. It breeds diseases, often in epidemic form. The first symptom is looseness of the bowels. These diseases are checked by taking Foley’s Colic and Diarrhoea cure. Henry Fischer, druggist.

Speaking of the ideal country newspaper, Edwin D. Mead offers a valuable suggestion when he says, in the Boston Transcript : “Happy is the town or country blessed with such a journatr makfng week by week for everything that is pure and strong and good for the community, not trading on the people’s littleness and vulgarities, but lifting the people constantly to higher planes of culture and ambition. If a good local newspaper could take the plaoe of eaeh inadequate, poor one throughout the country, I can think of nothing that could do more for the revival of public spirit and the elevation of common life.” It is not because the newspapers are full of politics, that agitates the public pulse, but it is because the people are full of politics themselves. As long as the people continue to take such interest in public questions, that long newspapers naturally give more attention to questions agitated. Newspapers are largely the creatures of the people. It is just as natural that they differ on public questions, as it is essential for the interests of this country that the people differ over public questions. Should the newspapers all turn their opinions in one channel it is not a sign that the people would do so. The lecture delivered at the M. E. church last night by Rev. C. 0. Merica is a good one. “Talks and Talkers” is a subject, the title of which, is suggestive of many situations—and Mr. Merica has found about all of them, seemingly, the lecture being full of humor. Much of this humor is a kind which carries with it are invigorating, even though it be but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous. All the while there is a vein of solidity, of thought-inspiring language, touching on the eloquent in its delivery, making the lecture as a whole one of profit and a treat to hearers. In every presidential campaign, this and that nationality, this and that class of the people, have been appealed to by the great political parties. And, too, this has not'been without its effect in the final result. In campaigns to come, there will be a distinction without a difference. The distinction will be in favor of the farmers of this country; and there will be no difference because the same tactics will be used by parties to cater to the farming interests that have heretofore been directed in other channels. This is based on the hypothesis that, in the present campaign the farmer holds the key to the situation within his own grasp. The voters of Nappanee need be cautioned more than those in the country about moving from one township to another before election, because of the peculiar situation of the town, being located in two townships. If you move after to-morrow, September 3d, you will be denied the privilege of casting your ballot—that is, from one township to the other, though you may not move out of town. After Oct. 3d you will lose your vote if you move from one precinct to another, even though you still reside in the same township. In considering the precinct do not confuse the town incorporation aS a precinct in the coming election and then ignore the township lines. We have no faith in a man who now styles himself a gold Democrat and affiliates with a rump party. If a man has the courage of his convictions, and is against the free coinage of silver, he will not fool around with any rump candidates, but will proceed to do all he can to defeat free coinage by supporting the candidates in the party which is clearly opposed to that policy. Did you ever stop to think of the difference between the sincerity of the leading gold Democrats and the leading silver Republicans? The former arc placing themselves in a position, indicating a “sore toe” because they were turned down at Chicago, while the latter are working for a principle and manifest their desires and intentions of laboring where it will do the*.most good for their cause which they have placed above party name. * 1 1 We don’t believe a rump party amounts to much for or against any principle, the lines on which, are drawn so distinctly between the two dominant parties as on the money question. < A Prominent Lawyer Os Greenville, 111., Mr. C. E. Cook, writes: “I have been troubled with biliousness, sick headache, sour stomach, constipation, etc., for several years. I sought long and tried many remedies, but was disappointed until I tried your Syrup Pepsin. I can cheerfully recommend it to any suffering from the above complaints.” For sale by J. S. Walters.

The gold standard advocates argue the great purchasing power of the present dollar—the dearer the dollar the greater its purchasing power, gold monometallist admits that bimetallism is a good thing for the debtor class, but claims it would be an injustice to the creditor class to cheapen the dollar, increase primary money, or to increase the debt-paying quality of the dollar by an advance of prices, or in whatever other appllcato-' ry term expressed. The defender of the gold staudard is slow to acknowledge, of course, that this country Is made up of the*same debtor class, thesameVroducing class of people with more to sell than they have to buy, as it was, when by an act of congress, and afterward by the policy of government in maintaining gold payments, gold was appreciated in value—made dearer by placing a greater demand upon it. Inasmuch, as the fundamental principle of our form of government, is a government by the people, it follows as a matter of logical reasoning that there can be no reasonable objection for people standing out and up for what they believe to be for their inof any political party with 'Which they have heretofore affiliated, or any other government whose monetary policy happens to be different from ours. Independent voters is what this form of government needs, no matter which or what principle they support. Pronounced a Forgery. An article'which was quoted and credited to the London Financial News, which appeared in these columns is now said to have been a forgery. That is to say, it is claimed that it never appeared in the paper named. The authority for this statement is the Chicago Inter Ocean of last Wednesday, which says “a copy of the London Financial News dated Aug. 13th, arriving here to-day, says:” “We have received numerous letters from American correspondents containing what purport to be editorials from the Financial News, and which have been printed in various Western papers as ‘campaign literature.’ One Omaha paper prints an article stating that it is from the London Financial News of March 10th. No such article was ever printed by us, and its whole tenor is directly opposed to the view we have taken of the effect of free silver in the United States. So far from advocating free silver coinage, we have persistently pointed out that it spells repudiation and the withdrawal of all English capital.” The News has noted several denials since the article was published in these columns, but they were based on the premise that there was no such paper as the London Financial News. We never saw the paper, but had good reasons for believing that it existed, hence gave the denials no credit, until our attention was called to the one published herewith. This paper does not wish to nor will it mislead anyone purposely in articles quoted. Had we known that it was not genuine it could not have been produced in these columns—not even had advertising rates been offered for its production. It is impossible to verify everything that goes into print, even on news at home, to say nothing of editorial matter being quoted from various journals which go the rounds of all class of journals. American newspapers frequently quote English journals whose comments on American politicsdo not always agree with the tenor of things in their own country. To illustrate this, the writer distinctly remembers that the fight was on for the remonetization of silver the very first year of our journalistic career, in 1878. At the head of the editorial columns stood the following, quoted from the London Times. Its authenticacy was never questioned: “The London Times is the acknowledged organ of the moneyed interests of England. It scouts the idea of remonetization being in any sense repudiatory as ridiculous. The Times, in an able article on American finance, says:” “Repndiation is a word that can in no aense •trictly apply to the United States, supposing it shonld decree silver as the sole lawful money of to-morrow, and we doubt whether the bondholders would lose much by the change. At the present price of silver, say the fifty-five pence per onnee, the loss to the bondholder wonld be mnch smaller than is commonly supposed. If paid off at par in gold in New York his SI,OOO bond wonld be worth 306 1 4 s in London, and if paid in silver it would be worth 191112 s, a difference of 7'/, (percent only, and it is not for a moment to be supposed that the difference wonld remain so great fora single day, were silver again monetized; we shonld probably see it at once jump to fnllyflve shillings per onnee, at which price the above loss wonld be nearly-obliterated.’’ With this explanation and apology for having been iqisled, we will leave thfe matter. Found. At Henry Fischer’s drugstore, a marvelous cure for all kidney complaints, nervous exhaustion and female weakness. It is Foley’s Kidney Cure.

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