Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 January 1896 — Page 6

NATIONAL CONTENTION Of Silver Men of the Country to Meet In St. Louis. Text of Cali and the Apportionment of Delegatee The Platform ae Promulgated by the Walk* ' lagtoa Conference. Washington, Jan. 24.—The silrer inference developed a degree of importance beyond expectation. It has resulted in a call for a national convention at St. Louis. July 22. A national committee, composed of democrats, exclusively, has been formed. Delegates have been apportioned among the states, and an address has been issued. CALL rOB THE OOSVgKTtOS. '* A convention of the qualified voters of the United Stasfcs who believe in the principles this day enunciated by this conference, and who are willing to subordinate party allegiance and fealty to those principles and to support the nominees of the national convention provided for by this conference, shall be held at the city of St. Loots. Mo. on the Sid day of July. 180S. at the Ipur of 12 o'clock noon. The apportionment to such convention shall be one delegate for each senator and representative in the United States congress from the several states and one delegate for each

ueiegate in congress from tae several territories. and additional delegates for the several states and territories based upon the silver strength as ascertained from the American Bimetallic amor. The number of delegates apportioned to each state snd territory shall be as follows: Alaska .... SSebruska ...-• _51 Alabama ..*> Nevada ..15 j Arizona . *5 Me* Hampshire.._ 6 Arkansas ...3 Sear Jersey_,i— 1? California .45 Sew Yor _.-...'_*4 Colorado S' ..........Sl'Socth Carolina... — 7© • Conn cticut_..15 Sorth Dakota ... — IS Delaware ..v.... 3 Ohio.’....« Florida .1.... hOklahoma _i._10 Geo-gia .SOiOregon ,—i— 1“ Idaho. 1” Pennsylvania....*, — 45 Illinois.... 5 Rhode island .* Indiana .+* South Carolina.35 Indian Territory. 5 south Dakota. 15 Iowa ..... . 35iTeunessee *........54! Kansas .... . .... «9* Texas . .. 70 Kentucky.,3ft Vermont 5. * I.. .,».• Virginia .'..*.. '40 it line.. ... ft Wasb.'igton . ..._.IT Maryland.. *West Virginia.12 Mj"aebusetis.Hi Wisconsin .15 Miehuraji - . W-.oni.ait .. . 15 M:ane~ ta . ..S Sew Mexico .... *• Mississippi Cl i. 20 i t|tt*s.'.uri “c* District of Columbia. 4 Montana..... ... l« j powers1 or the committee. Th:s - a .provisional na- . committee, consisting at one member from each state and territory, said committee to ^ - ■■■>- - . . j - • • i.' . t -.a! committees of political parties said Committee to serve until the holding 01 said -k national convention said committee, or the p-':;. r. •fe.-f* - f apt* t !■ this c inference shall have full power to 211 all vacancies, whether from the fa:. of tics t-.inference to appoint a full coaimiUee. or 6 resignation or otherwise. Said committee shaH select its own officers and adopt ru >s for its own government Said committee shad haveits headquarters in the city qt Whs U tag - ton. District of Columbia. The movie of selecting del* g said national convention shai be as prescribed by the national committee, subject to the following reg:!»t.on» t Alt delegates shall be elected at public conventions. or at public meetings v> he held either in. the several states at lanre or in the several counties or districts of mhtMMS'M the national committee may prescribe. I No person shall be engiMe as a delegate to any such cosveneion or meeting, or shall sit as a delegate n said national convention who Is act in favorof the declaration of principles this day enunciated by this conference. and who is not wiUin^ tp subordinate party allegiance to the advancement of such principles, and to support the nominees of said convention. The national committee 'ball proceed at once to .rganire the several .states and territories tor the success of this movement

ri-ATToRM I’KOMl'LOATKDj T;»e following is the declaration of the conference: The paramount issue at this time in the Catted Mates Is indisputably the money question." It is! t*-tw<en the gold star.tfird. gold ! boa ts endjfcaek currency on oae s.de. and the ! bimetallic Standard, bo bonds and (uterameat currency *4 the other. .< n this iassoe we declare ourselves to.be in f»v...r of a distinctive Am-rican “ n ancini .*$*- j tem We are unalterably oppjscl to the single j g-’-d standard, ^nd demand the immediate re- | turn to the const ituttnal standard of cold ! - and silver . hr the restoration by the govern- j Htrr.t B • ‘nt ■ ■ ! any fore _T« j>'Wrr >f 1 tfc*' ’■■■-*•■*- : .« iv.-r -«'■ - .• . ! at l s'.t-er i into . standard money. at the ratio Of 1* to I. a*... ;{».••:. exact o, * 'v as they ex- ' 1st*-'., pr' >r *... lsr;. the^dlteP coin to be of full j legal tender equality with gold for .all .debts, j and dyies. public and'private. W. fa that the pow er to Control and rein- 1 to*e a paper currency is inseparable from the I pew r to co. a «:-<! Ip rl e. that all curTrtict ut. r.dt-.l K • .»s tn.-.net si..-nil * be j teaued* and, its voli$eset controlled, bj the gwe- ’ era! g cfely. and should! be . legal tender UV are unalterably opposed to the issue by the Ttsdc 5 States .f .bter« -:-b*-ariajf howl* in . tiiar of. p ace as we denounce as a blunder j worst- that: a concurred in by a feputdtcan house, df plunging tfce country In debt by hundreds of millions in the vnin attempt tomaatanthe gold standard i by borrowing gold:, and we demand the. pay- ] Blent of all the coil cblignt ns of the Celled Mate* a» presided by rtistit; laws, in either gold or silver tout. at the option of the'governmeat, ana not a* the ;.t < ' the creditors. \vhhkjeav TV- i ••• atioe of silver in lsn enormous '.creased the demand forglil. eaha:jc:;ic .ts j. .-<-r; V-: - • - us i . weriog ai: prices mens ami by that standard and. WHKJUtas. Sir.de that uaj-s-. and indefehsibk- act. the prices of American product* hare fallen upon an average neariv id, per cent., carfying dowa'w th them prop rtiOaately the money value of ail other forms of property, emcept in peculiarly-favored localities and. Witgiti s . >j fall of pnees has destroyed the profits of legitimate industry, injuring the producer for th>- benefit of the non-producer, inereas.nc the l -ir ;»-n <>* the debtor and swelling the gains of the creditor, paralysing the pr<»' ictlve energies ,4 the American people, r -iting to idleness vast numbers of willing w ,crs.rseadiac the shadows of despair into Ussy'S me of the hone st toiler, filling the land ' with, tramp* and paupers, and building up cob sisal fortunes at the money centers and. Whkbca*. in the effort to maintain the gold standard the country has. within the last eighteen m-.&th*. in a time of profound peace and plenty, been loaded down with flftf.uoO.iMO of additional interest-bearing debt, under such* circumstance* aa to allow a syndicate of native on i foreign bankers to real Ur a net profit of f’O.OOOPg# OB a. single deal. and. Witcheas Another call is Boy pending fora further gold loan of llhimum, which, but for an outburst of popular indignation, would also have been negotiated in the same secret manner and through the same syndicate; and. W rasas. It sta. ds confessed that the gold standard can only be Upheld by so depleting tear paper currer cy a- to force the prices of oqr . product* below the European*, and even below the Vs-.atic, ievel. ts order that we may sell in ftgetgn markets, thus ‘ aggtevmtlng the very evil* of wh ich our people so bitterly complain, degcvdiag American labor and striking nt the very foundation* of our cirrigation Itself; and, WHFRU-s. Tbe advocates of the gold standard per*- sic ntly claim that tbe real cause of our distress and overproduction, that we hare produce 1 v> much that it has made us poor, which Implies that the trade repxedy is to close the factory, abandon the farm and throw • multitude of people out of employment-a doctn e that leaves us absolutely without hope •nr the future, and. WBE3EAS. The dteercnce cf exchange be

tween airier standard countries and gold stand* aril countries is equiralent to a bounty equal to the difference between the value of gold aad silver. in favor of the proaucja of silver stand- | ard countries exported in gold standard countries, and a corresponding tariff against the products of gold standard countries exported to airier using countries; and Whibkas, The coat of production otherwise In the Old World, and particularly in China and Japan. Is far less than the coat at which similar products can be produced or manufactured in this country by American labor, without reducing our farmers, miners, mechanics, manufacturers aad other industrial workers to the leTel of Chinese coolies; therefore, be « Remdvtd, That, orer aad above all other questions of policy, we are in favor of restoring to the people of the United States the time-hon-ored money of the constitution, gold and silver, not one, but both—the money of Washington, and Hamilton, and Jefferson, and Monroe, and Jackson, and Lincoln—to the end that the j American people may receive honest pay for an honest product; the American debtor pay his Just obligations in an honest standard, and not in a standard that is appreciated 10© per cent, above ail the great staples of oar eoun- j try: and to the end further that silver standard countries mawbe deprived of the unnatural advantage they now enjoy ife the difference In exchange between gold and sjrier—an advantage which tariff legislation ^Jon* ean not overcome. We therefore confidently appeal to the peo- ; pie of the Cnlted States that, leaving in abeya nee for the moment aU other questions, however important, even momentous they may appear. and sundering if need be all former party j ties and affiliations, that they unite in one supreme effort to free themselves and their children from the domfhatioo of the mosey power - —a power more destructive than any which has ! ever been fastened upon the civilised men of any race or-in any age. And upon the consummation of their desires snd efforts we invok* the gracious favor of Divine Providence.

XXEcniVK WMMtTTEE. The following ui the executive committee: Aritett—X W. Bremaa. Colorado—L X. Stevens. Connecticut—Hoh. Joseph Sheldon. California—Oeorge W Baker. I Idaho—John P. Olougn. Iowa—Amos Stecht. Illinois—L>r. George M. Emerich. Kansas—A. C Shinn. • Maryland—Gilbert T. Smith. Massachusetts—George c. Hill. Michigan—Judge J. G. RamsdeiL Montana—W II Swett. Nebraska—G. L- Law?* Nevada- tieorre S. Nison. , New Jersey—M-rtimer Whitehead. North «'arotina—B. F. Keith. Ohio—Henry T Niler ' Pennsylvania--K. E- Defenderfer. Tenrtess, . -j. }i kchlrn Virginia—A J Wedderburn. „ • '• 4 Vermont-J.is >ph BnstoU. I»jstrtct of Columbia—C J-Hillyer. t*tah -Richard McIntosh, j Oklahoma—Sidney Clark. . ' Chairman— Dr. J. J Mott, of North Carolina. riSABCX tvkuiTTKK. The following is the finance committee: 5 Colorado—Ex-Gov. James B. Grant Montana—Ex•Arov.i J. R Tooie Indiana—Anso Wolcott Kan sas — Ex -Congrje* Mnan W. H. Harris. Pennsylvania— W |J ffeeeney New Jersey— Eli B. Hecdee Missouri—L. M. Ramsay, Connecticut—Dr. A Ik Fuiier. . Ilhr,-»is.. Earl It Smith. Michigan .Charles; fCSiigh. Virgin;;! J L Johnson ^ California -Gen. T. J; t'luaie Utah—J, J Italy Tennessee—J IL Achlen

ECCLESIASTICAL ROME. An Alwray*-l*re»en« Power that Oitn th« ’City It* ImportwDi^. “Keelesiastie” liomeis the stronghold of a most tremendous fact. from whatever point of view Christianity may be considered. If one eonlA in imagination. detach the head of the Catholic ehureh fn*m the church, one would be obliged to admit that no single living man possesses the far-reaching and lasting power which in each succeeding papal reign belongs to the pope. Behind the pope stands the fact which confers, maintains and extends that power from century to century—a power which is one of t he hugest elements of the world's moral activity, both in its own direct action and in the counteraction and antagonism which it calls forth continually. It is the ail-pervading 'presence of this greatest fact, literally, in Christendom which has carried on Rome's importance from t: > i-.y* of the Caesars, across the chasm1 *# t Lie dark ages, to the days of the modern popes; and it is this really enormous ,imp*rtanee which continually throws forward into cruel relief the puerilites and inafutiefe of the daily outward world. It is the consciousness of that importance which make* old Roman society what it is. with it* virtues, its vices, its prejudices. and it* strange. oid-fa*h*oned, cloSe-fisied kindliness; which makes the contrast between the Saturnalia of Shove Tuesday night and the cross signed with ashes upon the forehead on Ash Wednesday morning, between the- careless laughter of the Roman beauty of OarnivaL and the tragic earnestness of the same" lovely face wh«-n *be great lady kneels in Lent before the’Confessional to receive upon her lient head the light touch of the penitentiary's wand, taking her turn, perhaps, with a score of yvomen of the people. It is the know ledge of an always present power, active throughout the whole world, which throws deep, straight shadows, as it wen1, through Roman character, just as in certain ancient families there is a secret that makes grave the lives of those who know it. —Marion ('rawford, in Century.

A \>pft*bt«* Hr» Perhaps the most remarkable use to which a tree is ever put is that of extinguishing a burning house. The rareneilo tree, of Madagascar; serves the natives of that country as a readymade and very efficient natural fire oxtinguisher. ThedeaVcs of this tree, which are fully ten feet long and broad in proportion, and which are .used to | beat the roofs of the native dwellings | in ease of fire, contain large quantities ! of water, even the leaf-stem being full of amall chambers or cells of pure water. There are from fifteen to thirty of these leaves on a singie tree. Crown* I ing the trunk with an immense ’fan- | like expansion of rich, green foliage, ! that forms a conspicuous feature of the Madagascan landscape. The ravenelio j leaves not only serve the Madagascans this useful purpose. but form the material with which they roof and line their houses. The bark of the tree, beaten out flat, serves as flooring, while the trunk supplies timber for framing and planking. Quantities of the fresh leaves are sold in the markets, to take the place'of plates and dishes, and at all seasons, the trunk, when an incision is made, yields a cool, sweet and wholesome beverage.—X. Y. Ledger.

THE RIGHT TO STEAL. Will the 1*wb»I* Man* Its Ooeerto*? Insolent and overbearing as are the pnp-fed organs of the high tariff' trusts and monopolies in their assertion of the doctrine that tax burdens should be laid on the many for the benefit of the few. it is seldom that one of them goes so far as to declare that the protected interests have acquired the ‘‘right” to rob consumers through high prices extorted, by high taxes on imports. Yet this is the claim put forward in a recent issue of the Philadelphia Manufacturer, the organ of the I protected manufacturers of Pennsyl- j vauia. The Ledger, a republican paper. I writes a correspondent, having stated j the well known fact that to increase the duties on wool and woolens would j be to “increase the cost of all kinds of j men’s, women’s and children’s cloth- i ing, blankets and other necessaries,” j the Manufacturer replied: “Seppos- j ing this result would follow, might it j not be-justified upon the ground that1 men. women and children have no1 right to buy these articles cheaper at ; the expense of the wool growers and j woolen manufacturers of the country?” ;

The brazen impudence of this pretense that 65,000,000 men, women and children “hare no right to boy articles cheaper” at the expense of a few thousand manufacturers and wool growers may lead some people to consider that the Manufacturer was simply joking. i But it was in dead earnest and proceeded to denounce the popular desire to purchase things at the lowest possible price, in the regulation MeKinleyUe style. Evidently its editor believes what be wrote. While this declaration of the “‘rights*’ of the few to high prices at the Expense of the whole people is only the logical outcome of the protectionist policy, its brutal bluntness should shock those amiable republicans who hare clung to their party in spite of its degeneracy into a mere tool of monopoly So long as a high tariff was cloaked under the pretense that it was needed to raise large revenues, or that it tended to reduce prices by eneouisaging domestic competition, tjiere was some excuse for men who had not studied the tariff question adhering to the parTy which once stood for human freedom and popular rights. But that time has gone by, and there can now be hot the slightest doubt that as a whole the republican party is committed to the monstrous doctrine that the men who have been robbing the public hare a “right” to continue their stealing undisturbed. Against this absurd and unjust proposition every man possessing any sympathy or intelligence should protest. The idea that the few men who grow wool, or convert it into <*totb. can have a right to compel each man. woman and child to add to the profits of these- growers or manufacturers, is a denial of the basis of American institutions and all civilized society. The whole-fabric of human rights proceeds from the^ universal agreement that each man has the right of life, liberty, and the enjoyment of the property he produced. To take a portion of their property away from the many in order that the few may get richer, is a direct violation of every principle of morality. If it be true that the manufacturers hare the right to charge higher prices than would prevail under free and fair competition, where and how did they get it? Who had authority to give the rights of the people into the control of a handful of men? Hove dare the advocates of McKinley ism deny to the American consumers their undeniable right to buy goods wherever they can pet them best and cheapest? When was the principle of “the greatest good to the greatest number" changed to “the gveatest good of the woolen manufacturers"? Who are the protectionists, anyhow, that they should presume to say that men. women and children, shall not buy their winter woolens as cheaply as possible? An attempt to increase the cost of clothing and other woolen necessaries at Jthis season of the year is an illustration of the inhumanity on which the trade haters and McKinleyitesrely for support. But it is no more inhuman than the belief that a small privileged class have more right to consideration than the whole people. Both doctrines are worthy only of savages,

A POOR ARGUMENT. The Cheep ship* end Ch**p <iood« Xn». •rn«t Knocked Oat. The Xetv York Press declares that “protection’s eheaneniag effects on prices has been verified by the fact that a Virginia company has offered to build the new battle-ships for $400,000 less than its nearest competitors, and stands ready to turn out a vessel at about one-fifth less cost than'that of three years ago/’ This the Press calls evidence that the °price of shipping rabidly falls as Boon as demand creates competition. The workings of the McKinley it* mind are so peculiar that it is not easy to understand how the fact that ships are cheaper under tariff reform than under protection, is an argument that is the better policy which ha* reduced prices. The average man of Diain common sense, who does net look at things through i igh tariff s^fasses, -will naturally conclude that as protection was in force three years ago. the higher prices which shipping then east must have been due to the high tariff, while the present low prices are just as eiearly the result of the reduced tariff under which we are living. The -prehtnse that, protection increases the demand, that this increased demand creates competition ,and competition causes lower prices. i% a sample high tariff blunder.* Demand for shipping .any other article comes from human needs. Putting more taxes on the people does not make them want more thing’s, but less, for if a pert of their products are taken in taxes, they have less lef$?to buy with. Demand for shipping existed long before protection was ever heard : of. and six years before the protective tariff of l&l was adopted the ton a a, *

of American shipping wm u»«r aOO,M ; tons grnter than at the end of the ; protection period. A poliet which j steadily reduces the number of American ships can. hardly be said to encour* | ape the shipping industry. Even though it were true that pro- j tection made ships cheaper, it would j be a contradiction of all high tariff doctrine usually expounded, by the j Press. That paper denounces the Wil- j son tariff because it has taken some of the taxes off foreign goods and thus enabled 65,000,000 consumers to buy things cheaper than nnder the Me- j Kintej law. This is not only admitted | by the Press but urged as a reason for a return to protection which made prices high. It is evident that both j arguments cannot be true. If protee- j tion makes things cheaper to the •— .- saner, it cannot make higher prices for the manufacturer. Led by Hon. Benjamin Harrison, "who, produced the chunk of wisdom that a cheap coat makes a cheap man. the republicans hare for years condemned cheapness as the evil result of Low tariffs. The Press may consider itself bigger than the whole republican pnrty. l,ut it is too late for it to try and convince the people that high taxes make low prices. * Weiddks Graham.

A DISPUTED POINT SETTLED. tilth Tariff* AilmtttMl to (»ot*rn Price* to the l oMUttien. Nearly all discussions of the tariff question hare centered on the effect of customs duties qn prices. It has been seriously maintained by protectionists that high tariffs do not increase the cost of goods on which they are levied, hut in reality enable them to be sold cheaper than under free trade. The democrats hare pointed to the business fact that the importer adds the duty to the priee at Which he sells foreign goods, as an illustration of the manner in which tariff taxes are paid by the consumer: and they have shown by a comparison between the market prices of the same kind of goods, at the same time, in protection and free trade countries, that as an invariable rule higher tariffs make dearer goods. . By oae of the occasional lapses into honesty and intelligence which Wfall even the best regulated protectionist organs. the New York Tribune comes over to the low tariff side and adds its testimony to the many facts previously given by the democratic press In its issue of December 1*5 the 'Tribune editorially says: “Woolea goods are about 2& per cent, lower than in 1802.” And this is ascribed to the reduced duties levied by the Wilson tariff. That a leading republican paper should give away so clearly its party’s case is surprising in view of the events of the past year. Ever since the pres-, eht duties on woolen goods took effect the high tariff organs, greaPand small, hare united in asserting that the people are not getting their clothing, blankets and carpets any cbeaperthan when the good and great McKinley's law was in force. Only a few months ago the Tribune itself said that the consumers of woolens had not .been benefited by the new tariff And now, in tryiug to show that tariff reform has injured domestic industry, it tells the people that they are getting their woolens SO per cent, cheaper than in the brave McKinley days. This is all that the democrats want to know, and it should be enough tc make a tariff reformer out of every man who wears clothes or sleeps under blankets. When a partisan protectionist paper admits that the pricesoi goods, of which at least S700.000.00C worth are used every year, are 20 pel cent. less than under a high tariff, there can be no excuse for purchasers of goods voting for a return to higher taxes. Twenty per cent, on $700,000.000 amounts to $140,000,000. and this great sum has therefore been saved tc the people in one year on woolen goods alone by the Wilson tariff. By pasting these figures alongside of their clothing bills in I<90. when the higher taxes of the McKinley law forced prices up, the American people will have a handy | reminder as to the best, way to vote in | tsai _o B. W. 1L l liramrr* Asklne OoMtloas The Pennsylvania Slkte grange has ! asked"?he Protective Tariff league, of New York, and the Home Market club, of Boston, whether a tariff on imports ean protect the home market price of agricultural staples while the surplus of these»is sold for export at the home market prices; also, whether a bounty on agricultural exports wopld not be just and equitable so long as ’•protection" by tariff on imports should ba in ; operation. The guileless grangers | have given the taritfites two hard • eonufidrums. As the venerable unela ! who was caught in close proximity tc ; a hennery late at night remarked when questioned as to the morality of chicken lifting: “One more question like that would upset the whole system of theology."—Philadelphia Uncord.

No H«lp from Tariff*. Among the resolutions of the American Federation of Labor which ! closed its session in New York recently, there was not the slightest | hint in favor of agitation of the tariff, j The members of that association have small faith in tariff legislation as a means of advancing- their wage* and promoting- their comfort. They hold, on the contrary, that the condition of labor can be best improved by organization among- the workingmen themselves.—Philadelphia Record. I"rf» Wool and Prosperity. The odds are even that-the repair ; licau majority in congress will not even pass a bill to levy tariff on wool after ail Iheir windy talk. We sincerely hope they wilL The working* man for the first time in his life can afford to wear woolen cdothes, w flood clothes as the rich can tmy, and lot a i mill has shut down on aeeoont of it f either. On the contrary, the mutton mills were never so prosperous as they are now. Let them pass a wool tf rift at least— Kansas City Tim es.

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