Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 June 1897 — Page 4

The ) Bane of Beauty.

Beaty** ban* is" ^ ^ the fading or falling of Yy,,r' y the hail:. Luxuriant tresses are for more to the matron than to the xaaid whose casket of charm* is yet unrifled by time. Beautiful women will be glad to be reminded that falling or fading hair is unknown to those who xttt Ayer’s Hair Vigor. Ctr £ ikt Cmmtg £itmttiX ■r .1. ice. stoops. ©n«> Tsar.- tn advance..St » 8lx Months, in advance . t» Entered at the postoffiu in Pctonborg for transmission through the mails as seeond•lass matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, l&fi. With high tariff to increase the price of every thiug he buys and the gold slumlord to reduce the price of everything he has to sell, the American farmer has an awful hard row to hoe. How can any farmer or Workingman vote tlws re pa hi turn ticket? HJL1..1. "..I *1 ‘J ■e-Wi" Tn* silver republicans held a meeting at Chicago this week. Thirty-two states were represented. The meeting was one of the largest ever Jmid and a complete organisation was completed lor future campaigns. The people of the country are organizing for the caui|*igu of 1900, when the silver voters of the country will win with hands down, and the common people will have something to say besides the moneyed lords of the E*»L If the First district hail the right kind of a representative in congress it would be unnecessary for a citizen of Yiucennes to call the President's attention to the neglected condition of Mrs. Lincoln’:. grave. The Journal has often referred to the matter.— Rock port Journal. The Jounial in 1W4 arid 1896 blowed long ami loud and priuted column after column lauditory of the congressman and now that the election is over wakes a “beef.” What's the matter anyhow?

Tit* garnishee law jviSMxi by the late legislature U going to give the republican party a good deal of trouble at the nest election, says the Speuecr Democrat. The workiugftieu, especially iu the factories in the gas belt, are arising in their might and denouncing the law as must cruel and unjust. They have but little work now, although they were told that if they would vote for McKinley be would “open the mills'* and work would be plenty. Since the election they have not bad work onefourth the time, and as soon as they do joarti a little some heartless creditor comes in with an, old score and takes every dollar of the earnings under the garnishee law. The law works an especial hardship to the single man for whom there is no exemption whatever. They declare there wie no demand for such a law except on the part of lawyers, and they also declare that tile republican party shall be held responsible for the infamy. \ Bate you got Pike county and Petersburg at heart? If so you should join the People’s industrial aasoctauou at once. The present members of the association are beginning to realize the real significance of the important work th«*y should do in assisting in the developing and upbuilding of Pike county and Petersburg. Everyone should join the association and let us all take steps toward getting each other interested in the work to increase the membership and make the association worthy of respect at home and abroad. Drones in beehives are usually stung to death. We should not sliug each other, but on the contrary, we should all work together. Something more than a mum is needed to wield an influence. Keai power behind the throne is respected, felt and understood. Let us have a real live association working m harmony among ourselves and strive to bring aU the people into Pike couuty and Petersburg that are desirous of locating with us. Let us work with the highest and best aims for the future growth and development of our county and city. Work is progressing nicely on the second ami third wells, and we should all join hands at once, for united we stand, divided we fall. At the next regular meeting there should be a full attendance. Remember the meeting night of ’life as.'ociation which js Tuesday at ? :8» o’clock. AU that are interested iu Petersburg should be present as there will be some important business! before the meeting.

Rx-Sexato* In*;all.' ui an interview in a Washing tou paper last *m>k said: “Since the election in November I have been in ail parts of the country, from San Fnutcisoo to Boetou, from Montreal to Atlanta, and it is the eon current 4 te-stiniony 'i that times have never been harder nor; money staiwr than now. Kverv branch of j industry languishes. Heat, incomes. 1 interests ami profits have dwindled. Prices of Und, farm products, and general com- I fuoditics have sunk lover, till in many i Jfipg^ues the most valuable improved farms ]

ill rich regions are absolutely unsalable, Nature has been benefieient: harvest abundant; time Has been tbeearijrnnd the late rain; the Mississippi valley is burdened with cribbed coni; crop prospects were never better; skilled and crude labor is plenty; the equipment of machinery is onriraled; we have all the conditions for good times, bat they linger. Possibly they are coming, bat they are not here. Many will not be able to wait much longer for their arrival. Multitudes have already fell from affluence to need, and many other multitudes have sunk from comfort to penury and want of daily bread.” The people are patient. They are rational. They don’t expect miracles, but they are tired of adversity. They are not iookiug for the miraculous draught of fishes or the change of water into wine, but they want to see credit and business ■ raised from the dead. They would like to have idle men who are willing to work earning wages. It does not console them to be told that there is a surplus of money in banks to loan at small interest. They don’t want to borrow money, but to sell corn. The man who mortgaged his farm five years ago for a fourth of its value would like to have it sell for enough at least to pay the debt. They will give the republican party a fair chance, as they gave the democrat* four years ago. Should we fail to secure public revenue and restore prosjajrity they are likely to try some other experiment. Sometimes a sick man who has fouud no relief from the regular physician buys a bottle of {intent medicine, or consults a faith doctor, and gets well. International bimetallism is a sonorous phrase, but when it is mentioned to the average citizen he stops talking and winks, or smiles, and asks about the prize fight or Cuba or the Greek war, or whether colored shirts and tan shoes are likely to be worn much this summer.” •

>ews at the Court House. Items of news of a general nature gathered from the various offices at the court house: Clrcalt Court. The following cases have been filed siuce the last term: The Pike county farmers' insurance company vs. Manford Traylor, contract. The Pike county farmers’ insurance company vs. Lawson M. Traylor, contract, Benjamin P. English vs.W. M. Rklgway, replevin. Fannie Hollon vs. George W. Hollon, divorce. Kila B. Martin vs. AsaC. Martin, divorce. William F. Rodimel vs. Robert L. Mosby aud William T. Blythe, note. The Pike county farmers' insurance couij>any vs. Emily Brentou, contract. Catherine Richardson vs. Jasper X. Kinluan, John L. Richardson aud William J. Bet hell, note. Thomas H. Dillon and V. R. Greene vs. Henry Pagan and Lewis Pagan, account. William R. Harris ys. William F. Lowe and Rhoda E. Lowe, note. Alonzo Dering and Sherman Dering vs. Mary Cook, to foreclose mechanics’ lien. State ex rel Dernmie Crayton vs. Charles Carlisle, bastardy. The Pike county farmers’ insurance company vs, Nimrod Peyton, contract. Heal E«tal« Traukler«> Fletcher A. Shandy to James Weir, pt ne qr sec 3®, town 1 north, range 8 west. Herman Bryaut to James S. Thomas, pr lot 31. Winslow. Franklin Dillon to Herman Fulcher, Barium's location, frae sec 7, 8 and 18, town 1 north, range 8 west, 183 acres. Hannah Fleming to Jabez Woolley, sr., lots 1 and 3, Petersburg. Hannah Fleming to Jabez Woolley, sr., lots 34 pt 31 and 30, Petersburg. ' Jefferson M. Alexander to William M. Chew, sw qr se qrsec 7, town 1 south, raiuge 7 west , 40 acres. Samuel H. Walker to Mary R. Walker, s hf ne qr sw qr see 33, town 3 south,range 7 west, 20 acres. William D. Mason to Mary C. Mason, lots 153 and 170. Winslow. Mary C. Mason to Joseph Millard, lot 133. Winslow, Marriage tlreairt. The following marriage licenses have beeu issued since our last report: Edgar E. Montgomery and Etta M. McClary. William A. Norrington and Vada Weeks. Frebwtr. Frederick Leippold has taken out letters of administration on the estate of Louis "Park. Byron Bren ton has been appointed administrator of the estate of P. C. Hammond.

Spurgeon Items. Fanners badly behind with their work. John C. Martin of Somerville, was here { lest Tuesday. The Odd Fellows held decoration services here last Sunday evening. M. W. Rice of Lynnville, Indiana, was here Tuesday on business. The farmers report a half crop of wheat. j Elder John Oliphant of Ft. Branch, j preached here last Sunday night. J. W. Scales was at Petersburg Monday. Re says he is w%>H satisfied with the election of county superintendent. Dr. W, R. Osborn and h» grandson, Master Vernon Osborn, visited friends in Petersburg last Sunday, returning home Tuesday. Mrs. Wilson Leighty of near Petersburg. | spent several «lays here last week visiting friends and relatives.

SHERMAN’S POSITION. Would Not Retire Goveromerft Greenbacks. •TEE BEST FORM OF PAPER MOREY. B« Admits That the Credit of the Oor ' eminent Cam MtinMs the Value of j Money Intrinsically Worthless— Error j Concerning the Flitst Bond Issue. The most important utterance on the currency question since the election is : to be found in a letter written by Senator Sherman to Albert H. Walker of Hartford early in December and now printed for the first time, says the St. ; Louis Post-Dispatch. In it Senator Sher- i man announces that he is not in sym- . pathy with the proposed movement to i retire United States notes or greenbacks, which is now a part erf the Wall street policy, indorsed by Cleveland and Car- j lisle. The letter is as follows:

Usitsd States Stoats Chamber. i Wasiuxotos Deo. T, IStW. J Mr. Alburt H. Walker: XT Dxab Sir—Your kind note of the 38th nit. Is received. I do not sympathise with the movement to retire United States notes from circulation. 1 h»lieve it is easy to maintain a limited amount of these in circulation with- I out danger or difficulty. The maintenance in circulation of t3ffi.OOU.neO United States notes, ■ supported by a reserve of *100,000,000 gokl, no* j only saves the interest on |2ffi,000,000 af debt, j but is a .vast convenience to the people at j large. The boat form of paper money V that ■ which is backed by the government and main- ; tained at the specie standard. The absolute ; security of these notes was never called in question after the resumption of specie pay- ! meats in MW* until the reserve was being ] trenched upon to meet deficiencies in current : revenue brought about by what Is known as ! the Wilson tariff law of 18M. Very truly yours. | Jobs Shxrmak. | There is a confession and also a his-1 torical inaccuracy in this statement, j The confession is that the credit and ; faith of the government can maintain i the value of money intrinsically worth- j less. Such a confession before the late • election Senator Sherman was unwill- | iug to make. The historical inaccuracy is in the j statement that the first bond issue to maintain the gold reserve was forced by , the Wilson tariff law. The bond issue ; preceded the operation of the Wilson tariff law. Mr. Foster. President Harrison’s secretary of the treasury, is on record admitting that plates were prepared for a bond issue before President Harrison retired from office. Revenues declined under the McKinley tariff of 1890, as Senator Sherman knows, and continued to decline under the administration of Mr. Cleveland, j The Post-Dispatch does not believe, j however, that these* declines forced the i depletion of the gold reserve. The de- j pletiou was the result of Wall street \ raids on the treasury, invited by the i lawless policy of redeeming all coin notes and treasury obligations in gold. With another McKinley tariff prohibiting import itions in many linos anu enlarging the free list for “reciprocity” purposes, revenues will again decline. Is it possible Senator Sherman does not I know this? Or is ho preparing for more gold raids and more bond issues? WHAT THE GOLDBUG SAID. •Th* Republic I* la Our Hands," Quoth He, “Not lu the Hauda of Congress." The Indianapolis meeting was composed of representatives of the money power and the railroads. It was en- * ginoered by Mark Hanna, the foe of la- | bor, aud M. E. Ingalls, the paid mouthpiece of law defying railroad corporations. It pronounced for the single gold standard, while pre tending to be a conference to consider the money question in the interests of the whole country. Two gold standard members of congress who took part in its deliberations declared that there was not the slightest fear that the interests represented will not be able to get all they want from congress. “The republic is in ou; hands, ” said one of the delegates, “and not in the hands of congresses or senates. ’’ Coupled with this was a threat against *uiy member of .congre ss who should dare to impeach the motives of these money kings. And Ingalls the railroad loss, asserted jubilantly that “the business men are going to resolve that the future standard of this country shall be gold.”—St Louis Post-Dis-patch. UNITED STATES CREDIT. Than What Give* V*lw to th« Greenback and the Monti. No* Gold. “Banks may collapse,” says an enthusiastic exchange, “but the national bock note is as solid as Gibraltar and as good as gold; the* United States government is behind it ” Just so. Same way with the greenback. And they would both be as good as gold if the government hadn’t a dollar of gold in the treasury or anywhere else. What makes the United States bond good? The fact that the government is behind it, not with gold, because bonds have been issued iu exchange for gold, but with the taxing power overall property. The government is rich in its own right. It doesn ’t always have ready money, but it can borrow at low rates of interest when nobody else can.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Butfc Loatty. ThJ^e is one lam* Republican in the Idaho legislature, and he feels as much oat of place as a representative of the people before the ways and means committee at Washington. Afraid of Itiyaa ’ The persistency and bitterness with which Bryan is being abased by the Bo publicans indicate that his chances for 1900 are steadily improving. Coldly Bocetocd. Senator Wolcott has arrived in London and received tine trapped glare and the congealed hand—Washington ML

GOLDBUG ARGUMENT. Opponent erf Bimetallism!* It has remained for a distinguished advocate of the gold standard to discover the real explanation of the Indian famine, say* the Detroit Tribune. All other explanations are bogus and are in the nature of a violation of the New York Commercial Advertiser’s copyright After hammering his head in the pent up agony of thought for several hours the editor of that altogether interesting partisan sheet has decided that the Indian famine is the direct result of the silver erase. “Fate is pursuing the free silver lunatics, ’* he says. “During the latter half of last year’s campaign the price of silver went down, down, down and the price of wheat went up, up, up. Now the people of India, the greatest consumers qf silver for monetary purposes in the world, are Marring. ’’ Being ,a stiff necked and haughty generation, the advocates of free silver will! likely as not contradict this, but we do j not understand how they cap do it in view of The Commercial Advertiser’s facts. It is as plain as day. There is a large amount of silver coin in circulation in India There is a large and constantly increasing population. By reason of the droughts the great wheat crop was a failure, and there is nothing for the natives to eat Therefore it is self evident that if it had not been fer tile silver these would have been no drought; there would have been large and constantly increasing population, the

wheat crop would not nave boon a failure, and the natives would all be as fat as woodchucks in October- / It was our original intention to prove that the drought and tho population and the failure of the wheat crop were the direct results of the closing of the Indian mints to silver, but in tho face of The Commercial Advertiser’s reasoning we have not the courage to do H. Hereafter it must be considered an axiom of politics that while one jmu alone on a desert island, maintaining a bimetallic standard, would piue and droop from starvation, two men on a desert island, maintaining the gold standard, would wax fat and opuknt. and upon their return to civilized lands would be enabled to buy a seat in the United States senate, if their fancy so pleased. WRONG END FOREMOST. How a Republican Newspaper Would Raise the Price of Cora. The Des Moines Register offers a remedy for low priced corn. It is to open the mills and factories. As usual. The Register hitches the horse on behind the cart. There is only one thing preventing the mills and factories from opening, and that is that the people who buy the products of mill and factory have no money. And they have no money because corn is too cheap and money too dear. The Register’s policy has legislated the value out of property into dollars, and the dollar is now more valuable as a dollar than it is in the shape of property. Now. If The Register will fix it so as to make corn and other farxu product* return a profit to the producer, the mills and factories will open of their own accord. But the factories can open up right now and run day and night if the owners so desire. But the selling of the manufactured product is another matter. Corn is not low because the factories are idle, but the factories tire idle because corn and other products are low. If The Register could grasp this distinction, it would forsjike the error of its way. But it cannot, and it will go right on hitching the horse to the tailboard of the cart and wondering w hy it dot's not secure an easy ride. Get the horse before the cart. Give us a policy that will bring arising market for farm products, and the mill ami factory doors will fly open with such force that the hinges will break.—Omaha World-Herald. A REIGN OF SPOILS. H«fidun*n to Be Rewarded by the New Administration. Mr. McKinley, we are now told, is to return to the old method of allowing Republican congressmen and senators entire control of the patronage in their districts and states. Ortainly he is- Mr. McKinley will be asking more of congress than has any other president within a generation. He will haw a distinctive McKinley policy to enforce, and a president in such a position is always at the mercy of congressmen so far as patronage is concerned. Not only will Mr. McKinley give congressmen control of “the available patronage, ’’ hot he will, at their insistence and suggestion, take advantage of every defect in the civil service law to let their henchmen and retainers into office. As the civil service law is as full of defects as a sieve is of holes, it will not be a year after, the McKinley inauguration until the federal service is filled with Republicans. We predict, says The Post-Dispatch, that the McKinley administration will be'the most pronounced “spoils” administration the country has recently seen. The prophesy is worth making a note of

Far Future l aefulnraa. McKinley's new tariff bill will probably have the name* of the campaign subscribers that are interested in each industry attached to the several paragraphs as reminders for 1900 when they may be “torched” again. Bata Am HmML In New \ork city in 1896 there were 900,000 people who could not pay their rent. Oar financial system is torching both the landlords and their customers. Failed to Appear. As the advance agent of prosperity Mr. McKinley has failed to fill his first date. Did his shew get stuck in to® gaud?—Atlanta Constitution.

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