Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 August 1897 — Page 4

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Dinttwo tlw first month under the Dingley tariff law, which was supposed to be a measure that would bring prosperity aud revenue iu paying expenses, the deficit is 1 only $13,29H.?55. The deficit for the fiscal year was only $24,372,800. If this deficit keeps up at the same ratio the country will soon be bankrupt. Tax Evansville Courier was sold last Monday to lleury C. Murphy, Percv P. j Carroll and Howard Roosaof Marion, lndi- j ana. The paper will be continued under j the bauner of democracy. The new p*>- j pnetors are exjierienced newspaper men j and will keep the paper op to the present high standard of excellence. The new postal law that makes good all j fosses of money seut tn registered letters j where the sum is ten dollars or less, is now , in effect. The law is a good one and enables people to send small sums to any part of the oountrr with the assurance that they will not suffer lass Just why ten dollars should be the limit is not readily understood. __ Rwublhan papers now claim that Mark and Mack's prosperity has reached the I’uiled States. If it has it came m through the famine route of foreign countries;. The foreign demand has raised the price of wheat* Ymt the laboring men have not seen their wages increased, to correspond’ with what they will have to pay for the necessaries of life. Chairman Allen W. Clark of Groeusburg, has called a meeting of the executive and advisory committees of the Indiana Bimetallic 1/eaguc to be held at the Grand hotel in ludiauanpolis, on Thursday, September 2, at 1 o’clock. A full attendance of com milteemen is requested, *» several matters of importance will be prupa-ed. All other Indiana democrats and others iu sympathy with the work of the league are cordially invited.

The miners strike in this section is about practically settled. Nearly all the miners employed at the W.oley. Littles, Jackson : and Ayrshire mines have been at work for : Bore than a week past. The operators m this county have been {mymg the scale; price a!I the time and the miners went out I a few weeks ago through sympathy for the eastern miners. There was no trouble in i this county at any of the mines, the] operators and the miners being on good j terms. The operators have good contracts for the coming year and the miners expect ‘ to have a reasonable amount of work during the fall, at lea~t for the next two months or more until the winter demand is supplied. The strike in the East has not yet been settled, and there is no leUing when it will j Wax at is still on the up grade. The foreign countries are making a great demand on the surplus produced in the United States which is sending wheat up to a higher price than it has been for many years. France is looking to this country to supply a deficiency of 70,000.000 bushels is that country. Bu-mo is short, India is short and several other nations are very short, some of which have total failures of this cereal. As a natural consequence these nations are looking to the United States to supply the demand, which it'will be unable < to do, hence the great rivalry far the sur- j plus, and which is sending wheat up to the •ky limit in price. Flour is advancing and already it has advanced $1.30 per barrel, which will mean groat distress in this country, in a land of plenty, yet the people Me without the money to buy the necessaries of life for the coming winter. But the former who has not yet sold hts wheat will rvalue a handsome profit by hold- , ing it for a few months. The wheat crop of this country this year is enormous and will being a handsome sum of money from the famine stricken countries of the Old World. The republican papers claim all Mie for McKinley. Ain't it funny. (

Ignorance m to HI Ivor. The Cincinnati Enquirer edit orally says: There should be a kindergarten established to overcome the infantile ignorance of writers like the one who wrote about “Silver and Wheat1* in the New York Tribune of the 19th. If he knew better than to say that he did, then he ought to be given the advantages of a reform school. He thinks, or pretends to think, that the Urvanites contend thattlie prices of silver and wheat have always been “closely linked together.** The contention of the Bryanites, and also of the leading writers on political economy the world over, is that the —appreciation of gold, caused by the demonetization of silver, is represented by the decline during the last twenty years iu the general range of prices of forty-five leading commodities, as given in the standard tables printed in the London Economist and accepted as correct by all intelligent monometallists as well as bimetallists. This fall in prices was nearly coincident with the fall of the price of silver, and wheat, as a leading commodity, was frequently used to illustrate the fact. It never was contended by anybody that a failure of the wheat crop would not, for that year, result in a larger price for the reduced amount of wheat that could be gathered. The rise in the price of wheat, caused by the failure of crops iu all other great wheat-producing oountries, has not caused a rise in the price of the other fortyfour leading commodities which furnish the basis for the tables above referred to. Silver has taken a sudden drop partly because of its demonetization in Japan, partly because the gold natious which use it for subsidiary coinage have suspended its purchase temporarily—which they will have to resume—but inaiuly because of the famine, plague and insurrection in India which have

paralyzed that great wholesale customer which lias always been a strong support of the silver market. If it will afford the writer in the Tribune any satisfaction we will suggest to him the following self-evi-dent projections: 1. If nobody buys silver, and no government coins it, it will not be worthanything at all. 3. If silver should be restored to its full fornufr rights at the mint, it would again be wojtth its weight in coin at the rate of 311J grams of pure silver to the dollar (the remamiug 41 $ grains being alloy), and that would be $ 1.29 ah ounce. 3. If gold were totally demonetized, the four thousand mi lions of gold coin now in existence would make such a glut iu the bullion market that gold would probably not sell for as much as a dollar a pound. If there should be a failure next year of the wheat crop in all countries, including our own wheat, wheat might go as high as five dollars a bushel—or even ten—if only enough could be raised to feed the “sound money" men of wealth and their wives and children. 5. If there should be an unusually large crop of wheat in all the wheal growiug countries next year, it would be so abundant that it might go down to twenty-five cents a bushel. And then, if “the leading nations*’ of the world would prohibit the grinding of wheat into flour, it would probably go down to ten cents a bushel. After that the production would cease. The Tribune writer will readily see that silver might go back to $1.29 an ounce, and wheat might go down to *en cents a bushel: and yet all this does uot in ally manner ( controvert the established fact that there has been a decline during the last twenty years of 40 |>er cent in the general range of prices of forty-five leading commodities, including wheat and silver, and that it has been caused by the demonetization of silver. Burklcn** Arnica Salve. The best salve m the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain*, coins, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 2o cents per box. t For sale by .1 K. Adams A; Son.

Blossom of Prosperity. The increase of the public debt for July was over six and three quarter millions. Let pros-perity proceed. Sixty-five thousand unemployed workers in the state of Massachusetts, £7,000 in Boston alone: Let us give thanks. The first month of the fiscal year under the new administration shows a deficit of eleven million. I*t the dance go on. Fifty thousand idle mechanics out of eatployiueut in Philadelphia, and £00,000 miners out on a strike in Pennsylvania. Let joy be unconfitied. L. B. Apsley. chairman of the republican ! national committee, has a strike on hand j because he wants to reduce the wages of ! women and girts working in the rubber garment factory only 65 per cent. e Thirty thousand unemployed toilers in the nutmeg state, wages reduced from 16 to 50 per cent, an army of 29,000 tramps, all the jails and prisons full to overflowing, I the state prisons can hold no more, 75 (ter cent of the causes traceable to lack of employment. More confidence needed. Twenty-five thousand wage earners idle! in Indiana, 5.000 in the city of Indianapolis, j a big wheat crop, plenty of oats, hay and corn, and nearly 8,000 people in the mining districts who sometimes have nothing for | breakfast, warm it over for dinner and eat the fragments for supper. Carry the news to Canton. The Maat Fatal Disease. It is not generally known that more adults die of kidner trouble than any other disease. When the first symptoms of this disease appear, no time should be lost in taking Foley's Kidney Cure, which is guaranteed or money refunded. Bergen & Ohphant. a

Thff Mother of Prosperity. The symposium of views of the Governors of Western States and Mayors of Western cities as to the arrival of prosperity in their respective sections of this great country, telegraphed to the New York Journal and published simultaneously in The Republic, is both interesting and significant. In Minnesota, good times have arrived because •‘the farmers have fair crops and will receive good prices therefor. In Montana, “oar farmers and stockmen are getting good prices on account of failures in India, Argentine Republic and Australia.” In Iowa, “the rise in the price of grain has materially helped in developing this activity, making money more plentiful.” In Oklahoma, the farmers •'have harvested the most bountiful crop of wheat ever produced on a like number of acres.” In Indiana, “the number of loaded cars at this time is almost unprecedented.” In Wisconsin, “excellent crops.” In Ohio, “bounteous crops, which command good prices.” In Wyoming, our railroads are doing a largely increased business. In Arizona, “the three leading industries are mining, agriculture and cattle raising, and all are flourishing.” lu Nebraska, “the com crop this year will equal or exceed that of last. Our crop of wheat this year is enormous." In Washington, “abnormally large yield* of wheat and barley, with fair prices for them.” In Oregon, “we have large crops with good i prices.” In Minnesota, “prospects of a] splendid yield of wheat, which will com-! mand good prices on account of short crops else where.” In California, “the crops have been large and satisfactory.” In Missouri, the reasons for prosperity “are j not hard to assign, and are surely to be found in the bounteous crop with which this section has been blessed and the good j

prices being realized for everything the farmer and tic* stock raleer can produce.” Great and good, on occasion, is old Dame Nature, and this golden year of 1897 is one of the occasions. Splendid American crops, a European agricultural shortage! inevitably higher prices therefore for tlie product of the American farmer! - Ail thanks to the bounteous mother—and what ingrate would lessen the sincerity of those thanks by intimating that these big American crops and the equally big foreign shortage are due to the political accident of William McKinley's election to the Presidency of the United States?‘-St.Louis j Republic. The Ideal Panacea. fames L. Francis, alderman. Chicago, says; *•! regard Dr. King’s New Discovery a* an Ideal Panacea for coughs, colds, and lung complaints, having used it in inv i lamilv for the last live years, to the excl*»siou of physician's prescriptions or other preparations.” K“V. John fturgus. Keokuk. Iowa, writes: “1 have been a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church for at) years or more, and have never found anything so beneficial or that gave me such speedy reliet as Dr. King's New Discovery.’’ Try this Ideal Cough remedy now. Trial bottles free at J. It. Adams ,% Son's drug store. Will be a Demand for Cora. The experts of corn die last fiscal year were greatly in excess of those of any previous year. This year the export promises to be even larger than last year. All attempts to induce the people of Europe to consume corn failed until about six years ago. In 1891. when the price of wheat was high, the first success was achieved in inducing Europeans to use! corn as a food. l^4o that time they i believed that it was fit for food for animals i only, but, when taught to cook it properly, I they began to appreciate it. It seems now that the more thev eat it the better they j

like it. The very large export of corn last year was due to its cheapness in comparison with wheat. This year wheat will be much higher than last year, while corn will not be very much higher. Under these eon-’ ditions it may be expected that thedemand j for corn will be much greater. If wheat j shall advance to f 1 a bushel the export of j corn will be far in excess of previous years, j In other words, corn seems to have attained J the position of a substitute for wheat in j the foreign markets to an extent that, in the course of a few years, its price will affect the price of wheat. And. under existing conditions, the price of our corn will certainly rise considerably. A Remarkable Care of Cbroaie Diarrhoea. In 1$62. when I served my country as a private in Company A, 167th Pennsylvania volunteers, I contracted chronic diarrhoea, lx has given me a great deal of trouble ever since. I have tried a dozen different medicines and several prominent doctors without any permanent relief. Xot long ago a friend seut me a sample bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy, and after that I bought and took a 50cent bottle, and now I can say that 1 am entirely cured. I cannot be thankful enough to you for this great remedy, and recommend it to all suffering TeU-rans. If in doubt write me. Yours gratefully, Henby Sixixbkeueb. Allentown, Pa. Sold by J. K. Adams & Son. a To the Klondyke Gold Fields. The Burlington route is the direct northwest line to Seattle or Tacoma, and the direct westward line to San Francisco, en route to Alaska. From SO to 900 miles and several hours saved by the Burlington’s splendid passenger train service to the northwest from St. Louts, Kansas City or St- Joseph. Pullman sleepers and free ehair cars on all through trains. Several extra steamers will sail before the season closes. Ask your ticket agent for detailed information or write the undersigned. L. W. Wakely, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mu.

Plain Tall on the Tariff. There are a good many things that the tariff is; there are a good many things that it is not, and there is a multitude of things that it ought to be, observes the Chicago Dispatch. The tariff is undoubtedly a tariff to increase the wealth of those who manage trusts. It is a measure to protect industries that have long since outgrown the need of protection. It is a tariff to discourage commercial relations with foreign countries. It is a protection of the few and a menace to the many. It is a tax on the poor and a giver of good gifts to the rich. On the other hand, it is not what its sponsors claim that a tariff law should be. It is not a producer of revenue. It is not a protection of infaut industries. It is not a measure through which the foreigner is compelled to pay the tax. It is not in the interests of the laboring man. It is not fair in its discriminations nor is it honest in its schedules. Again, the tariff is very far from being what it should be. If this country must have a tariff, there are eertain lines along which it should bo constructed. It should be a tariff for revenue. It should tax luxuries and not the necessaries of life. It should provide a wise and efficient excise law. It should levy a reasonable tax on incomes. It should so arrange its schedules as to put'money in the treasury and uot in the trusts. There is one thing that the tariff is: Its a failure.

A Vttlinklr Pre scriptien. Editor Morrison of Worthington Ind., “Sun,** writes: **Yi>u have a valuable prescription in Electric Bitters ami ] can cheerfully recommend it for constipatfbn and si«-k headache, and as a general system tonic it bas no e«iual ” Mrs. Annie tstehle, 2t>25 Cottage Gn>ve Ave., Chicago, was all run down, oould not eat nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired ami wearv..but six l»ottles of Bleotric Bitters restored her hcaltn and renewed her strength. Prices So cents and $1.00. Get a bottle at J. K. Adams Jt Son’s drugatore. Fleener’s Good Luck. Mart Fleener. the well known tax expert, who is at preseut engaged in this county in hunting up those |»ersonfc who have been evading theirtaxes, received word Saturday that he liad struck good luck and that he wus the owner of laud in Michigan worth $‘25,000. Mr. Fleeuer left for Michigan to claim the land. The land belonged to an old hermit who was very peculiar, For several years he refused, to pay the taxes thereon and a citizen there bought it in. it seems that the hermit iiad distant relatives in Pike county and they employed Mr. Fleener to go to Michigan aud look up the matter. While there he purchased the tax deed of the citizen mentioned for something like $1,200. lie then succeeded iu geltiug a quit claim <lced to the land, the hermit holding an interest until his death. The hermit died the other day and Mr. Fleener immediately went into possession of the land. It is said that he may have some trouble in quieting the title but that he can do so in time. Anyhow, Mr. Fleener feels that he has i struck it rich. The hermit got hold of the land years and years ago when land was very cheap, but as time came along the land was enhanced iu value until it is said to be some of the best iu the state.—Washington Gazette.

Resolutions. Your committee detailed to draft resolutions respecting the death of Comrade A.R. Byers, would report as follows: Whereas, Through the dispensation of an all wise Commander, our comrade has been mustered out of this mortal into thatj life of immortality. Therefore, Resolved. That while we deeply lament the loss to our post, and the society and family, we have an abiding faith in the common fatherhood of God, and that this stroke of Divine Providence, to which we submissively bow, has deprived the family of the further example of a Christian father and gentleman. Unsolved, That we. the members of Mor- j gan Post, deeply sympathize with the be- j reared family in this their sore affliction, j and invoke Him, the great Commauder. to ! bless and keep them. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to the family of the deceased. 1 spread upon our roinates and furnished to our county papers. Xotie* to Teacken. The Pike county teachers institute will be held at Winslow, in the public school building. August 3u to September 3d. The 1 principal instructors will be Prof. X. C. j Johnson, J. H. Toudin and Prof. J. M. \ Black. Prof. Tomlin will lecture on Wednesday evening and Prof. Jonnsou, Thursday evening. Arrangements are now being! mwle to have a teachers’ social on Tuesday , evening. Teachers, and those desiring to j teach, are requested to be present at each ; exercise. All friends of education are invited to attend as much as it is convenient. for them t? do so. Clay Leswon, E. J. Harris, T. P. Owkss, W. S. Coes, Co. Supt.

Fifty Years Ago. This is the stamp that the letter bor* Which carried the story far and wide. Of certain cure for the loathsome sore That bubbled up from the tainted tide j Of the blood below. And'twas Ayer's name And his sarsaparilla, that all cow, k now, ! That was just beginning its fight of fame With its cures of 50 years eg*. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the original sarsaparilla. It has behind it a record for cures unequalled by any blood purifying compound. It is the only4 sarsaparilla honored by a medal at the World’s Pair of 1803. Others imitate the remedy; they can’t imitate the record: 50 Years of Cures. Dillon a greene. t. h. nuion V. R Greene ! Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties. fareful attention given to all business. Collections given prompt attention. Notary Public always in oftiee. Office in tiie Burger block, .Petersburg, lnd.

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