Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 December 1897 — Page 5

The Reel Reeaea. The gold press of the United States rejoiced at the rather chilly reply received from the British ministry by the Wolcott commission on the question of international bimetallism. There was real manifestation of joy when the word came that the Indian government was unfavorable to an agreement with the United States and France ookiug to a restoration of the par of exchange. The real reason of India’s reluctnee is creditable to the sagacity of the Indian government. India is asked to assist in increasing the value of silver. To increase the value of silver is to decrease the price of India wheat, cotton and manufactured products, as measured in India money. Though the school of gold economists shot their eves to it, the fnct is perfectly patent that the.*? countries wherein the prices of agricultural products have been ruling highest have furnished the stiffest competition in the export market. The Argentine republic with her highpriced wheat as measured in the paper money of that country has beeu for several years, except the present, gaining in the Liverpool market at the expense of this country with her low-priced wheat as measured in gold. India with her dollar wheat as priced in India silver money has been, until this famine year, steadily increasing her exports of cotton and wtnwt. If g >id be at a premium of 150 per cent, as measured in the pai'cr money of Argentina, the farmer of that country receives $3.25 in Argentine money for his bushel of wheat, while the farmer of this country is receiving WO cents in our money for his. When

gold is hi h premium .pi iuu per vwu uirr ihi- current stiver money of India, the India farmer receives $1.M» in India money f.*r the bushel of wheat for which the farmer <»( this eo mi try receives 90 cents in our darling gold standard money. The old saw’ tiiat as the Argentine ami India farmers mu't pay corn-ponding!) high prices f.>r all they purcha-o the) are uone the gainers, is no answer. The excess of price over cost is profit. I Mil, taxes, railway rates, insurance and many other items that enterdnto I lie cost of product; <n and delivery at point of consttinpliun, are substantially fi.\«*d charges. While the rising value or increasing purchasing power of gold has driven agricultural products down an average of 30 |>er cent in price in gold standard countries in the last twenty years, tiic-c charges have remained about the same. This keeping Up'the level of fix<*d charges while tinprices of products which must be sold to pay them were nduccsi one-half, wi|**d away uil margin of profit and made agriculture a losing iudustry tngoldstandardooutitriea. This curse India eN iip d, and the governntent <d that country fully comprehends that any system ti.at rest, res the |>nrit) between gold and silver of the old ratio means a fail of prices in ail silver countries and a rise in those now having the gold standard. The Imtulou Timed in commenting on the reply of the authoritiesin British India to tlie proposition to join France and the United Stag's in coinage at an agreed ratio. sa\»: ‘‘The Indian government alleges that the reofwnmg of its mints with Frame and, the United Males at a bimetallic ratio of 13$ to 1 would rum India, since a two shilling rupe4- would kill »x|*orts ami r«*iider"oiir de|teiidcncy unable to compete in the markets of the world. This tells the ■ t,.r> With g* d ami silver at par. two go-li sin! liugs would * total one rujwe; ’( e oi rupee* would equal at* tit iiftv cents T < i»r money, and one ouitar for wheat in l.iverp ->j w-.tild recall tworvip is-for wheat in lini.a. But wall tue rupee worth only one Enjtiith drilling, one dollar or four shilling wheat in Liverpool means four iuj*ee or two-dollnr wheat in India as measured m India money. India has Ihvu too much the gainer by the closing of the United Ma^c* mints to the unrestricted coinage of silver Jo wish them to re-bpen. The rise of gofij means a fall iti gold prices. A n*«* u' stiver means a fall in stiver prices. Ti e rise *f si, .er in India Would mean the me Wow to India industry that the ri-c < f gold meant b» the i;. lust tv of Uucountry.- nishawaka [democrat.

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WASHINGTON LETTEU Owr Rtfilwr UrmpamiHil «•■«( In a Batch •( Newt. ** Walk into my parlor,” says the spider to the fly; ‘'walk into iny national bank scheme,” says the administration to the Southern democrats. As fast as the South* ern democrats arrive in Washington they are buttonholed by agents of the administration. who try to convince them what a lxx>n it would be for that section and for portions of the west, where banking faculties are deficient, if national banks could be established in small towns with a capital of t?o,000, were allowed to issue currency to the par value of bonds deposited with the government, aud the tax on that currency was made merely nominal. After talking up the advantage of a plentiful supply of currency at home, to meet the home demand, they try to get the Southern democrats to pledge themselves to vote for a bill embodying these amendments to the National banking laws. It is a shrewd game, and the arguments are plausible when used to uien who know how their constituents are at times inconvenienced by the lack of sufficient currency to meet their needs, and it is not surprising that some democratic support for the idea has been secured. The administration hopes to get enough democratic senators to put this scheme through the senate, in connection with other financial legislation, about which care is taken to say nothing at this time, or if that is not feasible, to put through a bill with no other feature. Anything that will strengthen the national lam king system will strengthen the gold standard policy.

Secretary Long’* annual refiort contains several sentences that must have escaped Mr. McKinley's blue pencil by accident. Fur instance, he speaks of “possible annexation of islands in the Pacific,’' as though 1«? ontertaiued doubts about the annexation of Hawaii, and he acknowledges his fear of that growing treasury deficit by saying that in expenditures for the navy** a due regard is tteceesnry to the relation of the national expenditures to the national revenues." It is very difficult to reconcile the decidedly peaceable tone of the secretary’s official talk about only small additions to the navy being providin' for bv this congress, and ol hi* intention to take war slops out of commission in order to pay running expenses, with the section just taken by his d»'|«ntment iu plaeiug a large contract—the largest mail1 sine-e the war for amuuit on, and guns. Several bund red employes of the treasury department find^it impossible to prepare for Christmas in the proper joyous spirit, owing to the fear that the ax will in the meantime fall upon their official necks. The civil service law provides that each state and territory shall have a projmrtionate quota of the employes of the government. Secretary Gage has just hail a list prepared showing the residence of the employes of his department, and has announced his intentions to weed out the ••liarnacles,” This has been interpreted by the employes to mean that dismissals are to be made among the residents of th<>*e states having more than their share in order to give the places to residents of state* which have less than tin ir share. Should this be true, many persons residiug, or claiming a resilience^ in nearby states, will have to go, ns the nearby states all have more than their share, fait the heaviest blow would fall upon residents of the District of Columbia, which is legally entitled to only nine clerk?- in the treasury department, but which has more than three hundred. There have )*fii several scares of this sort before, but it iMi’t the sort of thing that the poor devils who have t**en in ^overtiment employ so long that they have forgot how, it they.ever knew, u> make n living outsklc, cau get u-cd to. The old thing about it. if carried out, would la? tiiat it would catch more republicans than democrats, but not a few of them are non -political, making it their business'to always appear to belong to the party on top, without actually belonging to either.

Representative Hartman of Montana, lekt* ivmh> with the republicans who it re trying x> Imnl to i rente the impression that the silver issue is dead. He says it H the liveliest issue now l>efore the people, owing to the al»t'lufe failure of tiie Wolcott commissi**!); that last year thousands of republicans voted for McKinley, believing that he would do something for silver, and now they know he will not. Mr. Hartnmn makes this prediction for 1900: “There will be 2.500,000 free stiver republican votes, 1,500.000 populist votes and 4.500,900 democratic votes for the nominee who stands for the identical principles that Mr. Hryatt stood for last year.” Representative Livingston of Georgia, who is one of the be>t friends Cuba has in Congress. doesn't think the outlook good for legislation favorable to Cuba. He thinks there will be a lot of talk but no action. Free Bills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's Xew Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure ©f constipation and sick headache. For malaria and liver troubles'* they have been proved invaluable. Thev are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giviug tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular sise 25c. per box. Sold by J. R. Adams ft Son, druggets.

AT rHE PUBLIC EXPENSE. ' Preo&aut McKinley PrarldM For the Members of His Family. 1 President McKinley evidently intends to take care—at the public expense, of oonrse—not only of his political friends j and cronies, bat also of his relatives, even if the entire civil service fabric ; has to be smashed into smithereens and the worst phases of the mach denounced “spoils system” restored, says the New I York News. His uncles and his nephews and his cousins and also his brothers-in- | law have to be provided with offices even if there is “kicking” within the party ! fold, and not only so, but the offices | must be made to pay nil that can be ; got out of them. William McKinley OM^rne, the relaI dve from Boston who used to strut around the Republican national headquarters in this city last year as if he ; were a joint owner with Mark Hanna, had not only to get the place of .consul general at London, but the old lee sys- | tern which made this the best wosition j —financially speaking—at the disposal of a president, had to be restored, so that in the course at a four years’ term i the incumbent may save up something : like $300,000 and not deuy himself any ordinary luxuries at that Uncle Benjamin F. McKinley was presumably too old to be made postmaster of the important city of San Fran- > cisco, but the man who got the place did so only on his agreeing to make this l relative of the president his deputy, I George H. McKinley, the son of a brother of the president, is slated for the postmastership at Moline, in Illi- . nois, as the congressman from the dis- ! trict discovered to his sorrow when be tried to recommend another man for ■ the place oue day this week. The posi- ; tiou is worth about $3,000 a year, which is not very much for a nephew of the i chief executive of a nation of 70,000,- | 000, but as he has only been gettiug the wages of an ordinary factory hand it is ; by no means bad. Then there is a brother of Mrs. MeKiuley who is to get something good in Ohio just as soon as it can be arrauged, and there are reports of other relatives by both blood aud marriage who do not expect to be forgotten. Evidently in obeying the behests of the trusts who bought the presidency for him the Republican chief aud exalted ruler does ; not forget his kith aud kin.

SICK OF PROMISES. The I'eopte Are Wearied With Waiting For Prosperity That Never Cornea. The most significant sign in politics is the desperation of the gold Republican papers, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Without argument to support their own platform or campaign management they tly in the face of facts as to the Democratio side. With extraordinary effrontery they declare that the free coinage-crusade is dead, that Senators Stewart uud Jones have recanted, that prices ure going up in all sorts of business, that the country is about to be flooded with gold, that farmers are getting rich selling wheat at 60 cents a bushel, and'so on for quantity. Possibly they may stimulate some people to believe these things for awhile, but the I falsehoods are not strong enough to last three months. There is plenty of time to come before the election in which to verify present claims or practically uudeceivo those who take stock in the booming. When the reaction comes, it will bo all the worse for the liars. The goldites fooled a great many of the people last year, but the public is not in a frame of mind to be trifled with in 1 1)7. A diurnal declaration that the people are prosperous and happy will not make it so, and frequeut iteration will finally only serve to call attention to the fact that distress is still upou the land. Even sporadic asperity will not move the people to support the Wall street goldites. We must have a prosperity that is farreaebing—-one that will pnt every ablebodied npui at work at fair wages, that will enable the farmer aud mechanic and common laborer to have abundance for themselves and their families, and to have some opportunity to enjoy the entertainments of life. An artificial or u partial boom will uot count. The voters have beeu too often deceived. They were told that the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law would restore activity, but times got worse, and now the gold aud bond speculators offer os a remedy, the further degradation of silver, one of the uecensary money metals of the world.

HANNA’S POLITICAL CREED.! It EnablM LtwltM Monopoly to Tbrir* kt the People's Expense. When Senator Hauoa wrote his political creed, * 'No man in public office owes; the public anything,M he did not ex-1 plain to whom the public officer owe* his service. 8 But it was unnecessary. If a man elected to public office owes nothing to the people who elected him, he is free from any service except that of his owu selfish advantage. He is free to serve the master who will pay him best In the particular instance which called out this utterance it was the| Standard Oil trust which was the high-, est bidder, but it may be any trust or special interest which has something to gain by ti o subservience of public serv-; ants to its dictation. An interest which finds it profitable to violate a law will pay high for protection. An interest which wants a special privilege enabling it to gain an advantage over others or the opportunity to rob the t public will come down handsomely for the favor. Public servants, therefore, who feel that they owe nothing to the public can make good bargains for cash or political help from interests with greedy ends to gain. The compact between the publio officer and the special interest for mutual profit at the expense of the public is the essence of plutocracy. By this creed lawless monopoly thrives and the people are crushed.—New York News. (

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