Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 April 1898 — Page 1

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4 # t 4 4 t Wao<lere«l by our store yesterday and the pretty line of flne Dress Goods and Embroideries caught their eyes. Was it any faalt of theirs? They could not pass ’em by, they bought, went away happy and today are making them up. (.Hit line of pretty patterns for dresses never was greater nor the styles prettier. They are creations the poets rave about. “If you see ’em you’ll buy.” We certaiuly have the prettiest line of Carpets and Cart&i&s the mills ever produced. One Hundred Patterns to Select From. Look at the Special Prices for April. 1 C3?" Du ring this sale we will give with every Carpet a handsome Laoe Curtain for front door. , „ All Carpets cut and matched and delivered free te any part of the city during this special sale. There is no place in the wide world where you eau Buy Carpets cheaper than of us. 1 Good every day Carpets, good and cheap, per yard ....12$c Good heavy Cottage Carpets, solid as a rock... 20c Sea Island Carpets, entirely new. better than rag carpets... 25c Genuine Star Ingrain Carpets, Jhe 40c kind... ........ 35e All Wool Ingrain Carpets, the 60c kiud ...... 45c Pretty patterns in Brussells Carpets..... ..50c Beautiful Patterns in Velvets, Moquettes, etc. t

} W. V. Hargrove & Co. - The Peoples' Store, 4 PETERSBURG, INDIANA.

j She Looks at Tour Feet

f 4 4 } 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 The first thin? whether she i< your sister or the other boy's sister. We have Shoe* that %ili make your feet appear Jong. Shoes that large feet look small. Shoes of all colors shapesahd weights, perfect in fit, style and finish. ! Men’s Vjei Kid Shoes. Chocolate. Oxblood or Coffee colors, in bull dog, coin or |oom toe, lace, at ..... i Always Easy Shoes at Easy Prices. :^4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Men’s black Vici Kid Shoe, coin toe, lace. Arnold Shoe Co’s, best, ..... Men’s Perfection Shoe, Lace or Congress, round toe, imitation cap. at ....... 'Men’s Satin Calf Shoe, lace, just the thing for hard wear, solid sole and counter. .. Men’s plain toe. Congress and lace, all solid, the best in the world for the price.:..... ... We have the celebrated W. L. Douglas, fully warranted Shoe, at 13.00, 12.50 and ;...... .. .*... .. $3.50 $3.00 $2.50 1.75 1.25 2.00 Reader, don’t fail to see our immeuse assortment of up-to-date footwear for the Spring and Summer of *98, No trouble to show Shoes; loo^ aiul make yourself satisfied; we will help you to select the style you want. r

(Star Clothing House, a Shoe Temple, ", 4 PETERSBURG, INDIANA.

] Wise % Buyers Bay Our Buggies! * We hare endeavored to get the best Baggies that we can and at prices X which we can sell you that are low. Not an old Buggy did are carry over from ^ last year. Everything is new and nobby. [ COLUMBIA BUGGIES. 5 With 1,000 mile axles and “A*’ grade wheels are beet made. A written guarJ an tee with every job. Don't miss oar line for there are lots of good things in it. IShawhan Boonshot&Co Hardware. Petersburg, Ind.

HON. J. 6. SHANKLIN’S Speech Delivered at Indian apolis, April Seventh. Issues Are Presented in a Clear and Snccinet Manner. Tt# Speak<?r Pays His Kesprcto to WjtU Street Moaef Leaders. Predicts « (.real Future (sr the SIU j er Oeutocracy.

The fallowing is tbe/ull text of the speech of the Hon. John Gilbert Sh&eklin, member of the democratic national committee, before the silver convection at Indianapolis: The American people haw discovered from the experience of more tlurn a year of ! republican administration that the policy of increasing taxation and at the same time reducing the volume of money with which i to pay taxes is net what was required to | place the country bade upon the highway ! of prosperity. One of the catch phrases that was current among republicans two years ago was a saying, “We shall open tlse shops instead of the mints/’ But has the oft repeated pledge been redeemed? In certain industries there have been spurts of prosperity, it is true, but there has been no general opening of the shops in any part of the country, and wherever they hare been opened the wages of employes hare been reduced from the scale that was in force when they were closed, -How could there be any resumption of industrial activity? The owners of large factories do not operate them as a pastime but as a serious business. When there is ao market for their products they let the fires go out aud the machinery stops. What if it that makes a market for manufactured wares of every description? ft-is the kind of prosperity which enables all who wishes to work to find employment at living wages. When the great body of workingmen and women are employed, whether in agricultural, manufacturing, domestic or commercial pursuits, and when they are receiving fair compensation for their labor, we haye the kind of prosperity which justifies the manufacturers of die country in setting their machinery in motion, It is not that |»eople do not want clothes: that they do not want the implements of labor; that they do not want furniture aod other articles which contribute to human comfort aud some of which are of human necessity; it is not because they do not want these things that there is no demand for them, It is because they have not the money with which to buy theta. Existing financial policies have so reduced the opportunities for a livelihood that millions of human beings today are without tlie employment to earu what is necessary to even the poorest support for their families the power of gold has conquered the values of all other kinds of property. It has reduced the wages of the laborer, the profits of the tradesman, the values of the homes of the people, of their farms, of everything that has a value, a vafae that would be recognized and peima

ueu.t uitiler governmental policies that were nordiscriminating io their operations. The long experiment of trying at a time when money was already too scarce to restore prosperity to the country by making money scarcer still is io full force today as it has bees since the last blow was struck at buna tall ism by the repeal in 1898 of the silver purchasing clause of what was known as the Sherman law. Since then the single gold standard has been absolute and unrelenting. It has arbitrarily given to the few who own the gold the right to administer upon the estate of every man who happened : to be in debt at the time that the law was passed, because the contraction which followed by hoarding the gold, which was the most profitable use to make of it, has not only made it more difficult to pay debts, but in many cases it has compelled men to go still further into debt because of their inability to secure employment sufficient to yield them a living. Tbe influences that are controlling the financial policies of this government are not satisfied with the power that hgs been conferred upon the moneyed class by reducing the volume of money to the gold product. The secretary of the treasury is in sympathy with the proposition of the Indianapolis monetary conference and asks Congress for a law authorising the retirement of the greenbacks and silver certifi

cates and conferring upon the national banks the sole right to supply the money of the country. It has not been acted upon because the Senate is opposed to such a course. A majority of that body still regards the right to issue money as a function belonging to the government alone and that to relinquish it to any other authority would be a step toward the establishment of an oligarchy, whose powers would be as comprehensive and despotic as those of any absolute monarch in the world. The banks would then be not only the lawmakers but the administrators and executors of the law, and with the additional power thus acquired what liberty would be left- to the ordinary citizen? Bow long would it be before even the forms of popular goyern- \ ment were tom down and despised and an imperial despotism erected upon the ruins of the republic? It is not strange that the banks should clamor and strive for this additional privilege. The lust for wealth ! and for dominion is an instinct that came into the world with the human race. Since the beginning of history there has been an

irrepressible conflict between wealth and power on the one hand and human rights and liberty on the other. Wealth has often j been able to prostitute to its own service many who for monetary gain were ready to barter away principle and their inheritance of freedom. Two years ago we had an illustration of the power of wealth in the elections which resulted in the choice of William McKinley. The consolidated wealth of thevountry stood up with a purse in one hand and a rod in the other, and so many of those who were dependent upon*it j fell uuder its blandishments or cowered \ under its lash. Their immediate necessities i uunerved them and they yielded. Their tables were well spread for the time being. J $tyt they had taken no thought of the morfow and the morrow is here. How are their tables spread now ? How are their wages as compared with the promises that were made them if McKinley were elected? It is the policy of wealth the world over and has been iu all ages to acquire the services' of those who must labor at the lowest possible cost. It has been the axiom of wealth that it is easier to control a half starved man than the one who is well fed. and low wages is therefore one of the means used to reduce the laboring classes to subserviency. By making money scarce, that is by destroying ail money except that which the banks provide based upon gold, the value 1 of labor and all kinds of property except money is depreciated and the power of money correspondingly appreciated. The financial system thus secured is, no doubt, a good one for those who have the money, but it is servitude and misery to those who have nothing but their lal*>r upon which to depend. It wasfgainst just such tyranny as that which President McKinley and Secretary Gage suggested in the policies of high taxes and scarce money that the fathers of the revolution raised the flag of revolt.

The monthly deficit in the revenues continues under the operations of the new tariff law upon which President McKinley and the republican party asked and received the suffrages of the people. The cry of 50centplollars and the promises that higher tariff rates would insure the opening of the shops and higher wages were the arguments of two years ago. In one breath they told us that the movement for silver restoration was wholly in the interest of silver mine owners: that it would enable them to double the value of their silver by having it coined into silver dollars that would contain only 50 cents’ worth of silver each. lu the next breath they warned the laboring classes of the country against a financial system that Compelled them to take in exchange for their labor dollars that were worth but 50 cents each. That is, mine owners would be able to get twice as many dollars in coin as the commodity value of their silver was worth and that these coins would be worth a dollar each as long as they remained in the mine owners' hands. But as soon as he paid them out for labor or for any other expense they would go back to their commodity value of 50 cents each. Now the truth is that a dollar cannot be worth a hundred cents in one man’s bands and only 50 cents in another’s. The law of the land has defiued what a dollar is. It is three hundred, and seventy-oue and a quarter grains of fine silver. It is a legal tender at its face for the payment of all debts, and its purchasing power cannot be doubled or halved by its transfer from one man's pocket to another. A 50-cent dollar is a paradox, a characterization which is intended to deceive the public tni|id. It is true that the actual g»!d in a gold dollar is worth about double what the.actinal silver in a silver ijolj&r is worth. Suppose the home of some of your rich men should burn down touight and in the conflagration a ten-dollar gold piece was melted out of shape. Be could take it to a mint and have it recoined without any loss. But suppose a laborer's cottage should burn down and ten dollars in silver, perhaps the savings of a whole season’s labor, should be melted oat of shape, he coaid not have his money recoined and in its misshapen form it would be worth only one half of whnt it was worth before the fire, Nov

we, who believe in bimetallism, say down with the law that thus discriminates in favor of a rich man’s gold and against a poor man’s silver. Prior to 1873, when silver was demonetized by dropping the silver dollar out of the list of legal coins, both metals were received upon an equal footing at the mints and were coined without discrimination in accordance with the weights and measurements prescribed by law. The production of silver had received a great stimulus at that time and the owners of United Stales bonds that had been issued during the war period determined, if they could, to secure legislation that would make these bonds redeemable in gold, thus doubling their value to the holders by doubling the burden of debt which the people would have to pay. When the awful fact of the demonetization of silver was realized, for it was accomplished stealthily, a determined effort was made to undo the wrong. It was during this period that John G. Carlisle made his celebrated speech declaring that to strike down silver would cause more misery and suffering than all the wars, famiue and pestilence that had

afflicted the world since the beginning of time. 1 do not pretend to quote his exact i language, but this was the sense of what j he said, and since he has come to be an apostle of the single gold standard he has never been able to answer the* irresistible! logic of that performance. The forces of the gold syndicate were so thoroughly organized in Congress that nothing better than compromise measures restricting silver coinage within certain limits were ever passed, and in 1893 even the last of these was stricken from the statutes and the gold standard, absolute and inexorable, was fastened upon the country. * It is often said by the advocates of the existing financial policy that if the United Stares woul(| compete with the most progressive nations for the commerce of the world it must be in accord with them as to what the standard of money should be. When it is known* that only about 4 per cent of the country’s commerce is domestic, the necessity of conforming to foreign money standards is not apparent. If the claim of the advocates of bimetallism that silver restoration would double and treble our internal commerce is sound we could better afford to lose our foreign commerce altogether than to continue upou a gold, basis. But England and the United States are the only two commercial nations that are actually upon a gold basis, the only two that now feel bound to discharge every obligation in gold. The payment of interest on French loans and of the salaries of its civil and military list mjay\be made in either gold or silver at the option of the government. The same is true in Germany, Russia, Austria and indeed all of the other commercial nations that have a fixed financial system. Through centuries of enterprise and superior intelligence England has obtained a mastery over a large part of the globe. More than a hundred years ago the colonies out of which this republic grew threw off this yoke and the patriots who established American independence never dreamed that their descendants would ever accept voluntarily the conditions from which they had delivered their country. Yet there are men in high places today w! ■ seem to be not only willing but anxious that we should again become tribute payers to England by allowing her to direct our financial pplicy. Is William McKinley one of them as Grover Cleveland was? In a matter of such vital consequence the j partv brand should not protect a man who I

is false to his country’s interest and the j democracy in national convention two years j ago placed the seal of its everlasting condemnation upon the course of the man whom the party had twice honored with the highest office in the gift of this great country. The United States produces, as nearly as can be estimated from trustworthy statistics, a little more than one fourth of the world’s annual product of gold. Since the discoveries in the Klondike the amount has of course largely increased from this proportion. Why is it then that when the government wants gold it must go to England for it? England held and still holds ' United States bonds that were issued dur-i ing the civil war. It was never intended i at that time that these bonds should be] redeemed in gold, and although some of j them have been refunded, there is not in j existence, there never did exist, a single! obligation of the United States that by its I terms required gold redemption. When au I effort was made to insert the word “gold” instead of “coin” in the bonds that were issued by President Cleveland it was voted down and the original form of the text was retained. Yet the interest of these bonds is payable in gold and it is the intention of the advocates of the single gold standard that they shall also be redeemed in gold. Through their agents in this country the English money syndicate of which Rothschild of London, is the head, and Pierponr Morgan of New York, is the tail, has been able to establish the policy of gold redemption, although to this day there is no law of Congress authorizing such a policy. Bonds which were bought with American Odin, meaning silver as well as gold, and even with paper money, whan on* gold

dollar was worth nearly three paper dollars, must now be redeemed in gold alone, not- > withstanding the fact that the world's annual product of gold has not kept pace with the iucreaee of population, making the redemption of these bonds in gold equivalent to a large increase of original indebtedness without any reason whatever except that the Anglo-American bondholdiug syndicate is determined upon the arrangement. 3 v A painful and mortifying exhibition of the greed of gold syndicates and the timidity of the present national administration is the treatment of the Caban question. We need not refer to precedents established by the administration of Qrover Cleveland because about everything connected with that administration has been repudiated by all classes of Americans without distinction of party. But it is only within a few days that one of the prominent financiers of Wall street confronted President McKinley

with the inquiry, “What does the killing of 256 sailors amount to iu comparison with the .business interests of the country?” Whatever President McKinley may feel upon this subject the people of the United States from every city and hamlet have answered the question in emphatic terms. They say that no blood money will be accepted as a recompense for the wholesale murder of the defenders of our flag. The talk about sending food to Cuba sounds as if they who indulge in it thought that the women and children, like so many cattle or sheep, should at least be fattened before they are slaughtered. When coupled with the further reflection that the president is anxious that Cuban independence should be acquired by purchase the suggestion can only be treated as a temporizing measure* the purpose of which is to postpone the inevitable recognition of Cuban freedom that must come, that the American people and the American Congress are determined shall come. What the meaning of it is must be to some extent a matter of conjecture and it is a distasteful thing for any American to impugn the motives of the president of the Repuhlic. But surely he will not hesitate to put an end to the awful tragedy ofr which Cuba has been the stage for three years. The starvation and murder of women and children and old men while their husbands and sons and brothers are in the field fighting for liberty is an offense against civilisation so rank that it smells to heaven.. It is made more horrible by the reflection that its long continuation has beep dictated by the stock exchange and the manipulators of what is known as the busiue^Jinterests of the country. They would as sfl&n inflate their stocks with the blood of innocents as with water, and this mercenary spirit, which has held sway over the Washington authorities, is construed by the nations of tbe world as national cowardice. No one wants war if it can be honorably avoided. But we will not purchase immunity from war at the expense of the nation’s honor* nor shall we forget that war itself, is sometimes the greatest promoter of peace and humanity. The Spaniard was long age driven front his empire in Mexico and the South American continent and three centuries of accumulated cruelty inspired by chagrin and bitterness at the loss of so much territory has been concentrated and lavished upon the devoted children of this island which nature intended should be a paradise but which Spanish tyranny has tnade a hell. \ Bqt one settlement of the Cuban question^ possible and that is the withdrawal of the Spanish military and naval force from the island and the water# surrounding the island and the absolute independence of the Cuban republic. Then we shall have tbe peace that will be permanent because founded upon the sentiments of justice, humanity and liberty. With the restoration of silver in the United States Ind tbe freedom of Cuba

established, the republics of the Western hemisphere would soon be in absolute accord and by civil alliances could control the commercial destinies of the world. On* after another the nations of Europe and of the Orient that now hold place in the commercial family would begin jumping over the fence in an effort to get into the eircl* which the mighty West would have thus established. Last of all would come England and modestly ask for permission to take a back seat in the household. Sh* would be admitted, of course, because th# spirit of equal rights to all mankind, which is the underlying basis of bimetallism, forbids that the door should be shut in th* face of any supplicant. We are advocates of the admission of gold and stlyer upon the ratio of 16 to 1 to the mints of all the world, but we do not propose that tfc*.t United States shall defer this great benefit to its own people because other nations choose to do so. We believe that this great country, teeming with wealth and with th* most intelligent population of any other country on earth, should b* the leader among nations and not the subservient instrument of any power. A Life for *0 Cent*. Many people have been cored of kidney diseases by taking a 50c bottle of Foleyli Kidney Cur*. J. R. Adams A Son. a ■o/ f