Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 August 1898 — Page 3

EFFECTS OF GOLD STANDARD. Cfcllt aai Japaa Art Beth TmvcHaf the Raekf Read et FiaaaeUU Depreaitoa, A recent press dispatch from Chili eays: “A financial panic has been occasioned here by the withdrawal and exportation of gold, which has caused the Chilian government to officially close all the banks In Chili until the 12th inst. During this suspension the government will consider the advisability of issuing paper money.** The above dispatch shows that Chili eras successful in her attempts at financial suicide; that the sword of the gold standard which she bravely inserted into her financial vitals has produced the usual effects of the deadly instrument whenever used. The slaughtered victims of the sword of gold fill millions of graves in India, where the money of the people was destroyed by a ruthless enemy in London. and the 300.000.000 of the doomed Yietims of English greed are to-day shuddering on the bring of financial despair. The leap from the sleep of ages which an increased supply of silver money gave Japan as the result of the gold adoption in the western world was marvelous. But in madness and folly Japan adopted the gold standard and hurled her people back toward the conditions Of the dark ages when contraction of the money volume enslaved mankind« If Chili. India and Japan are not object lessons to warn the American people to resist gold standard monopoly while resistance is possible the misery of the masses will be the reward of their folly, and the words of Solomon will be further verified when he said: “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is a servant of the lender.** Unless the people take heed they will be classed with Solomon’s fools, whose fate he described when le said: “A whip for the horse, a brid:e for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.** Industrial conditions in Japan have been getting worse ever since the adop- ' tion of the single, gold standard, and this depression in manufacturing circles is the worst eYer known. In his report on Japan’s industrial eondition A. II. Lay, of the British legation at Tokio, says: “The cottonspinning industry, on which such great hopes were based, has already suffered severely. At the end of the year many of the mills were financially in a precarious condition and several small concerns In a state of bankruptcy.’’ In commenting on this report the London Financial News remarks: “These are the very mills whose prosperity not many months ago we were able to cite as indicating how comfortably a silver-using country could compete with Lancashire. In the early part of last year the Japanese spinners were doing uncommonly well, and the belief that all the surplus yarn could find a ready market in China was being realived. The year exports of yarn to China reached 40.356.322 pounds, against only 15.156.1W pounds in 1896. HOARDED GOLD.

Stored Awajr la Tresawrjr Vaalta It I* Dm4 Moitir and af Xo Beneat to the People. As a proof of the wonderful beneficial effects of the gold standard, the accumulation of gold in the vaults of banks and subtreasuries is quoted. It is alleged that upward of 500 tons of gold, which is about one-twenty-fifth of all the gold in the world, lie in the treasure vaults of New York city. For all the good that gold is doing the people in the United States it might as well be in the frozen marshes of Klondike. Hoarded money is dead money, and gold is the money which bankers, brokers and raisers hoard. Especially Is this the case in times of war. and It Is made the case by the demonetization of silver, which constitutes gold the only money of ultimate, redemption. If those tons of gold could be put into circulation, if the value they represent aould be injected into the arteries of trade, then some benefit would be conferred. Indeed, great benefit would result. But as this gold is simply piled up in the treasury of New York it confers no more benefits than so much brick dust. Wheatinan elevator will not keep people from starving. Wheat must be ground into flour, made into bread, placed in the reach of the individual, before it can relieve hunger. Gold in the vaults is as useless as wheat in the elevator. There is no benefit to the people in either so long as they are hoarded. Stiver and Saatla**. Because Santiago merchants refuse to accept United States silvervdollars at par an esteemed administration organ of this town argues that bimetallists are dishonest in advocating their theory. Because the merchants of Manila accept Mexican dollars at par might as logically be used as an argument to prove that single gold standard advocates are dishonest in advocating their theory. It is surprising that intelligent men should be expected to consider such a statement as that referred to in the light of ao argument. Silver coins of foreign countries are not received in the United State* at par. Neither are gold coins Metallic money passes only at its bullion value outside of the country where it is coined, with exceptions caused by local conditions such as those which exist in Manila. That the bullion value of a silver dollar is below its fate value is owing to the discrimination against the metal brought about by demonetisation. If gold advocates can't bolster up their cause with better arguments than the action of Santiago merchants, they are reduced to a truly pitiable condition.— Chicago Dispatch.

-All good Americans would favor expansion if assured that Mark Hanna would roost on its outer rim.—Chicago Discs tcb.

Tfco RmbU of th* DeoMO fixation of Silver Wna Injury to Protoeera. The high price realized by the fortunate possessor of the scarce article is necessarily an injury to those who haTe to buy it, and whose own salable products haTe not risen. This point cannot be brought out too often, or emphasized too strongly. It should not be forgotten. A rise of prices, to be beneficial, most be general. A general and permanent rise can only take place as the result of an increase of the supply of money in proportion to the supply of things which the money exchanges for. It should never be forgotten that money is either nominally or in fact, cue side of every business transaction, and the cases in which money actually passes ultimately fix the price for all. Under the gold standard there can be no general or continued rise of prices, for the reason that the demand for money is bound to increase more and more rapidly than the supply. This is another way of saying that the money cannot increase so rapidly as do the things that money buys. By tbe demonetization of silver the supply of money was arbitrarily restricted, while the supply of other things was not. As the inevitable result the supply of other things outran the supply of money, and prices were aa certain to fall as one side of a balanced scale is certain to descend when an additional weight is placed upon it. It can be laid down as an axiom that the supply of money should increase pro rata with *i^e supply of those things which are balanced against money; that is, that We exchanged for it. Otherwise prices ^ould fall to the injury of all debtors, and also of those producers whocannot increase their product in proportion td'the fall. Even wheje the producer can thus increase his pcodufts proportionately a fall of prices works Injustice by depriving him of the benefits of tbe increase and giving it all to those who either have fixed incomes or who are the fortunate possessors of large amounts of money. A stable range of prices can injure no one. THE SON OF STEPHEN DOUGLAS His Conversion to Demoemey la • Politico] Event of Cnoannl Significance.

The announcement of Stephen A Douglas. Jr.. that be considers himself a member of the democratic party is a political event of unusual significance. Mr. Douglas has always been a republican. a hard party worker, conspicuous in republican conventions and popular meetings and a favorite campaign orator. The democracy of Mr. Douglas.though but recently acknowledged, comes to him by distinguished descent, lie is the eldest son of Stephen A. Douglas, the illustrious democratic statesman and leader, whose name and public service are among the highest honors of the state of Illinois. On his dying bed he bequeathed to his sons their most valuable patrimony --his parting parental counsel: “Tell them to obey the law and uphold the constitution.** These words are sculptured on the base of his monument at Douglas park. They constitute the foundation principle of the democratic party. With this admonition left as his political inheritance, the younger Douglas has remained too long out of the democratic party. He is welcome to its ranks and will become one of its most powerfud and persuasive advocates before the people. In 1896 he secretly voted for Bryan. A few days ago he made hispublic declaration of faith. lie will take the stump for free silver, the main cause of his conversion. PRESS COMMENTS. —•—Congressman Reed, of Maine, refuses to open the campaign because “there is nothing to open.” Ho might epen the bottle into which McKinley thrust him.—Kansas City Times. --Senator Ilanna has declared for Mr. McKinley for president in 1900. Mr. Hanna, is suspected of going into a decline, lie might have accomplished more for the president by pretending to be against him.—Cincinnati Enquirer. i —-Every time a cjsnn dollar takes the place of a corporation note it helps to put down the London gold standard interest rate against American merchants. and to put up the London gold standard prices for American farm products.—Mississippi Valley Democrat. v —■—In the midst of the evidence produced by the Wilson tariff that the industries of the United States had outgrown the milkiness of infancy and and in their lnsty manhood were capturing the world’s markets the Dingley bill was enacted. So far from catching a glimpse of the commercial revolution. the authors of the bill adjusted the schedules Of duties to a condition of things that had passed away. In the

rapid march of commercial events the Dingey tariff, so far as protection is concerned, has already become an anachronism, while its failure as a revenue measure is almost universally acknowledged.—Philadelphia Record. -There has been need of a strong i administrative mind in the war departI ment of the cabinet ever since the war | commenced, and the nation has not j| had it. President McKinley cannot be | absolved from responsibility here. | Either from lack of resolution to j break with the officer that he originalj ly called to that place or from eonsid- | erations of politics Secretary Alger 1 has been retained in a position which constant occurrences proved him to be incompetent tc fill satisfactorily. The nation was entitled to the best man attainable in that place; it has had one whom there is a general conviction was below the average of competency for its duties.—Boston Herald. ■ x'ij?. -c ■ ' ...

Called tke Blaf. There u more then one nay to evade the tax on tank cheeks end there ere more ways then one to eolleet e trill. A bill collector of Lincoln celled ycsterde? one men who hed been in the habit of putting off payment of an account. He again objected to ranking the payment. “I would fire you a check,” he said to the eolleetor, “if I had e revenue stamp.” “Here is the stamps” said the eolleetor. "I just bought a few for use in cases of emergency. Give me your eheck.” The man did not have the courage to refuse payment under the circumstances, so the eheck was given and stamped then and there. Bill collectors say they will not make a regular business of supplying stamps, but they will ahvays stand ready to ealfa bluff.—Nebraska State Journal. K«j aal to It. Briggs—How well and strong you are lookBriggs—Yes. I’ve almost made up my mind to go away on a vacation.—Chicago Evening News. Loot HI* Life Saving Other*. A country boy visiting New York stopped a frantic runaway team that was about to dash on the sidewalk where there were hundreds of women and children. He saved their lives, but lost his own. Hundreds of lives are saved every year by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.] People who are fast going to their graves with disorders of stomach. liver, bowels and blood are brought back to good health by it. All the sick should try it. Wan Within Wan. “Another quarrel going on next door.” “What’s the matter this time?" “She wants to name the baby ‘Dewey and he wants the name for his wheel.”—Indianapolis Journal. The Army and Navy have covered themselves with glory during the war. ‘roe army and navy vest pocket memorandum book, published by the Northern Pacific, is a compact digest of information relative to the navies and armies of Spain and the United States at the beginning of the war. It has a map of Cuba, Illustrations of naval ships, glossary of navy and army terms, translation of Spanish words, etc.' Send ten cents to Chas. S. Fee. General Passenger Agent, S. P. R. R., 1 St. Paul, Minn., for a copy.

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ALL MEN LOVE BEAUTY. Mrs, Pinkham Counsels Young Wives to Keep Their Attractiveness—A Letter » From a Young Wife.

Seven-eighths of the men in this world mar- ^ ry a woman because she is beautiful in their eyes. What a disappointment then to see the fair young wife’s beauty fading away before a year' passes over her head!

I feel as if lwould like to • ,'v ; say to every young woman who is about / A to be married—“ Strengthen yourself in advance, so that you will not break down i under the new strain on your powers.” ! Keep your beauty, it is a precious pos- /1

session! Your husband loves your beauty, • he is proud to be seen in public with you; try to keep itforhis! and your own. The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under the eyes, the drooping o! the young wife’s form, what do they mean? mean that her nerves are failing, that her strength is going and something must be done to help her through the coming trials maternity. Build her up at once by a course of some tonic with specific ers. Such as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. _You cafeget it at any druggist’s. w Following we publish by request a letter from a young wife - o€ her own accord she addresses it to her “suffering sisters,** and from modesty she asks to withhold her name, she gives her and street number in Chambersburg, Pa., so she can easily be personally or by letter: To my Suffering Sisters:—Let me write this for your benefit, ing you what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has for me. I am but nineteen and suffered with painful mens! leucorrhoea, dizziness, burning sensation back of ears and on top of

my head, nervousness, pain and soreness of muscles, bearing-down* pains, could not sleep well, was unable to stand without pain* awl* oh! how 1 longed to be well! One day I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham telling her all, knowing 1 cookl do so in perfect confidence. . 1 She wrote me a lovely letter in reply, telling me exactly what ft** do. After taking nine bottles of the Compound, one box of Liver Pills, and using one-half package of Sanative Wash, I can say 1 aw* cured. 1 am so happy, and owe my happiness to none other tham Mrs. Pinkham. Why will women suffer when help is near ? Let me, as one who haw had experience, urge all suffering women, especially young' wives, to seek Mrs. Pinkham‘s advice.—Mrs. R. S. R.» 113 fiL. Catherine St, Chambersburg, Pa.

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