Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 October 1898 — Page 5

CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION That Is What the Gold Buga and Plutocrats Fear.

tkw rnmmm It M«m Dt«th to «r»<tlTrwt<>i CttfpinitlOM M4| Msnnpii Ito WWct Ban Bni Offrilag tkt It la an old aphorism “that men who think govern those who toil.” A “Campaign of Education’* it a misnomer nn* Iwrit am* men to thinking. Indeed, the highest function of ednoatiou is to tench men to think. If it fails in that essential particular, we have meu who aooept what is told them as. truth and who, however mooh they may boast of their independence, are. nevertheless, tbs hypnotised victims of cunning men who use them to promote their schemes of aggrandizement. The great mass of the people can have bo interest In promoting the schemes of syndicates, SrnetSwCorporatioos, monopolies or the milMemurs class, who, operating In ooejuuctioa, oonstitute what is known as the “money power," or the plutocracy of the oouutry. which, representing 4 per oent of the population, has managed to seoure at learnt two-thirds of She wealth of the conn try. And this 4 per cent of the population, by deriving schemes, the result of thinking^are now dominating the financial pdlioy of the republic. They constitute the brains and backbone of the gold standard aggregation of plutocrats and expect, by the iuflueooe they may be able to exert by the nee of money in the oan^paign. to substitute duplicity, and all the arts of chioaufery for eduoation. These gold standard advocate* propose to do the thinking for the masses of the people, and lead them, as white horses lead droves of mules, or as bell wethers lead flocks ofi sheep. They are destined to experience sad disappointments. The great body or the people are thinkers along Hues which involve their welfare. The iniud forces of the messes are now intensely active. The ohock-a-lnck methods of eduoation, the trioks and enchantments of the gold standard winards wiQ not be accepted ns arguments by the rank and file of the American voters; or as reasons why they should abdicate these prerogatives to do their own thinking on alt political questions, including (he “free coinage" or the “ahund money “issues. It'may be expected that the Republican speakers and the Republican press, during the campaign will indulge In the. usual amount of vulgar epithets, when referring to those* Who fa*or free coinage and uphold (he stiver dollar as socud money. In 1894 The men who rallied to the standard of William Jennings Bryan, mors than 6.600.000 of free meu who would not bow down and worship the gold standard, ns the slaves of old Nabnchadnezca! worshiped his golden image. Were denominated “anarchists,” “cohimuntsta," “idiots,” “border ruffians,” “socialists,” “blackgourds** aud other equally argumentative epithets. It wail the gold bog method of education and will again be introduced, hut with less avail. The people are uow asking for foots, and they will ply the gold bugspeakers with questions which they will shrink

One-of the choice declaration* of the gold bug* ha* beeu that toooio standard silver dollar* would drive gold out, of the century, a condmou which they deprioated a* a far reaohing calamity. Well, from 1878 we have coined 483,• 000,000 of standard silver dollars, all debtpayinjr. legal tender, sound money dollars, but gold did not, therefore, leave the country, nor was it ever shown that, owing to the ooiuage at silver dollars, any calamity, large or small, waa Cfeated; and if such a charge or any other charge intimating that the coinstandard silver dollars has been productive of a panic iu business, commercial or industrial affairs, those who make the charge will he required to point oat wheh and where it occurred. This they will be unable to da The people are thinking and bald assertion, vulgar epithets and dnplkaty will be swept away before the onward march of thought which education, worthy of the name, will emancipate The farmers, the working men, the producing classes of the republic have, to an extent which oanoot eooqp again, been terrorised by the soothsayer* and magicians of the money power a favorite prognostication bring that the free ooiaageof silver would not only drive gold out of the oouotry. bat would, to the otter consternation of rich and poor alike, bring home from Europe the stocks and bonds held there for paywant. Suppose this should be tree, ••what greater blearing,*' queries a distinguished United Stater senator, “oouli be bestowed upon this country than the giving to the oahoo and the people a sufficient amount of sound; irredeemable gold and silver ooiued money of oar constitntloo to enable oar people to traaasml all their basin yes, develop all oar resources ,and pay far and own all the obUgstdon* and debt* of every kind of our government, states, municipalities and corporation* and rvorive the inter** and enjoy perfect financial lader adence of &' '. nations and all gold syndicates?** Bat thoughtful men will ask the goldbug '-mcocters of the delusion relating to the return of’ securities held abroad, beeapee of the triumph of free eotnage in the United St atm. in what sort of money would the foreigners expect t« be pahj for their securities? Manifestly in silver, the goldbog theory being that the geld has already been driven oat by silver. The mere statement of the it ton

--. 11 =—.«.J no thoughtful man will consider for one minute, and yet this mmssle— vagary, has been injected time and again tato the tfawmioB of the money question as one of the impending disasters which would befall the country provided free coinage was to triumph and silver regain its rights at the mints to stand, as the constitution of the republic intended it should stand, as one of themetals out of which standard, legal tender senud money dollars should be coined, ▲gain, the people have heard that already the limited ooinage of the standard silver dollar, the sound silver dollar, the legal leader silver dollar is embarrassing the government by requiring vaults of large dimensions in which to store it. The educational knaves who raaort to this trick laugh in their sleeves at the gullibility of those they impose upon. Up to 1896, as has been mated, 428.000.000 of standard silver dollars had been | coined, of this amount more than 873.* 000,000 are in circulation in the form of •liver oertifli-ates, leaving about 48,000.000 silver dollars in circulation, or about 6? bents per oapifea of population, or if the total amount, 438,000,000 were in circulation as coin, it would be only shout #6 per capita of oar population or I if the total amount could be eqeally distributed to families of live persons, each family would have $80. ▲long such Hues the people are thinking and, as the campaign progresses, they will be heard resolutely demanding of the goMbog Republicans facts instead of aelnsions manufactured by plutocratic spoilsmen to deceive men who do not think.

ADVOCATES OF FREE SILVER Their Demands Just and In Consonance With the Constitution. la 1896 the main Usae of the cam* paign was the free ooiunge of silver, or | the unlimited coinage of siiTer, at the ratio of 16 to 1. The imperative demaud was that silver should enjoy all the rights at the government mints which are accorded to gold. William Jeuniugs Bryan, one of the **oommon people.” a superb leader, an orator in the beet sense of the term, thoughtful, logical and eloquent, was the national standard-bearer, and to his support rallied 6,511,678 American citisens, who oast their votes for bimetallism, tor the free and unlimited coinage of silver, for the same rights of silver at the mints that gold enjoys. The demand was just, eminently sc. 11 was e lawful demand, in consonance with the constitution of the repablto. It was a demand lor an upright, impartial, even-handed, straightforward financial policy. And. besides, it was a demand a* purely American as the national flag It voiced the patriotic sentiment that the United States was, and ought to be, shaping its financial policy free and independent, having no entangling alliance with any other nation. And here it should be said that no natiou on the face of the earth oonsnlts the United States lu any way when a change of financial pohoy is content

plated. Wiien Japan decided to redone the weight of her gold yen one-half without impairing iu debt paying mine, •he did not consult the United States or any other natiou; and when Russia reduced the weight of her gold coins to the extent that 10 roubles were made equal to 10 roubles, the imperial autocrat asked neither permission nor consent of any other nation. It is only the degenerate advocates of the gold standard in the United States that be* coin* the willing vassals of European nations when a financial policyJs dieousted. i The advocates of the gold standard in the United States, in oougrvss and out of congress, have fiheitated themselves and the country that what they are pleased to call the *‘silver erase'* is dead, that the campaign of 1800 was what gave it the death stab, sgd that the advocates of free coinage, like Bret Hart's Chinaman, were detonou and that “subsequent proceedings would interest them oo more. '* But they have found it u remurkubly vital and lively corpse, and now they are trying to kill lit again. Indeed, they find it more vigorous, mote energecio than in 1890. The more than0,000.000 Of voters who east thair ballots in 1096 for the remonatiastion of the silver dollar are as deter* mined now as then to overwhelm the goiditee ta defeat and oonfnrion. They know the principle for which they contended is bed rodt, fundamental, constitutional and Just. The result in 1896 neither dismayed nor demoralised them. They believe that the conspiracy to do* monetise silver has wrought incalculable rain, aid they believe with John G. Oar lisle. late secretary of the treasury, that “THE CONSUMMATION <>p 8UOH A SCHEME WOULD ULTIMATELY ENTAIL MORE MISERY UPON THE HUMAN RACE THAN ALL THE WARS, PESTILENCES AND FAMINES THAT EVER OO* CURBED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THE ABSOLUTE AND INSTANT AN ROUS DESTRUCTION OF HALF THE ENTIRE MOV ABUS PROPERTY OF THE WORLD, IN* OLUD1NQ HOUSES. SHIPS RAILROADS AND ALL OTHER, APPLI ANCESTOR CARRYING ON COMMERCE. WHILE IT WOULD BE FELT MORE SENSIBLY AT THE MOMENT. WOULD' NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING LIKE THE PROLONGED DISTRESS AND DISORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY THAT MUST INVARIABLY RESULT FROM THE PERMANENT ANNIHILATION OF ONB-HALF OF THE METALLIC MONEY IN THE WORLD." The advocates of the geld standard oare nothing for tha rain which Mr.

------ 1,,,,— --— of iho country, a thil It soulless and haartlsm tad is^i greed as relentless u a hungiy tigiir in the jangle. And, Unar ^ sayC however paradoxical it may appear, this money power thrives on the calamitiea of the people, as wreckers thrive when the storms and the billows drive ships upon Shoals and rooks. A faot that was brought into the boldest possible prominenoe when its managers bought government bonds with depreciated paper money, the bonds costing them about 68 oents on the dollar, and then, by using their influence over n Republican conj greet, made them payable in “coin,” gold or silver, and proceeded to collect principal and interest of the bonds in gold, and this has been going oh for more than 80 yean, until we have the astounding faot disclosed that on an in-terest-bearing debt of 18,881,811,918 In 1865 interest alone np to 1897 had been oolleoted amounting to 88,611,169,068, or approximately $889,887,147 more than the total interest-bearing debt in 1865. It is this money power, this power that controls the wealth of the country, that advocates the gold standard policy and denounces all who advocate free coinage. These facts are stated that the friends ' of silver may have in full view the L enemy that confronts them. It ie as ! Bryan would say. the plutocracy sit war I with the producing plasms’ the men j who oreaU the wealth whioh, by in- ! famous legislation, is'poured into the | coffers of the rioh in a ceaseless tide. ! As an issne in the oempaign now on. the friends of free ooinage of .bimetallism, the friends of the producing plasms, may expect to have their leaden and their cause traduced by the ad* vooates of the gold standard policy. A | subsidised press will lend its energies to | the nefarious work, but thgy will find 1 the ranks of the free sliver advooetee ! compact and unbroken. They will find j them shoulder to shoulder end kues to knee, intrepid and unfaltering, believ* I tag the welfare of the oounlry depends upon achieving a victory by virtue of j which silver shall regain its rights at ■ the mints and plaoe the option whioh the law confers upon the secretary of the treasury in the hands of a man who has not beeu corrupted by the money power, and who will give to silver its rightful station as a coin in all regards at the Wal ratio, eoual to sold.

INSTRUCTIONS TO YOTERS

DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Secretary of Mute, SAMUEL M RALSTON. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINOR. For Treasurer of State, HUSH DOUGHERTY. For Attorney General, JOHN G. HoNUTT. For Clerk Supreme Court, HENRY WARKUM. INSTRUCTIONS. If you want to voto a STRAIGHT DEMOCR'ATIO TICKET make a oroas thus. X, within tha large olrI ola oontainln* tha ROOSTER at tha top of tha ticket. If you mark In tha LARGE CIRCLE you must not make a mark anywhare alsa on tha ballot or you will ioaa your voto. If you want to voto a mined ticket, you muat not mark within tha larca * olrola. but must maka a orossthus. X. In tha SMALL SQUARE opposite tha name of aaoh parson, for whom you dsalra to vota. You must not mark on tha ballot with anythin* but tha BLUB PENCIL *lvan you by tha poll olork. If I you by mlatako mutilate your ballot | ratumtttotho poll olork and set a now ballot. You must fold your ballot boforo comln* out of tha booth so thattho faoa will not show, and so that tha | Initials of tha pall darks on ths baok will show.__ TheSUverDontr. There is not a voter ia Indiana who i doss not know that ths standard Biss* | dollar to sound mossy. There to not m voter In Indiana who does not know that ths standard diver i dollar to a tofsl tender for all debts. ! principal and interest. pahBo sad pel* > vote.

m CLOSING OUT SALE OF \ CLOTHING

After thirty-five years in the Clothing Business I have decided to close out my entire stock of Clothing* consisting of Mens', Boys’ and Childrens’ Suits, Overcoats and Pants, in order to enable me to | turn my attention more fully to Dry Goods, Shoes and Furnishing Goods. My stock is fresh and comprises all the latest styles and effects, and they must be sold. Profit will be thrown away for the reason that prices must sell this * ; . • , d Immense Stock of Clothing! | And money we must have. You can’t afford to miss this sale. It’s a chance of a lifetime. This is no j fake sale, it is just merely a sacrifice of an efriormous stock of Clothing for the benefit of the people. If [ you are needing anything in [ | Blankets, Underwear or Hosiery, we sell everything at greatly reduced prices during this sale, for we^wiR ! make this the Greatest Bargain Sale ever known. All articles guaranteed as advertised or money refunded. Look Here for a Few of the Bargains.

Hen’s and Boys’Clothing. 10 Men's good Saits, closing ont price...$ 2 24 13 Men's black and blue, square or round cut Suits, sizes 34 lo 88, closing out price.... 3 69 9 Men's back wool cheviot Suits, sizes 85 to 42, closing out i price . 3 89 22 Men’s all wool Suits, sizes 33, 34, 35. closing ont price... 4 49 6 Meu’s all wool cheviot Suits, square cut, closing out price 4 69 10 Men's ail wool black clay worsted, closing ont price. 5 49 39 Men's all wool fancy plaids, all sizes, closing out price .. 6 00 Boys' good Suits, long Pants, 13 to 18, closing out priee ... 2 00 Bovs' all wool Suits, long Pants, 14 to 19, closiug out price 3 99 Boys' all wool black clay worsted, 13 to 19, closing out price 5 00 Children's short Pants, school Suits. 5 to Inclosing out price 49 Children's wool Pants, school Suits, closing out price _ 1 49 Children's Pants, school Suits, all sizes, closing out price i.....,... . 1 75 15 Men's odd Pants, ail wool, closing out price.. 1 00 30 Boys' odd Pants, all wool, closing out price.. 1 00 28 Children’s knee Pants, all sizes, closing out price. 49 Men's good Jeans Pants, lined, closing out price .,. 65 Men’s heavy Jeans Pants, lined, closing out price. 83 Men's wool Jeans Pants, lined, closing out price .. 99 Boys’ heavy Jeans long Pants, lined, closing out price. 49 19 Men’s black Beaver Overcoats, closing out price3 69 35 Men’s black sr blue Beaver Overcoats, closing out price.. 4 49 1 lot fine brown Beaver Overcoats, 38. 84. 85, closing out 25 Children’s Overcoats, sizes 6 to 15, closing out price..... 98 100 Men’s Mackintosh with Chpe», all sizes, sale price. 1 58 Boots and Shoes. Aden’s good Boots, per pair--- *.'■.* Boys’ good Boots, per pair ..... Ladies* heavy riveted, lace or button Shoes, per pair $ 1 35 . 1 35 96

Blankets and Woolen Goods. Good cottoil Blankets, per pair................ $ 39 Extra cotton Blankets, per pair.... 49 Extra red or grey Blankets, per pair... 99 Wool, grey or red Blankets, per pair.. 1 24 Extra heavy, all vool Blankets, grey, per pair .. 1 89 Comforts, each......—. .... 49 Big size Comforts, each.. 79 Sateen Blankets, each... 99 Notice the Dry Goods Bargains. Ladies’ full sixe. all wool flannel Skirts..$ 59 Ladies'all wool Rose....... . V2 All wool Dress Goods, per yard.,.. 25 Fancy plaid Dress Goods, per yard. 19 Extra wide Canton Flannel, per yard ... 5 Extra wide Flannelette, per yard. 5 Good Calicoes, per yard.. ... .... 9 Cotton Batting, per roll.i. 4 Yard wide Floor Oil cloth, per yard..... 19 Ladies good Capes.i •. 99 j Ladies’ Fancy Trimmed Capes... •.! Ladies' heavy Capes, trimmed with Buckles, etc. 1 94 Ladies’ Plush Capes.I.... 9 99 Mens’ 50 cent Undershirts.* . Men’s 50e Drawers, heavy, per pair. Men’s Fleece lined Drawers, heavy, per pair. Men’s Fleece lined Undershirts, heavy ......

Sale Now,Going On. Don’t fail to come early to this sale, for the best bargains are picked out first. This is no humbug sale for I am actually going to quit the Clothing Business, and consequently will sell Clothing at a price to close out at once. Don’t miss this sale. You can buy more with a dollar now than ever before. Remember the place. OSES FRANK, PEXBSSB'D,B&. _SL.