Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1897 — Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Florence [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Florence

Mrs. Elizabeth Florence died at the home of her son, A. F. Florence, at Yates Center, Kans., on Wednesday Sept. Ist, at the age of about 72 years. She had been an invalid for quite a long time. Mrs. Florence was long a resident of Jasper Co., being the widow of John Florence, whose home was, for so many years, a few miles northeast of town. For a <s> number of years previous to Mr. Florence's death, they lived in Rensselaer. Since that time her home has been mostly with her sons, in Kansas. Besides two sons in Kansas she left another son, Leroy Florence, who now lives in Carroll Co., but who, until recently, owned and occupied the old family homestead, northeast of town.

"Because it is my deliberate judgment that the prosperity of America is mainly due to its system of protective laws, I urge that Germany has now reached the point where it is necessary to imitate the tariff system of the United States-”— Bismark. A farmer, who is a Silverite and believes the value of silver governs the price of farm products, employedLa Republican to work for him at dollar per day or two bushels of wheat. When the price of wheat touched ninety-five cents the .Republican demanded his pay. It was a good lesson for the Silverite and one that ought to teach him that. belief is not reality. It is only belief, and of no value to anybody.

'-‘The benefit of protection goes first and last to the men who earn ffeudr bread in the sweat of their faces. The auspiciousand momentous result is that never before in fflfae'history of the world has comfort been enjoyed, education acquired, and independence secured by so large a majority of the total as in the United States of America.”—James G. Blaine. Mexican workmen, who get less £han half what those of the United States get, are having a bard time xx>w that they must take their pay m4O cent dollars. The American carpenter gets $2.50 per day in 100-cent dollars, while the Mexican carpenter gets $1.25 in coin worth •10 cents on the dollar. The real value of the $1.25 which the Mexican gets is just 50 cents, against «2L50 which the American carpenter gets. Uncle Richard Bland says the ■rise in in wheat is due to scarcity, and that the silver question has nothing to do with it. Is it not possible, Uncle Richard, if high prices are produced by scarcity and have no relation to silver, that low prices were due to plenteousness and also had no relation to silver? It’s a poor rule that doesn’t work both ways, Uncle Richard. We all know that wheat was plenty and tSbte cost of producing it much less than ever before. “In the coming campaign in the Greater New York, the canvass will be one of the fiercest and most momentous in the history of American polities. It will determine whether the great centre of American conservatism, wealth, and civilization, the second city of she world, is to be given over to the forces which last year fought madly for the destruction of the stability of the social system and of republican institutions, or is to be controlled by the elements in the community which represent its honor, enlightenment, and enterprise, its intelligence and its amdty.”—New York Sun (Dem.) Silver Orator Bland has put his foot in it again. He has grown hot under the collar because of the *“wJieat-and-silver” talk of the anti-fiaße-coinagists, and attempts to exffena that the increase in wheat prices is simply the result of shortages abroad. In doing this, how«wer.he gives away his whole argument about silver, for the StateMeat that wheat is .high because of wabori supply is aiuaiimission that •■er-production would cause low PEKNM. That is the whole story in at urtishelL Mr. Bland. The low

prices of tire past few years were the result of an increased supply and cheaper means of production and transportation. The weather is as unbearably hot as ever today, in spite of a temporary cool wave last night, having reached to about the 100 degree mark at 2 o’clock this afternoon. That so much extreme hot wpather must have an injurious effect upon people’s health seems evident, although so far its effects have not been so bad as might have been expected The dryness of the air and the coolness of the nights are two causes which greatly mitigate the discomfort as well as the danger of the intense heat of the day.