St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1896 — Page 5

ty Advertisers in the Independent have the privilege of changing their advertisements as often as once a month at least. When they are allowed to run month after month without any change they become stale and unprofitable to both the reader and .idvertiser. The public are eager to read fresh, newsy ads. that are to the point and every business man should not neglect to attend to the matter. LOCAL NEWS. No. 499 is a good, honest 5 cent cigar. Read J. Endiy’s hog cholera ad in this issue. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kneisley October 21. democratic barbecue in Walkerton Oct. 2g. Some of our correspondence is unavoidably crowded out this week. Mrs. Theron Wolfe has been quite sick for the past week or so. If you want to buy a good broom for 8 cents call at the Red Star. Rensberger's 17 cent bulk coffee is better than Lyon or Arbuckle. Lots of things are being excused in people until after November 3. Ross, Jarrell & Co., the hardware dealers, have a new ad in this issue. To Trade,. Good canopy top buggy with curtains, for wood. H. E. Beall. L. A. Graffort has opened a shoe shop in the basement of the Hudelmyer block. Guess on the “missing link” at the halloween supper Saturday evening, October 31. Go to Hudelmyer’s for your shingles. Reduced prices for the next 60 days Now is the time to buy. T. J. Wolfe is handling the famous $4 tailor made Apollo pants. Any of their samples are made at $4. Cobbler’s outfits for repairing your own shoes, also findings, at Ake’s. He is selling them 50 per cent cheaper than last year. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Granger’s two sons, Carl and Glenn, have been very sick with a malarial trouble, but are improving. Louis Kneisley who has been working on the L. E. & W. railroad of the south end has been laid off but will go on the north end Monday. For Sale. Second hand bedstead, extension table and set of cane-seat chairs. In good condition and will be sold very cheap. Apply at Independent office. Some toughs got together in front of Bender's block Thursday night about 11 o’clock and one of them was knocked into Martin’s store through a window light. All persons indebted to A. D. Johnson, Tyner, are requested to call and settle by cash or note this month or their ae counts will be left for collection. Come boys, settle your bills. Ake has received his stock of winter robes and blankets. It is a good time to buy now when there is a good assortment. He is selling fur robes cheaper than ever before sold in Walkerton. We received by freight a free silver dollar from George Smith, of South Chicago, as payment on his subscription. It is 3% inches in diameter and weighs a quarter of a pound. Thanks. A party of South Bend chaps got to “mixing” during the rally Thursdayevening and a young man by the name of Fred Hill got struck over the head with a cane, inflicting quite a scalp i wound. Attorney Andrew Anderson, of South ! Bend, addressed a large audience in Bender's hall last Saturday evening. His theme was the financial question, which he treated ably from the gold standard point of view. Phay Woodard, the news agent, has received from the Chicago Journal a ; neat gold watch as a prize for selling extra copies of that paper. His sales 1 amounted to 48 regular copies and 40 extras every evening sos three weeks. , L. P. Johnson, one of the oldest print- ! ers in northern Indiana, died in South Bend recently. He was one of the earliest settlers in South Bend, having loettted there with his father in 1830 when that city was but an Indian trad- r ingpost. He was a typesetter in the Tribune office for many years. On last Sunday evening Matthias Haslanger, of South Bend, after bidding । his family good bye, went to his bed- I room and shot himself through the j heart with a 32 calibre revolver. His j death was almost instantaneous. He ■ was formerly a bartender at Bender’s saloon in that city. His age was 44 | years. Westville Indicator: Rev. and Mrs. Stockbarge^the new pastor of the M. E. Society here, were given a reception at the parsonage Thursday evening of last week. The affair was a surprise on the reverend gentleman and his good wife, and the house was comfortably filled, a pleasant evening being spent by all. The party was gotten up to give the people an opportunity to meet and become acquainted with their pastor.

r A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. t The Republican Rally a Pronounced 1 Success. , Thursday evening was the occasion of 3 ■ one of the largest political demonstrations ’ I ever seen in Walkerton. The republicans । of St. Joseph county, and especially of South Bend, seem to be thoroughly awake this year, as was attested by the large turnout and enthusiasm on Thursday evening. The South Bend republicans turned out in large force with a band and several of their marching clubs, prominent among them being the Colfax club, one of the largest in the state. The special train pulled in at the Three I de pot about 9 o’clock with nearly 1,000 people on board. About 800 tickets were sold at South Bend and many boarded the train at North Liberty. The delega- ' tion was met by the Walkerton band and a procession with torchlights. The pro- ' cession, re enforced by the South Bend ! band and marching clubs, formed in line * at the depot and paraded Avenue F and ( a number of other streets. While the I marching was in progress a division of I the Colfax club sang campaign songs 1 and from another part of the parade sky rockets were sent skyward, adding life < and brilliancy to the scene. About 10 ’ o’clock the marching ceased and the throngs gathered at the wigwam and in I Bender’s hall to hear the speaking, i Schuyler Colfax, of South Bend, followed i by Hon. Theodore Shockney, of Union I City, Ind., spoke at the wigwam, while Hon. A. T. Bowen, of Indianapolis, < held forth in the hall. Colfax also spoke 1 in the hall after hie speech in the wig- I warn. Both places were crowded and ’ the speeches, although necessarily cut I short by the lateness of the hour, were i well received. The special returning to South Bend left the station about 11 ; o'clock. democratic barbecue Oct. Two spools of John J. Clark thread for five cents at Noah Rensberger's. The democratic barlwcue in this place has been changed from the 28th to the 29th. For Sale. The O. F. Townsend bar ber shop. Apply to Mrs. Lizzie Townsend. Hon. E. Vol Bingham, of Mishawaka, will speak in Bender's hall Saturday eve ning, October 24. The American steam laundry can not be excelled. Leave your orders at Cripe's barber shop. Senator Henry M. Teller the prominent free silver advocate, sjM>ke at lai Porte last Thursday evening. Go and guess on the “missing link” at the halloween supper over Endiy’s drug store Saturday evening, < )ct< >ber 31. For Sale. The Dr. McCool property consisting of a comfortable residence I and two lots. Apply to S. J. Nicolee. Try the American steam laundry, of LaPorte. Work first class. A E. Cripe, agent. Fok Sale Cheap. A work horse 6 years old: weighs 1,250 pounds and sound. E. L. Sanders. We have another interesting North Dakota letter from C. F. Rupel which will appear in the Independent next week. On last Saturday a very fine campaign pole was raised at the farm of Henry Nash and now the name of Me Kinley and Hobart floats to the breeze 75 feet in the air. Reporter. Call and see sample copies of the j Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Thrice a-Week World, with ' which the Independent is making liber j al clubbing terms. It seems to be a settled fact that the' Three I railroad shops will be located at South Bend. The city donates 15 acres of land for a site and SIO,OOO. The shops will employ about 200 hands. Thompson Turner spoke to a large and enthusiastic republican meeting at • North Liberty last Saturday evening. . He will address the Colfax marching ] club at South Bend this evening Fri- , i day. George Teel, of North Liberty, began ‘ work in Baugher's mill last Wednesday, । ’ He is an experienced mill man and is aj : valuable addition to Mr. Baugher's I ] force of employes. Mr. Teel thinks of moving his family to Walkerton. j' Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, son of I ' the martyred president, has been secured * . | by the republicans of South Bend for a ' speech in that city, October 31. This will be the only speech Mr. Lincoln will ' । make outside of his own state Illinois — • during this campaign. The blowing of tin horns by boys at public meetings is a most exasperating i nuisance. The speaker and audience at i the meeting last Saturday evening were 1 greatly annoyed by some squawkers in the back part of the hall. There was ! some talk of getting the names of the ! offenders and making them pay fines for their w rong-doing, but the matter , was dropped. It is the intention, however, to punish the offenders if any । more meetings are disturbed. Boys । should remember that it is against the 1 law to blow tin horns or interrupt in any other way a speaker at public I meetings.

The Independent’s Campaign. continued from FIRST PAGE. silver. Not one of the three are redeemable under our laws. The law instilled into the greenback endows it with full legal tender money function. Thus money is the outgrowth of civilization from trading with barter customs. Law decided to give to certain things the function of money. Fiat. Now’ we never find metal in nature with a money fiat coined on it. So it is selfevident that there is no money except by the fiat of man. For example. A man labors all day not for a dollar but for bread to feed his family. His day's work completed his employer weighs out to him so much bread and bread has redeemed that day’s labor and the account is forever balanced, but suppose the employer hands him a piece of melted silver or gold, the man shakes his head and says, “No, I don’t know what that stuff is worth I can’t test or put valuation on it. 1 want bread or some legal tender that I can pay to the baker what I owe him.” The employer then gives him a metal or paper dollar that by fiat of law states just what measure of value it will pay. Now and not till now does money, lawful, legal tender dollars, come on the scene of action. Not a commodity but a medium of exchange having the function of measurement. Qualities of law. You can’t dig such a thing out of the earth, but supftose the man takes the legal tender, be it coin or paper, and keeps it Will he redeem his day’s work? No. The family would starve to death, they can't eat, drink or wear it. Our money function is only half completed. He gets no benefit till he buys the bread and then that releases the dollai and the book account is closed. Ths bread was the true redeemer of the day's work and not the dollar. Robert Ingersoll does not recognize a true spiritual redeemer, and materialist as he is, he sees no function in the dollar, but mistakes the gold or commodity as the redeemer whereas it is but the yard stick or measure of the true redeemer, bread. To illustrate: A single gold or paper dollar, the same identical dollar will pay a thousand different men each for a day’s work if j you will employ one at a time and in ■ turn buy back the dollar to pay the next ! man. Now each man works his day's ' work and with his dollar flat measure gets his bread and eats it. The bread, reme the dollar, paid, the final redemption. It takes a thousand dis ferent lots of bread, but only one and the name coin or paper dollar and when all is done the dollar is still on hand. The function of legal tender in it is not ■ destroyed. Why? Because it is a crea I ti<>n of law almve and beyond dwtrwU_4 bility. You can't have a dollar and the I commodity value at one and the same I time. He says that “Mr. Bryan claims that under free coinage the silver dollar will ; become of equal value with the gold {dollar. Ingersoll asks Mr. Bryan “how | will that help the debtor?” The silver dollars being just as dear as the gold dollars." For example: Suppose a hungry regiment of men encamp and a ' melon jH-dler drives into camp with a load of melons. Now there are more men than melons and each man rushes I on the wagon with the price of a melon. In the midst of the scramble or panic that follows another large load of melons of equal value and price drives onto the ground. Will it not be of help to those men? Though the melons are just ;is dear their chance to get melons is bet tered. We have 600,001),(MX) gold dollars (they say), now money is very, very scarce. Is that right? It is scarce, is it not? Yes or no? Now then. If we ! coin $600,000,000 full legal tender silver dollars and the farmers having realty to borrow on wants it can’t he get. dollars ‘ just twice as easy? Ingersoll says gold never fluctuates, yet he says it is a commodity, now there i is no commodity on earth that does not: fluctuate under the inexorable law of i supply and demand. It can t go lower because the banks of England binds itself to take all the gold offered at a fixed price, but w hen all nations on a single gold standard scramble for it the : great demand will send it up to an ex ; orbitant price. So will free coinage pre-d vent silver going below 100 cents so long , as the U. S. coins all that is offered and ■ puts its fiat full legal tender stamp on ' them making them a legal tender for all I debts public and private. We can’t get i enough of them in twenty years to pay . the existing debts of this land: under free coinage the government is behind every coin it stamps for the mine owner, just as it is now behind the present gold and silver dollars, neither gold nor silver are redeemable for both are alike, perpetual dollars, primary metallic money. Let us go back to the speeches made here in our wigwam. Is it not a fact that those speeches all asserted and tried to prove that silver was not demonetized, that there was no crime committed in 1873, that it was only a change in the money laws that was not intended to be unfriendly to silver, that, in 1873, they did not change the law purposely to go to a single gold standard. Is that right? That no crime or fraud was committed in 1873? Please read the follow - ing speech made one day last week by the chief conspirator who now w’hen caught glories in the fact: about the act of 1873. Boston, Mass., Oct. 14.—The principal

kSfe at ^Twentieth Century club SLiT 9WS. Boutwell, who in part ^ 6 81V6r question. He said mint 1 bifi Xq the P re P ara «on of the The bill \ WaB conß id®rable. measure the ln no 81ua!1 made tn « f ^commendations which I tion of ik l * l * B ? afrer careful considerawhen I exiß t* n £ currency system the a PP° ln ted to the office of wntiine ° f ? he treaßu m The ^’ll which" 1 sections, one of silver ir * r *° r th® demonetization of question J a k m ¥ ked the pertinent See 1 to worka answer IS , flnancial B y 9 tem I will wisA f F that 1 liad conie to believe it X? eve 7 nation of the world to agnize and maintain the gold standlu 1891 Robert G. Ingersoll in a Bp ^® ch the farmers of Illinois said: f<J3^ my part Ido not an y >nter- !. v? T/ >n the part of the government ® x c®pt to undo the wrong it has done. „a? . not ask that money be made out of > ling. Ido no j f or tjj e prosperity bom of paper. But I do ask for the remonetization of silver. Silver was usmonetized by fraud. It was an imposition upon every solvent man, a fraud upon every honest debtor in the United otates. It assassinated labor. It was done in the interest of avarice and greed anU should be undone by honest men.” ^clipped the above from his book of s^peehee published by himself, page apccch quoted by R. E. J. if your last issue Ingersoll says: iSome say that free coinage would help tie mine owners. It would not. Coinifc this bullion into dollars would not ^crease its value. Have free coinage tomorrow and there is not a silver mine erwner that would make a dollar: not one by changing it into American coin. It Would only be worth what the bullion is worth in the open market." Now then, as fair minded men, I ask you, whom do you believe? Boutwell, ex-Secretary U. S. Treasury and, Robert G. Ingersoll or speaker Brownlee. Hendee, Dodge and Royse. The wigwam men denied what Boutwell and Ingersoll affirmed. Is that right? If so, can you swallow both arguments? If you can you have the stomach of an ostrich. hen you hear silver men talk they all tell the same story, for it is the truth, but when men in a Dad cause tell falsehoods they come home to roost and the common people can see that while it is the robe of Pope Bob it shows the cloven hoof of Hanna. The silver and j gold party have been honest and conj sistent in this campaign and have I dodged no issue and are worthy of trust, i All hail the coming of'a new era in ■ polities. J. W. Arlington. Oysters in all styles at the Domestic bakery. $1 will get a pair of fine tailor made pants at T. J. Wolfe's. ! Job printing cash at the Independent ■ office, ihm't ask for credit. ’ Lumber, lath and shingles at a bargain ■ for the next 6i) days at Hudelmyer’s. I He is offering inducements to reduce { his stock. I Among the most attractive novelties i this s«'as<>n are the chenille hats. Mias Millard has them in all the stylish shapes Charlie Condell, an old and experienced engineer, will have charge of the Walkerton water works plant. A better choice could not have been made. LaPorte Heefner, a prominent citizen of Goshen, died last Saturday afternoon : in that city. He was a resident of Elkhart county since 1865. His age was about 50 years. He was a member of South Bend commandery, K. T., this society having charge of the funeral. There is nothing that causes woman greater discomfort and misery than the constantly recurring Headache. Men suffer less with headache. “My wife's health was very indifferent, having Headache continually, and just two ■ packages of Simmons Liver Regulator released her from all Headache and gave tone and vigor to her whole system, I have never regretted its use. M. B. । Deßord, Mt. Vernon, Ky. Kr eg' ULATO^I The Favoiiie Home Remedy. For all diseases caused by derangement of the Liver, Kidneys, and Stomach. Keep it always in the house and you will save time and Doctor’s Bills, and have at hand an active, harmless and perfectly safe purgative, alterative and tonic. If you feel dull, debilitated, have frequent headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite and tongue coated, you are suffering from torpid liver or biliousness, and SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR will cure you. If you have eaten anything hard to 1 digest, or feel heavy after meals or sleepless at night, a dose of SIMMONS LIVER ' REGULATOR will relieve you and bring pleasant sleep. If at any time you feel your system l needs cleansing and regulating without violent purging, take SIMMONS LIVER Regulator. I J. H. Zcilin & Co., Philadelphia.

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