St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 October 1896 — Page 1

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THE INDEPENDENT’S CAMPAIGN.

.Editor'lndependknt: In your last issue Mr. W. charges William J. Bryan with plagiarism in the use of the words, “a crown of thorns and cross of gold.” Now that slander was proven like every other canard published about Bryan in this campaign. Tie did'not purloin it from any one and I defy W' to prove it. Ho also charges that I, like all free coinage-advo-cates, assert, “that, a person that believes in the single standard is opposed to the use of silver.” We do not charge anything of the kind but do charge that you are not a true bimetallist and that is what you are trying to make people believe you to be when you say, “we are in favor of using all the silver that can be kept on a par with gold.” Ijook at your logic. You claim you are friendly to silver and yet in the very first step, you prefer a'single standard of gold then, when you did agree under the BlandAllison and Sherman “compromise law” to use silver what did you do to the silver dollar? First the law says, “the silver dollar is a full legal tender for all debts except (oh! except) when gold is otherwise* stipulated in the contract. Now I ask the reader as a candid man, is it a friendly act to silver to disgrace it at the start. If the goldites wish to use silver dollars on a par with gold honor ing both alike why do they not make silver dollars a full legal tender for all debts the-same as greenbacks and gold? They now limit the coinage but still leave the stigma on silver. Today if a farmer wished to borrow 61,0< ohe would have to make a gold contract. If sued and judgement rendered against him he could not pay it in silver dollars. Is ' that right?„of course it is. Then why do men equivocate on the question. If McKinley is elected the gold ring will be in power and they then can contract j whatpsilver and greenbacks we have. । Doesnot^Mr. W speak of the silver law. We now have as a compromise, com- i promise what? With whom? Why, when the free coinage men were lighting the hordes of Wall street in congress for free silver all they could get was a com- j promise grudgingly allowing about SSO--a year and when Cleveland was elected to^ force them to free silver he ; sold out to the Hanna class and favored the destruction of greenbacks. Is that true? Of^course it is. Again did he not with the help of John Sherman re • publicans repeal what little law we had to make silver? Is that not true? It is true, and today there is no law or in- । tention to have more silver coined. ' When any single standard man asserts I that McKinley men will increase silver circulations will they please say they favor making what silver we have equal to gold. Again Mr. W. says that free coinage men claim that the government issued bonds payable [in greenbacks and then changed the contract making them pay able in coin. I never said so and do not know of a single silver orator ever say ing so. Thejssueis a clean cut silver fight. Why drag in undisputed questions. We do know, however, that the single standard party did change the 1 law so we could not pay the bonds in silver or part silver. We do know that there is not a single bond but that by , the contract on its face is payable in । either metal. We do know that Secre- : tary Foster (republican treasurer) was 1 the first man to betray the people by f deciding in favor of IL° h na'ytya-fbn?-g m tA,rms while c our annuity t^the poor Indians is paid 1 in silver alone. In speaking of bonds he , quotes that grand old commoner Thad < Stevens as an advocate of bonds, when we all know Stevens was opposed to bonds and in favor of a full legal tender. Oh! what a breve fight he did make for them. Mr. W. wrongly interprets Steven’s speech. Why Thad Stevens would turn in his grave if he knew a single gold standard man was pandering his speech to the perverted tastes of the rich. In justice to that grand old war republican I beg to quote the balance of that speech delivered in February, 1872. Mr. W. knows full well that it is not in sympathy with his cause. Here is the balance of it: “I have a very few words to say. I ap-1 proach this subject with more depression of spirit than I ever before approached any question. No personal motive or feeling influences me. I have a melancholy foreboding that we are about to consummate a cunningly devised scheme, which will carry great injury and great loss to all classes of people throughout this Union, except one. With my colleague, 1 believe that no act of legislation of this government was ever hailed with so much delight throughout the whole length and breadth of this Union, by every class of people, without any exception, as this bill which we passed and sent to the senate-

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH ~C<^Hp~LNI>IANA. S.o’jjCilAY. OCTOBER 31, 1896.

Jugngmtulations from all classes mor Raders, manufacturers, me- ; clih ot’Skma IM’Kuiers poured upon us front elt qtim<ens. The Hoards of Trade from Boston, ' New York, Cincimiati, Louisville, St. Louis. Chicago and Mil ; waukee approved its provisions and j urged its pusaage as it was. I have a dispatch froth Thb Chamber of Com ■ merce of Cincinnati, sent to thesecretan , ' of the treasury, and In him to me, urg ' > ing the speedy passage of the bill as it , passed I«ic house. . jj gs j.rue there was a ■ doleful sound came^p -num the caverns ! I of bullion brokas^find from t|ivsol«>tW of J associated Isaaks. Their cashiers and ^he h r< ' lln d and per ' senate, with but little de - Tineration, to mangle and destroy what I it had cost the house months to digest, consider and pass. They foil upon the bill in hot haste, and so disfigured and deformed it that its very father would not know it. Instead of being a bene flcent and invigorating measure, it is now positively mischievous. It has all the bad qualities that its enemies charge on the original bill and none of ite bene fits. It now creates money and by its very terms declares it a depreciated currency. It makes two classes of . money one for the banks and brokers , and another for the people. It diserim inates between the rights of different classes of creditors, allowing the rich । capitalist to demand gold and eompell ing the ordinary lender of money on individual security to receive notes which the government had purposely dis red ited. But now comes the main clause. All classes of people shall takt these notes at par for every article of trade or contract, unless t hey have money enough to buy United States bonds; and then they shall be paid in gold. Who is that favored class? The banks and brokers and nobody else.” All hail! Thad Stevens! I bow to this message from the grave of patriotism. You live again! in a Teller, a 1 lubois. a Petigrew. The fight is still on and your dauntless words are the spirit of the fray. It is a fact d history that Thad ; Stevens shed teiirs in making that ’ speech when he told how thf Wall street । brokers flocked in the hails of rrmgtws j and with bribes assassinated the honor .of .KtiMriciiri < o-mt. -Mt. SAI qnC-t-’ * pdat.sties jit>t to suit ins own side and j thus weaken his argument. lie quotes ! “The silver output is 100 per rent wink gold is 30 per cent for 23 years " N -a I challenge Mr. W. on this point. 1 dare j him to prove by the whole table that he iis right. The truth is that taking the statistics it shows that for h*' year- ! from today (backwards that the pro duction of silver has not equalled that 'of gold 111 to 1. Again the table shows i that for the last few y ears that gold is vastly in excess of siber product! n l»> to I. He then quotes ancient and ling • lish history. How our goldites love Hug lish literature. No wonder it is fed to phem three square meals a day. Again. He says: “We now approach the crime of 1873.” Mark his peculiar expression. “We now approach.” How cautiously it I sounds. He approaches in solid column 'as if fearing an ambuscade. “We now approach.” Very well Mr. W.. have no fear, you are in the house of your friends. Permit me to introduce you to Mr. Bout well, Ex Sec'y U. S. treasury and chief I ■of the conspirators of 1873. Mr. Bout well, Mr. W. is a statistician and an historian seeking facts to disprove that there was a conspiracy in ‘73 to go to a single gold standard. Mr. Boutwell ■ cud Oct. 11, 189>, in a speech in Boston: “As a republican secretary in 1873 my i part in the preperation of the mint bill । was very considerable. The bill was the i । result in no small mearure of recom- j . mendations which I made to congress i aftef careful consideration of the ex I isting currency system when secretary |: of the treasury. The bill contained 71 ! ] sections one of which demonetized If 1 am asked the pertinent ’ question of why I sought to work a 1 change in the th am-ial system 1 will , answer that 1 had become to believe it was wise for all nations of the world to go to the gold standard.” Hold on, Mr. W., never mind ' about Macauley’s history. Here is an- I other friend of yours with contempor aneous history. Mr. W. shake hands ' with Mr. Ingersoll. Ingersoll spoke to the farmers of Illinois in 1891 and said exactly: “For my part I do not ask any interference on the part of the ’ government except to undo the wrong it j has done. Ido not ask that the money j be made out of nothing. I do not ask for the prosperity born of paper. But I do ask for the remonetization of silver. Silver was demonetized by fraud. It i was an imposition on every solvent man, I a fraud upon every honest debtor in the United States. It. assassinated labor. It was done in the interest of avarice and greed and should be undone by honest men.” Mr. W., hold on here is something ! Aristophanes says about money. Never ' I mind that, Mr. W., here is your friend ' ■ ’ J i i James G. Blaine: ■ JAMES G. BLAINE ON THE SILVER QUESTION. I Speaking in the house of representatives on Feb. 7, 1878. “I believe the i

struggle now going on in the Ehnunators town 3' and other countries lor a services 1, ! standard would, if successful,^™^ Ftonst 5.7. Gates l^^uoHirurrmyGohl. widespread disaster in and th^^K^ 7 p ln Busters 57, n , y the commercial world. The^^S^on's Pro Shop 4-k Bry-. jm, 4)IJ ~ u lion of silver as monev and td^Enractic I#, ChamberU- 707 7-1';: 47.6 35.8 lishment of gold as the soKWrvtce 210. <4 ' ta M 3 ' value must have a ruinous a^Ußkidual B*°* .’ l iii-' c 4c. 4 al! which v leal a iri- senes - p •liJWWal^Kt. HtKhi^Br li:lu -U Illi” from l-c- ' ■ I- ;, 1 ' -NW "1 ’ ’X'-' . ■ wheat w '.corn declined. 9 cents' twill and an ot ' 'I M VJOR charge unfairness and frau<^^^^^^^^B» oowGordens ralss] silver declin'd one demonetization act ami it ther^^^^^^^^B . Team , „ . „ *’hs cents per ounce and more of-now we approach live t O ■ .1 . 1 -”cuon *-I cents, corn 21 cents will tire the witnesses in biMHK&T Mk . , , ,u ■ X- I I • wta 10 cents. I might, if 1 had order. Oh! les we have his du a •, , • , „ , 3H-continue tins table until this year 1 statistics and "flowery language iMfr tteMW ;♦ ... ~111 .. . r . , • , > would be seen that farm pro ; truth is very eloquent and it wj er . ... > . .1 , ■ ’ s nuctuate according to the sutmlv •

pleasant to look U|M>n. Hr says: AVc thought that of ls,s restore the price It did not. then uv made anotlu*^* . silver bill in 1890 a^HEBB failed to keep up the price They did this ।compromise) in tidier so defeat free coinage else then have been no silver purchase*. Sp' mils that it raised the price of cl o*. l per ounce. Would not logic under free coinage raise 20 cents. <>f course it would. If Mr. W. was going to make wheat he would have to take^^M^H ivas ..tiered or he could not Inai: MM; fixed price desired, hence it isoHgtlb question of our ability to canH^ft amount of silver. The silver mw can dog and make a for our .-ilver. lien Harrison ' •’.gre :s tliat “our in 18t>2 uas not due t” th<- taritT^^|Kl friends <i um but was due to m,yur • of #j ‘ h Oh! We may inch history, Ui " ■ ‘ Tru.m-. Hr referred b'TnmTm kK’| 200 years ago who m idi Adiais acai clipped them and thieve^ boied hokf | in them and robbed th> -coins of a pat; , of their weight. Then they n-m’d ref j pass for as much when melted or weigh cd as would th<> new or heavier lanns.” \\ hat right had he to c mpare the edict of a 2t«» year old fraud with 7u,oi)o,lWiof American freemen ami tin ir silver shining bright Brian dollars. On my way to the editor's other I found the follow ing taken from a speech made by Wm, McKinley at Toledo February 12. Is'Jl, Speaking of President Cleveland Me Kinley said: “During all his years at the head of the government he was dishonoring one of oilr previous metals, one of our great products, discrediting silver and enhancing the price >f gold. Ho was determined to contract ’he circulating medium. Demonetize one of the coins of commerce and limit the volume of money among the pv ph-. Make money scarce and dear. Mi ney the master and everything else the servant." 1 will forfeit skill if ev»n qu-.’a , tion I have made is not true. Being I true how can we expect silver 1 rosyer in their hands. J. W. Am inMan. Editor Independent: Webster's unabridged du' ary da-. ( tines “demonetize" to deprii of i&tlcto withdraw from u-e as , z Fi-v “crime of’73" left every siivri foliar ! had in circulation a full legal all debts and to any amount, i'herm^re! I defy any democrat to show tb.at sdf® - was demonetized in 1873. But our democratic friends keep right oh , serting tict >t was. and in si.pportof their assertions qim w -^tracts from , speeelu < made oy prominent republicans ' and only garble such part- of the ' speeches as will help them to bolster up their waning cause. But if they should j quote (or print) the whole speech it j would in nine cases out of ten complete ' ly refute their whole argument. Sil ; ver was not demonetized in 1873. But ! as they will not give up. as they seem to ■ be of the opinion “that a lie well tQJd.d and stuck to, is as good as the tfj.th,"‘a and that the country was ruined by^Qj “crime of ’73,” we will admit for the^sakis- - argument that there was a “efi^^-; committed, and see how the countr/’feas; been ruined.” -7 They claim that the price of whe^t; and other farm products have al^avs^ been controlled by the price of silver and that these farm products have^dp^ clined just as silver has. Now let u^fee how well they are posted on this, and ; whether they tell the truth or not. cording to official figures taken from t^ie’ department of agriculture at Washington, D. C., the price of wheat, corn and oats, as per the average markets of the ; United States also the market price of

oui iuuvi Hl Hit! BUppO ! demand. Not as silver fluctuates . all. and as silver declined over two I • l >er °U> 3 ce in the past fib days and M|^Kit went up 21 emits per bushel dur - I^Mthe same time it has completely . Hfwed the “wheat argument.” will now turn to the I'. S. census f° r an ‘* 1890 and see how s^^Klold standard has “ruined the coun H J° s, Tl l county had 213 vlMftufai'turing establishments with 83, ^&877 capital and employed 3,990 ■w” 171,983; an Il average wages 8372.37. 1 1890 South Bend alone had 208 ufneturing establishments with 811, >B7 capital, employing 6.1*88 hands; I wag'-s 82.8 12 101; annual average BPH».s3. This shows that the : employed in South Bend is near 1/4 »ur tine's as much in 1890 as for the county in Ismi a!H j t| ia t there over .70 yer ee; t more labor employ ■■■•nd the wages men ased 2.3 per cent. I ci*, the same conditions in C’hi1 'Giannis lie. Fort Wayne and ? a 1 every mui>u t \M.Aurum city, but I Mromnl average wag.-> in 1-"*’ w;us 81T’>. I ; 11 «i>l m Is'*! F-vm 23, which i- an ad ‘v^fleeof, r,.|.-t!-.d We will t '.v see ab-ut this ountry I “going to ruin’ on ac - .unt of the debts, ' and i will quote from the I S. census ‘ report. The total national, slate, county j muiMcipal and school district debts of . thiscountn were in 18so 7,796,011; per capita ^>0.73: in ls’,M it w.u-i 170.7H0; per capita 832 37. Now this is not »o bad. to pay onethird of all the public debts m 1O years and mlmr the per capita nearly one half, while the country was “going to ruin.’. We will now see what th* census reports for ls9o have to sh< in reference : to “the dear mine owners who were ruined by -the crime of 15,3. In 1889 there were .’>6,131 people employed in mining gold and silver in the United States, of which 2.937 were foremen at e'4.16 per day. There were 32, <l7 mechanics and miners at 83 12 per j d^y, 20,955 laborers at 82.16 per day and j I 129 boys under 16 at 81.51 per day. ■ (T oy mined 899,28.3,732 worth of gold i j anosilvcr at a cost of 8*53 151.1 ”>6. This j rue 41 the value of bullion per dollar of, It xp fcce ?L56. That is. for every dollar ; ■ I?-* > ~idout. they received 81.56, and lie - rM'nse of the bullion in the dollar : w.^-J cents. Now laboring men. if you : v .tu d<■ ’Y”- dollar's worth of labor and CDNCVUDED ON ITFTH PAGE. 'Kl[-- 1 1 19 U L ATO^^ * The Favmiie Home Weiiy. k For all diseases caused by derangement the Liver, Kidneys, and Stomach. Keep it always in the house and you b .will save time and Doctor’s Bills, and ^piave at hand an active, harmless and pero fectly safe purgative, alterative and tonic. If you feel dull, debilitated, have frrquent u headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appe-L-r tite and tongue coated, you are suffering ’ i from torpid liver or biliousness, and SlMd MONS LIVER REGULATOR will cure you. st’ y° u have eaten anything hard to . y digest, or feel heavy after meals or sleep- ; less at night, a dose of SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR will relieve you and bring iT pleasant sleep. . i If at any time you feel your system j needs cleansing and regulating without violent purging, take SIMMONS LIVER ; Regulator. f J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. 4

Attention. I All people owing bills that have run sixty days must settle the same by Nov. 1, or they will find them in a collector’s hands. T. J. Wolfe. Farm for Sale. ' iu?>’ has 10 acres of land A. I). Johnson at Tyner City, Ind. Public Sale, Mrs. Elizabeth Rensberger will sell at public auction at her residence, four miles northeast of Walkerton, near the Cole schoolhouse, Thursday, Nov. 5, । commencing at 10 a. m„ a lot of personal property consisting of horses, cattle, farming implements, some tiling, etc. 1 etc. Ladies' calling cards latest styles in cards and type.

Began Business J OCT. 5,1875. OCT. 5,1896. OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. And I now Vote for a CASH BUSINESS in the FUTURE. I have aimed to m ‘commodate every person that I thought worthy of credit for 21 }<ars, and have lost several thousand dollars by doing so. Those I have favored . in the past 1 trust will now favor me by continuing to give me their trade,and.£ Will Save them from 10 to 50 Per Cent On Former Prices. , ttc ibn following redrrr’Ttnritrin prires and tli?“f‘.< Fee nt Inn Will Save ly Pan nil ARTICLES HERETOFORE SOLD AT: — - — | , 5 ets will be sold at 2 for 5 cents, saving 50 per cent 10“ Bor 2 for 15 “ “ 25 “ “ “ “ 20 “ “ at 50 45 “ “ 10 “ A 75 “ “ “ “ Ki “ “ 15 “ - “ • 1.00 “ 85 “ “ 15 “ k ■■ 1.50 “ “ “ 8 125 “ “ 17 “ k - 2.00 “ “ “ 1.70 “ “ 15 “ “ ■* 2.50 2.00 “ “ 20 “ 3.00 “ “ “ 2.50 “ “ 16 “ * US 1.00 “ “ “ 3.40 “ “ 15 “ * - 5.00 “ “ " 4.00 “ “ 20 “ 6.00 4.80 “ “ 20 “ *■ O7.50 “ - “ 6.00 “ “ 20 “ « 10.00 8.00 “ “ 20 “ “ 12.50 “ “ “ 10.00 “ “ 20 “ - 13 50 “ “ “ 11.50 “ “ 15 “ “ 15.00 “ •• •• 12.50 “ “ 16 “ “ 16.50 to 18.00 “ “ 15.00 3This will t ake the best ()VERCOAT in the Market or best Heavy Weightported Worsted Suit only 815. which you will pay 820 to 830 for in cities. C< ene and see us, and bring your cash along, and buy goods at the lowest pnte# you have ever seen them sold. T. J. WOLFE, o^& T ^.t r . Rensbsrger Block. ——= —=« . ROSS, JARRELL * CB. Hard Coal HEATERS. I WOOD HEATERS, .Oil Cloth Rugs, Air Tight Heaters, W ag*ons, Buggies.

NUMBER 15,

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