Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 April 1896 — Page 2

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Cfye3nbcpenbcnt &I13IXlC3IrV At SMITH, Publisher and Prop retort ED PARDÄIDGE DEAD. WORK OF CONGRESS. GREAT SPECULATOR BREATHES HIS LAST. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.

THE LAW IS A FAßCE.

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK A DAY OF WILD DEBAUCHERY. Hundreds of Saloons Hastily Equipped as Hotels Healthy Improvement in Commercial Circles Linton Not in the Kacc for President. Ignore the Kaincs Law. There was more liquor sold in New York Sunday than on any previous Sunday in many years. There was more drunkenness seen upon the streets, inure depravity and nmre dens of vice wide open than the city knew almost in the worst days of proteeted vieiousuess. Three hundred saloons, which had Ih-oii transferred into so-called hotels during the last week, were wide open all lay and night. The proprietors gloated in the evasion of the law and greeted every one with joyous expression. Scenes of drunkenness almost universal on the East Side could have leen r.itncsed in isolated spots all over the city where the subterfuge protection of a hotel license permitted beer to How freely over the little saving sandwich that is called a meal. The kitchens of the hotel saloons had no stoves, no chefs, no larders. Thin board partitions had been pet up to make cubby holes called rooms ami beds were thrown in, but no one slept in them. This is n fair" sample of all oT New York's hotel licensed saloons. In Brooklyn there was also the usual amount of drunkenness. Hotel saloons are not numerous in that city and saloon screens were drawn away from the windows, showing empty interiors. But the thirsty knew where and how to obtain their beer. To Make Postage Slumps Sweeter. Senator Cullom's attack on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the proposition to have the postage stamps made by contract once more, seem to have touched a popular chord. letters have been received by many of the Senators from widely separated sections of the country declaring the "stickum" on the hack of the postage stamps was of tinniest villainous taste, and that the stamps would often decline to adhere to the letters until they were treated from private mucilage pots. In Senator Cnl'ioin's mail was a letter from the ollice force of the J. W. Barry company of Chicago, in which the suggestion is made that in the next supply of stamps prepared for the Government, the "stickum," as almost all the letters call it, should he sweetly flavored with sassafras or strawberry or violet or wintergreeii, or some other congenial flavor, so the pretty typewriter girls to whose lot this duty generally falls should no longer rebel against putting on stamps, but welcome the job as a positive treat. Slight Ouin in Trade. K. G. Dim & Co.'s Weekly Keview of Trade says: "The sudden change from sleighing to midsummer heat, with fair skies in most cities, has tested the prevalent idea that good weather only was needed to bring general improvement of business. Everywhere there has been more retail buying, and in some branches better demand at wholesale and at the works has resulted, but not as yet in most lines. There is no abatement of the almost universal disposition to deal with unusual conservatism, and not to anticipate future wants, and this has been especially conspicuous wln-re combinations have been formed or prices advanced. The comparative infrocjuency of serious failures, with money less disturbed since ffokl exports began than might have been expected, helps to give encouragement, but does not kindle speculative lires. Such improvement as appears is mainly of a healthy sort." Linton Not a Candidate. Congressman W. S. Linton, of Michigan, who has been urged by certain of the A. P. A. leaders as a possible candidate for President, says he is not now, and never has been, u candidate for the honor of nomination, lie says the use of his name in connection with the ltepublican nomination for President is unauthorized, and that it will not I presented to the St. Louis convention with his consent, and that he will not be a candidate on an independent A. P. A. ticket. Mr. Linton is a candidate for rcnomination to Congress and is fixing up his fences in that direction. NEWS NUGGETS. J. D. Buxton, cashier at the Minneapolis jtostoHice, is said to le short in his accounts about $L000. He is a nephew of President Buxton of the City Bank. lie refuses to say where the money went to. At Niehart, Mont., seven men were instantly killed, six seriously wounded and several others badly bruised and cut by an explosion early Saturday morning of the magazine in the Broadwater mine used for thawing powder. London dispatch: (Jen. Booth has cabled to the Salvation army headquarters at New York instructing the officials in charge there to publish the letters in their possession in regard to the charges made by Ballington Booth against the general and his administration. The London Glol, discussing the effect of the election policy of the Spanish premier, Senor fa novas del Castillo, says that either Cuba must be allowed to follow the example of the South American republics or the motherland must grant a generous measure of autonomy. Two firemen were crushed to death and several others seriously injured as the result of a lire which destroyed the old leiot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Thirty-second and Market streets, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, and entailed a loss of about $"oo,ooo. Herr Brand, the architect of the late King Ludwig of Bavaria, has died, leaving many millions. King Ludwig, the mad king of Havana, had building as v eil as Wagner on the brain. He spent large sums in raising castles, palaces and villas, and when he died left an enormous debt that has not yet been paid off, the result of his indulgence to this weakness. The German Government intends to ask of the Iteichstag large credits for quickfiring field cannon almost immediately. A member of the general staff says France' recent move in that direction has long Leen anticipated

THE "FLOOD OF CHEAP SILVER.' One of rhe most deceptive, and :vt the Fame time most ridiculous contentions which silver men have to meet i.s the one that under free coinage the country would be "flooded with cheap silver, ' and consequently ruined. Truly the exigencies of the gold people must be very great when, in order to defend their new system, they are forced to paint terrifying pictures of a mighty nation in ruins because of too much silver money. Here we are with a money standard under which the producer is obliged to sell twice as much of lite product ns formerly In order to get a dollar -with which to pay taxes and debts. Instead of fretting the dollar with one bushel of wheat, two busihels are required. The gold champion deli Innately attempts to make him 1 relievo that if wheat should again rise to $1 per bushel he would le ruined, and the most amazing thins about it i.s that some farmers have been made to so believe.

Uncle Sam -(i rover, you're m&tes nu3 dizzy; why don't you use both oars and go straight ahead 'i From the Xalional Himetallist.

Low prices- have been 0.C2 burden of their complaint for S.vsnty years, and yet, whenever Co.? free coinage of silver is meutioooi, they are coolly assured th.v iVher prices would puIjeet to untold calamities. And that t all that cheap money meanshigher prices, "('heap numey" and "cheap goods" at the same- time are an impossible combination. If money is "cheap," it means that it will buy less poods. If goods are "cheap," it means that they will bring less money. The id(a of the money and the goods that are to be exchanged for each other In nth being cheap is an absurd as the Idea of two men being stronger than each other, or weaker than each other. If a Hood of silver f.hotild come, and it should be "cheap," then prices would rise just in proportion to its cheapness and a rise of prices is what every producer is longing and praying for. Hut would there bo a Hood? If so, where would It oomo from? According to the mint report for ISO.", the total amount of silver coin in the world is $ 4,070.500,000. The iNpulation of the United States is estimated at 70,400.000. Therefore, if all the silver coin in the world were to lo "dumped" into the United States we would have a little less than $."S per bond. It does seem as if we might manage to stagger along even under that load. If some people s'hotild 'happen to think that $5S in silver -were too much for thorn, there i.s no doubt that others would be willing to take a little more, and thus patrioically avert the ruin" of t.lir country. Hut let us consider a little farther. How much of this silver would be likely to conn here? In his testimony before the Coinage rommWee in 1S!U, Mr. Frederic!; Fraley, -the father of Pent Ludmilla liuaaee and president of the National Hoard of Trade, although a gold man, admitted frankly that foreign silver op would riot comeiere bnuse no nation had any more than it needed. See pare 171 ot testimony. lie wa.s undoubtedly right. Of the total silver coinage, $(;n,::N,0' is In ubtfidiary coin strucfc at ratios rang-

ing from 1 to lil.'JO in Russia up to 1 to 1Ö.G8 in Egypt. That is to say. rL'iit where It is worth from $1 Ö- to :1.''. n gold per ounce. Aside from the fact that it is all needed for small change where it is, it would he monumental stupidity for the owners of u to melt it down and send it to the American mint to be coined at a loss of from to 30 ier vent. The full legal tender silver oiitsid the United States amounts to $2j&ti(XKUXio. Of this. Str0.(MHt.oon j.s n India, $7ro.noo,ooo in China, $llö,ooo,(h.m"i in the Straits Settlements, and $'$.- OOo.ooQ in Japan, making $l.je,,imotOoo in those countries. Not a dollar of that silver is likely to ever lind its way to the United States. Those countries contain nearly Soo.ooo,00O of iH-oplo, and they only have about $2.. in silver for each person, and no gold money at all. The full tender silver -o:n of Europe may be placed at about $l.ooo.o.0.oo'. and the Twquihition at nearly 400.000.(XiO. So that continent also lias n!vit $-.."0 per head in full tender silver. It

SWINGING 'ROUND THE CIRCLE. is coined at the rate of Ltl'L lcr ounce, and Is at par witJi gold. To recoin it at the American mint at If J to 1, i. e., $1.12) per ounce, would involve a hrss of J per cent., amounting to nlMUit SoO.fMMM.HHi in the aggregate. And after sustaining this loss of $30,nnmXn) the Frenchman, tJie Italian and the Itelgian would find himself in Mssession of American silver dollars which he could not use except in America. The idea of European nations doing such a thing is too preiosterous for serious consideration. .Silver In the form of ware is worth more than its weight in coin. Hence it would not be melted down. Under free coinage the bullion, as it comes from tlie niiiu-s, is all that we would have to deal with. In 1S01 the total product of silver bullion is placed by the mint director at lf;7,7."2,r;i line ounces. The coinages of the different countries for that year are given at S7.472,."2J ounces, and the amount used In the arts at 2-V 7fU,(14 ounces, leaving .Vj,4KVl-i ounces unaccounted for. As it is imiossible 1o locate half that amount, it Is probable that the estimates of coinage end usj in the nrts are considerably too low. Hut, as an outside figure, it would only leave GOfHUHio ounces to be absorbed and used by the United States. I low such an amount thrown Into our currency could iossibly Hood the country that is. do it any harm, gold standardists have never attempted to explain. Until they do. It Is scarcely worth while to waste much time upon it. National Ilimotallist. One Dollar an (iood us livery Other We are constantly told that "one dollar 111 ust 1m a- g m m1 cis every other dollar," sind it is juvt as constantly assumed that under free coinage this would not be. Whether the parity of gold and silver at the ratio of Hi to 1 would In restored by free coinage, can only be proved by 4rying it. The argument, lrased uion the world's ist experience, is ail in favor of the view that it would, but ft (tin bo deinionstraNd in 110 other way than by actual trial.

The silver men challenge fhrvr opponents to t-ha't trial, and in this they fland uion the firmer ground. Of cours if the :ioteani Ik not made, the p'.dite Is Iwny.s in a KsitUn to declare that it would fail, if tried. That, however, is "prophesy" and not argument. Put whether free coinage ivsXored th" parity of Hie imitals or not. the dollars in general circulation would necessarily be of the same value otherwise r.hey would nut circulate toget'liei. So long us there is a mixed "circulation" the "dollars" will necessarily be of the same value. As soon us dollars of one kind rise they wrll retire from general circulation, and only be used for special purioses ami at specially agreed ru.tt s. In this statement wild cat bank notes, such as existed liefere the war, are not considered. They are not legul tender and nolxuly is obliged to take them. Legal tender money alone is rcferrd to. The impression is sought to be convoyed that under free coinage the re-h man -would have all the precious gold, while the ioor man would le paid in "cheap silver." Then why do nnt the rich men generally champion free silver? Those people are looking very carefully, as a rule, to their own interests. They -always favor the lhunicial policy which they think will lienolit them. And yet we find them very solidly arrayed against the restoration of silver. Why? Simply liocause they thin'; the gold standard is their advantage.

They cire not losing any sleep over tin" fortunes of the man who runs a wheelbarrow, or who works in factory or mine. Some of them, the money lenders and annuitants, are benefited by the appreiatioii of money. Others are injured by the depreciation of their property. Hut so far as 'business is concerned it will always be done on the basis of the mon.'y, in actual circulation. Contracts will be made with reference to it eas in Kivenb-ack days) and the rich man's dollar will be no better than the poar man's dollar. This cry of "one dollar tis good as every other dollar" is simply a blinding of the issue. Uniformiity of value in dollars is very desirable, but it is not by any moans conclusive of the excellence of a monetary system. They may none of t3iem be good. If all were counterfeits, one would süäl Im "as gMd as every other." If dollars lecame so scarce and dear that one would buy as much as a hundred will now, one would Ik just as gKd as every other birt they would all be "bad dollars" together. Tin supreme excellence in money Is stability of value; that is, "purchasing lMvor." The money which preserves a stable range of prices is "honest money," "sound money," and the "liest money in the world." Measured by that test gold is "dishonest" money by nearly 1 K per cent, appreciation, diminishing, or destroying entirely, the profit of the producer, doubling the burden of the debtor, and tilling the world with misery. A gentleman who recently arrived in Denver from New York said: "Colorado mines are the fashion just now. My personal Interests would naturally lead me to attempt to advance the Interests of Montana mines, but there is no use now of talking about anything outside of Colorado. Colorado properties have the call and will continue to attract the dollars of investors and speculators for some time to come. I regard the present excitement as much more legitimate than the excitement at the time of the Leadrille boom."'

One of the Most Noted Men In Chica-UO-Alvrays on the Hear Side Chili Itcfuscs Reparation to Sailors Shields und Mclvinatry.

Famous Chicanoan Dead. Edwin I'ard ridge, prominent fur years as a heavy bear trader on 'Change at Chicnt'o. died Friday of llriht's disease. Dissolution was not unexpected and the dying man was surrounded by members of his household. For several weeks he had beeiKsutTering from this malady. (Jenera! complications set in and terminated fatally. Deceased was about (ill years old and was reputed to possess a considerable fortune. It has been many times said of Edwin I'ard ridge that had he been the only member of the Hoard of Trade to remain upon the bear side, he would have steadfastly refused to join the bulls and would have gone down in the last ditch before he would admit the possibility of a rise in prices. I'ardridge thirty years api was one of the leading dry goods merchants in the city. He was one of the first prominent merchants in that line to Pee the coining greatness of State street as a thoroughfare, and settled his business at a iM.int now about opposite Marshall Field .Jc Co.'s store. Thrown Out of Chilian Court. After five years the cfciims of Patrick Shields and Andrew McKinstry against the Chilian Government for injuries received from assaults of a Chilian mob at Santiago have finally been thrown out of all the courts and commissions. Shields and McKinstry were sailors on the Keewanah, that entered Santiago harbor a week after the Baltimore sailors were so roughly handled by the mobs in that city in lSl'l. They preferred claims against the Government of Chili, Shields for $100.000 and McKinstry for S'Jo. K H 1. President Harrison made these two claims a very important part of one of his messages to Congress in 1V.2. In this he said that though the men were foreign subjects, they were sailing under the protection of the American llag and should receive the same projection as American citizens. F. Allyn Orr, of Oakland. Cal., attorney for Shields and McKinstry. brought the matter before the Itritish Parliament, and it was finally referred to a 1'ritish claim commission. As a result of the investigation of this commission Mr. Orr has received a letter informing him that the Chilian Government has refused to pay the claims. Colonel Lloyd Wina a Victory. A telegram to the Itritish war otlice in Cairo states that Col. Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Suakim. The khedive went to the railway station to witness the departure for the front of 1ÖO men of horse artillery, with six guns, and his cousin. Prince Aziz, in charge of seventy cavalry remounts. The Egyptian troops displayed unusual enthusiasm. 1 he sirdar's brother. Major Kitchener, has been ten days waiting for an appointment. It is said that this delay is owing to the sirdar's unpopularity in high quarters. Lieut. Fniiuhar, of the lioya! Artillery, is thought to Ik dying from injuries received from a fall at polo. BREVITIES. Nikola Tcsla has by means of X rays seen through the boiiies, bones and all. of throe of his asistants. placed in a line. (J old bonds of the Provisional Kepublie of Cuba to the amount of $J.O00,hO are to le placed on the American market. They are to draw ( per cent interest, and are made payable ten years after the Spaniards evacuate the iland. The Itritish budget, which was presented to the House of Commons Thursday, gives the surplus for 1NOÖ-I as 4.JIO.OOO. The estimate of expenditures for the current year is loo.047.ooo anj lhe calculated revenue, 101,700.000. A Koine dispatch says: The papal nuncio at Madrid has been instructed to propose the mediation of the pope in order to bring about a settlement of the troubles In Cuba or to urge upon Spain the acceptance of President Cleveland's reported offer of mediation. Hev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of All Souls" piurch, Chicago, has announced that bicyclists will be welcome at the services conducted by him next Sunday, and that their wheels will be taken care of free of charge. Knickerbockers and bloomers will not be barred. At the Maine Republican convention for the nomination of delegates to the national convention at St. Louis the enthusiasm was centered about the name of Thomas 1J. Keed, the unanimous choice of the convention 11s candidate for President of the United States. The London Exchange Telegraph Company says it is rumored that Iluluwayo has been captured by the Mat a holes. The news is not continued from other sources. A dispatch from Aldershut says the Middlesex Uegiment has Im-cu ordered to start immediately for South Africa. Considerable anxiety. is felt regarding the South African situation, and the Government is openly blamed for its inaction. An ice jam in the Uideau river. Ontario, has backed up its waters to such an extent that for miles around farm lands are deeply submerged and it is feared much live stock will Ik lost. The Prescott and Ottawa branch of the Canadian Pacific Uailway is for some three or four miles covered with w ater. To protect the trains going through gangs of men are at work keeping the railway track free from drift wood. Senator Allen proposes to make all veterans of the Mexican war and the relK-I-lion eligible to appointment as brevet colonels in the regular army. Five hundred Italian immigrants, held at Ellis Island, New York harbor, for deportation, made a break for freedom, ami were only restrained by the revolvers in the hands of their guards. Major George A. Annes, IT. S. A., retired, who achieved notoriety last May on account uf his arrest for trouble with Lieut. (Jen. Schoficld, is being sued by his wife for divorce 011 the ground of ill temper and cruelty. Sydney Drew, the actor, tried coasting on a bicycle at Philadelphia and is now in a hospital nursing his bruises. An immense landslide has occurred at Trubb, Switzerland. Many farms have been devastated, whole woods have been carried oft and the loss is said to be very great

A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Le;jilatve Chambers at "Washington Matters that Concern the People,

Lawmakers at Labor After two days' debate the House Sat nrday by a vote of 100 to 5S passed the Grosvenor "nlled-chccse bill. Practically the only amendment adopted was onereducing the tax on retail dealers from $40 to The bill requires the manu facturers of filled cheese to pay a tax of $400 annually, the wholesale dealers $liö and the retail dealers $1, and for failure to pay such tax imposed upon manufacturers a line of from $4o to $3.O00, upoa wholesale dealers from ?."! t. $1.000 and uion retail dealers from $40 to $000. It also requires the bran-ling of "filled cheese" and its sale only from original packages. The "George" hill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy was reported to the Senate Monday from the Judiciary Committee. The most important amendment made by the committee was that providing that whore any debtor who, being a banker, broker, merchant, trader 01 manufacturer owing $öih makes an assignment or conveyance of his property, or gives any lien or incumbrance thereon,, contrived or devised with the actual intent on his part to defraud his creditors, Fucli act shall be deemed bankruptcy. The measure provides for voluntary bankruptcy. At the same time Mr. Mitchell, ol Oregon, submitted the view of the minority of the committee in the shape ot the measure agreed on by the House Committee on Judiciary with some modifications. The latter provides for voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy. The proposition to secure the passage of a bill providing for an additional I'nited States" district judge in the northern district ot Illinois conies too late to accomplish anything during the present session. A pronounced sentiment exists in the House against creating any new judgeship?. The house Tuesday passed without amendment the fortification appropriatior. bill carrying appropriations and authorizations involving a n expenditure ef $11,UM.b'l.'J. The appropriations for fortifications since the Endicott commission in IS-Sli reported its p.'an for the defense of twenty-seven seaports, at an approximate cost of $lm.mo.oio. have averaged something over $2.0(h.(m.ki annually. It w:-.!--made apparent after a lively colloquy in the Senate that there was no disposition among the silver and populist SeiiaTs to allow the resolution for a Senate inquiry into recent bond iss-ies to laps;. Mr. Squire (Kep., Wash.) made an elaborate presentation of the pressing need of coast defenses, pointing out the defenseless condition of our great sea-coast ha rl ors. In the House Wednesday Mr. Hull,, chairman of the ( 'oinniit :ee o;i Military Affairs, called up the resolution for the reappointment of William It. Franklin, of Connecticut. Thomas. I. Henderson of Illinois. George L. Iteale of Maine and Geo. W. Steele of Indiana a members of the Ibard of Managers of the national soldiers' homes. Mr. Hhie made a sensational speech against Gen. Franklin, charging him and Col. Smith (for whom he said (Jen. Franklin was responsible) with cruel and brutal treatment of the inuates of the home at Leavenworth. Kan. He moved to substitute the name of Gen. O. O. Howard for that of Gen. Franklin. Mr. 1'lue said his purpose was to free the Leavenworth home from the drunken and brutal man now at its head. Mr. Itlue read a telegram from E. .1. Anderson and others urging him to light Gen. Franklin's, reappointment and telling him that ,- (mo soldiers in Kansas were behind him. He claimed that Gov. Smith maintained the biggest saloon in Kansas under the shadow of tin- llag the soldiers fought to save. Last year, he said, the profits of the bcr hall alone were $1."..mio. Mr. Hiue also read an affidavit charging that a contract existing whereby the Kocley cure was given to inmates fr $('. whileoutsiders were charged "Has not t heboard made an investigation of Gov.. Smith's administration V" asked Mr. Hull. "Any investigation made by the Hoard of Managers." replied Mr. Hluo. "is a roaring farce." With the understanding that a vote should be had Thursday, the I louseadjourned. The Senate ratified the P.ering sea arbitration treaty. The treaty provides for a commission to arbitrate the claims made by citizens of England against the I'nited States for seizures of vessels engaged in the capture of fur seals prior to the Paris award. Mr. I'luo's light against the reappointment of G-n. William It. Franklin as a member of the Hoard of Managers of the National Home tor Disabled Volunteers, which was the feature of the proceedings in the House Wednesday, terminated unsuccessfully Thursday, when his amendment to substitute the name of ( len. (). O. Howard for that of Gen. Franklin was rejected, 140 to OL Several minor bills were passed. The speaker announced the appointment of Mr. Cobb (Hem.), of Alabama, on the Ways and Means Committee in place of Mr. Tarsney. who was unseated; Mr. Aldrich (Hep.), of Illinois, on Hanking and Currency, and Mr. Van Horn (Kep.L of Missouri, on LaUtr. Debate of the resolution for an investigation of recent bond issues consumed the time -of the Senate. The Senate continued debate of thj bond bill Friday, and incidentally Mr. Allen called Mr. Gear a liar. He was . compelled to subside, and his words were "taken down." The in t result of live hours' work on the private calendar in the House was the passage of four jH-n-sion bills, one to pension the widow of Hear Admiral Foote at $."o a month: the rejection of a bill to retire a hospital steward as a second lieutenant of cavalry and the passage of a war claim less than $010. The latter was th.- first war claim brought iK'fore the House for consideration and naturally provoked a general debate en the policy of paying war claims. The Land of the Hoctk. Cold was discovered there in lSSrt. Country has been enjoying its independence since 1SÖ2. In ISN I a Convention at London recognized the republic. Two-thirds of the Christians belong to the Hutch Reformed Church. There are about L'0,000 farms, wheat . and tokaceo beiug the chief crops. The largest town is Johannesburg, with a population of 15,000. Pretoria has 5,000.