Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1878 — Page 5

VOORHEES

Continue! from Fourth Paga.J

treasury? Will specie resumption be reached witnin the present year by leveling up the amount of gold in our possession or bv leveling down the amount of currency in circulation? No one claims that foreign nation* will supply our v/ant of gold.

On the contrary, nearly all the produce of our mines EO^S to them to pay interest on public securities hild abroad. But even if this government could turn the entire gold yield of every American mine into the treasury between this and the ist day of January. 1879, the supplv would fall far short of a specie basis for onetenth part ot our present circulation. During the year ju*t closed, 1877, the gold coinage of our mints reached only the sum of $44,078,199. The bulk ot this sum went abioad, a portion of it hoarded hy private parties, and a t-mall fraction, perhaps, found its way into the coffers of the government An examination ofth.2 report of the direc'or of the mint for 877, shows that the entire coinage of gold in the United States

from

two thOu»"

the establishment

of the mint in 1793 10 the present time amounts to but $903,1591695. This is the slow and comparatively small production of gold money in the long space of eightyfour years, nearly the whote life-tiine of the American republic less than i,ooo,000,000: less than enough to pay for ope single crop ot agricultural products in the western states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska an'i less than one-half enough to pay the national debt as its exists today. Is there no lesson of wisdom in these figures for the statesmen of these times? They are the experience of almost a centtrv. Do they encourage any reasonable being to believe that gold enough can be obtained by this government in the next twelve months to redeem its currency and to enable its citizens to do business on a specie basis? Is there anywhere in America or in the whole universe a new fountain of gold, pouring forth increased volumes, from whicn our parched and scanty resources may be replenished?

The very reverse is the fact. Old fountains are drying up their streams are diminishing no wizard's tod can smite the earth and indicate where new supplies will break forth. But the requirements of the government for gold constitute but a small portion of the demand. The American people at this time are enormoasly in debt more than any other people beneath the sun. Their state and municipal debts of all kinds, and their privali debts to each other have been variously estimated at from 6ix to ten thousand milium dollars. Every dollar of vhii vast indebtedness will call Jot gold coin atter the fir*t day ofjanuary, 1879. Where are the people to obtain sufficient gold with which to pay their debts and transact their business? The question is? one that will terrify every man who owes his neighbor anything, for there is not noVr, and never has been at any one time, enough* gold in circulation as money on the face of the whoie earth to meet this demand. If therefore specie payments are in reality to be resumed in January, 1S79, the government has yet to destroy at least twothirds of its"present paper circulation, and the people on this reduced basit, and under the gold standard alone, will be compelled to meet their debts and their taxes which have undergone no diminution.

Sir,he re the bad faith of this government towards the great mass of its citizens culminates To a people in debt the destruction of their money is the virtual increase of their indebtedness to the extent of the money destroyed. If a man makes a contract to pay one hundred dollars on a given day, and has just that sum of money in his posessijn at the date of the contract, he is doing business securely. If, however, fifty dollars are taken from him by force, and he is left to meet his contract on one half the amount needed, his bankruptcy necessarily follows. The American people were supplied with one amount of currency on which to contract debts, both public and privaie, and they are now to have another, and far smaller amount, with which to pav them. They entered into all thiir existingobligations with comparatively plenty of money in their hands. By the laws of this government now they are first to be deprived ot onehalf thefr money, and

then

required to

pay every obligation in v® lional debt was contracted on

^8is

inflation, and is to be paid on the narrowest basis of the most merciless contia'tion. A thousand dollar bond for only $600 in gold was reali*» government,in its distw of its issue, h»' vat

um'

now to be

paid

'fo*

two tnou*

by the v.hr

wi,h over

id dollnrs in goid

tax payers. The f.irn»»r

bought land with deferred payments the mechanic who purchased a house and lot and made a mortgage for the balance of the purchase money the business men who use their credit as a pa» of their capital, have all found the weight of their obligations largely increased by being deprived ot the means of meeting them. They must be met, however, and property itself, in the Vabsence of money, changes hands from the debtor to the creditor classes in payment of debts. It changes hands, too, at such reduced values that the business man is sold out and closed up, and homes are swept away, often for the want of a very small su.n of money.

the suicides which these figures represented. If the policy of this government has been to inflict the greatest misery on the greatest number its success has been complete. It is in vain to attribute such wide-spread disasters to other causes. We sometimes hear them ascribed to what is vaguelv styled overproduction. I would gladly know what is meant by this oracular term. Overproduction What is that we overproduce Is there too much fod, clothing, and other necessities of life? Has the soil yielded too much wheat, corn, hay, cotton, sugar, rice? The producer is the one who creates wealth, and overproduction would therefore signify too great an amount of wealth. It will be hard to convince a sane mind that an overflow of wealth is tUe cause of depression and irlom, of financial calamities and rapidly increasing poverty, and of laborers praying, and praving in vain for the privilege, once afforded to slaves, of working for 'he bare means of subsistence. The mission of wealth produced by toil from the boso ef the earth is far different from this. Unless deprived of its natural functions by pernicious laws it brings abundant happiness to a people and establishes smili ig content in their midst.

But the cause most commonly assigned by the authors of our financial policy for its baleful effects on the business and labor of thp country is that the currency has be'en and is yet in an inflated condition, and that the real prosperity can only be attained by its reduction to the gold basis. The evils of inflition have been painted in the darkest colors fjr years pas'., and on all occasions. I am not an inflationist in any sense that would disturb the true interest of trade and commerce, nor would it ever be neceasary to discuss the question at all, if he contractionist had only been willing to let the volume of our currency remain at th point where the country prospered most and the people were happiest. A co nparison uetween the periods when our paper circulation was greatest and the years of contraction which have followed, is crushing to the advocates of the latter policy. During the whole four years of 1863, 1804. 1865, and 1866, when the volume of our curreney ave-aged orer a thousand millions, the business failures of the entire country reachcd only twenty-one hundred and 6ixty-seven less in number than occurred in any three months of the year just closed. Is this an argument against a full and generous circulation ot money? During the period which is now stigmatized as one ot" inflation the windows of business houses were not darkened, and business men did not go as mourners about the streets. The laborer did not go home without bread to his wife and children. Helpless millions did not cower and tremble at the approach of winter for the lack of food and shelter. The publ peace was not broken by riots in resistance to starvation wages. The courts were not principally occupied in enforcing collections, foreclosing mortgages, ordering sheriff 6ales, or in punishing the destitute and the outcast. These are some things which did not taka place. Others that did are equally striking. Good wages and good prices stimulated every laboring man's muscle, every business man's brain, and every power of machinery into the highest activity. Hope and encouragement were in every heart. New 'farms were bought and cultivated new workshops were opened new manufactories were established new towns and cities were founded, and old ones expanded and improved new railroads were built, giving employment to millions and bringing the remotest and most obscure regions into immediate contact with trade and civilization new mines of iron, coal, and silver were sank into the earth, whose contents in return assisted in the glad work of a universal, individu al, and national prosperity. Am I to be re minded that this well-known condiiion of general welfare smd then happiness was a delusion, that it was unreal and could not last? Why wash a delusion? Were not its comforts and blessings a reality to the American people? But whv did it not last? But one answer can be given: The money power determined it should not last. The Garden of Eden before the fall was not more hateful in the eyes of Satan than was this picture of plenty and prosperity to those whose gains and profits depended on the scarcity of money in the hands of the people, and consequent hard times. Th gan their work of spoliation ,„y betaey have haunted thes- 1866, and thundered at these «,atfs they have fied ihemselve1" they have fonigovernmer' the high places of thh persuarr whether bv deceitful ,« "'f?' ^'"f-il speech, or open menace bl'iirht 'lave

n«tceased

Tne people thus far have borne their wrongs in tne forbearing hop* that they would cease, and if now they rise at last and see to it that their rights are better respected, it is becauS3 the full measure of their patience is exhausted When theirtprostriti and suffering cond.tioa, however, is forced on the unwilling tecognition of the money power, we are ten met with the impatient argument that it is not for the government to make money for the people, I might content myself with answering that it is certainly not tor the government to destro/ money ior the people. Those who deny the right of the government to regulate the amount ot money in circulation overlook the fact that they have bsea dictaing that very policy tj be pursued for themselves only that "they have always caused it to be regulated downward instead of upward. But what is the dutv of tie government in this regard? Is it true that the people are not dependent on the policy ot their government fjr money on which to do business

Since the act demonetizing silver, supplemented as it has been by the act for a forced resumption ot specie payments, the property of tne people of the United States has shrunk not less than 35 per cent. »n value. What could ba sold for $100 five years ago cjn be bought now for $65 on an average all over the country. Tnis is a criminal confiscation of property amounting to not less in value than $10,000,000,000 when the estimate is applied to every state and section alike. In this vast shrmkageof all values, arising lro.n the shrinkage of money in circulation, is to ha iouud the immediate cause of th.it general bankruptcy and ruin which now fill the land with the sound»of falling business houses, commercial failures, broken savings banks, and the lainenta tionsof the poor who have been robbed of their iia earnings and of the o^portuni ty to earn more. Under the influence of tbis poiicv nearly f.rty thousand business failures h-ive taken place in this country si .ee February, 1872, with lia bilities amounting in tUe aggregate to over $1,000,000,000. The heart sickens in thinking for a moment of the sorrows, the broken-hearis, ttie shattered hopes, ©f wrong and injustice. Money the

It is true, as often asserted, that in some way or other those w.10 are willing to work, or have something to sell, can always obtain money regardless ot all financial legislation? Na greater fallac/ than this was ever put forward in defense

TtfK TtiRKE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE

creature of government both as to quality and quantity. It exists merely by the assertion of law. and in no other way. Article 1, section 8 of the constitution of the United States provides that the congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of eights and measures" and section to of the «aina article denies all such powers to tiie states, thus making congress the exclusive creator of money fo the Americjn people. Without the ac tion congress not one dollar can e*Ut in the United States. If the article called money, whether of gold, silver or paper, is necess^ary at all in the tran actions of He Here alone is the fountain from which it emanates. How then shall this high power be exercised? Shall 0:1 ly enough lawful money be created, in proportion to the labor and other co nmodities whicn is designed to pay for. to give ten cents a day to the laborer, and $10 for a horse, or shall it be furnished in sufficient amount to afford a just equivalent for labor and Tor every other thing of value? On the answer to this question has depended the prosperity or the adversity of the American people in all the past on it their present deplorable con dition can alone be explained, and their future fate foretold. A circulating medium being a recognized necessity of civilized nations, and its existence depending solely on national authority, that government which, for any reason, fails to make a supply adequate to the business prosperity of its citizens, violates that fundamental compact of duty which must prevail in every free political commonwealth.

Not only, however, has this government failed in this great dutv, but the manner it has adoptrd to furnish the people with their limited and insufficient supply of currency was conceived and perfected by the o-v.iers of retired capi tal. The svstem of national banking now in use is the most elaborate and complete scheme for making people pay tribute to wealth, in order to obtain a circulating medium, ever known in the financial history of the world. There is not a dollar to-day in the hands ot the people on which they have not paid a tax for the privilege of having it put in circulation by the government. The national bank is the middle-man between the govenment and the people, and is enoromously paid for doing what the governmeut ought directly to do itself. According to the report ot the comptroller of currency there were two thousand and eighty national banks October 1,1877, aud they owned in even numbers $336,000,00" of government bonds as the basis of a bank note circulation of $291,000,000. The interest paid by the people on the bonds thus ured to secures currency on which to tra isact their business amounts to not less than $16,000,000 per annum. This is the tax paid for the bank note circulation. The hondholder has been made the bank of the country, and he is banking on the interestbearing debt of the people. For every $100 of currency, they pay him nearly $6 interest on the bonds which secure that hundred. His advantage,however,notonly begin with his bonus of sixteen millions.

The report of the comptroller shows that, October 1, 1877, the national banks had notes outstanding tD the amount of eight hundred and ninety-one millions' No one will pretend that these loans are made on an average inierest ot less than 10 per cent. This makes an interest account of eighty-one millions per annum, and Miis is an under rather than over estimate. Of other bonds, stocks, debts, real estate, specie, currency, clearing house exchanges, United States certificates of deposit, and all other resource*, the property of the national banks, at the above date, amounted to something over five hundred and fourteen millions, which, at the low rate of 5 per cent, makes an additional interest income of twenty-five millions. The following statement will therefore correctly repre sent the facts:

October 1,1877: jgj.

to bring

and ruin to the peaplt. The very .oiiess of avarice has impelled them fr*m blow to blow, from act to act. The picture of general welfare that I have drawn, indeed did not last. It has been defaced, torn, stamped under foot by the repeated acts of legislation inspired by re morseless greed. The people asked tor 110 such change. They never sent petitions here asking tor any of the enactments of the last twelve years. They wou'd huve been glad to be let alone and to allow the natural laws of trade and business work out a safe solution of every financial problem. Loud complaint is now made by thoughtless or designing persons that the question of our finance is under agitation, Every act of legislation thus far has been dictated by invested capital, and not one by the people. Every agitation of the question in congress,until the present, has been made in the same interest and to gain additional advantages.

National b-n«s Itesources Intere it on the resources paid h*' .,*00 people per annum........ —,u00,000

In return forth 130,003,000 stupendous establishment of this

as?e

The two aie inseparable. One upon the otiisr. If the national are a blessing then our public debt ipg blessing. f!ir the debt supports the Thij» idea is embraced in tiie act *an.' uary,

1875.

Tj»onev*

Provisian is made \ia the

third section of this act for an /jjjcniased number ot

,4bankinof

associati to be ,J of interest sold tor ti /jgj. purpose,

bas^d ou,an increased numb' bearing b»nd^

Tluy are armed too by Jcti with hostile powe-N against/ a,.oni

peopl". For everv $ic/9

date

national banks the-^ j, "j organized *ftervvanV, $8/Vi notes are ta be

tiou and destroyed^

are opposing ideas on this subject now thoroughly arjused into vigila ici and activity. On th one hand it t^e vast money ver in a 1 i«s vari-vis development* of bond brinks and loaning asociati.tivi, and .11 i-orh ar the great indus rW, the active buMness and the laboring p«.-ople The i*»ue has !cn years in making ur», but it is now joined. Nobody n-ed b• de eiv.J. All the wilespread influvccs "f capital are organ'z^d and combined. T'»« holders of puhlic securities in Ame va and in Eur p? wori together. They think and act hi concert.

The national banks of the United Stales have a solid organiziunn pr •f^ct what they have .nd to g^t as innch more a-: posssible. They ate asking now 'o be relieved from paying taxes on their circulation and deposits, o-d-r th they may enj»y tneir enormous prolits free trom all burdens for the support of the government. Associations of capitalists. engaged in obtaining mortgages at 12 cent interest 011 western farms, on bccount of the scarcity o:" money in ihat section, are net only striving to make* »1' such mortgages i')L» i.( j»o!dayenr h" nce, but they arc .'n-fH'ening tVisi* in pecunia'— distress »*!at -h^v shall have no further fivo-s if i:ne rate unless they agree in adv.wc.' to n.iv jo' 1 in return for greenback loa s. Tiu- power of money 'n the midst ot ti ne* l:k« these is very great, but am cdv.d i.i the people if thev hav not turned at last in defiance and bo!d warning upon thrir oppressors They are not in favor of* repudiating a single dollar of the public or private" debt*. They intend to pay erervtViing they owe, but thev intend to sub:n no more changes of cmt rets, viola'i.is of obligations, and bree :hes ol pu'dic faith, in order to increase ih ir indebtedness or to lake away their means to pav it. They demand, too, that certain specific wrongs shall bi red resided.

ThOie for whom sp-ak nul, first The restoration of the silver dollar, exactly as it stood before it v» .T. touched by the actof Feb.-u iry, .1873 I he (le-t-ire th it it shul hav unlmiired onag*, not fearing that it will become t-.-o plenty for their wants, and du' i' be a fall legal tender, bclieveing :hai ,t is as good now wj'li which to p.n aii debts, public and private,,as it wa- during 81 years of American histori. 2. The repeal unco iditionaily of the act of January 1 j. 18-5, comp-Ilin^ the resumption of specie -/ivm-joi* in January, 1879, d.'.ipg tii.it tn: qu tiou a return to a specie tor o.a* currency should be controlled eurireiy t»y tiie business interests of the contrary they do not believe that the onntry should be dragged teroagh the depths of ruin, wretchedness and degradation in order to reach a gold standard for the benilit alone of tne income clause3. That the national bhhking svstetn be removed, a circulating medium provided by the government fjr the people, withoui taxing the lbr the privilege of obtaining it, and thev ask what the amount thjs placed in circulation shail bear a reasonable and judicious proportion to the business transaction* ant population of th* United States 4. That the currency authorized and circulated 011 the authority the government shall bet id.: a it in the payment of all deb s, public a id private, including all due.s to the government, well knowing that it will (hen be at par with gold or more likely ai a premium ovt it. 5. That, hereafter"the financial policy of the country be train -d permanently in their interest thai, they shall not hi disrriniliirttadjttijpriiiiat Jn future legislation, as in past, and that hetr prw»pwW._ and not mere growth of inco ne to retired capitalists, sh»ll bi the primary duty the government.

In my judgtneut, these de just and mederyte. 1 im not to suppose that tl\ _.-»f*n'ds

pre"

^»onev power it sinnplv acts as ,.«t in transmitting the currency of

"-ne United States from tiie treasury to the people. Will anv one pretend that a cheaper and more equitable mode of supplying the country with a circulating medium can be framed by our legislative wisdom? In fact, can any one for amo-i ment defend such a system oT monopoly and oppression? lli w!wJ .ires its per-'. manenca desires ai»o tiie permanence the national bonde 1 .ieot. I

t^.n

der greenback. Witt, tbe/ jf Jffhe ecrary Oi the treasury they/ to exterminate this U/^ri{^

money of

arie the

the act ofJanr/ary

««ustance or legal tender iirom circuiait airr«ncv is

uri

contracted to th^ lir/ait /«J£^3»O,000,000. 1 ne purpose

this ^egi

LDation

the hanks co/(npiet

is to make

the!

financial siti Nation and/uo sub®rdinate al the wonts nd interest ,o'f the American p.-ople to thetr wUl ,|Jeasure. And 1.-1 ordir)/ f0 acilia :e th'/sj^Hirpoee th«greenbicit iOiUr has be jsn denounced with every, epithet of co .and derision kno *n to the Engl'/Jh.language. I will wjl not pause now/ J^tend this great

in its conte/gt Avith those who are

are bentfon its de/rtauctiQn. It$ repufi»ion in ace and

war

is known to all.

Th#» sclJ ers an /iuiiors knew it in the great ho '"ur of pi »ril -tiieir widows, tlieir orphans, and th /g^r mai ned and crippled comrade* havty. j^nown it ever since.

Tne people 1 Af ^very class and of every party, engtgt /.j jn business and labor, know that, in

-vte of aU ajsaults, in spite

ot the fact th the govennment dishoners it by retusin fgto »ak: it £lr government dues, a id in I of the fact titec there is not gold or in th* treasury to redeem it at ten cc I

dollar, yet to-day it

ranks but cent below gold in the money tr /^ket& that are the mast hostile to it ex j3te y,:st. AM ih»»e things are known a /nj •.riao.ireJ ap, and I uj not dw^tl /pon th.m now. /tius far In ive spoken in patatin^ out wr 1 conceive to thevic:*»us iegfslatio

this country on the «ieat and

pararr ^ount qn^stion cf finances. There

„*«ir detsrmiiiatiou and perhaps t)thm added. I plead loi ifmAfndi*.!

credit ol tue governm rest® 0n the po.mlar will alone ^inwflthat 'will can no longer be defied or/nswrftaited tvith impunity. The people, •f«&v«ft,ign, and they can 1 find and -tan loosen. If the mon 6y power 'Witlh wisdom it' wil\ stop and/.^i^ee it* step*. It confro/nts a now mightier thah it*/elf a free people at t'/ie baViOt boat^Hrtfluenced bv a sense df irtj^usti^e i»nd ©ppiession. If, however, it is /joined to it golden idol if its hearths hardened and its neck stiffened b/ its vast possessions' if the burning lust of avarici. has rtiada it dead to the voice of reason artfl blind to all human experie ice

it will push 01 in is career, until it works its om\ destruction tor, sooner or iater, thrt pe«»»le, irrespective ot p*arty nain^.^, willuijte i.i thei.- own defence anj esubli ji«-tice.

Thqv ha /e b,-en slow to believe that their was a de fiber ate purpose to degrade and uupweritih the »reat producing classes, butioey nre b-rin^ rapidly educated now. The erudition of the country is a '.eacher wnnsi aWl'ul le-son is engraven on all U«3«r u_'arLs. Thev have a:so recently read the procl miations of tne great organs of the ino.iey power, removing all uit»guise as to the meaning of our financial legislation and the misery it has created. In the coiumns ot' one they have 6cad tifat "The Amerieati laborer must make it: mind heiictfoith not to be

f:nce of"the natural rights of man. [Applause in the galleries.] May the wisdon of our fathers and benignity of our Gad avert such an issue, but if it shall come, if infatuation has seized our hearts, the result will only add one more in stance to the long catalogue of human crimes and folly, where avarice, like ambition, overlaps itself, and in its unholy attempt to rob others of their possessions. loses its own. [Great applause in he galleries]

VEG-ETIf'E-An Excellent Medicine.

much

better off than the European laborer Men must be content to work for low w«ues. In this way the work iagman will be nearer to that station in Joe to which it his pleased God to call win."

In the columns of another organ of «j»ns lidated capital they have read the tollowing revolting sentiments. •There seem* to be but one remedy. It is a change of the ownership of the soil, and the creation of a class of land owners on the one hand and of tenant tarmers on the o.he^ something similar in both cases to what has Jong existed and now exists in the older countries cf .Europe."

And in every form in which the English language can be used the American people, ana especially the peqple of the west, have be^n notified, not that their consent will be asked, but that they will be cortipelle t.» submit to the legislation which results in tbis British system of baronial landed estates, a dependent te.untry ai.d pauper wages for t"ir wotkiiiginan.

Sir, I have no word of menace to utter on this flxr, but in behalf of every laborer and owner of soil whim I represent, I warn all such as value their invest-' menu that wnen these doj.rines oi" denotisin are sought to bj enforced, th.s fair land will again

aad the fires of iib-'rty will blaze forth again, as thejr did xoo years ago, inde-

SPRIXOFIILD, O., Feb. 28,1877.

Th is to certify that I have used Voiret'.no, m-iQufactured by H. R. Stevens, Boston. Mass.. for rheumatism and general Ki ostratlou of the nervous system, with good suoc!!*s. I recommend Vegetloe as an excellent modicine for such complaints.

Yours very truly, V'

,R C. W. VANDKGRTFT. Mr. Vande*rift, of the firm of Vandegrift ituffinan,is a well known hbstaess man la 1 his place, havlngoneof the largest stores In Springfield, O.

Our Minister's Wife.

LOPISVILL*, KY., Feb. 10,187T.

MR tf. TC. STEVENS: )eir Sir—Three years aga I was suffering terribly with inflamatory rheumatism. Our minister's wife advised me to take VegeUne. Afier taking one battle was entirely relieved. This year,feeling a return of the disease,! again commenced taking it anl am being tncfl&tcd greatly. It also greatly improves

Fully,

my digestion ltespectf !MRS. A. BALLARD, l5ll Weat Jefferson St.

1 SAFE AND SURE. MR. /T. R. STEVENS:

In 1872 your Vegetine was recommended to me and, yielding to to the persuasions of a irieml. I consented totrv t. At the time I was suffering trom general debility and nervoiu prostre tlon, superinduced bv everw»rk onil irregular habits. Its wonderful strengthening and curative proprrt'es seemed to affect my debilitated system from the first dose and under its persistent use rapidly recuverol, gaining more than usual hualth ana goon feel.ntr Since then I have ui»t hesita'ed to give Vegetine my most uniinaliflm) imio-sement. a« being a safe, sure and 1 owcrtul a^ent in promoting health and restoring the wasted stem to new lire and liergy. Vejefc ne is the only medicine I use, n«i ».s long us I Uve, I never expect to And a better. Yours trul y,

W.H. CLARK,

120 Montgomery St., A!leghann, Peun.

VEGETINE.

The fol owing letter from O. W. Mans-(K-ld, formerly pastor of the Methodist Ii|i8' opAl church, Hyde Park, and at present settled in Lowell, must convince everyono wlioreads his letter of the wonderful curative qu&i'ties of Vegetine as a thorough oleans^r and purifier of the blood-

HYDE PARK, MASS., Feb. 15.1876.

MR- II. R, STEVENS: Do..r Sir—About ten years ago mv health a leil through the depleting 'effects of dyspepsia nearly a year later Iwas typhoid fever in its worst form.

was attacked by »rm. It settled

11 my back and took the form ei a large •ieep-seated abceas,which was fifteen months ingathering. had twe surgical operations ny theb.st skill intheState. but received no permanent «:ue. I suffered gieat pain at times, and was constantly weakened by a prnluse discharge 1 also lost tmall pieces of tione at uitterent times.

Matters ran on thuj bowt seven years, till May, 1874, when a friend recommendei me 10 goto your oflL.-e, aud lalk with you of th virtue of Vegetine. I did so, and by

«inrlness pasoed through your manufac noli the ingred.ents, &c, by whlcr rcniedy is produced.

ar0

ed with safety. r'T* senatoas thev will .cy*&ftbe disregard* if ifey arc rej'ded KMitf, hereafter* with ttiH

Let yotiv |«)JbrouB troubled with scrofula or dr«y il'(ette understand that it takes time td'Care tWP»nic diseases and, if they will pa jientlf i*ko Vogetine, will, my judgemaht.'cfetsthem.

Wifbiftreatobligations lam Yours very truly, vv. MANSFIELD,

Vc^e.ino ia sold by all Druggists

DES

On receint

r-r ihz ianndry.

convulsed »n a^o iy,

HALE'S

HOHEY OF HOREHOUND & TAB

FOR THE OURE OF

Coughs, Colds, Influena, Hoarseness, DlflleuR Breathing, and all Affections of (he Throat, Bronchial Tubes, and Lungs, leading to Consumption.

This infallible remedy is composed o( the HONEY of the piant Horehound, in chemical union with TAR-BALM, extracted from the LIFE PRINCIPLE of the forest tree ABIES BALSAMEA, or Balm of GileacL

The Honey of Horehound SOOTHES AND SCATTERS all irritations and inflammations, and the Tar-Balm CLEANSES AN» HEALS the throat and air-passages leading to the lungs. FIVE additional ingredients keep the organs cool, moist, and in healthful action. Let no prejudice keep you from trying this neat medicine of a famous Doctor, who has saved thousands of live* by it in his large private practice.

N.B.—The Tar Balm has no BAD TASTK or smell. PRICES 50 CENTS AND $1 PER BOTTLE.

Great saving to buy large size.

"Pike's Toothache Drops'? Curo la 1 Hlnnte. Sold by all Druggists.

C. N. CRITTENTON, Prop., N

EMOCll «TIC COUNTY CONVENTION.

the Democracy Vigo County: You are hereby ri qiu etcd to meet In mass convention ar, the t'mirt Hou»\ In Terre Haute, on Saturday, Feb uarv Oth, 1878, at half past on' oMock P. lor tho purpose of choosing delegates to represent you In the 9tate Convention, to be holdeuat. Indianapolis. Feb 80, 1877.

Wo invite all voters who are In favor the greatest good to the greatest number jf*: who aro opposed to class leprislatior *pp9ne monopolies, all who hold Bassos have righ s, that those In pind shall respect and not longe participate with us. January" .'tftguV®' *0'

In the

Pastor of the M. E. C-iurch.

VEGETINE.

HBP ARK L» BY

H. R. Stevens^ Boston, Mass.

$55 IO »1 KIIV, Au«ust, Maine.

A $5.00 ELEGANT STEEL EKMVIIG

G-I"V"E32sT

I Jka ii. SPECIAL IJEW YEAR'S GIFT I .T. I tiuking I

Referr-il ti ill fVmii-1, w'n Clf»f'»r. Irt Vpr«-: O f.Td, srcr.rrfins t- all 'fhr riaht bwwli Thtc, IPIThi. uiii't* u:.I Xhy farr be lururil ft'uui Tliv ciry, JefR.'sVm."it m* Moat Sub time

SiASTSHFZECE OT ART erpr publifihod. It i» a pvricet cjiy of the f»mnuf pfiiniiiiy lir tvhkh far ,v.

S 6 0 0 0 0 I O

OVER OSTE rzrxnnr.n UI.H

GCHT SEf!TairmilHIIa so.,

ETAELE OIL.H, »m\ ly

imbe* ior .wl 1*110 aLv 4e xresinni"*

ANDBr

PHII,. MAT, So cretary.

"N B1NKKUPTC" IK TT*

gbaiamao p.

lfifcKtCT OF

bankniAt in t' U'

,ar

ytnr

Uy wlut I saw and heard I gs' -oulldeace in Vegetine. commenced taking !t soon j»ed some worse irom its effects: still A soon felt it was benefiting aft®? but felt spects. Yet I dMnots p«WeVered, and sired till I had taken na# in other remore th»n a year. tbe rbsults I deback was cur*"' ,S IM chlully to* little njoyed th" ne« th'3 difficulty in the 1 hav ad for at ae months I have noju, ,i*s4*o4 bewlth. ift tir-.t tine gained twenty-five ^beinz heavier uan ever before in

Ur«H and I was new ore abio to per©rw Mibortfcan now. Dwfttig the past few weeks I had a scrotutons %welli*g as largr as my fist gather ou arOWier psrc of ray odv. _Ll1 ok vegetine r» ithfuliy, and removed it &VQ1 j»i ne sMlft .e in a month. I think I should have by®*, jured of my main trouble *oouor it'lfcuU.'te ken larger doses, after having become afesvistomed to its effects.

•A

ss.

v/.-W*® ST AT rot

(OTDtSVinpT OFlWStANA

jMktr el tteiittiol* J. Ducnweg, kTw'bartlrrnpttsy.

a«&trvt ferVe Hcounty of Vig^, .. A.. LL._A TKN FLOW AF .TAIB* 1$78

^•f^te of Indiana, the 22nd day of Janr

nd-'rs 1 gned lierehy gives notice of bis awB&inmenthSassigneeotTteinbo dJ. Dui-n-WM. oft he city of Terre Hantu, in ata of Indiana, within sad district, who has been adjudged a bankrupt upon his own petition by the dUtrbgcourl of

Assignee of Re«nhold J. Duenweg.

T—Apocketliook.flos tokn^^MO&jdn greenbacks af ait rtwt«limt«Las. rim* somewhere ItatwiecM jjjn McOomb's g.ocerr. 00 Jtliuary u,th. The finder will be .ibe". rewa. ded by. teturnlog it W "1*. Aiad son Bryant, living in Pffcu'lcton township.

LIQUOR APPLICATION.

(otico is hereby given that I wlllapjily 1r the Boar

of Commissioners Vigo county,

at their March term, '873, for ailceMeuto seil

Imoxic ting liquoie" in a less qiiantity h-in a quart at a time, with thejrivllege of allowi the same to be drauk on my premises for on* year My ..lace of basmess and premises wlieroon said liquors are to bo sold and drank nreou the «oiuh ilf of half

the oritriual in-lot 286 in Terre Haute, in Harrison township. Vigo Coiiniy. lcdiana. HERMAN APPMAN.

BIG PAY AND STEADY WORKS. Foster1 & Co.. wiioee card way be seen another part of this paper, make a general offer under the head of salesmen 11 'phis firm is reliftwvnted to sell cigars, ble.

P*STP.AY NOTICE. -f TAPES UP-By Geoig" T7 Neville, o« the ttth nay ol December, M'. at. Fonatain, Nevins townshi|», Vigo county, Ind onerea and white ro iu cow, wi a itrgj lell on, snppos tobe sixyeais-dd. aud appraised at S20, fore Jame* iV.Htir-'. .1.1'.

JOHN K. UURK Clerk.

sen ts. witii r. o. VICR-

ure repn-fented ftotn th» Innocent babe

at its mother's brs-ast ic 1 h'- stronir srran :ifl iiiltthty warrfn*. In the nTlitn'l" of terror and despnlr, Kcing from lh«.- wrat.t of Aimitbty fkwl. Over lit-.):! ar«* »een anjrels ai"l su-c-h-p.m.'els, armed with HWor!# of fliur.in^ fire dextx-iKiiug the heanti/nl tout w!ck«l and doomed city. OnXc^lri^ you arefceld spell-bonnd by it» beauty, graaoeur uiitk tiie BWfiil les-soii it tcarlir.*. t'UT OUT THIS CSll ilPJCAiE AS TV Ir3 OBIU $.i.00 TO VOC.

th!* rertifl-ratp, toecfhwfrtth /Sc. to par fo*btce and n»on»t'ne

rsponses, we will scud ».ie Eu^ravm^, wide by feet lvuij, 'aittt.it: DSSTuUCTSOM OP ^ERt!SALSrs1 iy mV. p^'-rftid. fiend for Ruirr.nvin* ct once, statins its fa§« tofceth«sr with i*«}stuhic: u:l«irtt,. county fcuUfeiate. A.ldresa,

V°-

All orders must he accompanied with the above Certificate, so

How? rrt. cistnrr^r. o.

tfmt

that J-oft are entitled to !t. Upon rn-eipt of same, and in enrrernt/ cr pcsltgr stamps I to pay for postage and monnting. tbe^.00 Kngraving will be mailed yoa **EK as a New VearvUift. Addfess all ordr.M to

CONTIWEKTAL PUBLZSHZNG CO„* So. 1 Home IW AT1, O.

Toilet ta EQUAL to White Casta* four, font ..f f»r£tSE

the came process, ret»in*nil the u*tor:Ul,e-.il!!

oils. It coats MO MICH LESS than the imported nrticte that it rapidly er•miuguito rA tn Hofliw

hntiiehold N". Tli» of Cotoasn Sonp* 4««aam. T*t* PlfKlTV mt SJkc Wfc Mil/ bjr Pioons SIMI.CisciaaaU.

iiMttei.

Tho

FIT

cnn«k»roiw»«i b?

know'

Pbr*w.*n*

KIT mt (Jk« While IHM wnSiiw mm* ffertmeUf

««MaM»._ 1I»Bold toZtt wlMiMO*aad reUOcrocei*.