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A LESSON FROM EGYPT. WOULD HURT INSTEAD OF HELP THE J0KEJT3 CORNER. POLITICAL NEWS IN BRIEF. Showing How that Country Failed to cial system the price has only fallen $55 per bale, of 11 cents per pound in 23 years. In face of these official figures how can any intelligent man pretend that it was the change In our Maintain the Ratio.

The ancient Egyptians had a cur WIT, HUMOR AND SATIRE ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. currency laws in 1873 which has reduced the money value of cotton? Bow Free Coinage Would Injure the. Farmers. The chief strength of the 16 to 1 agitation lies in the belief that it would benefit the agricultural classes. This is a serious error.

The facts of all human experience show conclusively that free silver would cause widespread and prolonged injury to the farmers of this country. The advocates of free silver may at rency based on cats and onions, both of which were sacred objects worshiped by the people. As there was some difficulty in storing the cats, and as the onion was liable to decay, a circulating medium was provided of papyrus strips, representing a certain number of cats and onions at a ratio of 16 to 1. This How the Dear Women Love On Another Dark tow a Logic A Ortre Situation In Politics or Hoir the Sheriff Going to Get Elected. tempt to answer this exposure of their low price for cotton argument by showing that there was a great increase in the cotton crop between 1865 and 1873.

This is true, but there has also been a far greater quantity of cotton produced every year since 1873 than ever before, the crop for 1892 reaching 9,035.379 The mere threat of free coinage would greatly Injure the farmers by causing an immediate calling in of all loans was a true double standard system and is believed to have been the origin of modern paper currency. For a time the cat-onion money circulated at par, but the historian Faque Hur records that about 963 B. C. a serious difficulty arose. New colonies had been estab bales as compared with 3,930,508 bales through the natural desire of lenders to get back money worth as much as they lent.

Hundreds of thousands of farmers HAVE crowns and I have kisses, I have diamonds and hearts, I have titles and caresses, But they are but counterparts; I And my toys I Jug-j gle freely, Caring nothing in 1S7J, the largest crop during the period from 1865 to 1873, so that if increased production caused the great would be unable to pay their mort gages, and their farms would be sold at lished in the region of the upper Nile, sacrifice. No new loans would be and the savage Nubians had been decline in prices in one case it is surely fair to credit it, and not the stoppage of free esilver coinage, with the lower prices of the pa6t 23 years. taught the art of agriculture. The rich, black soil of the valley which they A Trade Journal's Summary. To a man who has no money there forthcoming, as the owners of capital would not invest so long as there was any danger that by a change In the money standard the value of loans would be cut in two.

As the chief complaint of the farmers now is that interest is too high and capital is too scarce, the effect of a policy which would make capital scarcer and dearer can be figured out by each farmer for himself. inhabited was especially suited to the growth of onions, and the production of those perfumed bulbs was soon enormously increased. Meanwhile the cat crop had only grown in the usual ratio, and the result was that, with are several ways to get it namely: (a) Beg it. (b) Steal it. (c) Borrow it.

"''Si- (d) Secure it by gift. (e) Trade something for it. If we are to beg for it, we might when they break, to me 'tis very easy Other counterparts to make. Bo I tos3 them hither, thither. Very few are ever lost, But the mortals for them striving Seldom realize their cost.

Tet, well hidden in my hamper. Is a priceless little gem, Bringing happiness whenever. In a lover's diadem, I affix a ray eternal Of it's radiance divine, For the heart that knows its splendoi Knows that I have made it mine. A second way in which free coinage the demand for 6acred animals in the new colonies, at least 30 onions would be given for one cat. This brought the papyrus currency into disfavor, and the ruling pharaoh.

Ram Bunkshus would hurt agriculture would be by the financial panic which would inevitably follow the overthrow of our present issued a royal order that cats just as well do the best we can. Therefore a dollar based on a gold standard is better than a 16-to-l silver dollar, which to-day is worth about 53 cents should be the sole standard of value. sound financial system and the adoption of the unstable cheap silver standard. With the millions of bank depositors demanding their savings the intrinsically. and that onions should be issued only to the extent that they could be kept at par with the "caterwaulers," as the unit of value was termed.

If we are to steal it, we want the Sam Small is making silver speeches in Illinois. The notification of the Indianapolis nominees took place in Louisville, Ky. Letters were read from President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle indorsing the candidacy of Palmer and Buckner. Ex-Governor Thomas M. Waller of Connecticut has made public a statement in which he expresses his intention to vote for McKinley.

Congressman Aldrich of Chicago, who has just returned from a six weeks' trip to Alaska, reports that the people of that distant territory want to govern themselves. Demand is made for a regular territorial government, a new set of up-to-date laws and the privilege of sending a delegate to congress, like Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Paul Vardervoort of Omaha declares ihat Bryan cannot be elected without Tom Watson. Georgia gold Democrats will hold a convention September 23 to put up an electoral ticket. Judge Earle is the Senatorial nominee of the South Carolina Democrats, beating Governor Evans 3,848 votes.

Texas Populists deny rumors of fusion with the Republicans, and declare formally for Bryan and Watson. Massachusetts Democrats in their primaries indorsed Bryan and Sqwall, the Chicago platform and Ueorgjr-jfred Williams for governor. The Florida Republicans will take down their electors and indorse the gold Democrat electors and Congressional candidates. The Democrats, Populists, Silver Republicans and silver parties of Colorado, have united on Bryan and Sewell electors. The McKinley Republicans are yet to hold their convention.

The Republicans and Populists of North Carolina have fused. TexeasRepublicans willnot nominate a state ticket Fusion is talked of. Chairman Hinkley of the New York Democratic committee will resign. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell will support Palmer and Buckner. Connecticut gold Democrats will put a full ticket in the field, including presidential electors Geld standard Democrats in New Hampshire have nominated presidential electors and named a state committee.

Congressman Bell of dorado has been reiiominatea. lie have the support of the Democrats, the Siiver-ites and silver Republicans. Negro Republicans of Oklahoma have revolted against the Lily Whites and have called another convention. Secretaries Lamont and Francis have come out strongly for Palmer and Buckner. The Populist national committee has issued an appeal for $1 contributions to the campaign fund.

Democrats and Populists have fused in Montana. Mr. Hobart has issued his letter of This did not suit the onion growers. machinery of credits, by which so large a part of the country's business is done, would be suddenly stopped. Merchants would be unable to buy goods for lack of credit; manufacturing industries best.

A thief who would steal a silver dollar in preference to a gold dollar would be acquitted on the ground that he was insane. who at once started an agitation for the free and unlimited coinage of all onions at the good old ratio of their If we borrow it, we want that kind would be closed down, as in 1893, and of money which will go farthest, for millions of workers would be idle. eo we can get along with a smaller loan. Therefore a gold dollar is better to borrow than a 16-to-l silver dollar. Men out of employment do not buy as much farm products as when they are at work, and the farmers who now complain of the lack of markets for their produce would find themselves with a large part of their crops un If we are to secure it by gift, cer tainly we should not depreciate that sold.

Would not this be a serious in jury to agriculture? which we are about to receive. This brings us to which is the way most money is obtained. A pertinent question for each of us to ask at this time is, What have I got to trade for money which I want? It may he labor; it may be a horse or cow; it may be lumber or shingles; it may be a saw-mill. At the present time we can trade any of the above and get a gold dollar for every dollar's worth of value, as may be agreed upon between buyer and seller. We can get a dollar which is worth a dollar anywhere and 0 Why They Fame.

They were laughing over at the court house about the way certain of tie candidates for sheriff were raising merry tribulation. It is all because somebody told them that one of the clerks in the probate office was working for a rival candidate. This somebody claims to have overheard In a dialogue which runs something like this: I Candidate for marriage license, approaching window: i "I like to get married." Affable Clerk Certainly. Your name? "Adolph Linkenhammer." "And age?" "Thirty-two." "The lady's name and age?" "Mary Schwartzentroop; twenty-four." "Yes. Are you a voter, Mr.

Linken-Hammer?" "Oh, yes. Six years now." "Where do you live?" "Near Jackson Street." "Pretty well acquainted there?" "Yes, I know a good many." "Ever take any interest in politics?" "Oh, sometimes." "Well, liore are a few of Mr. Mc-Connell's cards. He's a man we want for sheriff. Do what you can for him.

I'll have the license ready for you in half a moment." That's the story that makes the other candidates froth at the mouth. But, then, other candidates do froth at the so easily. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Another evil which free coinage would bring to American farmers would be the unsettlement of their trade relation with the great gold standard commercial nations, which purchase each year $600,000,000 worth of our surplus farm products. The adoption of the silver standard, with its constantly fluctuating scale of prices, would prove the same barrier to commerce between thi6 and other countries that it has to trade between gold standard Europe and India, China, and Japan.

Do the farmers want to curtail and unsettle our foreign trade? These are some of the ways in which free coinage at 16 to 1 would hurt the farmers. No advocate of 53-cent dollars has ever been able to show a single way in which it would help them. Now, your labor or horse or cow cr lumber or machinery will be worth just as much, or nearly as much, next year as it is this, but if we have free coin age at 16 to 1 will the dollar which you get in trade be worth as much a3 the dollar vou can get now? What will that be worth? Can you tell? It may be worth 53 cents or more or less. One day this, one day that, but can any one tell? These are all pertinent questions, FREE SILVER AND PRICE OF COTTON. daddies.

After passing 3,187,642 resolutions denouncing the horrible crime of 963 the onionites marched in a body to the palace of their pharaoh and demanded that the unjust law enacted at the instance of the catbugs should be repealed and the bicatallis standard restored. Ram Bunkshus listen3d to them patiently and answered: "Great, no doubt, was the wisdom of our ancestors. But I am in the wisdom business myself to some extent. When the ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted, that was the true ratio of the cats and onions. Now, owing to a great increase in the quantity of onions, the ratio is 30 to 1.

All powerful as I am, I cannot make onions worth more than their market value. The present standard stays. As for you. foolish onionites, your leaders shall feed the sacred crocodiles. The rest of you will return to your farms and hustle.

I have remarked." Thus ended the first and only currency agitation in Egypt. Whidden Graham in Puck. and, when carefully considered, must guide us in voting at the next election Populist Statistics Which Troye Sound Money Statements. in November, and do not lose sight of the fact that if all the silver in the The Arena, a populist magazine, publishes a series of pictures intended to world is coined into money you cannot get a cent of it except by or show the great decrease in the purchas e. above referred to.

Lumber Trade ing power of a bale of cotton, owing to Journal. the alleged "demonetization" of silver The money value of the first bale is Government Ownership nf Silver Mines given as $416.90 in 1865. The next in Why is it that both the populists and the democrats failed to put a plank in the same series is for 1870, when the money value had shrunk to $119.90 acceptance. It is devoted mainly to the denunciation of free silver. Democrats carried the Arkansas election by pluralities ranging from 65,000 to 70,000.

The Pennsylvania Democratic convention indorsed Bryan and Sewall and fused with the Populists oa electors. The Populists of Iowa met in State convention at Des Moinesand indorsed the State ticket nominated by the Democrats. The gold standard Democrats of New Hampshire met in State convention, nominated electors and elected a State committee. Middle-of-the-road Populists have nominated ex-Governor Waite for governor and John McAudrew for attorney general of Colorado. Powderly addressed New York workingmen in Cooper Union and advised them to vote for McKinley, protection and the gold standard.

lie denounced the Chicago convention. Other pictures give the varying values down to 1894, the conclusion from the whole being that the lack of free sil An Indispensable Personage. "I guess we'd better fix up a flag of truce and show it to these Cubans," said the Spanish general. "Is it absolutely necessary?" "I'm afraid so. My stenographer wants a vacation." Washington Star.

Timely Wit. "I don't want the wheel. It is too heavy." "Say, I'll throw in a lamp. That'll make it lighter." 1 their platforms demanding that the government own and control the silver mines of this country, so that the profit which would be made from free coinage would go to our government and thus Indirectly be a benefit to the whole people? Why should this profit go to ver has caused the fall in the price of cotton. How false this argument is can be seen by looking at the figures quoted a few individuals who own the silver mines and who are already enormously rich? Is not this building up one of the most dangerous trusts that the Between 1865 and 1870 the price of cotton fell from 83.38 cents per pound to 23.98 cents.

By 1873, the year of the country has ever seen? Bow Women Love Each Other. One NeRlected Detail. "No, sir," said the man who was chewing a long straw, "I ain't satisfied yet. I don't think ary one o' them conventions went fur enough." "I thought you regarded the future very hopefully." "I did fur a time. But in the excitement we overlooked things thet orter 'a' been done.

It never occurred ter me at the time, but we made a big mistake by not havin' a plank put inter the platform makin' it ag'in' the law fur it ter rain on a man's hay when he's gone ter town ter 'tend a p'litical meetin'." Washing! on Star. Think of a few men having under their control all the silver of this country and the government compelled to turn it into dollars as fast as they NEWS IN BRIEF- produce it! Suppose that these silver men combine to shut down work on their mines when they want to produce a stringency in the money market. then open them again when they want to make money abundant. Would not this put the whole business of the (Money value of 500 pounds in 1SG5 at country at their mercy? $0.83.38 per pound, $416.90.) An Eminent Bimetallisms Oninion. "We don't want any 53-cent dollars in this town," was the emphatic greeting of a workman to the presidential candidate of the populists and silverites as he passed through Huntingdon, Pa.

If the American workingmen are wise they will see to it that every town and city in the United States gives the same answer to the free coinage appeals for votes. Professor. Eiouard Suess, the leading bimetallist or Austria, states briefly but with great force the objections to James Lewis, the celebrated comedian, is dead. Queen Victoria has knighted Li Hung Chang. New Orleans had three bank failures in three days.

Candee Rubber Company, New Haven, has resumed operations. Sam AUen, Houston, lumber dealer, failed for assets, $700,000. Lake Shore express train caught tire near Goshen, and much property In transit was destroyed. An earthquake of thirty seconds' duration was felt in Southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Indian Commissioner Browning-says the Indians are in a better condition now than at any previous time.

He urges division of lands in severalty. At a wedding supper near Bondur-ant, Iowa, twenty-five persons were poisoned by eating ice-cream. The health authorities are investigating, also at a party given by V. L. Kennedy at Guthrie, fifteen persons were similarly poisoned.

frpi colnaee by this country alone "Money value of 500 pounds in 1S73 at $0.18.80 per pound, $94.) The result would be, he says, "the loss of all your (our) gold, and the obliga tion to buv in England the gold neces irW Miss Bluestock I tell you, man Is but an earth-born worm. Julie You couldn't have been very lively as an early bird, my dear! sary to meet your (our) obligations in foreign countries." He declares that "one nation alone is too weak to take such a step, which must lead to a financial and perhaps an economical (Money value of 500 pounds in 1S96 at $0.07.80 per pound, $39.) "crime," the price had gone down to crisis." 18.80 cents. In other words, the money value of a bale of cotf shrank from Fober Discussion. $416.90 in 1865 to a difference "More money" is the delusive cry of the silverites in their campaign for cheap dollars. But they do not attempt to show how a 16 to 1 free coinage which would put our $600,000,000 gold at a premium of nearly 100 per cent, and drive it all out of circulation, could possibly give us more money than we have now.

If the fact that some farmers are poor is used to justify the confiscation of the property of creditors, would hot', the poverty of the Coxey armies of. tramps and unemployed workers justi-' fj them in demanding a share of the' property owned by the farmers? Cheap money means dear good3. If you want to pay double prices for what you buy and take slim chances of getting more wages, vot for the 16 to 1 scheme. This must be a campaign of education. We advise men to study, talk and of $322.90, while the country had free Mrs.

Henry Ward Bcecher, 64 years read all they can about this great ques tion, but do rot get mad at your neigh On the Wroot Side. The Kentucky Colonel had just been rescued from a watery grave in the bottom of the Mississippi River. "Where am he asked feebly, as he opened his eyea. "Safe on shore," replied one of the rescuers. "On which side of the river?" "The Iowa side." For a moment the news seemed to overcome him, and he turned sorrowfully toward the "Just tuy luck to land in a prohibition state," he said, with Bleb.

"Threw me in again." Chicago Post old, has the whooping cough, which at her age is a serious affliction. The New York police think they have Bill Dalton, the notorious Western desperado, who has been slain bor who does not think as you do. Re member he is entitled to his opinion and to respect. All the facts are not on one side. There are plausible things in coinage of silver at 16 to 1.

Since that time the fall in price has been much less, having been only from $94 in 1873 to $39 In 1896 at the present quotations of 7.80 cents per pound. The history of cotton prices shows, therefore, that under free silver the price of a bale of cotton declined $322.9, or 64.58 cents per pound, in eight years- Under the present finan times without number, located Gotham and they are searching for him. A young man supposed to be favor of free silver, but there are more Bill Dalton's son is under arrest for plausible ones in favor of our present standard. Richmondvllle (N. robbery, and it is believed that Dal ton, pater, was his accomplice.

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