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m i;utc:.i;:2c:. gazette TS. CizatlB PrlcllBg Mi Pab. Ca. Wanes Foster, Editor. B. 8. Foster, Bat. Ugx Hutchinson. IC&xia The Alaska boundary line, in special to become something of an issue be tween the United States and Canada. It is observable that, while the Ger man molders of publio opinion ven ture to criticise Kaiser Wilhelm's pub lio policy, they don't dare to censure his poetry above a whisper. Japan buys yearly nearly $15,000, 000 of American cotton in England. It goes out by way of the Suez canal. What la the matter with our Paciflo railroads and California ports? A colossal statue of LI Hung Chang, ten feet high, the gift of ' ad mirers, has just been completed in Germany. When undraped it will remind poor old Chang of his own present proper, or improper condi tion. When that reorganization of the Few York poiiee ., takes place the Loxow committee ought to take a Commanding position immediately bo hlnft the reorganizers and fortify the position with a Gatling gun. The Duestrow case emphasizes the fact that we need at once an amend ment to the criminal statutes provid ing that a man need not be more sane for conviction in a murder case than he is required to be in any of the reg ular avocations in life. Governor Suockley of Alaska, stated to the house committee on ter ritories that seals were practically extinct, and will be so entirely within a short time, and now the women heaven bless them have started out to exterminate the marten. TnE swashbuckler act of Great Britain in having her gunboats con stantly swaggering around in Chinese waters does not seem to have the In fluence on the Japs that was intended, if the sentiment of leading Japanese papers can be accepted as a criterion. It is said that more than 65, OOP people wore sacrificed to the deadly scourge of diphtheria in Austria-Hungary last year, that in Hungary alone there were 34,183 fatal cases. In spite of this awful slaughter the au thorities have been sluggish in adopt ing the marvelous cure found so ef fective in Berlin and Paris. A writer, who Is somewhat of a philosopher, has observed the fact that no millionaire in this country hod achieved the honor of becoming a centenarian. There is nothing wrong about this, for an all-wise Providence, who is supposed to be just alike to all, would not bestow mnch wealth and long life upon the same person. The fortune of James G. Fair is sliding down to the neighborhood of (12,000,000, which Is the usual thing when a legal inventory takes the place of a popular estimate. Jay Gould was an exception, for appraisers made the net value of his estate $75,000,000. Commodore Vanderbilt left about $100,000,000. But, as a rule, the colossal fortunes of which so much is heard shrink immensely when tested by actual figures. In Kentucky a preacher does not like to have a laymon offer opinions contrary to his own doctrinal points. The Rev. Lemuel PenroJ, of Grassy Creek, believes in the damnation of unbaptized infants, and when one of his congregation, John Slate, argued against that doctrine, the preacher drew his revolver first, shot at him, .the ball passing through his bootleg, and then slashed him with a knife. The doctrines of that congregation are in charge of the preacher, and he in tends to enforce his rights. American wool growers see little in the situation to encourage them, but it is certain that our dealers do not in tend to give up the market to foreign countries. Two new and important methods of cleansing wool have been devised in New England, one by the use of naphtha And the other by hydra-carbon solvent which saves the valuable grease and .potash of the fiber for other purposes. Those methods are said to improve the wool, leaving it whiter and softer, and in better condition for dyeing. According to the figures published by the Boston Commercial Bulletin, the insurance companies of this coun try enjoyed in 18!)4 an unexampled year, so far as small losses are con-, cerned. Their aggregate , losses amounted to but $127,000,000, u compared with $150,003,000 in 1893, $133,000,000 in 1892, and $138,000,000 In 1891. Then, too, the incomes of many of the companies were ma terially swelled by higher rates of premiums, while many, of course, fett the stringency of the times in the refusal of many old customers to in sure at all, preferring to carry the . risk of loss by fire themselves. The citizens of San Francisco evi dently havo concluded that Magnate Huntington's ownership in fee simple of the state of California has continued, long enough, and they want his title declared void. The conclusion, while a, daring one to announce, is pot wholly unreasonable. . : Asr one who has ever bad the slightest experience with the malady will insist on believing that th so called new disease is merely an exhi bition of the versatility, ingenuity land depravity of the old original grip. who is a fool ? IS ANY MAN FREE WHERE HIS BROTHERS ARE SLAVES? Farmer and Laborers Pay the fxterwst All Publle and Private Debts, and Their Labor It Mortgaged for Principal. Yon say you are out of debt and own a house? Yea ' Well; how many children have you? Five. That makes seven in the family. What is your home worth? Oh, about $1,400. And you are a loyal patriotio Ameri can? Yes; I defended the flag in the re bellion, and the very sight of old glory thrills every drop of blood in my body. Oh, you are enthusiastic. Yes, sir; for my home and country I m ready to lay down my life. Good: vou are one of the kind of men who made this great nation the richest on the globe. Yes, I guess I have done my share and I am proud to be an American. Well, let's come back to the original subject How did you get into debt? Who, me? Yes, vou. Why didn't I tell you that I don't owe a dollar to any man on earth? Oh yes, you do. Whatl Do you mean to insult me? There is my house free from debt and I've got money in the bank. Yes, but you said you were a loyal American, and you certainly are loyal to your state, county and community and believe that every Individual should pay his debts. ' Certainly, but what has that to do with the case? - Oh, nothing, perhaps, but how much did yon make last year? Well, I made a living, and I've got enough money to buy a new wagon and a plow and some other things I need. ' Then how are you going to pay off the debts of your family? Are you crazy? I want to say em' phatically that I don't owe any debts and I don't thank any man for trying to make a fool of me. ' Friend, don't iret excited. That won't make the debt any easier to pay. Don't you know that it would require all the land in the United States to pay the debts of the people? Well; what in thunder has that to do with me? Oh, nothing, but do you know of any way of paying the debts without sell ing the land? Of course I do, it can be paid off with the money that goes into the treasury as taxes. . , Don't you know that instead of pay ing off debts the treasurer is borrow ing more money? The debt of your family was increased about $14 by the last two bond Issues of $30,000,000, and the treasurer is now preparing things lor another issue of fifty mil lions. That will make $31 increase of your debt this year, and thebankors are demanding an issue of $500,000,000 worth more of bonds and that would increase the debt of your family $70 more. The total indebtedness of the people of the United States is $300 for each and every man woman and child in the nation making your share 83,500 with family of seven. Of course you do not owe this amount directly and you have never signed a mortgage on your own home. v But you pay interest every year on the state, county and national debt and through depreciation in prices you contribute of your labor and produce every year to pay interest on the pri vate mortgages of the conntry. Ultimately you must pay your share of the principal. There Is no getting around it Oh! you're one of these darn Populist calamity howlers I have no time to waste listening to a fool. I've got to go to town and pay my taxes and buy tome tools I need on the farm. Yes; there he goes to buy more tools to raise more produce for Shylock. Some Cold Statistic. Since free coinage was suspended in June, 1893, India has been nnable to ex port enough products to pay her gold interest, but has been compelled to borrow $30,000,000 to pay interest on her gold obligations during the lost year, and she must continue to borrow and increase her debts under the gold standard. The United States has been compelled to borrow ?56,000,000 by the sale of $30,000,000 5 per cent bonds and has $50,000,000 less in the treasury than she had a year ago under the same tariff laws that were formerly in force. It is Impossible for the United States to export enough products at gold prices to pay interest on either foreign or domestic debts. There is no way ot avoiding a continuous in crease of indebtedness but by the free coinage of silver, and that can only be had through the efforts of the Populist party. William M. Stewart. Thb people are so paralyzed with poverty that many have lost all cour age to fight plutocracy. In other words they have consented to slavery. This is cowardice and Is unworthy of the sons of the men who fought the battles for independence in 1776. HERE'S YOUR MULE. 3lv the Canker the Earth, or They'll Take It. Congress don't know where it is at But it still knows what the bankers demand, and what congress must do, pxdonpthiBg, Congressman Crisp and Senator Gor man have held a little caucus and con' elude that the only proposition which the senate and the bankers will accept must embrace the following features; 1. An issue of $300,000,000 of long term, low rate bonds at 8)tf per cent, If possible, but not over i per cent These bonds to be sold to the banks at not less than par and to be the basis of circulation up to their par value. 3. The legal tenders to be retired and canceled as the bonds are put out 4. One fifth of this issue of $300,000, 000 to be retained in the treasury and made available for current expenses if needed. 5. Silver to be bought and coined at the rate of $30,000,000 a year, 6. No bank notes to be issued of less denomination than $20. 7. All denominations below $70 to be silver certi float esand silver. 8. Silver certificates to be redeem. able in silver. There it is in a nut shell Just what the Populists have told you for years were the intentions of the money power. Take each of those numbered items into your mind separately, roll it over, tear it apart, and analyze its inten tions. Five hundred million dollars of long term bonds $15,000,000 a year in terest, enough interest to' support 10,000 people in idleness, interest that will take the labor of 50,000 men a year at $1.50 a day to pay and all for the benefit of the bankers, Cancel the greenbacks and substi tute interest bearing bonds and wild' cat bank notes. Destroy the money that saved the country in time of war, and turn the issuing of money over to the traitorous cowards, who hired substitutes and hoarded up their gold to profit on the nation's necessities. And what a magnificent outlook for silver to be "bought" and coined bought with -Arhat? Give us free coin age of both gold and silver or demone tize gold. Big bank notes for the rich and small currency for the poor and the banks in control of both. Glory, hallelujah! Those philanthropic, benevolent, as tute and monkeydooodle bankers! - Ain't they smooth? Give us the earth, or we'll take it BALLOT RIGHTS LEACUE. Meeting to Be Held at New Orleans Jan. 18. Hon. J. C. Manning, leader of the Alabama Populists, has given out a call for a conference to organize the Southern Ballot Bights league. It is as follows: "The right of the states to republi can form of government and the right of the citizens to a fair vote and an honest count is guaranteed by the con stitution. "The unrest caused by the reign of a ballot box stuffing oligarchy in Ala bama and other southern states has but recently aroused the people to de mand that their constitutional rights be given. In consequence of existing condi tions, I have been delegated by those who ha ve awakened to patriotic effort to call a conference at New Orleans, Jan. ls-10, for the purpose of organizing a Southern Ballot'Kights league and tak ing such other steps as may restore constitutional rights to the people. Delegations are urged to come in re sponse to the call from every southern state. (Signed) "J. C. Manning, "Montgomery, Ala." Political Mathematics. Perry Engle has at last gotten his paper, the Iowa Keierenuum, admitted to the mails as second class matter. The first number sent to the third as sistant postmaster-general contained a cartoon showing John Sherman as school teacher and Grover Cleveland as school boy, and the lesson on the black board reads: 'Q. If there are 175 silver congress man, how many Wall street 'pies' and federal offices will it require to pass unconditional repeal in the house?" "Q. If fifty United States senators favor free coinage, how much 'pie' and omce will be necessary to pass uncon ditional repeal in the senate?" "EXAMPLE, "Fifty silver senators plus 175 silve congressman equal a free coinage law. But fifty silver senators and 175 sil ver congressmen, divided by pie and patronage, equal unconditional repeal See!!" The objection to the paper by the department was the f r ivilous one that the price was nominal too cheap. The Referendum, commenting on its ad mission after ten months' delay, says. No, It was not the nominal price, but in our opinion it was the cut of the big necked fraud taking lessons from John Sherman on the financial question. Such partisan tyranny would disgrace the bloody pages of the history of any monarch. We raised our subscription price, and now ueveland s pie fater has admitted the paper to the niai s. Missouri World. HOW THE WORLD'S COLD The Divisions of the Circle Show Relatively the Amonmt of the Precious Hotal Which Each Nation Holdl Why Should We Maintain a Gold Standard for the Benefit of the Gold Holding Nations? A CHRISTMAS LETTER. COV. PENNOYER OF OREGON REMEMBERED GROVER. "Aiwayt Remember the Unemployed Hal' tttade All Over Oar Broad Land" Prar That Ood Hay Give Ton Light aud Strength to Do Bight." Portland, Ore, Dec 27. Gov. Pen noyer remembered President Cleve land by sending him the following letter: cnristmas has again visited our stricken land, with its prostrated in dustries and its idle throngs, willing but nnable to work and unwillingly forced to beg or suffer. Your panacea, change in the Sherman law and the tariff, has been administered, but there is no change in the sad condition of the unfortunate country. After two years of ruinous delay and mismanage ment yon have, thank heaven, at last discovered the real trouble, although you have not proposed the proper remedy. As you now concede, the country needs more money, but it does not want the worthless stuff you proffer. It needs gold and silver money with which to pay debts and it does not want bank rags with which it can not pay debts. Sixty years ago the democratic party had a President who defied the banks in the interest of the people. Has it now a President who defies the people in the interest of the banks? All the traditions of the party which elected you are for gold and sil ver money and against bank currency. Do you aspire to furnish an example of treason to the cause intrusted to your care which will be without any parallel, except one, in the annals of American history? Your party in both houses favors the restoration of silver as standard money, the people actually suffering from the existing prostration of business favor it, and will you not stand with them in overturning the monometallic policy of the British oligarchy which is fast degrading our fair country to the condition of a sub jugated province and our hitherto free people to a condition of financial serf dom? Always remember the unem ployed multitudes all over our broad land. I pray that God may give you light and strength to do right" THE INDUSTRIAL LECIUN To Heet at Kama City, Ma, Feb. 92, 1800. The meeting of the National Indus trial legion will take place with the Reform Press association at Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 2i All recruiting officers holding com missions from headquarters, all state officers of every grade, executive coun cil and one delegate from each legion will be admitted. We earnestly hope that the utmost f ! energy will oe snown in organizing legions. We should have a thousard new legions before that date. The legions already organized who have not paid dues will confer a lavor on me if they will send as large a contri bution as possible to pay printing bills and other expenses. I have borne the burden long enough, and shall be com pelled to lay it down unless this is done. A small sum from each legion will be a great help. Paul VanDervoort. People's party papers will please copy. It's amusing to read in democratic papers about the Populistic setback in the recent election, when the demo crats throughout the nation met a de feat that means annihilation, while Populists added over a million votes to their vote of two years ago Aew Charter. What is the matter with ret tin it right down to bottom principles and demonetize both gold aud silver and have a paper money controlled by the government and have done with the whole robbing crew oi usurers ac one fell swoop? Oklahoma State. SUPPLY IS DISTRIBUTED. Retire the National Bank Bill. The national banks have been and are continually withdrawing gold from the treasury by tendering so called coin certificates or treasury notes and demanding the gold in exchange. The shifting of this metal from the treasury to the banks and from the banks back to the treasury, only to be again withdrawn when the latter de sire an issue of bonds by the govern ment, may be successfully repeated without limit, unless the people taka up a line of action in self defense, which will be effective in calling a halt to such unpatriotic and dishonor able financiering. We suggest that, as the national banks have set in circulation among the people $207,000,000 of their own national bank bills, while sorting and keeping out of circulation these treas ury or coin notes for the above indi cated purpose of exchanging them for gold, that the people who believe in protecting the government i. e., them selvesfrom the nefarious practice of sorting the currency for the illegiti mate purpose of draining the treasury of gold, do tender to the banks at their earliest convenience in exchange for "legal tenders" any national bank bill coming within their possession, before using the same. And further believing that the peo ple of these United States have but this one weapon left at their command, by which they can successfully resist or seek redress from the injustice and im position practiced upon them by the national banks, we therefore urge all who believe in the government issue of money direct to the people to act individually and collectively, if possi ble, to further the above movement 1. Tender every national bank bill direct to the banks, instead of passing it cn and thus keeping It in circula tion. 2. Buy every national bank bill found in circulation among friends or business associates, and tender theso also to the bank. 3. Urge every friend and business associate to do likewise. The law compels every national bank to redeem its own notes as well as those of other national banks in gov ernment "legal tender" money, and tne inevitable result would be to force the national bank bill out of circula tion into the banks, while the talk about the retirement of the national currency to make place for bank bills would soon cease. The banks would either desist through discretion from looting the treasury of its gold or be forced to stop their operations through a lack of the kinds of bills (treasury notes and legal tender) necessary to continue this nefarious scheme; while the gov ernment "legal tender" received in ex change would take the place of the national bank bill in general circula tion among tne people, where it could not be used by designing bankers to draw gold from the treasury. By the gradual operation of this combined action on the part of all be lievers in the government issue of money, a more perfect condemnation of the schemes of national bankers will be effected than could possibly be enacted by law or resolution; and in time, the only out standing circulation would be the government "legal tender," while the discredit thus thrown upon the national bank bill would compel its withdrawol from the circulating me dium of the country. A more thoroughly practical and effective solution of the currency question for and by the people, than would result from such action, could not be devised in tho interest of an honest money Issued by the govern ment The above has ben sent to us by a friend, who believes in fighting the enemy with his own kind of weapons. We print it for the consideration of those who would like to retaliate on the banks. National Watchman. Evidence to the Contrary. Photographer But why do yon wish to be taken with your watch in one hand and your pocket-book in the other? " Mr. Bascom I'm a-goln' to send this picter to my wife, young man; when I left home she said she'd bet I.d be buncoed out o' everythin I had before I'd been in the eity two hours. Rheumatic Pains Return when, the colder weather comet. Thoy are caused by lactic acid in the blood, whioh frequently settles 1 In the joints. This poisonous toiut mutt be re- ood's 8artam moved. Eood't Bar- df f stparilla conquers ft. J rheumatism because SSr it drives out of the blood every form of unBuritv. It makes pure, rich blood "I suffered with rhttmit!m In myleft foot I took Hood't 'Barsaptrllla and the pain is all gone." Hits R. R. Blakx, M11i House, Charleston, 8. C. w HoOd'e PHIS prevent oonitlpatloa. " tMurqil Roda for locatlnt old or silver or, lost op m kii UlnL hidden treasures, 15 compltr extra for putlog when so ordered. 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