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WANT SOUND MONEY.
Convention of Business
Men of the
South.
NOT FOR SILVER ALONE.
They Are Afraid of Descending
to the Level of China
and Mexico.
CARLISLE MAKES A GOLD TALK.
Says He Opposes Destroying the
Nation's Credit at Home
and Abroad.
MEMPHIS, Term., May 23.— Upward of
3000 people were present at the Audito
rium at 2:15 o'clock, when Chairman W.
J. Crawford called the convention to
order. "While the gathering was effecting
an organization and petting down to busi
ness the crowd gradually filled the vacant
Beats, and by the time Secretary Carlisle
began his address the large hali was com
fortably tilled. Mr. Crawford, in his capa-
city as chairman of the committee of fifteen,
appointed by the associated mercantile
bodies of Memphis, under whose auspices
the convention is held, called the meeting
to order.
Ricnard H. Clark of Alabama presented
the name of Congressman Catchings for
permanent chairman in a neat and highly
complimentary speech. This convention,
said Mr. Clark, was an evidence that the
people do not believe in debased money
and do not want to be dragged down to the
level of Mexico and China. The people
represented in this convention believed in
the just and equitable use of silver as a
money metal, but they would not deliver
the country to a syndicate of mine-owners,
or place in jeopardy the business of the
country because of a craze — a condition of
public sentiment — which he likened to a
prairie fire, which would feed upon chaff
and soon burn out.
The leaders in the silver movement were
the men who had taken up in succession
all the political and economic heresies that
bad been before the people in the past de
cade. The present outcry he likened to
the extreme doctrines advocated by the
Populists in recent years, and their falla
cies, he declared, would soon be buried in
empty warehouses. He urged confidence
in the judgment and good sense of the
Southern people. Two-thirds of the
product of that section must be sold in
foreign countries and paid for in the money
of the world. The prices of their products
were fixed in the markets of the world,
where no American legislation can put a
fictitious value on silver.
Mr. Clarke eulogized President Cleve
land and Secretary Carlisle, his remarks
arousing the first outburst of enthusiasm
of the convention. The cheering at the
mention of the President's name was par
ticularly hearty and protracted. In con
clusion he presented the name of Con
pressman Catchings for permanent chair
man of the convention, lauding the gentle
man's public record on the money ques
tion and assuring the convention of his
eminent fitness for the position of presid
ing officer.
The selection of Mr. Catchings was made
by a unanimous viva voce vote, and the
Congressman accepted the honor in a
graceful speech. He said :
Gentlemen of the Convention: There come
times in the life of a man when words fail him
when he wishes to express the emotions by
which he is moved. Such a time has now
crossed my path. Could I live forever I could
not express to my friend from Alabama the im
pression which his warm words have left
within me.
Gentlemen, In my judgment, no convention
ever assembled for a nobler or higher purpose
than this. Brought together from almost
every Southern State, coming from every walk
in life, representing as you do all vocations,
industries and conditions of life, I speak the
♦ruth when I say that not a man has come
here to advance a personal end or a selfish
purpose. Believing that the free, independent
cainage of silver at the 16 to 1 ratio would be
disastrous to all private and public interests,
«C have laid aside our private affairs for the
time being to take counsel together to con
sider what will be best to prevent it. The
character of the delegates to this convention is
far beyond the reach of captious criticism and
adverse comment. This body is composed of
the great mass of honest, intelligent, patriotic
citizens. If we are right we are not only right
now, but we are eternally right. We have
assembled to give testimony to the faith that
is in us. We have been misrepresented from
one end of the land to the other; epithets
have been hurled against us; we have been
charged with enterta'ning views which we
scorn and disdain. It is said, for instance,
that we are monometallism. Let us here and
now place the lie upon that charge. [Applause.]
It has been said again that we seek to so con
tract the currency that prices will fall. Let us
stamp that also as a lie. Let us pass a series of
resolutions that will be our declarations of
faith, and then challenge any man to put other
■words on our lips. Let us, when this conven
tion shall have adopted these resolutions, ad
journ and go home with Jhe determination to
stand by them. Let us organize ourselves into
a movement militant and not aquiescent, for,
believing as we do, we would be recreant to our
duty if we failed at all times to let our views be
known. Let us nail our colors to the masthead
and let the old ship go on her course regardless
of the obstacles that we may encounter, hav
ing faith that with the truth as guide we will
reach our destination safely.
Gentlemen of the convention, we should
take heart at the fact that our views are sanc
tioned by all the great people of this country
outside of political life. Suppose we adopted
the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 1G to 1 it
will bring about silver monometallism pure and
simple- When the simple issue is put before
the people 1 do not believe they would be will-
Ing to put this country on a silver basis.
After the selection of G. C. Matthews,
associate editor of the Commercial Appeal,
as secretary, a committee on resolutions
was appointed, one delegate from each of
the States represented being made.
Secretary of the Treasury John G. Car
lisle was then introduced by Chairman
Catchings. When the distinguished Ken
tnckian stepped to the front of the stage
the audience rose to its feet and cheered
enthusiastically for several moments.
After quiet had been restored the Secre
tary spoke as follows:
Mr. President ana Gentlemen of the Conven
tion: I congratulate myself upon my good
fortune in having the opportunity to appear
before this assemblage of Southern business
men, and I congratulate the people of the
South upon their good fortune in being able to
send here so many real representatives of
their great industrial and commercial in
terests.
The proposition to revolutionize our mone
tary system and thus destroy the credit of the
Government and the people at home and
abroad, violate the obligations of all contracts,
unsettle all exchangeable values, reduce the
wages of labor, expel capital from the country
and seriously obstruct the trade of our people
among themselves and with the peoples of
other countries, is one which challenges the
intelligence, patriotism and commercial honor
of every man to whom it is addressed. No
matter what may be the real purposes and mo
tives of those who make the proposition to
legalize the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver at the ratio of 1G to 1, these are the conse
quences involved in their scheme, and in ray
opinion they cannot be avoided if it should be
adopted. In no part of the country will the
consequences of such a policy prove more in
jurious to the masterful interests of the people
than in the undeveloped and progressive
South.
The use of credit in the form of bank notes,
checks, bills and other evidences of debt has so
increased in modern times that in all highly
organized commercial communities the use of
coin, except in making change, hasbeen almost
entirely dispensed with. The percentage of
coin actively employed in conducting business
in this country is so small that it is almost in
appreciable; so small, in fact, that the disuse
in our transactions would not be felt if we had
a substitute for or a paper representative of the
subsidiary pieces.
Although we have the gold standard, or
measure of value, in this country, our actual
stock of gold bullion and coin amounts to only
about one-third of our actual currency — a con
dition of affairs inconceivable a few centuries
ago. We have about $1525,000,000 in gold,
$397,652,873 in full legal-tender silver, $149,
--584,471 iv Treasury notes issued in the pur
chase of silver bullion, $209,719,850 in
national bank notes, and $76,109,569
in subsidiary silver coin, making in
all $1,304,707,763, exclusive of the
minor coins, and every dollar of this vast
volume of currency is kept equal in value
to the standard established by law. This is
the financial condition which the advocates of
free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 propose to
revolutionize at once by a change in the
standard of value, so that it would require
about double the amount of currency required
now to perform the same service in the ex
change of commodities. For a long time
credit, which constitutes by far the most im
portant factor in our financial and commercial
transactions, would be substantially destroyed
by the confusion and uncertainty necessarily
following such a great and sudden change in
our monetary system.
It is contended by a large number of the
advocates of free coinage that the effect of their
policy would establish what they call bimetal
lism and a double standard. I confess my in
ability to understand what is really meant
by a double standard or measure of value;
the idea is incomprehensible to my mind, be
cause I cannot conceive how it is possible to
have two different legal and authoritative
measures of the same thing in use at the same
time; a pound weighing sixteen ounces and a
pound weighing eight ounces, both declared by
law legal pounds. Instead of using both gold
and silver as we do now in larger amounts
than ever before in our history, we should in
stantly expel the more valuable metal from the
country and make the other the sole basis of
our currency. We have now practically bi-
metallism — the use of both metals as money;
we should have then practical monometallism—
the use of only one metal as money. This is a
conclusion based on facts and established by
the experience of all nations in all ages.
The establishment of a silver standard here
could not possibly increase the price of cotton
or wheat, or any other American product in
Liverpool, Paris or Berlin, whatever effect it
might have upon the nominal price in this
country. The only effect would be that the
exchange would be doubled, and the pound
sterling, instead of being worth $4,806 in our
currency as it is now, would be worth $9,732,
and when our people wanted to make a remit
tance to pay a debt abroad they would have to
pay twice as much in our money for the same
number of pounds as they pay now, while the
foreigner who wanted to make a remiitance to
pay a debt here would only pay half as much
in his money for the same number of dollars
as he pays now.
In addition t« the risk of a fall in the price
of the products abroad, he must incur the risk
of a rise in the price of silver between the time
of his purchase and the rime when he received
the proceeds of his sale, for if silver rises in the
meantime he may not get back as many dollars
as he paid out.
When silver is worth 60 cents per ounce the
bullion is worth 46.4 cents, but if the price of
silver should advance to 62 cents per ounce,
the value of the bullion contained in a silver
dollar would be 48 cents— an increase of nearly
\y % per cent. The price of cotton or w^eat will
not rise in proportion to the depreciation of
the dollar in which it is to be paid; that is, the
purchaser for export will not pay for it at the
rate of 48 cents for each dollar when silver is
worth 60 cents an ounce, because he knows
that silver may rise to 61 0r62 cents per ounce
before he can sell the product abroad and get
his money for it, and he knows that if this hap
pens the gold he receives abroad cannot be ex
changed for as many silver dollars as he paid
the producer here.
It has been found that the prices of articles
used for food, taking them all together, had
fallen less than 10 per cent since 1873, while
the prices of clothes and clothing had fallen
32 per cent; metals and implements, 35 per
cent; lumber and building materials nearly 20
per cent; drugs and chemicals, 31 percent;
house-furnishing gooas 27 per cent, and mis
cellaneous articles 10 per cent. The prices for
the year 1860, being taken as the standard
were represented by 100. When this investi
gation was made in the nineties articles of
food stood at 103.9, or nearly 4 per cent higher
than in 1860; clothes and clothing at 81.1;
fuel and lighting at 91; metals and imple
ments at 74.9; lumber and house-building ma
terials at 122.3; drugs and chemicals at 86.3;
house-furnishing goods at 70.1, and miscel
laneous articles at 95.1.
The prices of articles of food, the products of
farms, gardens, orchards and dairies were
about 4 per cent higher than in 1860, long be
fore the silver legislation now complained of.
The fall in the prices of these farm products
since the year 1873 has been much less than
the fall in prices of the commodities the fe.rm
ers have to buy, and the reductions in prices
have not been uniform, and therefore cannot
be attributed to one cause— to the appreciation
of gold, for instance. Notwithstanding the
great increase in the production of cotton and
wheat here and in other countries, and the
consequent decline in their prices, a given
quantity of either of them will now purchase
in our markets and in the markets abroad a.
larger share of many other useful commodities
than it would have purchased in 1872 or
1873, so that, in fact, as compared with many
other things, the values of cotton and wheat
have appreciated. The only thing which
has been less affected by the changes in
the relation between supply and demand, by
improvements in the methods of production
and distribution and by the other influences
which produce fluctuations in prices of com
modities generally, is labor, and it is by far the
most important single source of income
possessed by our people, a much larger amount
bf ing expended every year in the payment of
wages than for any other purpose. If the
alleged depreciation of gold alone has caused
a reduction of prices, the wages of labor, the
greatest commodity in the market, should
have fallen since 1873. but exactly the reverse
is true. The investigation found wages nearly
61 per cent higher than in 1860, thirteen
years before the silver legislation, and more
than 8 per cent higher than in 1873, when that
legislation was adopted.
The policy of maintaining, or rather at
tempting to maintain, the so-called double
standard, never succeeded in keeping so large
an amount of full legal tender silver in circu
lation in the world as there is at the present
time, and one of the principal reasons for this
Is that the effect of the policy was to drive first
the coins of one metal and then the coins of
the other into the coffers of the hoarders or
into the melting-pots, because they were under
valued in the coinage laws, and would not re
main In use as money.
The United States should go entirely out of
the banking business by the withdrawal of its
arbitrary and compulsory issues of notes and
afford the people an opportunity to supply
their own currency Dased upon their own
means and credit, thus enabling every com
munity to utilize its own resources when nec
essary and adjust the circulation from time to
time to the actual demands of legitimate com
merce. In the meantime our highest duty is
to preserve the present money in circulation
among the people, whether it be gold or sil
ver roms or paper based upon them, equal in
purchasing power, so that no discrimination
will or can be made between those who receive
silver or paper and those who receive gold. A
great Government should do nothing to dis
credit its own obligations or diminish the
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1895.
value of the money in the hands of its citizens,
nor should the people of a great country ever
consent to the adoption of a policy, through
experimental financial legislation or other
wise, which would vitiate the obligations of
their contracts, interrupt the regular course of
their business and destroy the foundations
upon which their industrial and commercial
systems have been constructed.
There can be no antagonistic interest, no
prosperity in one section of our country at the
expense of another, but we must all stand or
fall together. So believing, I have spoken to
you to-day without reservation or exagger
ation in behalf of that policy which, in my
judgment, will most certainly promote the
welfare and preserve the credit and honor of
our whole country.
At the conclusion of Secretary Carlisle's
address there was another noisy demon
stration, followed by cries for Congress
man Patterson of Memphis. The
Congressman acknowledged the compli
ment, congratulating the audience on the
opportunity they had enjoyed to hear the
able addres3 of the Secretary of the Treas
ury and thanking the distinguished guest
for the favor he had conferred upon the
gathering.
On motion of Congressman Patterson
the convention adjourned until 8 o'clock
in the evening.
When the convention reassembled at 8
p. m. Judge U. M. Rose, chairman of the
resolutions committee, presented the fol
lowing report, which was unanimously
adopted without debate :
The people of the Southern States, who be
lieve the maintenance of a sound and stable
currency to be essential to the prosperity of the
whole country and the welfare of the people in
all vocations of life, do, through their repre
sentatives in convention assembled at Mem
phis on May 23, 1895, make the following
declaration of their matured convictions:
First— Believing a uniform and certain
standard of value necessary to the agricultural,
commercial and industrial development and
prosperity of our common country, we favor
the maintenance of all our money, whether
gold, silver or paper, on a parity, to the end
that each dollar, whatever may De Its composi
tion, shall have equal purchasing and debt
paying power with every other dollar.
Second— Profiting by the experience of Wash
ington, Jefferson and Hamilton and the teach
ings of the great students of monetary science
from the time when John Locke wrote, to the
discussion of the present day, we accept the
truth of the principle now universally recog
nized and applied in the whole world, that a
bimetallic standard cannot be maintained
where the ratio fixed by law for the
coinage of gold and silver does not re
spond with the market ratio of the.
two metals, and that wherever and when
ever the legal or coinage ratio varies from the
market or commercial ratio to any appreciable
extent the dollar, whether of gold or silver,
which thereby becomes more valuable as bul
lion than as money will go to a premium and
retire from circulation. We saw this principle
applied in our own National experience,
when, under the act of 1822, which fixed the
coinage ratio at 15 to 1, gold retired from
circulation because of a slight decline in the
price of silver in the open market, whereby the
bullion in a gold dollar became worth a few
cents more than the buliion in a silver dollar,
and was. therefore, sold as a commodity be
cause it was worth more as bullion than as
money, and again under tneactof 1834, which
fixed the ratio at 16 to 1. when the silver coin
retired for a like reason. We are, therefore,
opposed to the free, unlimited and independent
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, when
the market or the commercial ratio is more
than 30 to 1 and the difference between the
bullion value of a gold and silver dollar is
about 50 cents, on the ground that such action,
instead of restoring the bimetallic standard,
would Inevitably result in silver mono
metallism.
Third— At this time there is no country|in
the world which maintains the bimetallic
standard, and neither is there any country
where the free coinage of silver obtains which
is not on a silver basis. Each country, on
account of its inability to adopt independ
ently any bimetallic standard, must elect for
itself which it prefers, the gold or the silver
standard. We, therefore, favor, in the absence
of international co-operation, the retention
and maintenance of the existing gold stand
ard, because a change from the gold to the
silver standard would have the effect to repu
diate all public and private obligations to the
extent of the difference between the bullion
value of the gold and silver dollar; because
whenever such change should be seriously
threatened it would cause an immediate at
tempt at a collection and liquidation of all
debts in anticipation of the result it would
produce; because such transition from the
gold to the silver basis would destroy public
and private confidence and would involve the
country in panic, confusion and distress;
that the products of agriculture and the wages
of labor would be un remunerative, the busi
ness of commerce would become unprofitable,
and our people engaged in industrial occu
pations would be thrown out of employment;
because there is not a progressive, enlightened
country in the world which has not elected
the gold as the preferable standard; because
gold standard countries retain silver in their
circulation on a parity wtth gold, whereas
there is no silver standard country which does
or can utilize gold as money ; because there is
not a silver country on the globe where wages
of labor are sufficient to sustain the working
classes in comfort and independence, and,
finally, because the high destiny of the United
States demands for the use of the American
people that money which experience has
taught mankind to be the best suited for the
promotion of commerce, the development of
manufactures, the encouragement of labor
and the advancement of civilization.
Fourth— We would rejoice over the adoption
of real bimetallism, but in view of the contin
ued fluctuations in the price of silver in the
open market we realize that it is impossible
for the United States to adopt Independently a
bimetallic standard, and we deem it unwise
and hazardous to the best interests of its
people for this country to attempt its estab
lishment. We favor the policy of this country
standing in the attitude of readiness at all
times to co-operate with the other powers in
any effort they may make looking to the adop
tion of true bimetallism; but in the mean
time, and until successful operation is in
sured ,to maintain inviolate its existing stand
ard of value.
Fifth— We favor the retention as part of our
money the silver now coined, and in order to
give a wider field for the use of silver and sil
ver certificates below the denomination of $10
into higher denominations, bo as to make our
entire circulation below the denomination of
$10 either silver or silver certificates, and to
this end the Secretary of the Treasury should
be authorized by law to coin from time to time,
as people may require them, silver dollars
until the demand of commerce for money
below the denomination of $10 is at all times
satisfied.
Sixth— We realize that our National banking
system was adopted during a time of war, aud
that it is not adapted to existing conditions.
We, therefore, favor such legislation as will se
cure to the people a system of banking sur
rounded by such safeguards as will at all times
furnish them a safe, elastic and sufficient cur
rency for the transaction of their business.
Seventh— We cannot too highly commend the
unflagging courage and sturdy patriotism Of
President Cleveland in his efforts to protect
the National honor and to maintain the public
credit during apenod of great financialdistress,
and under conditions which threatened dan
ger to both, and we congratulate him and the
entire country on the evidences of returning
prosperity.
The reading of the resolution was fre
quently interrupted by applause.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing the
work of the reform committee on sound
currency of New York, and urging the or
ganization in the Southern States of sound
money clubs to carry on the campaign
%»egun at this convention.
In response t* numerous calls, Congress
man Patterson made a speech on the work
of the convention.
At the conclusion of Mr. Patterson's re
marks, a resolution was adopted authoriz
ing the appointment of a committee of
one delegate from each State represented
to superintend the distribution of proper
sound money literature. The convention
then adjourned sine die.
CARLISLE HAS CONFIDENCE.
Expects Great Things . From the Sound
Money Movement.
MEMPHIS, Term., May 23.— T0 an Asso
ciated Press reporter Secretary Carlisle to
day expressed himself as astonished at the
magnitude of the sound money demon
stration.
"1 have the greatest confidence," said
he, "in the ultimate success of the sound
money movement. The wave of silver
sentiment reached formidable proportions,
but I think it has about spent itself and is
already on the decline. In my own State
the struggle is a hard one, and I have
seldom seen such great general interest in
a public question as is shown there, and in
fact throughout the section. I trust the
good sense and judgment of the Southern
people. No section of the country ismore
vitally interested in the maintenance of a
sound financial policy by the Government,
and none have greater promises of pros
perity under sound economic conditions."
FOUND IN THE RIVER
Recovery of the Bodies of Mrs.
Notzen and Her Two
Children.
She Had Bound the Little Ones to
Her Before Committing:
Suicide.
OMAHA, Nkbk., May 23.— A Missouri
River fisherman to-day found the bodies
of Mrs. Ida Notzen and her two young
children. Mrs. Notzen is the Omaha
school-teacher whose mysterious disap
pearance with her children last fall created
such a sensation in Omaha. She left a let
ter saying she would kill herself and her
children because she had not been ap
pointed to a position in the office of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion.
Search at the time revealed nothing that
would indicate that Mrs. Notzen had car
ried ont her threat. She was a very intelli
gent woman of 40 years, with a good stand
ing in State educational circles. Her hus
band is a Chicago merchant, she teaching
in Omaha and residing with her parents.
The bodies were found firmly tied together
with a heavy rope. Evidently the misera
ble woman had taken her children in her
arms, twisted the rope around them and
leaped into the river. The clothes of the
children were tied around their necks as if
having been strangled before being carried
into the water.
OF ISTEKEST TO THE COAST.
California May Get a Slice of Land Front
Nevada.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 23.— Senor
Romero, Mexican Minister, having been
shown the interview published yesterday
with Patterson Sprigg, the San Diego at
torney who has come to Washington rep
resenting the claim of Charles Oberlander
and Mrs. Barbara M. Messinger against
the Mexican Government, for alleged ill
treatment, said that as the subject to which
the claim relates is being treated directly
between the United States legation at the
City of Mexico and the Mexican Govern
ment he would not enter into the details
of the case, and would only say that Mr.
Sprigg has drawn a great deal upon his
imagination, which he believed would be
i clearly shown when the official papers
bearing on the subject, including the
claimant's memorials and affidavits, are
published.
Field Officer St. Clair of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, with twelve men under
him, left for the West yesterday to resume
the California-Nevada boundary survey.
General Duffield, superintendent of the
survey, said to-day he expected the work
would be finished this season. He says
that Nevada will lose part of her territory
to California, although, of course, he can
not speak with any degree of accuracy at
present. He believes that from the way
the lines are running at present Nevada
will lose a strip of land from one to one
and a half miles in width, and which will
become a part of California's domain.
It is not definitely decided yet whether
Professor Davidson of California will have
to go or not. It is thought it will be
Officer Rogers. They have both been em
ployed in Pacific Coast survey work for
many years. Professor Davidson seems to
stand well with the officers in charge here,
but nothing is said to indicate that he will
be removed or retained.
General Dutlield said to-day the matter
would have to be decided before July 1
next, but that the Secretary of the Treas
ury would have it in hand. It is alto
gether probable, however, that General
Dufneld's recommendation will be heeded
by the Secretary.
A postoffice was to-day established at
Challenge, Yuba County, Cal., with Elijah
B. Sparks as Postmaster.
The following pensions have been grant
ed: California: Original— Samuel A. Mc-
Curdy, National Soldiers' Home, Los An
geles; Seneca A. Foster, Yountville; Al
bert (i. Bradley, National Soldiers' Home;
Charles W. Chapman, Gridley; Daniel S.
Brant, Santa Ynez ; Joas " Silberia de
Brume, alias John Broom, San Francisco;
Francis H. Nunes, Georgetown; John Mi
ley, National Soldiers' Home; John Mc-
Loon, National Soldiers' Home: Albert S.
Moore, San Francisco; Frederick Stutz,
Sisson. Increase— George A. Strausbaugh,
Hyde Park; Robert P. Wilson, Sisson:
Rudolph Tfeiffer, San Francisco. Reis
sue — Almus Kennedy, Lower Lake;
Daniel H. Wilson, Suisun City;
Reuben B. Richards, Oroville; Jonathan
Moon, Bakersville; Albert Wheatland,
Whittier; Edward M. Edeiine, alias Ed
ward H. Oakes, Bay Side; Emery B.
Gates, National Soldiers' Home; Ephraim
R. Huggins, Tulare. Original widows, etc.—
Thomas C. Haskins, Los Angeles. Mexi
can War, widows— Tabitha Sharp, Ven
tura.
Oregon: Reissue— August Buder, Silver
ton; Levi Henderson, Salem; William A.
Vincent, Eugene; Joseph A. Braden,
Mount Taber; David Mudge, Woodburn.
Increase — James M. Reese, Roseburg.
Washington: Additional — Friend H.
Holman, Seattle. Increase — William E.
Jesler, Kelso. Reissue— Calvin M. Vowell,
Olney; Francis A. Hoagland, Fairfield;
Marion Johnson, Egypt; William T. Con
nor, Farmington.
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HI FOR LADS—
Jjj|sL . . The Cutest, Prettiest,
/ /r^^L Most Fashionable of
\^gK>^ Reefer Suits,
t/m| I- In Light Colorings, in Blues and Blacks.
//ijT^^pjlff/iff $9, $8, $7 and $6 are the correct prices.
11l .Ik /m' Friday and Saturday your pick from 2000
lln\ j( of 'em
If wl JTjL S^ (Sizes 3 to B years)^^^©^C3
* % AT RAPHAEL'S, OF COURSE.
Hgn LADS— m
j : . Ira i Pretty Summer Suits - Uj\ „
Illgwl ! for These Young Men, iM&A
j f ,i |U, In very handsome colorings. We've .nil ]|
j ? HI 11 too many. We're going to unload. 11l jji
UJM'nU- $14, $12 and $10 are the correct L/ 1^ J
1 •— prices.
PRICE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY-- -g-s-llgf HA
*P£j9\J%J
SIZES 12 TO I 9 YEARS. "^
AT RAPHAEL'S, TO BE SURE.
WASH SAILOR SUITS
(KNEE PANTS),
;For the Little Folks, a.--
■j^Bf ] In Pretty QALATEAS, Cheviots and Linen Jm^
ij^^&i 1 Ducks. Two thousand of 'em, in Dark aj^^®,
fn For Light Stripes and Folks, a
|' In Pretty QALATEAS, Cheviots and Linen i^^K
Ducks. Two thousand of 'em, in Dark ckA i&
Navies, Light Stripes and lots of other ff*
pretty colorings. Two thousand of 'em, Blilf
IPI ' including, cord and whistle. Friday and ff|^Mf
l^ 3^^^^ 1 * /-% B^ (Sizes 3to 12 years) § \ E^C . A %
AT RAPHAEL'S, OF COURSE.
TAN ==================~^^ = JTENNIS
HO^P We've everything the Little FLANNEL
rpst rP A nP : Man needs for his Summer Out- WAISTS,
t>CC> I UKAUfc, ' • . . g. + i<> „<,<••«
Double Knees and Feet, ing=«Fresher Styles than Other thesOcGrade?
all Sizes, sto 9?,, . x x < - A - m . J
A , • stores, and at nearly one=half On Special
At ?? AT _ n s what other stores charge. sale at
Raphael's. :"■ .. .: | : ". . •' r = 25 Cents.
(INCORPORATED),
9, 11, 13 and 15 Kearny Street.
2 BUILDINGS 8 FLOORS,
130 EMPLOYES TO SERVE YOU.
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