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pEjftQCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President.
4ULAI E. STEVENSON.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Member ot Congress Elgfcth District
V. B. M'GINNIS,
.ol Decatur County.
STATE TICKET.
*8. B.-C
RAN E.of Folk County."
For Auditor ef state,
j-,-1. M. OIBSON, of Delaware County.v
For Treasurer,
p. WILLIAMS, of O'Brien County,
for Attorney Geperal,'
For Attorney General,
p. J. pAftPEK, of Dqs ^lolnes County.
For Half road Commissioner,
3. E. ANtteBSON, of Winnebago, County.
For Electors at T.arge,
4 JOSEPH EIBOECK. of Polk County.
P/C. H. MAi 'KEY, of Wapello, County.
For. District Electors.
%iftFlrst—F. B. MILLER, Washington.
t-eeond—F. D. KELSEY. Jackson.
Third—JOHN ELWANGEK, Dubuque.
Fourth—M.J.CARTER. Winneshiek,
f^ vUftb—H. M. BEBOK. Tama.
i'i81*th-J.
C. WILLIAMS.Mahaska. .»
-iSeventh-C.
G. LOOMI8, Polk,
wi,»SUhth-M. B. MARINO, Appanoose,
&&Ninth-J.J.SHAY,Pottawattami
Tenth—L. J. ANDERSON, Carroll.
Eleventh—W. W. 8TOWE, Dickinson.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Auditor
GEO. CART WRIGHT'
of High Point.
For Clerk of District Court,
ARTHUR E. MOORE,
of Decatur.
For County Attorney.
MARION WOODARD,
ot Leon,
Jr&-
For Becorder.
CHAS. H. BROWN.
of Bloominglon.
For Member Board of Supervisors.
WM. H. HAZLET,
of Center.
What Hanna calls republican apathy
js taking on more the appearance of a
republican revolt against imperialism.
Uichard Olney and Won. L. Wilson,
mambera of Cleveland's cabinet, sup
partingMcKinley in 1896, have come
out for Bryan, and Cleveland hims^lt is
•"^reported to be writing a letter declar
ingfor Bryan.
tj'' '.i.'
a The Manufacturerers' association of
Fall Riyer, Mass., has just issued notice
of a 10 per cent, reduction in the wages
of85,000 operatives on September 17.
The "full dinner pail" argument is full
"ofrggpction blow-holes.
The Toledo Bee^ analyses modern re
publicanism as follows: "To be a re
-fpubliean under Hanna is to renounce
altogether the principles on which Am
erica and American prosperity are
founded. To be a republican, according
tj thfe conditions of to-day, is to re
nounce Washington, Lincoln and Grant.
Became to be a republican you must be
gn imperialist, a UannaUe, a royalist,
if yoa like, anti-republic,^ anti-freedom,
anti«verything (hat enters into the
weliiareof the United States of Amer
ica,
v'1
A terribly cold chill went down the
^•pinea of the i(ate republican eommit
pemen in Indiana when they c«unpleted
^canvaaa of the state and found that
Hyan had it by 18,000. To your money
Sags, Ob, Hannaiteal TrusU, jhell outl
LOome on withf your trunks fall of two?
tollar Mils. Form the blocksof-fiv*,
ye tiustleirsi Bometbiog mutt be
to stay the tide Jiow tfereatening
^engulf McKinleyiiu anf|ill iti au(
fry iama. Hanna goea from citjr to
[paaaing the hat,
Here is richness! A mass meeting
tfaS held in Texas to express indigna
tion against the "lynchings of negroes
in our sister state of Ohio."
Senator George L. Wellington, of
Maryland, who managed the McKinley
campaign in 1896, has come out square
ly for Bryan, and says Bryan will carry
Maryland by a plurality of 15,000 to 20
000.
Governor Pfngree of Michigan says:
"1 am a republican, but I honestly be
lieve that, with the Ohio crowd ill con
trol, the best thing that could happen
the republican party this fall would be
the success of the democratic party."
The trusts are very quiet just at pres
ent and will remain so until after the
election. If McKiuley should l»e suc
cessful they will not lose any time in
beginning work. The small dealer and
the workingmen will then realize what
the giant corporation* and combines
mean.
Mr. Schurz's,main point againHt Set
retary Gage's "scare" statement was
that the republican party had had con
trol of both houses of congress ami the
executive, and had excated what pur
ported to be a gold standard law that
Mr. Gage was accusing th& republican
party of fraud and its platform and
speakers of wilful falsehood when he as
serted that the gold standard had not
been thoroughly enacted, Mr. Gage, in
hiB refily, published recently, does not
even refer to Mr. Schurz's main point.
He instead makes the point thai Mr.
Bryan said in 1896 that it be was elected
he would maintain the gold standard
"no longer than 1 am able to get rid of
it," But Mr. Gage does not note that
Mr. Bryan did not say or suggest that
heVould vjolate Jpw and qsurp power
in order to get rid of an pnapted sold
standard.
FULL DINNER PAIL BOOMERANG.
That "full dinner pail" is proving a
boomerang for the republicans. They
are beginning to- wish they had not
shied it at the democrats because it is
coining back again filled with dornicks.
The laboring man has been doing some
figuring anentthe full dinner pail, and
he has found that both. pail and coll
^bls1irm^efW^!^^iir«
pensive than they were four years ago.
The reason' the tin dinner pail and ''the
food that the thrifty housewife packs in
to it each piorning, have increased in
price is because of the trusts, fostered
by a republican administration, have
gotten hold of them, At the some time
the trusts, instead of employing more
men at increased wages, have dismissed
thousands of men and reduced the
wages of other thousands, The labor
ing man, after investigating all these
things, has come to the conclusion that
if he has a full dinner pail he is not in
debted to the republican administration
for it, and if he wants to continue to
have a lull dinner pail he will have to
help elect W. J. Bryan, the candidate of
the party which is opposed to trusts.
WHAT WELLIN6T0N SAID.
George L. Wellington, Republican
senator for Maryland, spoke from the
same platform with W. J. Bryan, when
the latter opened the campaign in that
state. Mr. Wellington said: 1 am
here to-night to declare my unalterable
aintagonism to the policy of imperialism
and my opposition to the representa
tive of that vicious principle. It is an
occasion of more than ordinary impor
tance for a man to antagonize the po
litical party which he has served for a
quarter of a century to which he has
given the best years of his life, and for
which he has achieved some success. It
brings much bitterness and vituperation.
The vials
of wrath haye already been pour
ed.ugon me and there will be much that ia
unpleasant in the work 1 have to do. 1
have, however, determined to do that
which I believe to be for the best in
terest i-f my country. I will do. my
whole duty ajid in the performance of
that duty 1 find it necessary not only
to oppose the re-eleotion ot President
McKinley, but to emphasize that posi
tion by supporting his antagonist, who
in tbis election stands for free govern
ment according to the constitution."!
RICHARD OLNEY FOR BIWAN^
Richard Olney's''conversion" to the
Bryan cause is, in some respects, the
most notable event of the campaign to
date. Mr. Olney was Grover Cleve
land's secretary of state, and by: all odds
the ablest man in the cabinet.
itf^iffi^inrii^ihr Qmmi
1
He is
Boston man, identified with many inter
efts, commonly supposed to. he antagon
ized by the Kansas City plalforp). Bn'
he is a democrtt. He was: th&kutE&
the Venezuela message wherein he made
Grover Cleveland defy the British gov
ernment to the point of war, to try tto
extend its territories in South America,
Such a man was not likely to !give his
support to an admibiatrstion that yd)
untarily "hauled down the Amertcan
flag" over American territory in Alaaiia.
It is the final test. No Amer^can
ierviqg tbe name c$n do more 'or'
:lriw
tban Mr. Oiney bju dotie. The bmlna
and- beart of tbe AtptHcan pe
witb thia stauneh Mew Eng^and A:
qfe-rmwur. from McKinl^to Bryj
LEON, IOWA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1900.
GAGE SCORED BYs I
CARL SCHURZ.
Mr. Schurz' letter is as follows:
"Dear Sir: Tbe newspapers of Aug.
26 published an interview wit you in
which you were quoted as saying that
there is no doubt Mr. Bryan (if elected
president) could order his secretary of
the. treasury lo make payipent in silver
of ajl the public debt payable in coin,
and for all current disbursements of tbe
government as well, which amount to
$1,500,000 to $1,750,000 per day, and
that be would give such an order, too,
is very certain, if he is in the same mind
that be was in )89U. You went on to
say thit although Mr. Bryan 'would
have great difficulty in doing that at
once,' owing to the small silver resour
ces of the government, yet he might
accomplish it in time, as the mere 'an
nouncement of such a purpose 'would
stop the inflow of gold or at least very
largely diminish payments in gold and,
corjsapondi ngl y-i ncmMe^ymgn^
FFFOBT TO CAUSE ALARM.
"If the executive, as you say, pos
sesses the discretion. of 'paying silver
in settlement of all interest on the public
debt not specifically payable in gold,and
of making its daily disbursements to its
creditors in silver,' it is owing to a^flaw
in the currency law passed at the last
session of congress—a law which, as the
spokesman of the 1 republican party
promised, .was to put the gold standard
upon an impregnable bams. It was
suggested at the time by some of the
.critics that this law was purposely so
manipulated by republican ^politicians
in the senate as to leav6 the possibility
of the subversion of the gold standard
by executive action open in order to
enable the republicans in tbe present
presidential campaign to say that the
option of a republican presided was
absolutely necessary to' save the gold
standard and to prevent dreadful econ*
omic disaster. Whether, any such
scheme entered, into the legislation 1 do
not assume to determine. Pfrt^n it |s
hpweyer, t^at ttyf featpr0 of the law is
now so usedrarid that you Mr. Secre
tary, actually do bo use it' fo£ the evi
dent purpose of alarming the business
qo|nmunity and the possessing
generally.
'Spreading False Alarms a Reprehensible
Thing for Secretary of the Treasury."
Carl Schurz, the great publicist, has given out an open letter to
Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury. In which he calls upon the
latter to retract his interview of Aug. 26. Mr. Gage, In his statement,
seeks to alarm business interests by suggesting th*t William Jennings
Bryan, if elected, could direct his secretary of th treasury to pay off
In sliver ali government obligations payable lii coin ". Mr Schurz
charges Secretary Gage with having given out his Interview for a po
litical purpose under cloak of protecting creditors of the government.
Mr. Schurz points out it was the avowed intention of the last congress
to adopt a currency measure which would, put the country upon an
impregnable gold basis, and that If a loophole were left in the adopted
bill which empowered the executive 16 redeem with silver government
obligarlons made payable in coin it doubtless was for the purpose of
furnishing the republican party an opportunity to play on silver for
the purpose ot obscuring other Issues Mr. Schurz scores Secretary
Gage for spreading of false alarms of this kind. Finally Mr. Schurz
Informs the secretary of the treasury that If the danger the latter In
dicates really exists it still Is In the power of the present congress,
which is overwhelmingly republican, to amend the currency laws so as
to make It impossible for the executive to. dlscriminate'between the two
metals In the redemption of government obligations. Mr. Schurz
throws down the gauntlet to his open correspondence and courts a de
fense of Secretary Gage's position.
m-
put the government oil a silver basis,
ruin Its credit and being' incalculable
disaster upop the bjisinpss interests of
tbe country. ..
DENIAL MADE BY MR SCHURZ.
"Having for a great many years taken
a deep and somewhat active interest in
the. establishment of a sound, monetary
system'in the United States, I may
without impropriety publicly address
to you a few remarks in reply to your
public statement. I emphatically deny,
Mr. Secretary, that the danger set forth
by you in your interviews really exists,
and that any pretfdent will be able to
do what you say might be done unless
the republican party in control of the
government in both-legislative and ex
ecutive branches prove itself utterly
dishonest in its professed purpose to
maintain tbe gold standard.
"This denial is not based upon the
reasoning of those of your critics who
seek to show by figures that a president
deBiring ever so much to put the coun
try upon a*8ilver basis would lack the
means for doinit so. On the contrary,
for argument's sake, 1 will accept all
you say on that point. But you omit
to mention a fact of decisive impor
tance,
CALLS IT A aUESTIONABLE COURSE.
"I hardly need to say to you that
tbjs spreading'of false alarms of this
kini a very, questionable and repre
hensible thing-for anybody, find es
pecially for a secretarjr of the treasury.
And call your prediction of the _posai?
bllitie* specified'by you and the disas
ters apre to follow a false- aliirm for a
very simply reason. Whoever, may be
ted president on November 6, there
it-tie another pearidn of congress be
he fill Jake ^Bce on Match 4,1901.
^lieaaiwlll
•tioqg-«ia-
"-2l?'2
'm
jorities in both houses of that congress
The executive, too, will be in their
bands. They will, therefore, be able to
make sfich laws as they please. They
will thus have full power and ample
opportunity before the inauguration of
the next president to pass any legisla
tion required to mike it utterly impos
sible for any president to break down
the gold standard in the way you, Mr.
Secretary, describe in your inter
view. A simple enuctment in two or
three lines substantially providing that
it shall be the dniy of the secretary" of
the treasury to pay in gold or silver,
at the option of the creditor, all kinds
of indebtedness., of. the United States
now payable In coin may be sufficient.
CAN REMOVE ANY FEAR OF CHAN6E.
"4nd if there should be another flaw
ift the present jaw dangerous to the
will- surdy ~^i{eei^i'
!4^^fih#^refiaedyit' r^ady
in the shape of a weli-^hatiired bill to
he auhipittfid to congressjit the open
ing of the* session, In short, the re
publicans, controlling both the leg
islative and the executive branches of
the government, will next winter
have ample power and opportunity to
do what they ought to have done at
the last session—to put the currency
law in such a shape that the gold
standard cannot (possibly be shaken
by executive action, no matter who
may occupy the presidential chair—
and thus remove, to that extent at
least, the basis of our monetary sys
tem from the changeful game of party
politics.
"Do you see any reason for doubt
ing that congress at its next session
will do' this? It is quite eyident that,
if there is any substance at all in
your predictions of disaster, the re
publicans in congress cannot refuse to
do it without proving that the pro
fessed solicitude for tbe republican
party for the maintenance of the gold
standard is arrant hypocrisy. But if
there be any wavering I am convinced
public opinion will, in case of neces
sity, compel them to take the neces
sary steps.
UR6ES A RETRACTION.
"You will thus have to admit, Mr.
Secretary, that when you sounded your
note of alarm you had overlooked the
most important fact that you and
your party friends—that is, the re
publican majority in congress, led by
tbe administration of which you form
so influential a part—will be able
easily and promptly to remedy the de
fects of the law which you have de
scribed as a source of terrible danger,
and therefore your note of alarm was,
to say the least, a mistaken one. It
may suggest itself to you as a matter
worthy of grave consideration whether
you should not-retract what you have
said, in fairness to the business com
munity, which should not be unneces
sarily disquieted,especially not by thorn
in authority. I am sure many of your
fellow-citizens are anxious to know
what you may have to say on this
aspect of the situation.
-^Kl%
*T'Tt?£
K,
Very respectfully yours,
C. SCHURZ.
"Bolton Landing, Lake George, N
Y., Sept.l."
"Tbe republican, policy means that
we shall have a form of republic here
and a practice of despotism.in the
orient. The republicans said in 1896
that we could not have a double stan
dard ot money—now they have a
double standard of government. Tbey
paid in 1896 we advocated a 50-cent
dollar, yet they have an 85 per cent,
citizen in Porto Rico, and we don't
know what per cent, of citizenship the
Filipino is to have. In 1896 the re
publican* said every dollar must be
aa srood as every, other dollar, and we
say that every citizen ahall be as good
aa eyery pthec. citizen and that tbe
•ame consjitution ji^all..protect then
all.^W, 3gT
as. r-r^gg
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NEED FOR AJIIG ARMY.
The interests behind McKinlt want
a big standing army. They want it
for use at home. They want it sta
tioned at the great industrial centers.
It comes iiandy when capital can't
make labor do its bidding. And if
these interests can't get it one way
they'll get it another. They got a
war tax to pay the expenses of the
Spanish war. That War h^s been oveV
nearly two years. But the tax goes on
just the same. They need the money
for a bigger army. A republican con
gress won't reduce the standing army.
If it ever gels through with foieign
conqnest the regiments now abroad
will be stnlioneil at convenient points
at home to act as policemen, over our
own working classes. There is method
in all this military madness.
BRYAN ON THE FULL DINNER PAIL.
"The gentleman asks ine to say some
thing about the dinner pail. The repub
lican parly is trying to escape a discus
sion of its attack upon the foundation
principles of government, and when a
laboring man accuses the republican
party of an attempt to destroy the dec
laration of independence the only an
swer is that you have got a full dinner
pail, and while you have got plenty to
eat you should be satisfied. I want you
to remember in the first place that you
cannot satisfy a man by giving him
plenty to eat, and in the second place,
I want you to take the cost of what you
,Juy as a laboring man and measure it
against your wages and see if the trusts
have not raised the price of what you
buy more than they have your wages.
The republican party has no plan for
the betterment of thp permanent oon
dition of those who toil, but it has per
mitted the^great, .branches of industry
to he monopolized a few.'*,'
THE
The Prices Paid the First Welk
September for Eight Years.
1
'Look at the price ol hogs!" said a
McKinley man to a neighbor, last week.
Well, let's look at the prices. No
doubt this man belie yeslhat McKinley
made the prices what they are at pres
ent, and has fixed the prices since he has
been president.
The following are the market quota
tions for the first week in September
for eight years.
These quotations may be obtained
and our figures verified by referring to
the files of any paper carrying a Chicago
market report and. shows the highest
prices paid. Read it:
1893.— $g
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
worn BMtmo powotn coM hew yowk.
00
per hundred.
1894 6 00 per hundred.
189
5 6 00 per hundred.
189($ 5.25 per hundred.
Average price for the past four years
(including the two "panic" years,)
$5.81} per hundred.
Now look, at the prices during the
four "prosperity" years. r-V.*
$4 50 per"hundred.
189
8
4
190
0
25 per hundred.
1899 5 00 per hundred.
5 40 per hundred.
Average price under "McKinley Pros.
perity" $4.78$ per hundred.
Yes, look at the price of hogs!
Did McKinley make the prices in
1897, '98, '99 and 1900?
Will you say he did?—Bloomfield
Democrat.
-The bluest blue makes the whitest
white, that's Russ' Bleaching Blue.
Refuse fraudulent imitations.
Docs the
If
not, something must be
wrong with its food. If the
mother's milk doesn't nour-!
ish it, she needs SCOTT'S
EMULSION It supplies the
elements of fat required, for I
the baby. If baby is not
nourished by its artificial
food, then it requires
Half a teaspoonful three
or four times a day in its
bottle will nave the desired
effect. It leems to have a
magical ef&ct upon-babies!
and children. A fiHy«cent
bottle will 'prove the truth
of our statements.
Should be tdkea la auwhtr 1
w^nwlatar.::
PoWD£*
HOW SUGAR PRICES HAVE GONE
UP IN I4WEEKS.
May 22 $5,20 per 100 lbs.
May 23 5.30 per 100 lbs.
May 20 5.40 per 100 lbs.
May 31 5.50 per 100 lbs.
June 1.. 5.00 per 100 lbs.
June 26..-. 5.80 per 100 lbs.
JulyS 5.90 per 100 lbs.
July 9 6.00 per 100 lbs,
Aug. 30.... 6.15 per 100 lbs.
The rapacious sugar trust has again
put the screws on hapless and defence
less householders by advancing the
price of refined sugars five points which'
mattes the present wholesale coBt of
granulated 6.15 cents.
This is the ninth raise the trust
has made in the price since it ob
tained absolute control of the mar
ket, three months ago.
The facts regarding the recent sugar,
war are well known. The public now
realize that the pretended war was like
some of the recent Horton law prize
fights—a fake pure and simple, in which
the rebel companies who put up the
bluff and seemed sure winners "laid
down" when the dear public's money
was all in. --^'^**4^
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HANNAITES SCHEME TO STEAL.
Ex Governor Stone has been only a
few days in charge of the eastern cam
paign for tbe democratic national com
mittee, but he has already succeeded in
laying bare one of Hanna's nefariously
bold and corrupt plans for carrying a
state which is normally democratic, but
which, unless the wholesale debauchery
of the election machinery by the repub
lican schemers who are conducting tbe
campaign for McKinley is defeated, will
have its electorial vote Btolen for the
prayerful Mr. McKinley. Frominforma
tien basedj-on posactial investigation,
supplied' tojj. a' Ujilted 8|oea senator,
Governor ^li^Ma i^talilgfl^t^at it
phui^ltready set on 'ftau
Haitnaite committee to ccfiffuf
Virginia with thousands of negroes from
Penhsvlyania, the District of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia. A train load of
these colpnizers passed through Wash
ington last week and many of them were
talked to while at the station in that
city by the senator who gave the in
formation to Vice Chairman Stone of the
democratic national committee.
Tbey said they were going to West
Virginia to work on a railroad, the name
of which none of them knew. They had
been hired to remain there till after the
election and had already received their
wages for the month of August, al
though they had never struck a lick of
work. 5"
Through colonization and the lavish
expenditure of money West Virginia was
carried for McKinley in 1896. This year
it is considered sale for tbe democratic
ticket by a decisive majority.
It requires only sixty days residence
in the state to entitle any one to vote,
and the republican, managers are getting
the floaters into the st^te thus early in
the action to be equipped for stealing
tbe state for the pious Mr. McKinley in
November.
Colonization will be resorted to by tbe
republicans iu other states. Millions of
dollars have been placed in Hanna's cus
tody for the purpose of employing every
species of fraud to defeat the will of the
American people at the ballot box, and
-he will use this enormous fund lavishly
and in defiance of all law and decency
in carrying out bis nefarious designs.
The man who captains tbe campaign for
the good and moral Mr, McKinley will
stop at no fraud however collossal and
balk at no political scoundrelism, how
ever rank, to secure the re-election of his
man.. The trust robbers and imperialists
Will fight against defeat like pirates at
a
It will be ia wise, hay, a necessary pre
caution for tbe democratic campaign
managers, through the club organize
trons of the party, to establish. %vigi
iance committed*in every, yotihg pre
cinct in-the union, wherever it is practi
cable. Tor the pirfpobe of ^detecting and
thwartiqg the plots the Ha^naites have,
concocted for Carrying the Election by
foul means.—Kansas Gify'Times.
Thomas Jefferson was defeated in 1796
an^ elected in 1800. William Jennings
Bryan will complete the patallel by de
Teating McKinley in 1900. J.»
...
t§r 'Cold Steel or Death*
"There is but one small chance to save
your life and that is through an opera
tion," was the awful prpspeet set before
Mrs. 1. B. Hunt, of Lime Ridge, Wis.,
by her doctor after yainly trying to cure
her of a^ frightful case of stomach trouble
and yellow jaundice. He didn't count
on the ihArye|QU8' powef. of £lectrie Bit
ters to cure stomach and liver troublea,
iut shf heai^l dRit, vtopk seve^-hottles,
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REPORTER SERIES VOL. XXVL NO. 8
better
to
ney troubles
and never dluppointB. JPflce fiQc at L-
Phone 22.
PEOPLE FOOLS
Silly Claim That Republicans Caus
ed Prosperity Is Derided,
Who was it said the United States
had a population of so many millions,
''mostly fools?"
The National Republican Committee,
at any rate, shares in the opinion, to
judge from the Chairman Text Book ic
has just issued. .,•*
One expects a parlisati grouping of
facts and statistics in such a volume,
but when all the ills that preceded and
attended the panic of 1893 are laid at
the door of Mr. Cleveland and the dem
ocrats, while all the attributes and ben
eficient gifts of the A'mighty are claim
ed for Mr.. McKinley the book becomes
ridiculous, oa
Despite the upiuiun of cynics, the
American people are not fools and this
perversion of facts is so gross as to ex
cite tbe derision of intelligent and tair
minded republicans. They know that
following the repeal of the Sherman law
there was a gradual recovery from the
effects of the panic, and the pent-up
energies of years found vent in every
field of activity. They know also that
record breaking crops at home coinci
dent with drought and famine abroad
made high prices for breadstuff^ in the
world's markets and a keen demand for
the surplus of our farms. But tbe text
book assures tbe farmer that the higher
prices for his products were due to the
duties on agricultural products under
the Dingley law, and tells him that
"idle men, tramps and souphoub-ee, fa
miliar sights under democratic rule,
could furnish but poor markets for farm
products."
Inasmuch as our imports of farm pro
ducts average about two millions a year,
while our exports run into hundreds of
millions, it would seem rather difficult
to adduce any hard facts to "fool the
farmer" on this subject, so the com
pilers of the text book remark that
many instances might be cited," but
that "a single example will be all that
is required," and, proceed to state that
the Dingley law, by restoring the duties
on eggs to 5 cents a dozen, checked the
importation of "this article of foreign
production!"
The^^ftys that in the three years
precf^^^Hweaent- one pur crops of
ever-kititwn, *nd
leA^thaiv^i^ij
MoKinley and ibe Dingfley law make
the rains fall at home and cause the
drought and famine abroad? If they
caused that expansion to $145,000,000
tbey must be equally respomtible for
the contraction to $73,000,000- tor our
exports of wheat in the flscal year just
ended. A few years ago our yearly ex
ports of pig copper were $9,000,000.
Last year they were $56,000,000. It
will scarcely be claimed that tbe Re
publican Administration caused the ex
pansion of electric enterprises in foreign
countries which made the increased de
mand for tbe product of our mines.
And yet this is done indirectly by in
cluding the figures for copper ingots
and other almost crude natural pro
ducts in the yolume of "manufactures"
exported. The growth in our foreign
trade resulting from the general develop
ment of commerce and increase of pop*
ulation—for which the republicans can
claim no more credit than the democrats
's all ascribed to the McKinley admin
istration.
Itis needless to pursue the theme.
Political prejudices in this country are
not so intense as to blind even partisans
to the absurdity of these and a hundred
similar statements packed into tbe 430
pages of tbe text book. Party mana
gers should really give the people credit
for a little intelligence.—New York
.Herald,
The rumblings from New York are
that unless the republicans hump them
selves that state is good for Bryan by
50,000. Either Hanna is working to
scare the people or the prospects of Mc
Kinley are growing murky.
/Ybolit
Spices!
kJMF-
When a druggist buys
spicee he hag a chanee to
exercise his judgment and
conscience. Spices are com
monly adulterated and
there are often four or five
grades. Tbey are among
the little things that a
druggist handles, but this
is a store that looks atter
little things and we allow
no spices to come here that
are not exactly what they
should be. It will pay you
to come here for spiees, for
we guarantee the strength
and reliability of those we
sell.
it"
W.E.1MYE
RS&C0.
iruggists.
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