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LOCAL NEWS NOTES,
Ulyssc Weuve. of State Center, 10., visited
this city during encampment week. Mr.
Weuve la one of the prominent cattlemen in
lowa.
General Manager W. C. Farrington, of the
Eastern Minnesota, of Duiuth. was in the city
yesterday.
Peter Murphy, the hotel runner, who is
charged With violating the hotel runners' or
dinance, will have a trial in the police court
today.
James Prvse, of N-w York, will talk on
theosophy before the Unity Theosophical so
ciety tomorrow evening. In room _47 Endi
cott building.
Harry Griffin paid $5 for scorching with his
bike on East Seventh street. Griffin said there
were others who did the same, but Judge Orr
Inform.- him that this was no excuse.
There were fifty-four criminal eases before
Judge Orr yesterday in the police court.
Twenty-five of the offenders were discharged.
fourteen sent to the workhouse, three fined
and the others continued.
The Ladies' Aid society of tho First Presby
terian church has been requested by its
friends to continue serving dinners, and it
has ,i,veS.\, to do so. Tlie ladies will be found
at the Home Exchange lunch room, 34" Wa
basha street.
Patrick Flaherty, a railroad switchman,
living ;,t 99 Valley street, fell on the side
walk near .Seventh and Jackson streets last
evening and broke his right leg at the ankle.
He \va. taken to his home by ha central
patrol wagon.
Lillian M. Hollister. of Detroit. Mich., su
preme commander of the Ladies of the Macca
bees of the World is in the city. She is visiting
the Northwest for the purpose of instructing
tho deputies of Minnesota and the jurround
ing states in the organization and ritualistic
work of the order.
Arrangements have been made to have Hon.
John Avery, congressman from Michigan, ad
dress the First Ward Sound Money club this
evening at the hall, corner of Arcade and
Lawson streets. Mr. Avery ls well known
as an able speaker, and his address on the
financial question will be worth hearing. The
hall is a commodious one and It v/J. doubtless
be filled.
THE BI'SV WORLD.
Phil F. Kelley, of Seattle, is at the Ryan.
Wm. J. Bell, of Winnipeg, ls at the Wind
»eir
R. A. Hurt, of Jackson, Term., ls at the
Ryan.
L. C. Watte, of Riverside, Cal., ls at the
AVindsor.
Miss Ada Bowles, of Elmira, N. V., ls at
the Ryan.
W. 11. Davi?. of La Crosses, i. at the
Clarendon.
N. P. Curtis, of Le Sueur, is at the
Clarendon.
L. L. McArthur, of Portland, Ore., is at
the Windsor.
J. E. Cooiey, of Duiuth, Is registered at
the Clarendon.
P. W. Simpson, of Bellows Fall., Vt., Is at
the Clarendon.
W. C. Scott and wife, of Duiuth, are at
the Merchants'.
John MeConnell, of Cape Meares, Ore., ls
at the Merchants'.
Capt. Maxse. Royal artillery, London, is
at the Merchants'.
Frank North and wife, of Fayette, 10.,
are at the Clarendon.
P. J. H. Frarrill and wife, of San Fran
cisco, are at the Ryan.
T. S. Campbell, of West Superior, is reg
istered at. the Windsor.
George A. Taunley and B. Charming Miller,
of New York, are at the Ryan.
V. S. Dorkin, wife and children, of Mis
soula. Mont., are at the Merchants'.
David Murphy, Mrs. M. J. Murphy, Miss
F. E. Blanke, Miss E. D. Coe and Miss Barr
of St. Louis, were at he Merchants' yester
day.
Senator F. H. Carter, of Helena, Mont.,
was in the city an hour yesterday on his"
way to Chicago. He took supper at the
Merchants'.
F. O. Stone, Rochester, N. V.; H. D. Muller
and wife. Philadelphia, Pa.; C. S. mine
and Mm. F. Manning, Devil's Lake, N. D.'
are at the Metropolitan.
Gc*es Ont for Ninety Days.
An individual who answers to the name of
V>. E. fceitt was before Judge Orr yesterday
charged with disorderly conduct. Seitt, who
claims to hail from Jamestown, N. V visit
ed a confectionery store on University 'avenue
and insulted the -women who were in the
place. When arraigned in court he explained
to the jud-e that he was a professional man
and gave the court and audience an exhibi
tion of how he dusted off a person's clothing
and kept time to a. whistling accompaniment.'
He will run a knitting machine at the work
house for the next ninety days.
Moorwi In Court,
The case of Michael and John Moore,
charged with disorderly conduct, were con
tlnued in the police court yesterday to
M ednesday The prisoners were arrested ten
days ago charged with disorderly conduct in
having assaulted and knocked down Nick
J.'X'p ?I s engfged- as special policeman
?_ 1„h CenU : al heater on East Seventh street.
in theT_°,, r H*-£ t0 eSCaP . e Joh " Mo0 ™ Wa «
iftPr r.__ E? b y one o' the police force, and
, t_. rea hmK the station received a severe
Ross g W attem Pt-ng to assault S e rgt!
Interesting- AVar Relic.
no^ ?■* Mousso, of 420 Central avenue, Min
neapolis, is the proud possessor of a war relic
which was viewed with a great deal of inter
f.t by ™ an " r of the old soldiers in attendance
»» P „, recent encampment at St. Paul.
Mr. Mousso was a member of Company B of
the Second Missouri infantry. He was with
the Confederate army at Vicksburg, when
Pemberton surrendered to Grant, and with
the other prisoners captured was paroled. A
few weeks ago Mr. Mousso received a photo
graph of the original parole document, now
in the hands of the government.
Replaced Two Janitors.
The joint court house and city hall com
mittee has elected Albert Beyer, an Eighth
warder, janitor to succeed A. Naeh'sheim
who was removed on charges of mc jmpotenev
and neglect of duty, and Mr. Scouvcl, of the
Sixth ward, to succeed W. F. Marquaidt
recently appointed street commissioner. An
effort was made to oust Ben McGuir. but
only received half the votes. The custodian
was directed to have all employes wear »h»
tegulation uniform.
Praises the State School.
Among the visitors to the encamp _.;nt was
I. J. ( narlton, superintendent of the Indi
ana state reform school, lv company with
Secretary Hart, of the state board of cir
rectlons and charities, he visited the state
training school and the state prison and h«
pronounced the former institution in aariicu
lar a model of its kind.
Robbery Case Continued.
The case against Robert Bader, Joseph Da
vignon and Nick Drew, alias Carrier charged
with grand larceny, was called In the police
court yesterday and continued to Wednesday
The trio are charged with having stolen a
pocketbook containing $266 in cash and $3,000
in notes from A. Weinholzer, proprietor' of
the saloon at Eighth and Wabasha streets
The fourth man in the panty, who, the police
cay, got away, and also carried off the money
has not been arrested.
Horse Stealing: the Charge.
James Williams, arrested by the Ducas
street police a week ago for driving off with
a rig owned by Mrs. Bruce, of 374 Magnolia
street, will have to answer to a charge of
horse stealing. The detective* claim that
v. illiams has been associated with Fred Rob
erts who is now in jail on a charge or pass
ing forged checks. y
Few Forest Fires.
-***Ww!th-tanding the thirty days' drouth
in the northern portion of the state, Gen C
C. Andrews states that forest fires have been
acarce. A few minor fires occurred in Ben
ton, Kanabec. Pine and Lake counties but
wore extinguished before serious damage was
done.
Fyou |
> I3f_j \^ raE celebratrd '!
I IVER*3 & POND
IPIANO
t- For Cash, or $ 5 down, balance $10 per lj
) month. Tnis is a safe investment. Ex* ( i
> amine our assortment. l-.verytliin«- in S
) the music Line at .floil Keaton* J
/ able Prices. 'i
> EXPERT PIANO TUNING. i|
W.J. DYER & BRO.,
) 21-23 Went Filth Street. { \
»A_fl_Y Kf! TOILER
MARCHES THE SAME STREETS SO
RECENTLY GLISTENIN .» WITH
MARTIAL DISPLAY.
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION
IS ATTENDED WITH SUCCESS AIVD
THE FAVOR OF THE ELE
MENTS.
VMON PICNIC AT WHITE HEAR,
Follov* ii»<_, the Parade, Gives Pleas.
ure to the Recreating- Masses
-Of Or^-u nixed Labor.
May day, with all its treats of pleas
ant weather, could never have g;iven
labor a fairer holiday than did yester
day, the first Monday in September.
The air was clear and bracing, cool,
and yet warmer than for two or three
days previous, making It almost an
ideal day for a picnic at a rural retreat
amid the changing leaves of autumn.
It was also pleasant for that other
prominent feature of the Labor day
celebration, the parade. Organized
labor turned out In good force, and
the crowds that lined the course of the
procession witnessed a quiet and digni
fied gathering of organized laboring
men. No emblems of anarchy were
flaunted; no political capital permitted
in the banners that waved above the
heads of the marchers.
The parade was headed by a platoon
of police, followed by Chief Marshal T.
F. Thomas and his aids, C. H. Bonn
and Ed. Connor; fifty members of the
fire department in uniform followed.
The second division was marshaled
by Louis Nash, of the retail clerks'
union, and the members of the Trades
and Labor assembly headed it, wear
ing badges, and marshaled by F. E.
Hoffman. The West Side Turnverein
was followed by speakers and visitors
in carriages. The hack and cab driv
ers, with their horses appropriately
decorated and their carriages contain
ing the members of the bindery girls'
union, made a good showing. One man
had the startling banner, "Patronize
the Curbstone Merchants," on his
horses. The boilermakers, with C. J.
Allen as marshal; the carpenters, with
J. L. Hughes as marshal; the horse
shoers, with O. Oleson as marshal; the
theatrical stage employes, the painters
and the waiters concluded this division.
The third division was headed by
Frank Pampusch, of the pressfeeders,
as marshal, and a band, and the press
feeders, with E. Furnee as marshal,
came first. The Webb presshelpers,
marshaled by George Yould, made a
good showing, as did the stereotypers,
with E. A. Oakley as marshal, and the
pressmen. The German printers were
marshaled by John Klaus; the book
binders' large turnout by T. F. Kee
gan; the typographical union by F. T.
Keegan, with two hundred men in line.
The fourth division, with F. J. Boyle
as marshal, included the bakers, who
made perhaps the best showing of any
organization, each man having a white
shirt and cap and dark trousers.
The bricklayers, marshaled by Oscar
Berger, made a good showing, as did
the cigarmakers, headed by J. Scharf
billig. The iron moulders, with G. W.
Pippy as marshal; the plumbers, with
C. F. Doyle as marshal, and the tin,
sheet iron and cornice workers con
cluded the division.
A band led the brewery workers at
the head of the fifth and last division,
marshaled by Charles Krucky. The
coopers were marshaled by C. Fisher,
the shoemakers by E. Seymour, the
barbers by Charles Plonske, while the
retail clerks made a good showing
without having a marshal. Prof.
Smith, in his Highland costume, and
with a bagpipe, attracted a great deal
of attention, he leading the harness
makers, this union being marshaled by
G. N. Gies.
The committee in charge of the cele
bration last night requested the
Globe to make public their expres
sion of thanks to Chief Goss for his
courtesy in furnishing a platoon of po
lice to lead the column, and to Chief
Jackson, of the fire department, who
detailed fifty men to participate in the
parade.
After the parade the marchers and
their friends all repaired to White
Bear, where the features of the after
noon and evening had been arranged.
The committees in charge of the cele
bration were:
Arrangements Committee— Harry Franklin
chairman, typographical union; John F.
Krieger, secretary, cigarmakers' union; Ed
B. Lott, treasurer, bookbinders' union; Miss
Kate Keating, garment workers' union; Miss
Maggie McClure, bindery girls' unions F.
Pampusch, pressfedders' union; F. J. Boyle,
pressmen's union; I_. Christopherson, tin,
sheet iron and cornice workers' union; K.
H. Beckjord, tailors' union; G. 11. Becker,
barbers' union; Q. C. Collins, typographical
union.
Dancing Committee— G. C. Collins, Frank
Pampusch, Kate Keating, F. J. Boyle.
Transportation and Grounds Co.mmittee—
E. B. Lott, G. C. Collins, Harry Franklin,
F. J. Boyle, Frank Pampusch.
Sports and Prizes— E. Christopherson, Miss
McClure, John Krieger, Ed Lott, Harry
Franklin.
Speakers — F. Pampusch. Miss Keating, G.
C. Collins, G. H. Becker, John Krieger.
Printing— F. J. Boyle, F. Pampusch.
Programme — E. Christopherson, Miss Keat
ing, Miss McClure, John Krieger.
GOLD OR SILVER?
Both Sides Presented to the Wave
Earners.
Though a goodly number of people
were in and about Ramaley's pavilion
all the afternoon, it was not a large
audience that gathered to hear Labor
Commissioner L G. Powers and Hon.
S. M. Owen discuss the financial ques
tion. The speakers were not at fault
however. The wrong place was select
ed from which to address the people.
The speeches were delivered from a
balcony on the west side of the pavil
ion, where the speakers faced the sun,
while the people below blistered the
backs of their necks listening to them.
The fact that several hundred of them
submitted to the roasting process for
two hours evidenced their interest in
the matter discussed.
President E. Christopherson, of the
Trades and Labor assembly, presided.
Shortly before 4 o'clock, Mr. Chris
topherson introduced Labor Commis
sioner Powers, who presented the
sound money side of the question as
follows:
Mr. President, Members of the St. Paul
Trades and Labor Assembly, Ladles and Gen
tlemen: It Is with pleasure that I greet you
on this day set apart by your customs as
members of organized labor, and also set
apart by law*, as sacred to the Interests to that
army of toilers which always have and always
will constitute the great majority of our
American people. It Is a most fitting occa
sion on which to discuss any question af
fecting the present and future welfare of
the millions of our land. No better day
could, therefore, be chosen on which candidly
and thoughtfully to consider the relation of
the proposed free coinage of stiver at 16 to 1
to the prosperity, progress and well being
of the wage earners of our common country.
This question may quite properly be treated
in many different ways and from widely dif
ferent standpoints. I shall confine myself to
day exclusively to a treatment that bases all
argument upon the propositions that are the
foundations of the movement for organized
labor, not only In tha United States but
in the world at large. I shall show you how
the leading arguments for the proposed free
coinage of silver Involve an abandonment
of all the genor«U assertions about labor
and capital that have been put forth by
labor leaders In the past forty years. Those
arguments for free silver coinage not only In
volve this abandonment of the genera! prin
ciples advocated by organized labor, they
Involve also a contradiction of ail that labor
*-H_E BAIIWPTiPa.*O , _3aGI."-tBE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 189 a.
men have for the i*m| tjjwtntjMlve years been
i asserting as facts _jb<ipt It-hor and capita!.
[mw lts flnal analfei^tHfii*, whole controversy
"resolves itself into- tWiC an<» only two vital
questions. First, Has the legislation of 1873
iujured the wage earner, the farmer and the
business man?: and, second. Will the pro
posed free silver coinage, if enacted, help
the wage earner, the farmer and the business
man?
Men may raise, as they do, a multitude of
side questions. They will cut no flnal figure
In this any more than they have with other
great social or economic subjects of national
concern. Let me illustrate. In this contro
versy some advocates of free silver have
much to say about the money of the consti
tution and of the fathers who framed the
constitution. It was the same in the old Hays
of slavery. Then men who defended slavery
always made the same appeal, the same argu
ment. The Southern men were right about
the constitution, but because slavery was
wrong it had to go, constitution or not. The
fathers' intention about slavery In thia
government counted for nothing when the
nation finally saw that slavery was wrong.
Thus it will be with reference to this ques
tion. No matter if the fathers 100 years ago
were gold monometallists, if gold monometal
sm s today working evil, it must go. So,
ikewise, if the methods of the fathers were
in any respects wrong, they must and will
be abandoned. Those financial methods of the
rathers can remain only if they are right
aud suited to our day. May 1 add the same
remark about the act of 1873. If that act
works mischief, it should and will be re
pealed, as was the old fugitive slave act.
No matter if the act of 1873 was passsed
properly as was the fugitive slave act. On
the other hand, if that law Is a correct one,
it will stand, or it will be re-enacted and
made the basis of all future legislation, no
matter how much controversy there may be
concerning the methods of its passage through
congress. — -*" **
In all these questions we must go straight
t m .! at ot the controversy. There ls and
♦'£[* v , ut two vital questions Involved In
tnis whole controversy. We must stick to
5H- 8 2 : *v st ' Has the legislation of 1873 in
___-?L™_- great mas ses of our people? and,
of ,i. H *_. W . wl i* the Proposed free coinage
of m*J £,{?*?* _ h ?, se masses -" In the balance
sLT«H™ k , I .£ han conflne m y self **- a oon
**i. nof lh ese two questions.
f Q n c -' l win 3peak of the alleged general
«H °« P . riceß -- th 5 t has Allowed the act of
fffcn .Jf ■*&£ that all articles of sale have
fallen since 1873. Is it so? Let us see. There
are many men and some women before me
who keep house. Are there any among them
who now buy meat for less than they did in
this town In 1872? If there are I wish they
would hold up their hands. I see no hands
up. Can any of you go out among the farm
ers and buy a fat steer or hog for less than
you could in gold or currency in 1872 Hold
up your hands as many of you as think you
can. I see no hands up. You are correct.
Animals for meat, and meats are higher in
the United States as a whole than twenty
five years ago. Let us now take another ar
ticle. Who will give me the price of nails
now and twenty-five years ago? In 1864 nails
sold wholesale for $7.85 a hundred, now they
are only a trifle over a dollar.
There is a like reduction in steel Bessemer
rails for railroads. In 1867 they were worth
$166 a ton, now they are only a little over
$20 a ton. Everything made of iron and steel
has likewise fallen in price. But why have
iron prices fallen and those for hogs and fat
steers and meat risen? Who will tell me?
We have Improved the methods for making
iron, we use more machinery in its production
and so lessen its, cost. We cannot make
steers and hogs and meat as yet by ma
chinery. We must still depend upon the good
old way of raising them. The new methods
and new machinery cheapen the iron, the
old methods keep up the price of meat and
hogs and steers.
I have called your attention to one phase of
this subject of falling prices. Let us turn to
the other. First, how have these falling
prices affected you and me as wage-earners?
When you go to the store and buy nails to
make repairs on your little home and pur
chase them for one-fifth of their old figure, do
the low prices hurt you? When your, wife
wants a new dress and she buys the cloth
for one-half the old figures, does the small
price hurt you? Do you grumble so much
over cheap flour as you do over dear meat?
Let us be honest with one another here. We
cannot make anything by trying to cheat
ourselves. How have the falling prices In
jured the wage-earners?
The whole thing from their side I heard
stated very forcibly the other day by a free
sliver advocate, while talking about the sub
ject for the benefit of the farmers. He was
trying to show the farmer how his lands
would double in value as the result of free
silver. He said, a man who works for wages
and votes to increase the prices of all he
buys when he has nothing to sell but his
labor is a fool. It is otherwise for the farmer.
Now, I think that the man reasoned incor
rectly for the farmers, but I know he rea
soned correctly for the wage-earner. The
wage-earner with nothing to sell but his toll
ls a fool to vote for an advance of prices.
Low prices do not Injure him, but always
have benefited him, unless they have lessened
his wages still more than the prices. Of that
I shall speak later. If you are uncertain
about this part of the subject and don't want
to leave it to me to settle, leave it' to your
wives at home.
But do these falling prices injure business
men as silver men assert? Let us see. If
f .ailing prices injure business men, they will
Injure those most In the lines in which there
Is the greatest fall. Is not that a truism?
Has anything fallen so much as steel rails
and iron production generally? If so, I do
not know what it is.- Let us talk about the
manufacturers of these articles. How many
of you remember the Homestead strike four
years ago? Ah, I see you all remember It.
We learned much about iron and steel mak
ing at that time. We all took very radical
ground of a certain kind in 1892. Let us look
at this statement about business ruin in the
light of the things learned and said by us
four years ago In connection with that Home
stead strike. Did any of us denounce the
men at Homestead for making the demands
that they did concerning wageß? Did any of
us say that if such demands, if complied
with, meant the ruin of Carnegie? Of those
before me, many today, as advocates for or
believers In free sliver coinage, are saying
that falling prices mean business ruin. Did
any of you, four years ago, talk that way
concerning Carnegie? No, I hear some say,
to all my questions. The free silver advo
cates of today were as loud In denouncing
Carnegie four years ago as any of the rest
of us. They agreed with the rest of us then
in saying that if Carnegie was growing rich
out of the iron business, that the men should
receive a share of his great profits. Were
we all right then in that position? I be
lieve we were. If so. then the free silver ad
vocates are wrong today when they assert
that falling prices mean universal business
ruin. The act of 1873, If It causes business
ruin today, must have been operative four
years ago at Homestead. Let us be consist
ent, and tell the same story now as then. If
the proposition of tho free silver men about
falling prices is true, then we were all In a
gigantic conspiracy to injure Carnegie four
years ago. You don't believe we were in
such a conspiracy, do you?
Again you have all joined with me in the
past in condemning the Standard Oil com
pany. You have agreed with me that this
concern was making money, but they have
done this In a falling market The export
price of kerosene oil in 1871 was 24.1 cents
a gallon. In 1891 it'Vas only 6.8 cents. Here
again you see that falling prices do not
necessarily nfean ruin to the producers.
Let us take up another subject with which
we are all familiar. It Is now only three
years since the Pullman strike and the great
strike on the railroads. The men at Pull
man struck against a cut in wages at a
time when the company was paying eight per
cent dividends upon millions of watered
stock. Did we side with the men or with
Pullman? With the men. Why? Because
we thought the cut in wages unwarranted.
Were we right? I believe we were. But
here comes our free silver advocates and
say: No, Pullman was bejng ruined by fall
ing prices. He ought to have cut the men's
wages. It ls true they never mention Pull
man when they talk about falling prices.
But Pullman ls a type of the business men
of whom they do talk. Let us talk about
him and his strike today. I will only say a
few words. You know the facts about that
strike as well as I do. If not better. Either
one of two* things are true. Those men at
Pullman were reasonable In their demands or
they r--ere not. If they were reasonable In
their demands, there Is no foundation to this
statement by free silver men about universal
business ruin following falling prices. If the
free silver men are right then we were all
engaged three years ago In one of the most
damnable conspiracies conceivable to Injure
a legitimate business enterprise. Which ls
true?
All that I have said thus far concerning
this subject only touches Its Incidentals. It
does not in the least reach down to my funda
mental objection to the economical fallaclees
upon which rests the whole contention of the
free silver advocates. Let me state my labor
philosophy. I start all my economical be
liefs from a few fundamentals. They are
these: Labor Is the basis of all wealth. It
is its creator, and hence its true and only
permanent measure. Man is, therefore, of
more account than wealth or capital or money
In any form. The welfare of the toilers Is
the first consideration of the state, and their
standard of living the only measure of na
tional prosperity or decadence.
Where are the principles of organized labor
to be used If not today with reference to this
sliver question? If labor ls of more con
seauence than wealth; If labor Is the creator,
and hence the measure of wealth, as you have
professed with me, why not stick to these
propositions today? Some of you may aban
don these principles of organized labor, as
you do. I will not, and I say I do not believe
the great mass of the men before me will
abandon them and accept this free silver
fallacy.
Let me show you In a graphic manner
by this chart the relative changes In the pur
ohasing power of gold and sliver and human
wages since 1872. I give you here a table
based upon the data of the United States ten
ate commltte* of investigation for tho years
1.872 to IMI, and from the British statistician
Sauerbeck, for tha yearn from 1881 to 1898.
The data from the senate investigations 1. '-.
arranged >til_j tfceir report making 1860 the
basis of comparison. 1 have rearranged the
same data, making 1872, the year before the
silver legislation, as the basis of comparison.
Here ls the table and chart:
IMative Purchase Power ot
SS*' Wages. Gold. Silver.
]™ 100 100. 99.2
JS™ 102 103 100.3
\™ r.- ■■■ 99 102 97.7
JSi •• 97 103 96.1
i"S ,*, 98 I° B 93.6
if™ ■"■-... .".'.....100 116 102.6
\l™ 1. ...107 125 108.0
J 8 ™ '••.. ..'....116 139 117.0
} 8 f? .-,... -....108 126 108.2
J BB i 117 122 103.7
If" 11l 121 102.7
Iff? 118 124 . 103.0
If 8 * 1... ; : 119 329 107.5
*f|s • 'te.....132 142 113.4
}°™ 132 142 105.9
Jffl - : JU....131 140 102.6
}£* 130 137 96.4
J*® «•• , 131 134 94.1
Jf9° ............143 141 110.0
lf9l «-..;.* ..:.142 140 103.0
IS? 147 86.1
JS! 155 73.8
1895 161 79.0
The purchasing power of gold and of
wages move along different lines, but in 18S9
to 1891 they are substantially the same. In
contrast, the purchasing power of silver was
iv 1891 substantially the same as in 1872, while
in 1895 it was 21 per cent less. Do you wish
the purchasing power of your wages re
duced to what they were in 1872? Do you
wish when you go to the market to be able
to purchase five objects where now you buy
seven? Or do you have a hankering to try
the experiment of the free silver coinage and
have everything on the silver basis?
what will free coinage do for the working
man. I have in part answered this. The
free coinage advocate says it will restore the
conditions of 1870. I am Inclined to think
that he is right upon this point. It will do
that very thing, it will take the laborer
back to a time when his wage will purchase
only two-thirds as much as now. It will take
him back to a condition of affairs in which
his chance for securing work Is less than
now. This conclusion I base not only upon
the experience of the United States since 1870.
but that experience between 1860 and 1870.
Those years were an era of cheap money
such as our free sliver friends advocate, as
contrasted with the years from 1870 to 1895
of sound money, such as they oppose.
I have said nothing about the workingman's
lost, upon his savings bank deposits, his life
Insurance policy and his other savings. They
have been treated at length by others. That
loss through free coinage In these lines will
simply be stupendous. The man who will
vote a return to the purchasing powear of
wages which existed in 1872 will vote to cut
the value of his savings in all forms In twain.
No other will. No one else can or will try to
injure himself in that way.
But some one will say. The mine owners
promise to enable us to steal under cover of
law one-half of our debts by enabling us to
pay 100 cents of debts with 50 cents worth
of silver.
I believe the wage-earners of the United
States are too honest and too Intelligent to
be misled by appeals to their dishonesty and
that they will be guided, as they always have
been, by intelligence and honesty to vote for
sound and honest money and not that finan
cial will-o' -the- wisp, the proposed free coin
age of sliver. *
Mr. Christopherson then presented
Hon. Sidney M. Owen. Mr, Owen re
marked by way of introduction that if
his hearers knew how hot it was up In
the balcony they would expect to hear
a red hot speech from him. To protect
his eyes from 'the sun, Mr. Owen asked
permission to keep his hat on while he
spoke. The crowd acquiesced with a
shout, and repeated the applause with
which they ffrst greeted the speaker,
who was evidently destined to please
them.
Mr. Owen said in substance: "Mr.
Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen—
You are here to listen to a discussion of
political economy from two distinct
standpoints. J. want to ask you from
whence comes the need of employing
22,000,000 wage earners in this country.
Whence comes the occasion for the
immense number of manufacturing
and mercantile establishments of this
country. What is the existence of
180,000 miles of railroads due to? What
do all these things mean, and why do
they exist? I will tell you. They exist
largely to supply the artificial wants
of man. Let men and women confine
themselves to the absolute necessities
of life, and the millions of laborers
would be idle and the 180,000 miles of
railroads would be nothing but streaks*
of rust extending across the length and
breadth of this country.
"I say to you," continued Mr. Owen,
"that I am for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver because it will double
the quantity of primary money in ex
istence. lam for this because I know
that with a greater volume of money,
prices will advance. For the first time
in the world the gospel of low prices
is being preached. It is a gospel not
three years old. It is yet in its swad
dling cloths. (Laughter.) Only two
years ago the preachers of this gospel
were telling you that the cheap coat
made the cheap man. (Laughter.) A
new faith, you know, requires a new
gospel. Today, in your market reports,
you will notice signs of returning confi
dence. And why? Because this week
wheat advanced two cents a bushel.
We must remember that agriculture is
the foundation of our well being. The
earth with the husbandman acting upon
it is the good mother from which we
gain all our sustinance.
"But not one-fourth of the farmers
once tilling the soil, are farming today.
They have nocked to the towns and
cities to become competitors with or
ganized labor there, because of the
great decrease Id the prices of farm
products." , . ,
Replying tp Commissioner Powers'
statement that the prices of meat, hogs
and sheep haji not, declined since 1873,
Mr. Owen quoted, statistics showing
that hogs formerly bringing $7 were
selling in the Chicago market as low as
$4 to $2. Mr. ©wen said he would
like to know .what Invention or discov
ery had cheapened the production of
hogs. (Laughter and applause.) It was
noticeable, however, that the meat
trusts had put up the price of meat just
the same. i
"I have that'confidence in my country
to believe th^Lt Uncle Sam will never
coin a dollar worth less than 100 cents.
To say that is an insult to our govern
ment, and no man who says it really
believes it. The men who are loaning
money have made them payable In
wbat? In coin, which means gold and
silver.
"Now these gold men say that the re
monelization of silver will crash the
commercial world and wreck the gov
ernment. Yet these men agree to in
sure against all horrors and calamities
at the rate of half of one per cent per
annum. Do you believe that ruin
awaits the government? (Cries of "No,
no.")
"The widest divergence known in 200
years, between the mintage and coin
age value of silver was less than 3
per cent. This existing gold standard,
which the gold men say we cannot
change without the consent of foreign
countries, was put upon us by consent
of the people of the United States. It
was done by official ruling. The gold
standard has given the creditor the
option of saying what metal he shall
be paid in. So long as this system ex
ists prices will continue to go down
and ruin must be the result. Gov.
Flower, of New York, says that the
lower prices ? benefit the laborer. If
that ls true then' all the laborers of
this country- ought to emigrate to
China. The 'surest and safest guar
anty of goc-ld wages and permanent
work is our* absolutely sound and
stable agricdlturiU interest. Admit
that the farmer" 1 can buy as much
merchandise ' as ihe laborer, which is
not the case. But unfortunately he
has to buy 'wh**_t. the gold standard
men do not mention. The mortgage in
debtedness of the farmers of Minne
sota has incieased, 25 per cent between
1880 and 1890. Su^-ph debt accumulation
was never shown before in a decade.
During the few years this country was
indulging in a carhival of debt making.
This great debt IS resting upon us and
the farmers. Is that debt bought any
cheaper with this new fangied dollar
of ours? No. The farmer must give
two bushels, two hogs, two steers to
buy the products of labor, where before
he gave one bushel, one hog and one
steer. You say, let the farmer be more
economical. Yes, and if he were, what ;
would become of you? They are not
buying more because they cannot buy.
"This gold doctrine is like your sitting
on the end of the limb of that tree
there and sawing the limb off between
yourself and the tree.
"You must either work to Increase the
prices, the products and the funda
mental purchasing power of the in
dustries of the country, or yoU will
soon have no wages at all. That in
creased purchasing power of the people
will never come until you have
strengthened the fundamental Industry
of this country.
"In answer to the statement that
wages do not advance in proportion to
the Increase of prices. Mr. Owen quoted
from a speech made in Australia, a
year ago, by an English authority on
finance, who described the prosperity
of Europe that followed the flow of
sliver from the new mines of the new
world. All gold standard men tell you
that increasing the volume of money
by the remonetlzation of silver, will in
crease prices, yet the platform adopted
at St. Louis pledges the destruction of
labor in this country. Yet they declare
that as soon as they can get the con
sent of Europe, they are going to ben
efit the silver mine owners." (Laugh
ter.)
In conclusion Mr. Owen said that
there was Involved in the question
more than the remonetlzation of silver
or the success of any political party.
There was involved In It the personal
and political liberty of every citizen.
Mr. Owen denounced in vigorous lan
guage, the action of the Central Traf
fic association t of railroads, in making
lower rates than were ever heard of
before, to Carry people to Canton, 0.,
to hear Gov. McKinley make a stump
speech from his own piazza.
Mr. Owen said, in conclusion:
"The despotism of monopoly is strug
gling for political mastery on the one
side and the people are trying to main
tain their rights on the other. We are
called anarchists, cranks and fools be
cause we want a restoration of the
rights bequeathed to us by our
fathers." ,
programme: op sports
Which Opened With an Interesting
Base Ball Game.
There was a base ball game between
teams composed of members of the
press feeders' union and a picked
nine of union men. Four in
nings were played. the press
feeders winning by a score of
five to three. The two nines played as
follows: Press Feeders— McHugh, c:
Meyer, p.; O'Connell, 1 b.; McDonald,
2 b.; G. Mosted, ss.; McCullough, 3 b.;
Marek, If.; Graul, cf.; M. Mostert, rf..
Picked Nine— Holly, c; Witha, p.; Pet
er mann, lb.; Barnes, 2b.; Gahagen, ss.;
Mack, 3b.; Schauland, If.; Geering, cf.;
Mathison, rf.. The track events fol
lowed, resulting as follows:
Running race, 100-yard dash, for union men
only— J. B. Hofbauer won; F. F. Block,
second, and J. Anstttt, third.
100-yard race, for members of the garment
workers' and bindery girl's unions— Anna
Mertens, first; Laura Feyer, second; Agnes
Brown, third.
Hop, skip and jump, for Turners only—Wil
liam Miller won; H. Miller, second; E. Had
lich, third. Distance, 36 feet.
Running long jump, open— William Miller
won; M. D. Nicholson, second; H. Grunau,
third. Distance, 11 feet 9 Inches.
Girls' race, under fourteen— Onnolee Keith
won; Tina Neis, second; Mary Ellen Nels,
third.
100-yard dash, open— P. A. Egan won; E.
Hadlich, second; Richard Gahagan, third.
Old maids' race, special— A Manning won;
Katie Gehan, second; Lena Schmitt, third.
Running race for wives of union men only-
Mrs. Henry Geiseklng won; Mrs. P. J. Ma
loney, second; Mrs. J. Holly, third.
Three-legged race, open— P. A. Egan and
M. D. Nicholson won; F. F. Block and J.
Fisher, second.
Boys' race, under sixteen— Charles Gahagan
won; Willie Kacerodsky, second; Willie Rut
zen, third.
Running race, union men only— Louis Nash
won: H. W. Dennett, second; Patrick Ge
raghty, third.
Standing long jump, open— P. A. Egan won;
H. G. Grunau, second; M. D. Nicholson, third.
Distance, nine feet.
Hop, skip and jump, standing— P. A. Egan
won; E. Hadlich second. Distance, 30 feet.
Ladies' race, union members only— Anna
Mertens won; Miss A. Manning, second; Lena
Schmitt. third.
Consolation race for ladies not winning a
prize— A. L. Goodell won; Bertha Zopfl,
second; Mrs. Mathison, third.
Judges' race, special— W. L. Williams won;
H. W. Dennett, second; Patrick Geraghty,
third.
Louis Nash was starter, Patrick J. Ge
raghty, H. W. Dennett and W. L. Williams
judges.
A majority of the picnickers returned
to St. Paul on the early trains, but a
sufficient number remained to enjoy a
programme of dances at the pavilion.
THIS WAS OVERLOOKED.
Survivors ot the 153 d Illinois Had
w Session.
Among the many Interesting reun
ions held during the national encamp
ment was one held by the One hundred
and Fifty-third Illinois Infantry, at
which Comrade J. Campbell, of Com
pany G, presided, with Comrade M. A.
Wurts, of Company D, as secretary.
The programme consists of martial
music, furnished by part of the drum
corps of the One Hundred and Fifty
sixth Illinois, followed by an address
of welcome by Comrade M. A. Wurts,
of 186 Arch street, St. Paul, and
speeches by Comrades J. Campbell,
Company G; H. Brown, Company A;
Jacob Wolfe, Company D, and A. A.
Payne, Company H, after which remin
iscences of camp life were indulged in
by all present.
At the conclusion it was resolved
that we send our loving and loyal
greeting to our old colonel and express
to him our appreciation of the never
failing kindness and courtesy that he
always extended to the men under his'
command.
Resolved further, that steps be taken
to have other reunions of the One Hun
dred and Fifty-third at some future
date, and that all surviving members
of the regiment that read this notice
communicate with M. A. Wurts, sec
retary, 186 Arch street, St. Paul.
WILL CLEAR fIO.OOO.
State Fair Will Have a Handsome
Balance Over All.
Treasurer, A. B. Moffatt, of the State Ag
ricultural society, has prepared the following
statement, showing the receipts of the fair
just closed with the expenses, and the re- I
celpts for the year previous. It Is as follows: |
Ticket sales, Monday $1,801 00 I
Ticket sales, Tuesday 5,199 58 j
Ticket sales, Wednesday 7,175 60 j
Ticket sales, Thursday 17,366 59 ;
Ticket sales, Friday 8,116 59 i
Ticket sales, Saturday 897 15 I
Railroad tickets for tbe week ._ 12,479 95 :
Total receipts for 1896 $53,854 62 '
Total receipts for 1895 $49,755 88 ;
ATTENDANCE.
Monday 6,000 Friday 23,000 ]
Tuesday 13,000 Saturday 5.000 I
Wedn.»»dAy ..... 18,000 !
Thursday 40,000 Total 105,000 '
The total receipts will reach $55,000, as es
timated, when everything is in. The expenses
are estimated at $45,000, leaving a balance of
$10,000 for 1396.
tresses are far more to the
matron than to the maid whose casket
of charms is yet unrifled by time.
Beautiful women will be glad to be
reminded that falling or fading hair
is unknown to those who use
Ayer's Hair Vigor.
FOIIiED A VILdiAllI
A YOUNG (illU.'S EXPERIB\CE AT
THE METROPOLITAN
HOTEL.
SHE CAME UP FROM HOUSTON
TO ACCEPT A POSITION AS GOV
ERNESS WITH A CHICAGO
GENT I. Ell AX.
HOW SHE WAS RECEIVED BY HIM.
Known to Her an "R. H. Cronch"
and to the Hotel iin "Col. R. H.
DenuUen."
A case was brought to the attention
of the police authorities yesterday by
Manager Barker, of the Metropolitan
hotel; and Chief of Detectives Schweit
zer and the members of the detective
department, are making a search for
the offender, but wi\h little chance of
apprehending him. The victim is a
young and unsophisticated country
girl, whose experience of life in a great
city for one week will be sufficient to
last her the balance of her life. The
young girl Is the daughter of a busi
ness man in Houston, Minn., and her
father yesterday arrived in St. Paul,
and, after settling a good-sized hotel
bill, took the girl back to her home.
About a month ago the young girl
answered an advertisement in a Chi
cago paper which set forth that a gov
erness was wanted by a widower to
take care of and act as a companion
to a fifteen-year-old miss. Several
days elapsed before an answer was
returned, and then came a letter writ
ten on note paper from the Palmer
house at Chicago, stating that the
writer, R. H. Crouch, was a wealthy
cattleman with a ranche in Texas, a
palatial cottage at Manitou, Colo., and
barrels of money in Chicago. Mr.
Crouch, according to his letter, was
anxious to secure the services of a
young woman to act as companion to
his fifteen-year-old daughter, and
thought by the letter he had received
from the young woman of Houston
that she would be just the one for the
place. He requested that the applicant
for the position write him frequently
so that he might know more about
her and also requested a description
of her person, as to color of hair, eyes,
build and complexion. Mr. Crouch
wound up his first letter by saying
that he intended to visit St. Paul about
Sept. 1, and thought It would be a
good idea to have the young woman
from Houston visit St. Paul about that
time, so as to meet both himself and
daughter. All expenses he said, would
be paid by him.
The next letter received by the
would-be governess at Houston from
Mr. Crouch was more personal, and
detailed his appearance as being "a
tall black haired man of forty-two
years, with dark eyes and a grey
mustache, no dude or would-be mash
er." The letter went on to say that
he was sure he would like the young
woman from Houston and that his
daughter had left the selection of a
companion entirely to him. He al
luded in glowing terms to the pleasure
both he and his daughter would derive
from the company of such a charming
young woman in their travels, and said
they would, as soon as the G. A. R.
encampment was over, spend the heat
ed term "in the mountains."
The young lady's father did not quite
like the tone of the letters which Mr.
Crouch was sending his. daughter, but
as the Texas cattleman spoke about
numerous references among the bank
ers and business men of Chicago and
St. Paul, thought perhaps it was all
right. The next letter received from
Mr. Crouch stated that he would be in
St. Paul with his daughter Sept. 1, and
would remain during the encampment.
He wrote that he had secured quarters
at the Metropolitan hotel and gave
minute directions to the young lady
at Houston as to how she should find
him when she arrived here. Thinking
that she had secured a position second
to none in the world, the young lady
left Houston last Tuesday and arrived
In St. Paul that afternoon. She im
mediately went to the Metropolitan
hotel and was met in the parlor by
Mr. Crouch. He seemed very effusive
in his greeting, but this was not par
ticularly noticed at the time by the
young woman. Mr. Crouch gave some
excuse about his daughter's absence,
owing to her being too ill to travel,
but said they would leave in a day or
so for Chicago. He also explained that
owing to the crowded condition of the
hotel during the encampment, he had
not . been able to secure a suite of
rooms, but had secured as pleasant
quarters as possible.
The couple were shown to room No.
103 on the third floor of the hotel, the
appartment having been engaged by
the Texas cattleman a week before by
a letter written to the manager of the
hotel and signed "R. H. Dennison." In
this letter the writer said he was "Aid
to the department commander of the
Illinois G. A. R. and wanted rooms for
hlu"self and wife during the encamp
ment." To make the thing strong the
Texas cattleman, who was known to
the Houston young lady as Mr. Crouch
and to the hotel people as Col. R. H.
Dennison of Chicago, said he had been
recommended to the hotel by the pro
prietor of the Palmer house and wanted
the best rooms in the building that he
could secure.
For the two days following her ar
rival the young woman was submitted
to the most outrageous indignities at
the hands of Col. R. H. Dennison. She
was not allowed to leave the room un
less accompanied by him, and for two
nights was obliged to remain in the
room. Col. Dennison, as he called him
self, made improper advances to the
young woman, but she repelled these
advances by threatening to throw her
self from the window of the room if
he laid hands on her. For two long
nights she sat in her chair afraid to
sleep and unable to leave. Alone in
the city without a friend and under the
niost trying circumstances, the young
girl hardly knew what to do, but last
Thursday morning she found a chance
to slip out of the room and determined
to seek aid from the hotel people. She
related her tale of woe, and a search
was at once made for Col. , Dennison.
He, however, had left at the same time
that tbe girl started for the hotel office
and had skipped out. In his haste, he
had neglected to pay for the room and
board of himself and the young woman,
and being suspicious of a job. Manager
Barker . decided to hold the young
woman's effects for the bill, pending an
Investigation. The young girl placed
in a very trying position did not know
what to do, but remembering that her
father had a friend in St. Paul, she
hunted him up and told her story. She
was taken to the house of her father's
friend and word sent to Houston noti
fying her parents of her predicament-
Early yeseterday morning the young
woman's father arrived in St. Paul, and
after a short talk with the hotel man
ager, settled the account which had
been charged up against his daughter
to secure her trunks and departed for
home.
The police were given a good descrip
tion of Mr. Crouch, alias Dennison, and
will make an effort to apprehend him.
Pottgrelner Is 111 -changed.
Charles A. Pottgleser, a bartender, charged
with robbing a veteran of a watch during the
encampment, was discharged In the police
court yesterday. The complaining witness
did not put in an appearance.
eBP^ • "_. "A
Field,
Schlick
Ok vOt
Sucessors to F eld, Mahler & Go.
Silk Sensation.
Matchless Dress Goods.
o__e=Third Off Linens.
One=Third Off Curtains.
Making* prices that no other
store in Minnesota can meet.
Qualities that no other store in
Minnesota can touch.
S big- lots of Fancy Silks from
a great purchase of 680 pieces.
Full assortments in each lot for
Tuesday's selling. See the silks
and bring your friends.
Lot 1. — 5,000 yards of the very best
Fancy Kai-Ki Silks, the very highest
qualities, much better than the kinds
you have seen advertised in -j P
town, worth 39c and 49c; all you \TiC,
want today, for ■«v V
Lot 2.-
SILKS FOR 24 GENTS
Worth up to 60 cents.
New Changeable Stripes.
New Checked Silks in bright
combinations.
New Bright Checked Taffeta
Silks.
Lot 3.-
SILKS FOR 38 CENTS
Worth up to $1.00.
11 different styles and kinds.
Lot 4.-
SILKS FOR 48 GENTS
Worth up to $1.50.
10 different styles and kinds.
Lot 5.—
SILKS FOR 65 CENTS
Some worth $2.00 and $2.50.
That seems a strong statement
but is a positive fact. We
bought them for almost nothing,
and we'll give our customers the
benefit of the remarkable pur
chase. The lot includes 25 dif
erent styles and kinds.
Dress Goods
Leaders.
Leaders from every point of
view — leaders in quantities, lead
ers in styles, leaders in qualities
and leaders for Low Prices.
We can and do undersell every
other merchant in the State.
Please note the width of all of
our goods.
Granite Mixtures, made of mixed
yarns in a variety of colors, 45 QP
inches wide; stylish and Qj(3
serviceable v/w
Canvas Cloths, in the newest weaves
of the season, also made of A A
mixed yarns. Zvfl ll jl
Full 46 inches wide <t,l,wv
Camel's Hair Canvas Cloths in new
est mixtures, shading of _*t AA
blue, brown and green, 50 in- ,!h I 111
ches wide, very cheap at ™ •W
Mohair and Wool Novelty ed»| *■»£
Suitings, 48 inches \\ /*!
wide H>M.»HV
Scotch Suitings in even Checks and
mixed Checks, the swell fr-t PA
thing for street dresses, 46 \\ *ll|
inches wide «|/ •_.•«*_/ v
Novelty Persians in scroll .d*^ /*r
designs, beautiful color ar- JS_Z /!*l
rangements, 48 inches wide.. *
Novelty Suitings in seeded £-f • p
effects, very chcice colorings, ,fk| ||*l
48 inches wide V»»V«v
Black Goods.
"Gold Medal" Jacquards:
40 inches wide, 50 Cer.VS.
42 inches wide, 65 Cents.
44 inches wide, 75 Cents.
44 inches wide, 85 Cent,***.
44 inches wide, $1.00.
"Gold Medal" Mohair Novelties.
44 inches wide, $1.00.
44 inches wide, $1.25.
44 inches wide, $|. 50.
A Linen Surprise.
Ten days ago we made a purchase
of John S. Brown & Sons' ""able
Cloths, .getting a full assortment of
sizes at a discount of 35 per cent.
A chance like this will not come
again in years.
8-4xß-4 Cloths, $3.25: regular price,
$5.00. '
8-4xlo-4 Cloths, $4.25: regular
price, $6.50.
8-4x14-4 Cloths, $5.00; regular
price, $8.00.
8-4x14-4 Cloths, $6.00? regular
price, $9.00.
10-4x12-4 Cloths, $6.50: regular
price, $10.00.
3-4x3-4 Napkins, $6.00: regular
price, $9.00.
aCe From a bank
rupt maniac
's; urtains *«* r oin0 in st.
trail, Switzer
land, at very great reductions
from regular prices.
Real Brussels Curtains:
$6.00 Curtains for $3.90 a pair
$7.50 Curtains for $5.00 a pair
$10.00 Curtains for $6.50 a pair
$11.00 Curtains for $7.50 a pair
$13.00 Curtains for $9.00 a pair
$16.00 Curtains for $11.00 a pair
$18.00 Curtains f0r. . . . $|2.50 a pair
$22.00 Curtains for $14.00 a pair
FIELD, SCHLICK & CO.
isiMMion to F!«!_L Habhtr * C«.
Wabasha, 4tli, sth and St. Peter Sts.
THE ENTIRE BLOCK.