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NOTICE TO THE PLIIIJC.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation,
which may appear in the columns of
"The Newd," will he gladly corrected
upon Its helnvr brought to the atten-
tion of the puhliwlicrH.
better than a convenient Instrument for a
band of raiders who claim authority to levy
tribute on one set of citizens to be paid out
to campaign helpers of another sort. The
president suggests for the benefit of sen-
ators who have wasted a week over the
bond resolution that this and other extrav-
agant attacks on the treasury and on the
credit of the nation would "create obliga-
tions of the United States no less binding
than its bonds for that sum." The very
men who have recently preached economy
so eloquently and who were quite ready to
take from the administration the power to
save the credit of the nation by issuing
bonds supported the river and barbbr bill
and other measures demanding of the peo-
ple $650,000,000 a year. The river and har-
bor bill, as exposed by the disse. ting power
of Mr. Cleveland, and otlv;* demands upon
the national treasury made by the present
congress tend to emphasize the danger that
may come of the recent decision in the
sugar bounty case. While the decision does
not settle the question of constitutionality
of bounties, it holds that if congress has
made appropriations their payment can not
be stopped by an administrative officer on
the ground of unconstitutionality. As the
New York Evening Post says: "Although
the question of the constitutionality of
bounties per se was not decided, the drilt
of the decision is toward the affirmance of
the same—that is, toward affirming the
power of congress to do what it pleases
with -the public money. Apparently the
remedy for the profligate, or mistaken, or
dishonest appropriations is not in the
courts, but in the people." Here the danger
lies. Congress has the power to do "what
it pleases with the public money." Even
the president's veto can be overriden when
the trades cover all sections of the coun -
try and the great deal has two-thirds of
the members in it. Whether it be public
money passed out by the millions to enter-
prising builders of battleships, or greedy
grabs by demagogues who are eager to buy
the votes of pensioners, or special bounties
to agricultural or other producers in
laboring man." If the laboring man would
find a friend let him turn out and hear
some candidate who wants his vote make
a great speech like Governor Culberson
made at Beaumont.
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3
None of the Dudley primaries have had
a rush so far.
Of the 2000 democratic voters of Austin
about 300 participated in the Dudley pri-
maries. The gallant 300 selected eighty-six |
delegates to the county convention, classi- j
lied as follows:
Employes o$ departments and institu
tions
Other executive appointees
Managers of state institutions
State officers
Contractors and subcontractors
Stat.*
District, officers
Friend v railroad officials
I'nivers!ly professors
Organists
Irreclaimable silver cranks
County officer
Federal officer
Ail ministration, advisers
Free silver candidate for congress
Hanger-on, looking for job
Republicans
1 democrats (private)
City officials
Miscellaneous
SPARKS ON SILVER.
F All BIER WHO INVESTIGATED
THE GREAT I I HIlllNCY UlES-
TIO> POll HIMSELF.
IS NOW A GOLD BUG.
tain elements or characteristics before it
can be called standard money, and 1 can t
conceive of any other kind composing the
standard of value. Then I ask again Ay hat
is standard money? 1 am fortunate in bay-
ing Hon. Josiah Patterson to help me in
this case and will quote him thus: *.l de-
fine it to be money which is made out of a
substance the commercial value of which
is exactly equal to its purchasing power
after it is coined." To illustrate lie says:
"The gold dollar contains 23.22 grains of
pu
slanderer from South Carolina. Another
reason why .silver would not go to par
with gold is that this country alone pro-
duces annually $60,000,000 worth of silver,
and the mints run at their full capacity
coining nothing but silver dollars can coin
only $40,000,000 annually, so that there would
be $20,000,000 of uncoined or bullion silver
the first year, which could not get to the
mints, and would, of course, be sold as
any other commodity for the market value
rlous and resourceful a country to be in*
Instead of an American going to Mexico,
eating a dollar dinner, paying an Ameri-
can dollar and getting a Mexican dollar,
with six grains more silver than the Amer-
ican one had in it, back as change, it will
be an Englishman, a Frenchman, German,
Russian or probably a Cuban or Turk or
Chilean, some representative of civiliza-
tion. who will come into heathen America
and eat a dollar dinner, pay his good dol-
of silver bullion. Then the second year j lar and get one of our standard silver dol-
and its value in the market is j we would have $40.i*00.000, the third i lars as change, and that's the kind of free
(>:aetiv equal to the purchasing power of ; 000 and so on of uncoined silver to be dis- i silver we'll have if we are not earelul now
. i. . i »i ... .., .... it i. . n,-,in 9 9 rPli ri t i 1 o
with
AdvInch Farmers to llcad I p—Quotes
Thomas Jefferson, Also Jackson,
tulhoun and Others.
! JIM HQGG IS UNRELIABLE.
. the dollar after ft is'coined." That is to
i say. 22.23 grains of pure gold uncoined will
j purchase hi-! as much labor, groceries,
I merchandise or other commodity in the
j markets as it will after it is coined. Mr.
| I'atterson savs the essential elements of
: siandard money are "free, independent and
unlimited coinage." Hold meeting the re-
quirements of the foregoing definitions is
: therefore our standard money, as well as
, of value. Can we then have more than one
' standard of value or money? Theoretically
i ves; actually, practically, no. Why? Bc-
» cause it has ever been since the use of
I eoined gdd and silver at least a physical
j impossibility io keep tl'.vir legal and com-
mercial ratios equal. To illustrate. 215.-2
! grains of pure gold, coined or uncoined, are
' Worth 100 cents the world over, and aiway-
I posed of at its market value, this on the
hypothesis that the production of silver
: would remain stationary, and that none of
' the silver countries would send their bul-
lion to our mints. Now the only way I
i can s» e to avoid the above results would
' be to build to ore mints and employ more
j men at public expense to coin all the sil-
; ver that* may come. Maybe we of the
j south ought not to kick at being taxed to
( make a !Vw rich men of the west richer,
i as wo have been doing for a# few of the
, eastern manufacturers. There is this dif-
! fere nee. however, in the latter ease: We
! have not been able to help ourselves, while
i if we vote right we can escape the former.
! Again, in 1ST:., when the standard silver
j dollar was left out of the coinage act the
trade dollar of 41!<> grains grakis mor
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Total
The Cuban insurgents are still burning
sugar mills and tobacco houses about Bata-
bano.
• •SO ; He W as the Same Way in Hegard to
Splitting Hails in the Years
Gone lly.
Several people were trampled to death
in a panic at a popular feast at Moscow in
honor of the coronation of the czar and
czarina. In the death list is the name of
a woman who was delivered of a child
during the excitement. The czar has asked
for a full report, so that he can reward
the heroes and heroines with monuments
or pensions.
It is claimed that at least 7000 homes
were destroyed or rendered untenantable
by the St. Louis storm.
The Denison Herald has exploded the
scheme in its neighborhood. It says:
. _ . The free silver executive committee, of
doubtful .state, or fat salaries for friendly ; Grayson county is trying to play a shrewcj
,,, , ,, ! trick 1 >!11 it will not vvnrk ft Vinri two spts
clerks and relatives, or liberal allowances
DANGEROUS POWERS AND DE-
MA NJ)S () F CONG HESS.
President Cleveland has never written a
stronger or more patriotic paper than his
message vetoing the river and harbor bill.
Nobody who understands the situation and
is acquainted with all the conditions can
doubt for a moment that this omnibus bill
of immediate and prospective appropria-
tions to the enormous sum of $80,000,000 is
made up chiefly of donations handed
around here and there by members of con-
gress for campaign purposes. "There are,"
says the president, "417 items of appropria-
tions contained in this bill and every part
of the country is represented in the distri-
bution of its favors." While some of the
allowances are reasonable and necessary in
the light of public expediency, there is no
doubt whatever that the bill taken as a
whole is an audacious effort to buy the
country. That is all. In addition to de-
mands aggregating $80,000,000, this bill di-
rects numerous surveys and examinations
which contemplate new work and further
contracts, and which portend largely in-
creased expenditures and obligations. "In
view of the obligations imposed upon me by
the constitution," says Mr. Cleveland, "it
seems to me quite clear that I only dis-
charge a duty to our people when I inter-
pose my disapproval of the legislation pro-
posed. Many of the objects for which it
appropriates money are not related to the
public welfare, and many of them fire for
the benefit of localities or in the aid of in-
dividual interests. On the face of the bill
it appears that not a few of these alleged
improvements have been so improvidently
planned and prosecuted that after an un-
wise expenditure of millions of dollars new
experiments for their accomplishment have
been entered upon. * * * It appears that
some of the projects for which appropria-
tions are proposed in this bill have been en-
tered upon without approval or against the
objections of the examining engineers. I
learn from official sources that there are ap-
propriations contained in the bill to pay for
work which private parties have actually
agreed with the government to do in consid-
eration of their occupancy of public prop-
erty. Whatever of doubtful propriety may
have escaped observation or may have been
tolerated In previous executive approvals of
Similac bills, I am convinced that the bill
now under consideration opens the way to
Insidious and increasing abuses, and Is in
itself so extravagant as to be especially un-
united to these times of depressed business
and resulting disappointment in government
revenue. This consideration is emphasized
by the prospect that the public treasury will
be confronted with other appropriations
made at the present session of congress
amounting to more than $500,000,000. * * *
Economy and the exaction of clear justifica-
tion for the appropriation of public moneys
by the'servants of the people are not only
virtues, but solemn Obligations. To the ex-
tent. that the appropriations contained in
this bill are instigated by private interests
and promote local or individual projects,
their allowance can not fail to stimulate a
vicious paternalism and encourage a senti-
ment among our people, already too preva-
lent, that their attachment to our govern-
ment may properly rest upon the hope and
expectation of direct and especial favors,
and that the extent to which they are real-
ized may furnish an estimate of the value
of governmental care. I believe no greater
danger confronts us as a nation than the
unhappy decadence among our people of
genuine and trustworthy love and affection
for our government as the embodiment of
the highest and best aspirations of humanity
and not as the giver of gifts and because
its mission is the enforcement of exact jus-
tice and equality and not the allowance of
unfair favoritism." This sensible and cour-
ageous presentation of the matter will
strike a responsive chord in the heart of
every patriotic citizen. The American peo-
ple have not yet come down to a desper-
ate game of greed and grab. They con-
ceive that government should be something
for funeral jaunts, or extraordinary gifts
like some of those included in the river and
harbor bill—congress has the power to do
"what it pleases with the public money."
This typically portentous bill, vetoed by the
president, gives to the people some idea of
what congress pleases to do with the public
money. The record indicates clearly that
congress will take all the money it can
get. Congress will even try to take more
money than it can get. It will provide fat
salaries for its party friends and relatives.
It will buy the country with public money
if it can raise enough revenue. Congress
will tax one class mercilessly in order to
secure money with which to buy another
class. The only consideration tending to
restrain congress in its policy of buying
itself back into the capitol is the fear that
its methods of taxation might become un-
popular with the country and result in de-
feat. In getting money congress does all
that it is not afraid to do. It demands all
that the people will endure. It then uses
the cash as it pleases. It is plain from all
this, including the facts as well as the law
of the case, that the people owe it to them-
selves and to their country to stand with
the president' in his patriotic effort to pro-
tect the public •treasury and the public
credit from the dangerous powers*, and de-
mands of an incontinent and unreliable con-
gress. _
TROUBLES AND PERU LEX (TIES OF
TIIE TURKISH MISSIONS.
The rather flimsy and indefinite charges
brought against Minister Terrell by the
friends of our eastern missionaries will
probably receive the attention they deserve
and our representative will hardly suffer
in consequence. The incident, • however,
will serve as a reminder of how difficult a
position that of American minister in the
orient, is. An ambassador or minister is
first, last and foremost the representative
of his country, is the country personified,
and receives the honor and respect in his
own person that are due to his land in
general. The fact of his presence in a
foreign capital is a guarantee of our recog-
nition of that nation as a friendly power
and to a certain extent of that nation's
such recognition of us. The first act
preparatory to a declaration of war is the
withdrawal of the minister and the conse-
quent suspension of diplomatic relations.
The importance then of the position is
easily seen and that the responsibilities are
great will be understood. The situation is
difficult enough to fill acceptably in the
case of the great powers. The Bayard case,
the Stern case, the Waller incident and
Minister Taylor's troubles all bear witness
to this. But where the country to deal with
is of a different religion, correspondingly
different morality, of different race and
very different civilization the difficulties
are increased many fold. Turkey in Europe
is a buffer state and exists only in and
through the dissensions of the powers, of
England and Russia we may say, and
serves its one useful purpose in this way.
Notwithstanding this undignified position
all the state, pomp and glory of a first-
class power and more. too. are kept, up
and woe be to him who offendeth in the
least degree. Into tills center of fanati-
cism, tradition and absolutism is sent the
American minister, often without any par-
ticular adaptability for his duties, often
without any knowledge of French, the
diplomatic language, to say nothing of
which, and very often with tactlessness
born of inexperience and 01 an inland con-
fidence in American jingoism. When he ar-
rives with these qualifications for getting
himself into trouble, he finds that he has,
outside of his diplomatic duties, three
classes of people to care for: the tourists,
the missionaries, who form the major part
of the American colony, and the former
Turks. Armenians and Greeks who have
become naturalized Americans. The tour-
ists want information, the missionaries
protection, and the last immunity. The
first is comparatively easy to give and no
one could be more hospitable than Mr. Ter-
rell has been to those travelers who have
had the pleasure of calling upon him. The
missionaries, a somewhat tactless, because
unworldly, class, have received all the pro-
tection possible in a country where even
the power of the sultan is fettered by
cabals and limited by distance. Months
ago they received warning to retreat from
the disturbed district.-', and even after hav-
ing with more zeal than discretion disre-
garded this warning personal injury to
Americans has been rare if not unknown.
As to the last Mr. Terrell has gone to the
full extent of his powers in keeping out of
trouble real or suspected criminals, and
has had success in this sometimes by his
very overlooking of conventions which is
now charged upon him. A year ago he was
accused of being on too friendly terms with
the sublime porte; now with being a "per-
sona nun grata" to the same sublimity.
There is something wrong here. To fulfill
these duties of hospitality, protection and
advocacy the minister receives enough sal-
ary to live in a hotel while others live in
palaefs; is allowed a launch where others
have steam yachts and is given one secre-
tary to help and advise where others have
assistance galore. The position of minis-
ter to Turkey is hard and It has been filled
with distinct success. "Honor to whom
honor," etc. A knowledge of the circum-
stances helps always to a true understand-
ing of a case and ignorance of detail often
causes a great indictment to fail.
Governor Culberson, in l is speech at
Beaumont, scouted vigorously the Idea that
Wall street bankers ever "think about the
trick, but it will not work. It had two sets
of tickets printed for use at the primaries
on (he iith of June. .One is headed, "Free.
Silver Ticket." and contains the ballot for
silver prepared by the Dudley committee,
the administration ticket for state officers,
names of county candidates and fr«e silver
candidates for county executive committee
and delegates to the state convention
provided for by the Dudley committee. The
other is headed, "Gold Ticket," and is simi-
lar to the first except that the vote on the
silver question reads "against." and ihere
are no names for executive committeemen
or delegates. Sound money men will not
be misled l>y this ticket. The few who vote
at all In the so-called democratic primaries
will cast their ballots for friends on the
county ticket, and let the money question
as represented on these tickets severely
alone. As a rule, the opponents of free sil-
ver will not participate in this mockery.
They will not stultify themselves by such
action. __
Emperor William has made the czarina
an honorary colonel of the Second dra-
goons. With the German emperor there are
no honors like military honors.
The question is not whether the gold
standard is going to make the whole world
prosperous find happy. The question is
simply whether it is not better for us to
adhere to what we have than lo fly to ills
and dangers that may destroy the country.
The French cabinet has decided to sub-
mit to the chamber of deputies a resolu-
tion proclaiming the island of Madagascar
a French colony.
I will be as long as our mints are open to i tlmn ,,!c standard dollar et
all: 871 Vv grains of pure silver uncoined is . substituted for it. and it was a free coin-
; commercially worth only about :>u cents, W|?e elol|ar at lhalt y^hy was jt that great
i and to stamp it one dollar, as we do. gi\es • >sj]V0l. dollar was worth only SO cents,
i it a value of 100 cents 5i> cents of wntcn is just exactly what the bullion contained in
a lie. however, ami therefore Us commei- ; it was worth? Am! w»iy (!id not the free
clal or bullion value is not equal to its \ coinage of that dollar raise silver to a
stamped or legal value. Its coimd \a m | J)ar wj(h gn](]? K (j)al a(uj aj, other ex_
is equal with that of gold, but its bullion ; l)t?rilm,nts huvP n,iled-and history, as 1 m
value is only one-half as much, i nc n. un- : understand it, teaches that no country in
der existing conditions it does not answ t , wor|,j ever was able to keep the tvto
the requirements. Will itIt it is given tne ■ niotais al a parily with each other for is
essential elements of standard money, rr j mucj1 as five ycars at a time—how do you,
m 1 my free silver friend, expect this govern-
In conclusioh, I inclose you the following
letter which I received the other day:
Treasury Department, Office of the Sec-
r< tary. Washington, D. C.. May 10, ISM.—
Mr. James ft. Sparks, Oakwoods, Tex.—
My Dear Sir: Your favor of the 14th in-
stant is just received. There is no statute
of the United States expressly requiring
the secretary of the treasury to pay the
obligations of the United States, except the
interest on the public debt, in gold coin,
but the act of July 14, 1S00, provides that
"upon the demand of the holder of any
of the treasury notes herein provided foR
the secretary of the treasury shall, under
such regulations as he may prescribe, re-
- j deem such notes in gold or silver coin, at
contained--was his discretion, it being the established pol-
The Chicago Times-Herald replies to the
opponents of Mr. McKinley who contend
that he is not the author of the McKinley
bill. Of the 1141 provisions in the McKin-
ley bill as finally passed, 945 were in the
bill as originally submitted to the house
committee by McKinley. In subsequent ses-
sions of the committee, forty-three of the
provisions finally adopted were added
through McKinley's suggestions. The 255
provisions retained from the previous tar-
iff were also incorporated at AIcKinley's
dictation.
Six large steamships leave New York this
week with loads of grain for different parts
of Cape Colony.
Obediah Rhodes was shot and killed by
John It. Hippie while at target practice at
Parson, Pa. Rhodes was managing the
target, and got in the way after he had
signaled Hippie, to fire.
General Weyler has issued a decree sus-
pending the foreclosure of mortgages and
liens upon real estate in Cuba.
Congress spends the day over river and
harbor bills demanding an expenditure of
$80,000,000 and over enormous wastes of pub-
lic money on battleships, and as a Wash-
ington correspondent puts it, "After the
night session, devoted to pension bills, the
house adjourned to Monday."
The rainfall for the past ten days has
averaged six inches throughout Oklahoma
territory. During the same time there have
been eleven tornadoes.
Referring to the river and harbor bill,
which he vetoed, President Cleveland ex-
plains that "there are 417 items of appro-
priation contained in this bill and every
part of the country Is represented in the
distribution of its favors." It is one of the
great deals of the present congress and will
be passed over the veto with a whoop.
Senator Butler of North Carolina thinks
there is somebody in Washington who
ought to be swung to a limb. Why don't
the Dudleyites invite him to come to Texas
and make some speeches for them?
Vice President Stevenson's presidential
boom has been launched In Washington.
His friends claim that he is for free silver.
No man on the American continent has
beaten Major McKinley in concealing his
opinions on the money question save the
vice president. He has broken the record
when it comes to such concealment. He is
the very kind of man the country does not
want and will not have this year.
It is certainly a very tame political con-
vention that can not get up a bolt this
year.
SNAP SHOTS.
No mirror has been found so far that will
enable vain mortals to see themselves as
others see them.
"Exaggeration" is the battle cry in Cuba.
The present congress has devoted itself
assiduously to the pomp and circumstance
of war.
If possible some of the candidates will
hide iti the split of their party.
"A crown it Is a hollow thing," but when
it comes to hoodooing the people it is great.
Boss Piatt has quit tearing his pants, but
he does not talk like a man who has all he
wants.
We are paying pensions to entirely too
many mercenaries.
Sometimes even a square meal hasn't a
crumb of comfort '.d it.
So far as many of the voters are con-
cerned, party politics is little more than a
mental disease.
The missionaries in Turkey claim to have
something better than Texas profanity to
save them from the powers of this wofld.
The reason why many of the politicians
prefer to stick so close to the party is this:
They are candidates.
Died of HiH WouihIh.
Bryan, Tex., May 31.—Dr. W. T. Green,
who was shot yesterday, died of his wound
and was buried this afternoon, lie was a
negro phyuiciun.
Oakwoods, Tex., May 28.—To The News:
For about fifteen years I practiced law-
over in the Nacogdoches district. I was
then called a lawyer. For the past seven j
years I have been farming or doing other |
manual labor, and therefore think 1 do no
wrong in calling myself a farmer and la-
boring man. About the only mental work
I have been "guilty" of doing the latter
period has been in studying the question
which 1 Fhall discuss in this, my first
political epistle, to-wit: the currency.
Before proceeding, I desire to say that*
for about three weeks T have been lying
around the house ailing, being afdieted with
"boils" and "bile." and don't know how
much longer I will be so detained, so can't
tell how long this epistle will be. I may
write till T get well. I wish also to say
that I shall claim very little originality in
what shall follow, and that if 1 should ac-
cidentally be guilty of any 1 shall deem it
unnecessary to write "original" underneath
it. Before President Cleveland's letters on
this question were published, and before
the national democratic convention which
nominated him in 1892 had voted down a
free coinage resolution, and adopted what
I then considered and still consider a sound
money plank. I had formed no definite
opinion upon the question, but know now
that had I been asked whether I favored
free coinage or the present gold standard,
1 would have said free coinage. I remem-
ber I felt startled by what Mr. Cleveland
had written and the national convention
had done, and I then and there resolved to
lay aside whatever ideas, impressions or
prejudices 1 might have and to diligently
and honestly study and investigate the
subject for myself, and form rtiy own con-
clusions from the facts as 1 should find
them. As a result of that investigation
my free coinage notions were knocked into
a cocked hat. and 1 was landed in the gold
camp without a sigh for the follies left
behind.
Now, brother farmers and laborers, can't
you lay aside your prejudices and study the
matter dispassionately, as you would any
other business matter? 1 appeal to you to
do so for I can conceive of no other ques-
tion involving our weal or woe to that ex-
tent which the settlement of this one does.
A few days ago I handed a friend some
sound money literature, who said he would
read it. but that it would riot change'him
one whit, as he had imbibed free coinage
with his milk. I could have retorted that
he would find, upon Investigation, thai he
had not been raised on democratic milk,
then. for. while democratic congresses had
enacted free coinage laws, and they had
been approved by democratic presidents,
the democratic party had never promul-
gated it as a tenet or article of faith, but
had refused to give it party sanction; that
our first coinage law was passed in 1702.
and that Thomas Jefferson, the father of
democracy had, just fourteen years there-
after, issued an order setting aside said
law, as far as the silver dollar was con-
cerned. and that there were no more of
them coined for thirty years. Here is the
order:
Department of Slate, May 0, 1806.—Sir: In
consequence of the representation from a
.director of the Hank of the United States,
that considerable purchases have been
made of dollars coined at the mint for the
purpose of exporting them, and as it is
probable that further purchases and ex-
pertations will be made, the president
(Thomas Jefferson) directs that all the
silver to be coined at the mint shall be of
small denominations, so that the value of
the largest piece shall not exeet <1 one-half
a dollar. I am. sir, JAMKS MADISON.
ROBERT PATTERSON, ESQ.,
Director of the Mint.
The above is now on file with the secre-
tary of state at Washington, as any one
will liiul by writing to Mr. Olney. How
does this "crime" compare with that of
"73?" Again, in 1834 and 1887 such demo-
crats as Jackson, Calhoun and Benton
changed the ratio frotTi ir» to 1 to 10 to 1,
with the deliberate and expressed Inten-
tion of bringing gold, which had been
driven out of circulation by the act of 1792.
back into circulation. Knowing full well
that the only effect of their action upon
silver would be to drive (demonetize) it
out of circulation. Again, by the act of
February !). 17!*3, certain foreign coins were
made legal tender in this country, and In
isr»7 an act was passed by democrats abso-
lutely demonetizing all of said foreign sil-
ver dollars—the only "dollar of our
daddies." Said act went even further and
demonetized all foreign gold coin as well
which had been made legal tender by
weight in the payment of debts by an act
of l?s34.
Thus was accomplished actually and
practically and completely what has since
been called the "crime of IS73." The act of
1x73 was only an epitaph which marked an
old grave. Who was it laid impious and
sacrilegious hands on the "dollars of our
fathers?" Our fathers themselves did the
deed. So says Hon. H. G. Turner of
Georgia. Further, I find in 1878, nearly
twenty years ago, and only five years after
the "crime of 1878." such men as L. Q. C. La-
mar. Henjamin H. Hill and John G. Car-
lisle, all southern democrats, fighting a free
coinage measure. Now, who. with the facts
staring him in the face, will continue to
assert that free coinage is an essential
article of faith of the democratic party?
And especially free coinage at 1(5 to I at
lime when the commercial ratio is about
32 to 1? Jefferson said, when he and Ham
ilton were deciding what ratio to put in
the act of 1792, "just principles will lead us
to disregard legal proportions altogether:
to inquire into the market price of gold In
the several countries with which we shall
be principally connected in consequence
and take an average from them." And he
further adds: "i still would incline to give
a little more than the market price- for
gold because of Its superior convenience in
transportation." From the fi?;-• 1 quotation
we see thai the commercial ratio has to
be observed, and in the second that Mr.
Jefferson, although a good democrat in his
dav, thought if either metal was under-
valued in fixing the ratio il should be sil-
ver, for "just principles" had taught him
that the undervalued metal would leave the
circulation, if not the country, and of the
two he surely preferred the gold as a cir-
culating medium. None of the parties above
quoted were monometallists, nor do I
know of a single sound money man who is;
they are all bimetalllsts, the only true bi-
metal lists we have.
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Our free silver friends say we want only
one standard of value, gold, and that there-
fore we are mono instead of bimetalllsts
and that they want two standards, gold
and silver and are therefore blrnetallists.
Then, of course, the question arises: What
is bimetallism? Having-no one's definition
to guide me, I will give what I conceive to
be the every-day practical meaning of the
term. The concurrent circulation of two
independent metal moneys, intrinsically
equal and with equal purchasing and debt-
paying powers in the markets of the coun-
try. According to this definition both
metals would then bo an independent stand-
ard of value, and such is the condition, as
I understand it, which our free silver
friends say will obtain on the passage of a
free coinage law, and which we sound
money men deny. Then the next ques-
tion is: What is a standard of value
and independent ar.d unlimited coinage?" 1
answer no and will let others give the rea- \ s\mX)}y by enacting a free coinage
icy of the United States to maintain the
two metals on a parity with each other
upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio
as may be provided for by law."
You will observe from this provision that
while the secretary of the treasury is au-
thorized to exercise his discretion as to the
anner of payment, he is at t-he same
time required to so exercise that discretion
as to maintain the parity of the two metals
with each other, and under this provision
every secretary who has been in office has
paid to the creditors of the United States
gold when they demanded geld and silver
. .uiswci MU una \wu c i v««■ ■ • • - • j ment. simply by enacting a free coinage gold when they demanded gold and silver
! S0,JS- 11 quote from tne testtmony , ; ]aWt to make them equal when their corn- when they demanded silver. He could not
ardent free silver ndvocau, .\u. ^•trnusi , { lm?rcjai ratios are now so wide apart? And in any other way maintain the parity of
i before the United States monetary connr tjial rosuit can't be accomplished, will the two metals. If he were to force a
Question: "Supposing that in this coun-
try we restore our relation at 1(5 to 1, while
in France and Europe generally it would
remain at If.^ to 1. what would be the ef-
fect upon this country, and what would be
the effect upon Europe?"
Answer: "If you coin at the ratio of lb
France can not coin at the ratio of h>1l>.
Then if vou coin at 1(5 you remain alone,
and it were better to maintain the green-
backs than to coin silver, if this metal is
not also eoined in Europe."
Question: "Suppose that France keeps
her mints shut, as they are now. and re-
mains as she is. while the United States
adopts the bimetallic system with the re-
lation the same as that which the Latin
union has now established, Germany is pro-
hibited from sending her silver lo France
and the United States adopts the relation
of 15V-> to 1. I ask what harm could come to
the United States in such a condition of
things?"
Answer: "This stiver which would come
from Germany here would have the effect
of driving out all the gold."
Question: "In the presence of the great
demand caused by the wants of this coun-
try for the purposes of resumption, how
long do you suppose would_ silver remain
at a discount as compared with gold?"
Answer: "The silver can remain at a
discount forever. But this is not the worst;
the worst is that, no Hxity wouTd ever be
possible between the value of gold and the
value of silver. If you are bimetallic when
Europe is gold monometallic, you are bi-
metallic only by name; verily you would be
a silver monometallic, country, such as In-
dia. and the monetary position of the Unit-
l States against Europe would be exactly
le same as is the present position of
India against England, a position which
engenders heavy losses to both countries."
The above is taken from a speech by Mr.
Lamar delivered in the Fulled States sen-
ate January 24. 1878. and continuing Mr.
Lamar said: "I am now about to read
from the work of Mr. S. Dana Morton, in
which the author advocates, just as Ernest
Seyd and cernushi and Wolowski 'and
Smith, all bimetalllsts, have done, the re-
monetization of silver by free coinage, un-
limited legal tender, and the payment of
your public debt in silver."
Mr. Horton: "The pride of leading per-
sonages in Europe is enlisted not merely In
the maintenance, but alsu In the future ex-
tension of the gold standard, and it is from
the demand for silver for the Gulled States
that the relief is expected which may facil-
itate the spread of their great error. It is
'on (he cards.' and is an event upon which
leading men in Europe calculate, that the
United States may be trusted to fail to
comprehend its true interest, and hence to
deal crudely."
Mr. Lamar: "Excuse me, senators, if Is
not my language 'to deal crudely with this
momentous subject ; in a word, that'it may
contribute its $130,000,000 of gold to the
stock of Europe and withdraw the weight
of Its demand for existing stock and an-
nual product of gold."
Shall the calculations of "leading men in
Europe that the United States may be
trusted to deal crudely with this moment-
ous subject" be verified. 1 leave you, fel-
low laborers, who are advocating free coin-
age, to answer.
Again: "It Is obvious that for the Unit-
ed States alone to attempt-to establish the
bimetallic standard would result in fail-
ure to secure aught but the one depreciat-
ed metal."
In speaking of a free coinage bill then
pending in congress Mr. Horton said: "The
bill is really an attack upon the bimetallic
system, the restoration of which is needed
for the future prosperity of the world, and
if it becomes a law It will prove an obstruc-
tion to the prosperity of the United States."
On February k, 1X78, in a speech on a bill
01. R- So. 1093), to authorize the free coin-
age of the silver dollar and to restore its
legal tender character, the never-to-be-for-
gotten Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia said:
"Never in any history of the world, in any
country, Pagan or Christian, despotic or
republican, either while revolution was rag-
ing or subsiding, while islands were rising
or sinking, while empires were prospering
or crumbling, did silver and gold ever keep
company with each other except upon the
inflexible rule of equality In value. The
moment one metal becomes depreciated the
other metal flies away."
Mr. Hill, in discussing the "crime of '73."
said: "The act of 1ST." did not destroy sil-
ver as a circulating medium In this country.
Depreciated paper did that work." And In
arriving at the cause or causes which pro-
duced the depreciation of silver, lie said
the act of '73 might he partly responsible,
but that besides the United States, ten of
the greatest commercial nations of the
earth during (bis very period, discarded
silver from their coinage, and that its
production in the United States had been
J500 per cent. 100 in the. world and 8a per
cent decrease in its demand, and says:
"Vet, gentlemen tell me there is but one
cause for the depreciation of silver. Look-
ing at this question fairly, with a perfectly
impartial mind, I must come to the con-
clusion that the cause of the depreciation
in silver is to be found not in the act of
any one nation, but In the acts of eleven
nations, and In the fact of Its greatly In-
creased production and the great decline in
the demand for it." Mr. Hill, continuing,
said it would be too hazardous an under-
taking for us to adopt free coinage when
we can remove only one cause (the repeal
of the act of 18711) of the depreciation of
silver. But our free silver friends claim
that the restoration of silver to free coin-
age would cause it to Immediately become
as valuable as gold. Now, in addition to
what I have already produced. I'll ask
my free silver friends to fry lo fully digest
it not force our $(525,000,000 of gold out of
circulation? Tillman says 11 would. How
long will it take our mints to supply the
place of that gold, coining at the rate of
$40,000,000 per annum? Nearly sixteen years.
Would not our currency be contracted then
to that extent, and what would be the Im-
mediate and certain effect of such con-
traction? Tillman says "a panic." Do you
want to vote for a panic? If so, vote for
free coinage and you'll certainly get this
time all you vote for if it carries.
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But maybe you will answer and say that
you have the best of authority—J. Stephen
llogg—for believing that the ratio "cuts no
figger," keeping the two metals on a parity
"cuts no* figger" and the driving out of all
the gold "cuts no figger," and that the only
creditor to take silver when he wanted
gold, it would be clear that he was making
a discrimination between the two metals.
Under this policy treasury notes to the
amount of nearly $25,000,000 have been re-
deemed In silver and canceled since I came
Into this office. None of them had been
so redeemed and canceled before the begin-
ning of my term. Very truly yours.
J. G. CARLISLE.
Nearly every day we hear some one say
"Carlisle Is violating his oath of office in
not paying silver instead of gold on govern-
ment obligations." Hence I let you publish
the above letter. JAMES SPARKS.
State An it mil Meeting:.
Georgetown, Tex., May 31.—Camp Le-
desideratum is to pay the bonds in ,rcoln, ae- j sueur of ex-confederates held their annual
Well, maybe he and j state meeting in this city to-day, Cap-
cording to contract."'
you are right, but 1 want you to understand j tajn p ^ Brown, commander, presiding,
that I shall reserve the right to form mv i , . Jt .... ' . '
own conclusions. It may be right for this ; On motion the same officers were retained,
government to borrow money, either gold or ! aml aro as follows: ^ 1). *v. Brown, coin-
silver, worth at the time it was borrowed ; pander; R- ^ • [;U,V iV
100 cents on the dollar, and then by its own . tenant commander, R. H. Montgomery, ad-
act reduce the value of the dollar one-half, ! Jutant: Rev. Isaac /ellers, chavilain.
and with that depreciated stuff discharge ! lho (Jelega:tos .ele^Uled to ^-t w
its obligations, but 1, for one, don't believe camp, at the Dallas state iit tmlori cn June
it. The government has several million dol- £), are Jl.ulSe TV ,
otes (paper money) out- Glasscock, Captain Brown and } r. K. II.
lars of promissory notes (paper money) out
standing, which it has promised to liquidate
in gold. Now, suppose congress should en-
ict a law declaring that twelve grains of
gold should constitute a dollar, would it be
just to pay off those notes in such money?
But you answer, "Our free coinage dollar
will have 371grains of pure silver, as now,
!iid therefore your hypothetical case does
not apply." Now please tell me the differ-
ence it would make to the creditor how you
reduced the vylue of the dollar, whether by
reducing the bullion or by putting a ficti-
tious value on the bullion. The difference
between tweedledum and tweedledee will
about express It. Suppose you borrow a
"wagon box" of corn from your neighbor,
do you think it just to cut your box down
one-half and ask him to take the corn it will
hold in discharge of your agreement (con-
tract) to return a "wagon box" of corn to
him? If you believe In that kind of mo-
rality vote for free coinage by all means.
But probably Jim doesn't know any more
about morality, govi rnment obligations and
finance than he used to know about making
rails. If not. we must not judge him too
harshly, nor must we allow ourselves to be
tempted by him and led astray. In order
that you may form an intelligent opinion
as to how much dependence can be placed
upon his knowledge, judgment or Ideas, I'll
relate a circumstance which happened at
Quitman, Wood county, Texas., a while
(don't know how long) before Jim became
governor. My uncle, Dave Ale Knight, lived
in Quitman and had a farm on the creek a
short distance west of town. Desiring some
rails split, he engaged Jim to make them.
On a bright Monday morning, with maul,
axe and wedges, Jim was trudging along on
his way to the bottom when Bill Giles, on
his way to Emory to attend to some legal
business, overtook him, and addressing lilni
asked if he (Jim) had ever made any rails.
"No," was Jim's answer.
"Then," says Giles, "1 11 show you the kind
of timber to cut."
"I thank you, ' says Jim.
Arriving at the bottom 13111 pointed and
asked: "Do you see those tall, pretty,
straight trees through yonder?"
"Ves," said Jim.
"Them's the kind I'd cut," says Bill.
"All right," says Jim.
"Now," said Bill, "the fastest way to
make rails is to cut down and 'log off' for a
couple of days and split the third day."
"All right," said Jim.
At about noon on the following Wednes-
day. it being the lbird day. Bill hove in
hearing of Jim's maul, and, for prudential
reasons, not wishing to be seen by Jim,
cautiously rode far enough into the woods
to give him a good view of what had been
done and what was then going oil. lie said
Jim had enough logged off, if split into
rails, to fence a pretty fair farm, but
"durn the rail" that he could see; nor could
he see that he had tried to split any "cut"
except the one he was then mauling on:
that from the number of gluts Jim had
driven In that "cut" he guessed Jim had
commenced on it early that morning. So
Bill quietly rode back into the road and
up to Captain Mcknight's house and said:
"Capt,ain, you had better go down yonder
and stop Jim or he'll kill himself, lie has
spent two days cut ling down all the black
gum timber he could, and is now trying to
split a ''cut" of it which I think you will
have trouble in getting your wedges out
of."
I'ill says he did point toward the black
gum, but he intended Jim to understand
he meant the tall pretty red oaks beyond
the gums.
In the foregoing I have, T think, estab-
lished. first, that free coinage at any ratio
at a parity was never a democratic meas-
ure; second, that the ratio of l(j to 1 has
never been advocated by the party, but. on
the contrary, has been repudiated by it,
and that the only democratic administra-
tion which had ever adopted it as a law
did so for the express and declared purpose
of bringing gold back Into the country and
into circulation, knowing full well the ef-
fect it would have+oh silver. I refer to
General Jacksonfr administration. Third
that It Is practically impossible to have two
standard moneys in concurrent circulation.
Fourth, that free coinage would not ma-
terially affect the price of silver: certain!v
not bring it. to par with gold, to do which
it would have to affect all the silver, both
coined and uncoined, in the silver coun-
tries in the same way and to the same ex-
Montgomery. The same set of delegates
were appointed to go from Dallas to the
Rich tond confederate reunion.
Miss Helen Brown, daughter of Com-
mander Brown, was unanimously chosen
sponsor for the camp.
July 4 was selected as the date for hold-
ing the annual meetings of Camp Lesueur
hereafter.
what kind of money is standard money? j I pity you, for you would have no more
Money certainly will have lo contain cer- 1 patriotism in you than bus that anarchist
what the Hon. Josiah Patterson has to say tent, and that would bo an Impossibility
hence free coinage would mean depreciated
silver monometallism. Fifth, it would be
dishoi est to force such depreciated money
upon our creditors.
I admit I have introduced nothing but
an illustration or two and my own opin-
ion in support of the last proposition, and
thai I have quoted in opposition one'very
eminent (',) authority: still, reasoning by
analogy. I think you will concede fhe pre-
ponderance of evidence to be largely in
my favor. Having tired of writing 1 * laid
myself down on yesterday eve to rest, and
while resting 1 allowed my mind to out.
In the future to next election day, and to
witness the election of a free silver presi-
dent and congress, and then to go on to
the next day when said result
was announced to the world. What
was the first thing, do vou think
I saw? It was a Pitiable sfght, I assure
you. It was uncle Sam vomiting, and
when I asked him if he was sick, he asked
If l thought he would puke for fun. I
said 1 guess not. and went, on to express
ihe hope that he would soon recover, see-
ing he was throwing up bile. "Bile, the
devil," says he. "them is greenbacks 1
redeemed 'em the day afore election, as
well as all the bonds which 1 could with
the gold I had on hand, and had "em
stowed away deep dovfn In my capacious
stomach, thinking to keep 'em there and
see if the next congress would not order
'em canceled, seeing that Stewart and
Bland and Tillman and that ilk had car-
ried their 'pick pocket' measure, as old
Ben Hill, blessed be his memory, used to
call it. when up steps a lot of agenis, rep-
resenting the bullionaires, and demanded
gold lor their standard money they called
it. 'Hain't it.' said 1. 'Greenbacks then,'
said they, and so 1 had t'o 'up and deliver,'
and now," continued the poor old fellow,
"them fellers will be around hero and
pounce upon every dollar of gold that
comes Into my hands, and so your old
undo has hid farewell lo gold so long as
these 'pick pockets' are In power."
Truly a pitiable statu for so grand, glo-
on that very question: "The countries of
the world are like so many reservoirs com-
municating with one another. When silver
declines in one it declines In all. We can
not appreciate silver in the United States
without appreciating it everywhere else,
its value will find a common level through-
out the world. Now, assuming that which
is true, that all Ihe gold countries hold
their silver money on a parity with gold,
and that a free coinage act in this coun-
try would not result In Influencing the sil-
ver on a parity with gold in those coun-
tries to flow Into this, it would necessarily
have the effect to raise all the silver coins
in all the silver countries of the world to a
parity with gold if we raised silver lo a
parity with geld !h I his country, if we
had free. Independent and unlimited coin-
age, and the effect should be to advance
tie price of silver until the commercial
value of the bullion of a sliver dollar would
be equal to the commercial value of the
bullion In a gold dollar, then necessarily
all the silver dollars in Mexico and all
the sliver coins in all the other silver coun-
tries would flow to our mint, or else they
would be raised to a parity with gold in
those countries. So (ho proposition in-
volves not only the lifting of ail the silver
coins in all the silver countries of the
world, amounting to more than $2,000,000,uuO,
to a parity with gold, but it involves neces-
sarily doubling the price of all uncoined
silver In the world. No man who will con-
sider the proposition for a moment can
conclude that this government simply, by
enacting a law, can accomplish this pro-
digious result."
Ilovv are you going to answer that propo-
sition, brother? You will have to either
admit its truth, answer It or ignore it. If
you admit Us truth you can't vote for
free coinage. If you answer It, please pub-
lish your answer in The. News so I may
have the benefit of it. 1 am always willing
to submit to reason. If you adopt the
last alternative and ignore the truth, then
Stabbing Affray*
Nacogdoches, Tex., May 30.—A difficulty
occurred hero this evening between Mr.
James L. Burrows and a tenant who lives
on Burrows' place, three miles from town,
in which blows were exchanged, and Bur-
rows was stabbed In three places with a
pocket knife—once in the side, once in the
arm and once in the shoulder. Neither of
the wounds Is thought to be fatal, though
the wound in the side may prove serious.
Burrows went home after receiving surgi-
cal attention.
«
A Moon nil! lie Still.
Taylor, Tex., May 31.—Charley Clifton
and Gressom Carter were arrested by
Doputv United States Marshal Easom,
charged with running a moonshine still
on Sabine river, in this county. Clifton
made a bond of $5UU. Carter was remanaed
to jail.
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THE HIGHER COURTS.
Second Supreme District.
(Court of Civil Appeals—B. D. Tarleton,
chief justice; Sain J. Hunter and I. \V.
Stephens, associate justices. Located at
Fort Worth.)
Fort Worth, Tex., May 80,-Affirmeil: .1.
& T. White vs. C. C. White .4 Co. et al.,
from Wichita; People's building and loan
association vs. Charlotte F. Parrin, from
Eastland; Western Union telegraph com-
pany vs. C. A. Drake, from Tan-ant; Texas
and Pacific railway company vs. C. A.
Stuggs et al., from Tarrant.
Reversed and remanded: V\. want
vs W. K. Klwood, from Wichita; B. N.
Zcrkel vs. Wooldridge .V- llro.. from B»ylor.
Reversed and remanded, with instructions
to enter ludgment as Indicated in opinion:
A. li. Wilson et al. vs. M. L. Houston et
al., from Wichita.
Reversed and rendered against defend-
ants in error, offsetting their claim Willi
that of plaintiff in error and Iti his favor
against J. O. Stausell for the balance: J.
K. Fleming vs. J. C. Stanzeil, from East-
Dismissed for want of prosecution: Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe railway company
vs. Greenville cotton seed oil mill and gin
company, from Cooke.
Cases set for submission June SO: Texas
and Pacific railway company vs. W. li.
Bingham, from Taylor; John F. L'lerney,
administrator, vs. J. S. McDonald et al.,
from Tarrant; Southern national bank of
Mews York vs. W. CI. Curtis et al., from
Wilbarger; II. 11. Cooper vs. T. II. Mines,
ffom Hood; J. I). Williams vs. Schneider
Davis, from Wisn; t\ Wright et r.l.
vs. A. J. Jones et al., from Jack;' W. C.
Stephens and wife vs. C. W. Taylor et al.,
from Bosque; the Phelps & Blgelow wind-
mill company vs. W. C. Creager, from Wil-
barger; C. Lombard! et al. vs. Isaacs
Kin ro et al., from Wichita.
Motions decided: IS. O. Evans company
vs. John A. Guinpel et al.. for rehearing,
refused: George Wtar vs. Clark & Plumb
et al., to advance, stricken from docket
under order In another motion made in
this cast1; F. I >. Seward confectionery com-
pany vs. .1. I'llmann et al.. ftr rehearing,
refused; Schneider Si Davis et al. vs.
Joseph Nugent et al., for rehearing, re-
fused: Port Worth and Denver City rait-
way company vs. Ream .v Neusgrove, io
dismiss appeal, refused, provided briefs
filed in county court In twenty days;
(ieorge Ware et al. vs. Clark A Plumb
company et al., to dismiss appeal, appeal
dismissed because not taken within twenty
days of dale of order appointing receiver.
Fifth Supreme IJIntrlet.
(Court of Civil Appeals—Henry W. Light-
foot, chief justice; N. Web Finley and
Anson Ralney, associates. Located at
Dallas.)
Dallas, Tex., May 30.—Affirmed: C5, W.
Throckmorton vs. Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railway, from Grayson; M. S. Loclt-
ctt vs. Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail-
way, from Johnson; Klrkwood & Leed vs.
SU1 well Broad, from Hunt; W. H. Situs
vs. city of McKlnney et al., from Collin;
City of Dallas et al, VS. S. P. Kmerson et
al. from 1'alias; Maud Sawyer et al. VS.
Annie Ralney et al., from Grayson.
Reversed and remanded: William Lyons
vs Texas and l'aellic railway company,
from Dallas; Bt. Louis Southwestern rail-
way company vs. J. A. Fenlow, from Up-
shur; John I lar tor vs. City of Marshall,
from Harrison.
in the ease of J. 1>. I'eet Ai < o. vs. Shot-
well ivv Putts, judgment was afdrmed as to
II li Potis and reversed and rendered for
appellant as against <»• Shot well.
.Motions disposed of: Jvildare lumber
company vs. Atlanta bank, certiorari,
granted; Frank J- Smith vs. Texas and
raclllc railway company, mandamus,
granted: Tony rephus vs. Merchants and
planters' national bank et al., perfect rec-
ord, granted; \V. !'<• Hullins vs. (Jus Harris,
llle'transcript, granted; J. J. Attendee vs.
the estate of <1. .11. Muxey et al.. lilo trans-
cript. granted; Western Union telegraphy
company vs. T. W. Anderson, rehearing,
overruled; san.o case, additional conclu-
sions, granted.
Cases set for June 13; Miss 10. Veder vs.
Commercial Union assurance company of
London, from Pallas; George V. Llmlsey
V!4. city of Sherman, from Cray son; Hous-
ton a lid Texas Central railway company
vs. II. II. Smith, from Limestone; Isabella
Sullivan vs. SI. Louis Southwestern rail-
way company, from Henderson; Corslcana
cotton oil comi any vs. Georglana Vellle,
from Navarro; Terrell cotton oil manufac-
turing and refining company vs. J. T«
Uamm. from Van ZanUt.
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