The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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TfliE TEMPLE WE1KL: lifcfiD (ViOBiCR 16 is:*
I.
BELL COUNTY LUMBER CO.^U-
E. A. VISSER, Mgr
guecwor.^ CareyLombard Lumber Co
We have the best grades and largest assortment of strictly
Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber
in the County. Best All-Heart Shingles.
White Pine Windows, Doors,Blinds, Mouldings
Everything in stock is the best that can be bought and
this statement is guaranteed! The only strictly Long-Leaf
stock in Bell County
PRODUCTION OF
PLUTOCRACY LAUDS IT.
The Old Stand, 12th St. next to Santa Pe Freght Depot.
TEMPLE.
TEXAS
P. P. Downs, President. Gko. E. v* iixcox, Vice President
P. L. Downs, Cashier.
First National Bank,
OF TEMPLE
Working Capital $150,000.
Deposits - - $300,000.
-DIRECTORS:-
MtfO E. Willcox, J. B. Nunnelev, J. O. Childers Otto E. Burwfti
F F. Downs, H. M. MoCelvey P. L. Downs.
J Z.Mir.LEB, 8, R.Belto*
W.E. HILL
J. Z. MILLER. JB, Belter
P A TSTTCTHT^P
-iWs Solicit Deposits. ik.
Small orJJLarge, from the Farmers. Mechanics, Merchants and Everybody
Loans made on Approved Security.
We Do, and We Dont!
We do sell the freshest choicest Groceries for
the lowest price. We do everything we promise.
We do keep a full line of Groceries.
We Dont Run a Fake Business.
We dont make big promises and fait to comply.
We dont make a big fuss and do but little
business.
We want all the good trade we can get and
dont want the bad. We want your trade next
month it you are promised this month.
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Read The
BiV&i METALS.
Its Increase a Boon to
Temple Times,
WJU.
• * * • v * L ?
:cre Is No
Inflation.
Fear of
Unscrupulous Attempt to
Destroy Silver.
Real
Enemies of the Public
Welfare.
The enemies of bimetallism have
much to say of the increased produc-
tion of silver, taking the mint statistics
of given years as evidences of the fact.
They say nothing of the increased pro-
duction of gold, hut the fact is that the
gold production during the last ten
years exceeds that of silver. But neither
fact is of ary consequence in the discus-
sion. The supply of the precious metals
differs from the supply of farm prod-
ucts and manufactured goods. Wheat
aud corn are consumed, cotton and
woolen goods are made into clothing
and worn out. Every commodity is per-
ishable hut the precious metals. These
have been accumulating during all the
ages of the world’s history, aud they
are not consumed or destroyed. The in-
crease or decrease of the production of
either has therefore no such effect upon
the supply as does a short crop or an
overproduction of the things which we
consume from year to year. The world’s
total supply of the two metals is not in-
creasing as rapidly as the demand for
it, based upon the increase of popula-
tion and business of the civilized na-
tions.
The money power is always strug-
gling to make money dear by decreas-
ing the quantity. In the fifties it want-
ed to demonetize gold because of the
increased production in California and
Australia. But England, not given to
change, adhered to the gold standard,
believing that gold production would
not be permanently increased. For near-
ly 30 years this same power lias strug-
gled to abolish the use of silver as mon- I
Yale College Students Commended For
Insulting Bryan.
| Here are the remarkable editorial
| views of the New York Sun upon the
j conduct of the Yale students in break-
ing up the Bryan meeting at New Ha-
ven. Beyond calling attention to the
simple fact that The Sun is the leading
organ of the New York plutocracy com-
ment is unnecessary:
‘‘They ought to have done it, and the
sentiment to which they gave utterance
was honorable to them. The boys made
a great noise, cheering for McKinley
and yi '.ling aud jeering at repudiation,
so that Mr. Bryan could not be heard
for several piinutes. If they had ap-
plauded him incessantly for even a full
half hour, would there have been any
complaint of their preventing him from
starting out in his speech? Has not a
crowd in the open air as much right to
hiss as to cheer? At what period in our
history was that privilege taken from
Americans?
“The Yale students did right. They
may have been boisterous beyond the
measure of necessity, after the fashion
of college boys, hut tho spirit animating
them was wholly honorable, wholly
commendable. Their fathers have good
reason to be proud of such sons. When
General Webb calls their conduct ‘das-
tardly and outrageous, ’ ho proves him-
self to be a man disqualified to be a
college president and an exemplar for
youth. He and not they deserve the re-
proach of his unjustifiable letter.’’
Measured In tlie leading commodi-
ties of the American market, Includ-
ing real estate and labor, the national
debt Is greater thun it was in March,
1800. i’rofessor John Clark Rldpath
SUMfvmU UP.
proves this by facts and figures In bis
work, “The Itond aud the Dollar.”
OPPOSED TO TRUSTS.
Mr. IJiyan, as i hii*f Executive, Would
Drive Them Out of Existence.
My friends, in so far as Republicans
aud former Democrats have criticised
my ch ( linn ns a menace to law aud or-
der 1 want to say to you that their
fear is not that as an executive I will
be lax in the enforcement of law. Their
fear is ihnt as an executive I would not
respect persons.
Who is it thal is so afraid that law
ey and uses the same arguments that | will not be enforced? Those who are
r-’
Aud keep posted. 1”
were formerly used for the demonetiza-
tion of gold.
All the great authorities on the sci-
ence of money have maintained that the
two metals together give a more stable
measure of value than either one of
them alone. When one falls short, the
other usually increases. Tho world’s
experience is that when any single great
nation keeps its mints open to the free
and unlimited coinage of both metals
on equal terms at a given ratio neither
the action of other nations nor the vari-
ations between the relative productions
of the two metals will seriously affect
that ratio. France maintained the pari-
ty between silver and gold at a ratio of
to 1 for 70 years—from 1803 until
1878. This was not affected by the
adoption of the silver standard in all
the German states and in Austria in
1857, nor by the adhesion by Great
Britain to the gold standard, adopted
by her in 181C. The silver coinage in
the United States during all that period
was very limited, because of the incon-
siderable production of silver, aufi
therefore had tot little effect upon the
question.
Gold and silver have always been
preferred over all other materials for
money, because the amount of them is
limited to nature’s yield. Neither of
these metals can be manufactured. They
are produced in varying quantities, ami
the variance is unimportant relatively
to the accumulations of the ages. There
is no more danger of inflation from the
overproduction ut gold and silver than
there is of the overflow of Lake Superi-
or from heavy fails of rain.
It requires a vast amount of both
metnis to supply the demand for the
arts and manufactures. It was the ex-
pressed opinion a few years ago of Mr.
Giffen, the statistician of the British
board of trade—himself an uncompro-
mising gold monometaliist—that the
supply of gold was being entirely con-
sumed in the arts and that none of it as
being added to the world's supply of
coin.
The struggle of the gold lnonometal-
lists to destroy silver has produced un-
paralleled distress throughout the world,
although their battle is but partially
won. To what lower deep mankind
would be doomed by their final success
will never be known if our nation, the
strongest, richest and most populous in
the world, shall turn the tide of battle
in the present presidential campaign.
The increased production of either of
the precious metals has always proved
a boou to mankind aud has booi/ follow
ed by an uplifting of civilization. But
money lenders have always seen in it
an injury to themselves iu proportion tu
the benefit it confers upon mankind. A
man who will willfully menace the pub-
lic peuce for private purposes deserves
the epithet of anarchist. Wc know' of
no element in this country so deserv-
ing to be classed as anurchists as those
who seek to put burdens upon the peo-
ple which they cannot and will not
bear, and thus undertake to enslave the
people, who have too much of the spirit
of independence to allow themselves to
be enslaved.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
An income tax may have been un-
constitutional, but it was right. And
when Mr. Bryan is elected president
It will be made constitutional as well
us right. The constitution Is sacred,
but lho welfare of the people Is more
most fearful that tin re will be a lax eu
forcemeat < f the law art) the very per-
sons who would suffer most if the laws
were enforced.
Those persons who aro afraid that
law will be violated with impunity are
the ones who have violated law with
impunity.
If Mr. Harrison wants to raise the
question of the survival of our institu-
tions, I will tell him that the great
trusts of this country that arc support-
ing tho Republican lii ki t am the great-
est mcnaio to i ur government.
The Goal in:-; sends its representative
to cit by every tin side and exacts trib-
ute from those who need warmth. The
trust sends its k'presentative to collect
a tribute from those who use light.
The trusts of this country, with their
representatives, an* collecting tribute
from the people, and when we protest
against it they cull us disturbers of the
peace and anarchists.
I am opposed to trusts. As an execu-
tive I shall use what power I have to
drive every trust cut of existence.
If present laws are not sufficient to
meet this evil, I, if elected, will recom-
mend such laws as will.
If the constitution of the United
States is so construed as to prevent any
interference with the operations of the
trust, I shall recommend such amend-
ment to the constitution as will permit
the punishment of these men.
My friends, there is a great contest
in this country which must be settled,
and that is whether a few men banded
together are more powerful than all the
people.
Aud while I do net want to array
class against class, I am willing tear-
ray all the people who -ul!i r from tfci
operations of these (rusts against tl.«
few people who operate the trusts.
The real Issue of Gib. earnpuigu is
not the question of free coinage, nor
of an Income tax, nor one <>1 life tenure
of oiliee. In is simply a i|tn-.,liou of
whetlier t Ills country is to be ruled fij
the trusts, tbe plutocrat'ami by Wail
street or by (lie plain people.
Tlie lVople Are In Tamest.
The masses everywhere are for the
Democratic ticket this year. They rec-
ognize the. fact that the issues joined in
this campaign are between the people
on one side aud the plutocrats on the
other. In order to resist tho encroach-
ments of the money power it is neces-
sary for them to stand firm and united.
8uch, indeed, is the earnestness of the
people in the campaign which is new
pending that no consideration whatever
can swerve them from the linos of pa-
triotism. —Atlanta Constitution.
Business must be good when prices
are rising. It must be bad when prices
are falling. Free silver cotnuge will
cause rising prices.
A Word About Trust*.
The talk about using the mints for
the benefit of “millionaire silver mine
owners” is a good thing if it helps to
make it rlear that the paltry $60,000,-
000 a year, the gross value of all silver
mined in the United States, is less that)
tho profits of u single Hanna trust—the
Pennsylvania anthracite pool, which is
iu league with the Standard Oil com-
pany and with the Steel trust in sup
port of the English gold standard.—St.
Louis Post-Dispatoh.
What the Present Agitation Means Tersely
Set Forth In Paragraphs.
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commodities is the cause of all trouble
is refuted by (he fact they are harder
for the poor to get at their present prices
than they would be at higher prices
with full circulation, because it is harder
now to get the half dollar than it used
to bo to get a dollar to buy them with.
If machinery has increased the prod-
uct of commodities, it would also have
increased the product of money of re-
demption if silver had not been demon-
etized. The relation between the two
would have been approximately sus-
tained. Stoppages of coinage without
the stoppage of tho production of com-
modities has limited the supply of
money aud increased the quantity of
commodities. The cheapness of tho
commodities is but another expression
for the dearness of money.
This question is one between labor
and capital, aud with the appreciation
of money the laborer must always get
less.
It is a question also between Ameri-
ca and Europe. Europe, being a credit-
or country aud America a debtor coun-
try, with dearer money Europo must
get richer and America i»oorer.
It is a question between tlie masses of
the people and a few magnates of
wealth, aud with dearer money tho
people must get poorer and the mag-
nates richer.
It is a question betwoeu tlie taxpayer
and government, and with dearer money
the taxpayer must be more heavily bur-
dened.
It is a question between debtor and
creditor, and with dearer money the
debtor must go to the wall.
It is a question betweeii property anil
the charges upon it, and with dearer
money property must bo sacrificed aud
iu many cases tho creditor involved in
ruin with his insolvent debtor.
It is a question between democracy
and autocracy, anil with dearer money
the autocrats of tho world have filled
their strong boxes with American gold,
dipped out of tho treasury with green-
backs, aud every monarch of the old
world lias been strengthened, while free,
liberal and independent movements havo
been proportionately cheeked.
It is a question of America anil her
freemen on the one side and her rivals
anil enemies on the other side.—Senator
John W. Daniel.
SENATOR HILL IN 1893.
He Declared For Free Silver ami Said It
Should He tlie lasue lu 1890.
Oil July 13, 1893, Senator Hill, in a
letter to The Constitution, announced
that tho Democrats must make l'voo
coinage the issue for tho presidential
campaign of 1890. The letter was per-
sonal anil lienee was not published at
the time it was written. About a year
ago, however, Senator Hill authorized
its publication, and so general lias been
the demand for it of late that Tlie Con-
stitution herewith produces that part of
it relating to tho currency question.
Senator Hill’s advico lius been taken by
tlie Democratic party. This is what ho
wrote:
As to tho repeal of tho Sherman law, I favor
tlie unconditional repeal of the law. I have al-
ways been opposed to it. it should he aban-
doned by general consent. My views were par-
tially expressed in my recent Tam many letter,
which you have undoubtedly seen. Personal-
ly I should prefer not to repeul the law until
an acceptable substitute was provided, in or-
der to render more probublo the adoption of
such substitute and Ilot because 1 approve at
all of the Sherman silver law. ltut from a
party point of view the wisest course is un-
conditional repeal. The country expects it,
and the party will he found fairly well united
in fuvor of it. Therefore it is unwise, while
agreeing upon tho general proposition, to
waste our time in agreeing upon a substitute
pending tho repeal. Lot the repeal bo made ut
once, and let us differ us to other ilnuncinl
mutters afterward. I am in fuvor of bimetal-
lism us the issue of tho future. We should seek
to keep that issue to tho front. Wo should not
strive for temporary success or compromise.
Wo should be for freo cotnuge under un inter-
national agreement, it it lie possible to pro-
cure one, und, if not possible, then for inde-
pendent bimetallism. This is the great goal
for which wo should strive, it cannot be done
at once. Our friends must not be impatient.
The people must he educated. The unexpect-
ed action of India und the general sentiment
of the moneyed elusses oonspiro against us ut
this time. 1 do nut believe iu the Blund bill
ur any other measure which guarantees any-
thing less than an unrestricted coinage for
gold and silver alike, as pledged in the Demo-
cratic national platform. Let us prepare not
for present victory, but for victory upon that
issue in 189(1. Tho repeal of tho Sherman law
will not give tho relief which is anticipated.
It will aid business temporarily, but in a year
times will bn hard, and the demand for perma-
nent financial relief will be irresistible. Wo
should continue toholduut free coinage us the
goal which the country must ultimately reach.
The triumph of tho mouoinelnllists will be but
temporary. David 11. Him.
Albany, July 111, 18911.
Wealth Increase anil Circulation.
According to Mullmll, tlm foot tons
per capita havo doubled siiii-e 1840, aud
since the demonetization of silver the
foot ton energy per capita lias increased
ut least 50 per cent. At the same time
the total wealth per capita between 1870
and 1890 lias increased 00 percent. In
other words, the wealth per capita in
1873 was $675 for each man, wouiun
and child in the United States, while iu
1890 tho wealth per capita was $1,030.
Now, then, what do those fucts prove?
They must necessarily prove that the
demand for money has increased in the
same proportion, and that, although in
1890 tho per capita circulation was
greater than in 1873, it had not in-
creased in anything like the proportion
to tho wealtli and volume of business.
Higotod Provincialism.
When Senator Tillman spoke of the
dense ignorance existing on Manhattan
Island on the money question, he utter-
Kl the naked truth. There is less gener-
al information in New York city on
financial ns well us other issues in pro-
portion to the square ucre than in any
other portion of tho United States. It is
very largely due to the one sided man-
ner in which the newspapers are con-
ducted, as tho senator says. Still there
is a bigoted provincialism—they think
they are metropolitan—about the aver-
age New Yorker that leads him honest-
ly to think that the sun rises and aetson
Manhattan Ih1,«ww —Denver News.
The Pltgu of Locoiti In Africa.
These plagues have visited this part!
of the country in recent years; fi.atJ
of r>'-~ v iilch 1.1 e up the i ■-* ’ 9
rice and maize; then com* the c-attk*
plague, which attacked beasts both wild
and domestic, and killed all tL>_
loes; and now the locust*. 1 -<*■>
turned from Kopa-Kopa an immense*
cloud of locusts were darkening the
air. Tney sped along at tne rat* of
four miles an hour, settling on
patch of maize, millet or sorghum. All
the natives were out, old ar.d young,
beating drums, shouting, rushing hem
and there, and beating crops v.Htk
swishes to drive the pests away. In
spite of their efforts the crops will be
destroyed. The natives are very care-
less nbout the future; knowirg well
that they are always subjeet. to locusts,
they do not take the precaution to
grow manioc, which locusts do not eait,
—From the Diary of the late E. J. Clave,
in Century.
The Barth'* Animal*.
A recent computation places the en-
tire number of species of animals which,
up to the present, have i>eeii tiesc. ibcd
naturalists at 360,000. Many new speciea
ore added every year, ns previously un-
explored lands are invaded by students
eager to gain distinction by milling val-
uable contributions to the lists of sci-
ence. The number of species already
known is so great that, even naturalist*
are sometimes troubled to keep track,
of them, and a project has just been
set on foot in Germany to publish a
work in which the entire animal popula-
tion of the globe shall be arranged
and described on a uniform system.
The publication is to be begun next
year, and a quarter of a century is as-
signed as the probably.-period needed
for its completion. Not only German,
but English, Frencli and American nat^
uralists will have a hand in the work.—
Youth’s Companion. ,
They Drink rnruOn Oil.
Paraffin oil would hardly be deemed a.
desirable beverage by an epicure, but
it is used in large quautities as a stimu-
lant by Kussiau immigrants iu tiiitr
country. The habit is one that they ac-
quire in their native iand, and, strange
as it may seem, they adhere to this fom*
of intoxication even when other liquor*
are within reach of their purses. At*
oil intoxication produces intense drowsi-
ness, and the tippler of this odd drink
goes to sleep as soon us he has become
saturated with the liquid.—Chicago
Times-TIerald.
Current Iloport.
"I can’t understand how shipwrecked
people starve to death at sea,” said lit-
tle Johnnie CliaiHe.
“Why can’t you understand it. There
is nothing for them to eat in tho
ocean.”
•There ain't ?”
“No.”
“Well, then, my teacher is a liar. Ilt-
said there were currants in the ocean.
Nobody need starve when he uu cut
currants. 1 wish I had some now."—
Texas Sifter.
The Old Style White Hlilrt,
Very few white shirt* are made novva-
(days with plaited bosoms fastening
with buttons nnd buttonholes, us al-
most all shirts were made 40 years ago.
Occasionally such shirt* are made to-
order, usually for a innn of uiutura
years who has always been accus-
tomed to wearing them, anil who clingw
te them from force of habit. And a few
fine shirts with plaited Ivoeoms are made
for southern customers, who, however,,
ire likely to buy themselves also shirta
cf modern style.—N. Y. Sun.
Reverting Thine*-
Bobby—Funny thing about Hiasy’a
two beaus, isn’t it, Pop?
Fond Parent—What is it?
Hobby—Why, Mr. Boldleigh is a gro-
cer and Mr. Gotrox is in the real estate
business.
Fond Parent—What about it?
Bobby—Well, Sis says that Mr. Bold*-
lcigh lias lots of sand but that Mr. Got-
rox has more sugar.—Buy City Chat.
Fore* la That I .ogle.
“Do you believe iu phrenology and
physiognomy? Do you believe that a
full, swollen appearance around the eye
indicates language power?”
“Yes, sir; and what, is more ;it, in-
dicates vehemence of language, lack of
judgment, nnd carelessness in the use of
suggestive words. Especially is thi*
true if the fullness is distinctly black in
color."—Truth.
The Domestic Servant Problem.
Mrs. Caller—How do you like your
new cook, Mrs. Gibbs?
Mrs. Gibbs—Well, she’s abominably
dirty. She spoils everything she cooks,
imil she’s luzy and impudent, but she has
one good quality rarely met w ith.
“Indeed, what is that?”
“She stays."—Tit-Hit*.
Mamma I* Itlglil About It.
Judge Hemlerly—How is it, Mis<?
Chuftie, that you do not dunce w ith any
but elderly gentlemen?
Miss Clin Hie—Mamma says the young
men don’t believe in matrimony, while
old gentlemen are much more suscepti-
ble and are better fixed financially.—
Texas Sifter.
—J. M. Hoggs, a painter a,t Nava sola,
while at work on a scaffold at. a resi-
dence in that city a day or two siucc,
fell a distance of thirty feet, breaking
several ribs and injuring him so that
he died the day following.
—While Mr. Joseph Vela, editor of'
La Juvcntud at Laredo, Tex., was
handling a pistol in his office a day or
two ago it was accidentally discharged,
killing Manuel Vargas, a 16-year-old
boy, an apprentice in the office-
—There is a negro in the jail at Bren-
ham who is “playing off" the lunatio
dodge, but physicians pronounce him
sane, yet he keepscutting up his pranks
notwithstanding the verdict of the
doctors that his insanity is assumed.
—The little son and daughter of Da-
vid Warner at Houston, while playing
around home a day or two ago found
some powder, and, taking it to the yard-
made a hole in the ground and poured
the powder in and the boy applied a
lighted match, causing the powder to
explode by which the boy was perhaps
fatally and the girl seriously injured.
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