The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1896 Page: 4 of 4
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Ion of the restora-
pf bimetallism In
to 1878. That I* “demonetising." The
taking away of the Independent pur-
chaalng power of any of the precious
metal coinage by law la the "dunwne-
tlilng" of ench ooln. While we dl4 Jiot
actually uae the silver or gold coho aa a
part of Ute volume of the circnlattus
Eafsas rsS jmssws
Hampton, Va., and Jefferson Barrack*.
rectijr with him In Matter* relating to
the corporation of the mwu.
A. for the mieery of theao beggar*
Harper'* Weekly eaya no detorlp-
tloa could give any idea of it Bui
for a rag about their loin* they are
etark naked. Kvpu in the eerereet
winter, whan thw bitter wind awahpa
acroee tba Mongolian steppe* and
the thermometer la far below zero
the poor wretch#* have moet of
them, not a ehred of elothlng to wrap
about tbelr shoulders and they suo-
oumb to the oold every night by
hundredn Uauut and wan, covered
with vermin nnd eofen they wander
about the town harrowing tbe feel-
ing* of the pa**er»-by with their
pitaou* lamentation* and fighting
with dog* for a *hare In the rafua* of
the atreeta or for houra together they
crouoh outal a a thop driving pur-
chaaer* away by thatr mare presence,
till the owner gate out of patleaoe
and fling* tlu»m a faw oolna U aelf-
dofnnse
When night comae they aeek abet-
ter under a bridge beneath the gates
of tbe towc or In soma tumble-down
house lying down halter skelter,
map woman, young girl* and chil-
dren. la a promiscuous heap Tho r
physical misery la such that tbelr
moral degradation 1* overlooked.
From thalr faoes all traoea of an In-
ner Ufa are wiped out; like the
beast* they can only andur*. and
seem to tome extent to hav# lost tba
oapaclty for suffering.
Exploring Africa.
Mr. Maurice Veraepuy, the African
explorer, telegraphs from Laa Palma*
that ha la on hla way back to Prance,
having succeaafully accompliahed a
journey across Equatorial Africa. Mr.
Veraepuy (aay* a Paris correspondent)
set out from Zanxlbar on July 8, 18*5,
accompanied by M. de Saint Romon
and M. Spook, with a caravan of 151
Aacarl*. The chief landmark* of hie
Journey to the Upper Congo were Kll-
Umanjaro, Mount Kenla, Bortngo, Man-
go and Uganda.
Q —la not the tariff equally an laaue
In the campaign T
A.—No, there Is no appreciable oppo-
sition to a protective tariff, and all oth-
er issues are lost In the great oar of
gold or bimetallism.
Q.—Explain the position of the gold
advocates?
A.—They Insist that 2322 grain* of
gold ahall constitute the measure of tbe
dollar, no matter to what point gold
may advance.
Q.—Why are they so wadded to the
gold standard?
A.—Because it la the English stand-
ard, and England la looked upon as the
moat enlightened nation of the world.
Q.~1* there any reason why we
should have the same standard aa Euro-
pean countries? '
A.—None whatever. The monetary
•yetem of a country Is purely a matter
of Its own Internal concern^,
"Q.—What Influence baa precipitated
the Issue at this time?
A.—Tbe epecu.—lve money Influence.
Q.—What do you mean by speculative
money Influence?
A.—Capital legitimately employed
hae little to make or lose by tbe ques-
tion Ot the standards. A piece of prop-
erty M worth Just aa much whether ex-
pressed In Knglleb pounds or In French
francs or In American dollar*. Bo in-
vested capital represents the same In-
trinsic value whether It be measured
by gold dollars or stiver dollars. Only
large Investor* in monay have any vary
real Interest In maintaining forever tbe
gold standard.
Q. —But would not a change of stand-
ard be an injustice to them?
A.—The Issue hed better not have
brfwa raised at this time, but as irhas
been raised some Injustice must be ex-
perienced on one aide or the other.
Q.—Who raised the Issue?
A.—The advocates of the gold stand-
ard.
Q.—What are their chief arguments?
A.—-Denouncing the advocate! of bi-
metallism as populists, anarchists, fa-
natics and cranks.
Q.—Are these denunciation* Justi-
fied?
A.—No; many able political econom-
ists and statesmen advocate bimetal-
lism.
Q.—Does free silver carry with It the
destruction, of tbe national banking
system, the. restriction of the powers
of the government to preserve the
peace In tlmrs-of riot and Insurrection,
and other so-called populistic meas-
ures?
A.—By no mean*. The remonetisa-
tion of allrer la a legitimate question
of statesmanship with a solid basis of
scientific truth underlying It.
Q.—Just what do tbe bimetallists con-
tend for?
A1.—For tbe free coinage both of gold
bud silver.
Q.—What do you mean by free ootn-
aga?
A.—The privilege on the part of any
holder of the precious metals of taking
them to the mint and having them
coined Into money without limitation.
Q.—Then the term "free" simply
means unrestricted a* to amount?
A.-Exactly. If every coin contain*
the full weight of pure metal and yaaaea
at what it le worth, there can bn >0
object in limiting the coinage. The
more money we have the better.
Q.—But how nbout the expense of
running the mints?
A.—At present gold li coined nt the
rxpense ot the government. Ia some
countries the cost ot coining Is charged
to the person getting hi* metal convert-
ed into coin. That would b* a matter
for congress to aettl*. There can be no
objection to a charge for coinage. There
may be advantages In It. ..
Q.—1Then free silver simply means
putting silver on tn equality with gold
in throwing open tbe mints to Its coin-
age?
medium U 1ST! tbe taw permitted the
gold cola and the silver dollar to be
carried op Independent purchasing
power, and after that this privilege was
taken from the (liver dollar. While
the stiver coin now has th* same pur-
chasing power aa gold coin It is so be-
cause they are in the volume of th*
circulating medium aa the solvent rep-
resentation of the gold coin. The sil-
ver coin changes purchasing power
with the change of the gold ooln, and
not with the change of allrer bullion.
It may then be true that In 1S73 we were
not uelng the stiver coin in our vol-
ume of the circulating medium, and yet
the sliver dollar waa privileged to be
coined and used on Its own purchasing
power, but after 1878 It could «nly be
used aa tbe aolrent or insolvent repre-
sentation of gold coin. The allrer dol-
lar waa restored In everything but Us
Independent purchasing power In 1878.
The silver dollar therefore remained
"demonetised."
Nor-doee it make any difference about
th* volume of silver coin, for bo the
laaue few or many, the question involv-
ing tbe "demonetising" of precious
metal coinage la whether or not
it la issued on independent t.t
dependent purchasing power. Pur-
chasing power alone is "standard of
prices," and any money to perform the
olflc* of a •"standard of price*” must
have sufficient independence of pur-
chasing power to fill this office. Sol-
vent representative money never has
any purchasing power of Us own, and
therefore can only be subordinate
monay and Is "demonetised.'VEbcne-
ser Wakeley In Chicago Record.
Kat# mold's win.
The will of Kate Field waa found tfl [
a tin box which she had left with the |
proprietor of th* Shoreham Hotel at
Washington. UC. U appoints aa execu- ,
tor* H H. Koblaaat. of Chicago, and
T. Sanford Beatty, secretary to Senator (
Brice. The latter Is her literary exacn- ,
tor. As anticipated, it provide* for the i
cremation of her body and the burial of
the ashes at Mount Auburn, Mass. I
- BIAS
40* VELVETEEN
skirt B1NDIN05.
You have to pay the sime price lor the
•• Just as good." Why not ineUt on
having what you went—S. H. ft M.
Can yoi
than a me
n»k OlsonMtrgurlns.
The law of New Hampshire **r» that
all oleomargarine sold within tbe state
shall be colored pink. With this there
is no ebanea of palming off the spurious
for th* real article.
j, lie A M# Co., fr. o. >»« We N. Y, cHy.
Which would you rather ?
Have 25c. more in your
pocket or a fair skiu on your
face? Use HEISKELL’S
Medicinal Soap for skin trou-
bles, sunburn, tan or freckles.
HMMKBU.-a PIUS tusks tbs skin hsulthr >’f
ptsrtlyinx fh> >>w««1. Thry tloft‘I griix, or nsussals.
Gap**-: pills tie.-»t tlrssttIsis nr try utsli.
MII1SI. MUSWlt SCI., ill CtaatfHit. rtllsto.
Mnrion Crawford has wrlttaa s new story
socrlslly for The Century. It Is called "A
Ruse of Yesterday,” and it will begin In the
November number and run for si* months.
Hie story opens In Lucerne, and while It Is en-
tirely sepernte In Interest, somo of the per-
sonage* thst sppear In It will be familiar to
readers of "Hon Orsino." It Is wholly roman-
tic lu character.
CENTRAL
iSsfBSaXSSSSSS^
rn ^bWSESJbh* pm
When spring chickens become
tough, It la a sign that a man ts grow-
Ingold. _
• Hull's Cutsrrh Oar*
la token internally. Price, 76o.
Thera la mighty ltttlo wasted about
* spring chicken if a woman ts a good
cook.
If you have any friend who regards
yeu as an ideal,, don't aak a favor of
him. I
"Pool Lest-.”
St. Louis Republic: In the same col-
umn a republican organ tells tbe work-
ingman that If he votea for Bryan he
will vote 47 psir cent of hla wagea inte
the pockets of min* owners, and that
he will vote to depreciate not only th*
silver dollar, but all the currency to 53
.cents on tbe dollar. How In th* name
of Hanna can free (liver coinage put
47 per cent of each dollar coined Into
the pocket ot the silver miner and at
the same time reduce the ralue ot the
silver dollar and all the currency de-
pendent upon It to the value of 53
cents? Any schoolboy can figure out
that If tbe value of the silver dollar
depreciate* to 63 cents, or anything leas
than its face value the miner can not
make 47 cents by Its free coinage at the
mints. Or, to put It tho other way, If
the miner makes 47 cents, the value
o{ the silver dollar will have to bo
raised to the value of the present gold
dollar, In which Case there will be no
depredation of the currency. The gold-
atandard advocate can take hla choloe
of alternatives, but not both. Thl# la
a fair sample ot tbe kind of logic with
which Hanna'a agents are flooding the
country. It proceeds on the assump-
tion that the workingmen are fools.
list.Loilt8.32m ArChicago5.00pn
ABSMItt/SSk
Popular
The expedition on
several occasions met with resistance
from the natives. In September one of
the Masai tribes, well armed and strong
In numbers, attempted to stop the
French explorer, but It waa routed,
leaving twenty men on the field. This
la the seventeenth time Africa has been
crossed In modern times.
Train
Li ft. Lolls 9.10 pa Ar Chicago 7.35 ia
•1.-.DS VI* THE ILLINOIS CINTRAL R. R.
v-sEUT with a Mg l
K Durham Is Id a •
3-' con poo Inside «
poos Inslds each tout <
Rrltlsh postal learnings.
The poatofflea, depatment of Great
Britain made a profit of 18,160,610 dur-
ing the last fiscal year. The total of the.
postal pockets handled during the year
reached to 3,030,000.090 against 2,817,-
000,000 during the proceeding five years.
In addition to these enormous figures
’the department handled 78,838.610 tele-
grams, an Increase over the previous
year of 7,260,546, or 10.13 par cent
Black
HALL’S
Vegetable Sicilian
HAIR RENEWER
Smoking
Has for a Fifth of a Century ^
Cured all forma of . , .
KIDNEY and LIVER DISEASB5.
THE DREAD
Brights
Buy a bo* of thl
Will restore gray hair to its youth-
ful calor and beauty—will thicken
th* growth of th* hair— will pre-
vent baldness, cur* dsnduiff, end
*11 scslp diseases. A fin* dressing.
Th* bast hair restorer msd*.
"Away Down Mouth In SSIchlann."
One of the popular mlnstrsl songs
now current in London and announced
aa a recent Importation from thla coun-
try, la entitled "Away Down South In
Michigan.” The author must either
have been up at the north pole when he
wroto the song, or he had a supreme
contempt for the geographical knowl-
edge of ?h* average Cockney.
——--. —— .
Shinnies a* Years Old.
Shingles that were laid In 1828 are
being taken from the Canterbury (N.
H.) Congregational Church. They were
split and shared by hand, and ar^ .ln
perfect preservation, but worn very
thin where they were exposed to the
weather.
Plan's Cure tor Consnmptlon has bees a
Botl-sond to ms—Wm. It, MeC'lellaa, Chester,
Florida, Sept. IT, 1885. ■ .
If you want any attention paid to
your advice, put on your best clothes
when you give It.
Is .but Incipient. Kidney Disease.
Either ere Dangerous.
Both can he Cured
if treated In time with Warner’*
Safe Cure.
„ Cargo bottle or new stylo smaller
on" *t >'our firumrtatM. Ask for -
^aslther and tooept no substitute. A
Wh.r. "Chestnuts” Cam* From.
The origin of the term "eheatnut*”
Is varied. One explanation Is thla:
William Dillon wrote a melo-druma
entitled “The Broken Sword." Two
principal characters In it are Copt.
Zavler and the comedian Pablo. The
former Is a sort ot Baron Munchau-
sen and In relating ble exploits, says:
"I entered the Woods of Celia way,
when suddenly from the thick bough*
of a cork tree--” Pablo Interrupt*:
"A chestnut, captain, a chestnut.”
"Bah!" replies tho other. “Booby,
I sty a cork tree."
"A chestnut," reiterate* Pablo. "I
should know os well a* you, having
heard you tell the tale these twenty-
seven times.”
Now, the introduction ot the word
In Its slang tense la attributed to Wil-
liam Warren, the veteran comedian of
the Boston muaaum. He had often
played th* part of Pablo, and In 1885
Less than a cent in fact — and all
pure Cocoa — no chemicals.—That
Walter Baker Sc Co/s Breakfast C
WALTER BAKER A CO.. Limited, - Dorchesl
waa th* guest at a dlnqer, when one of
the gentlemen praarnt told a story of
tho rMult of 11x8 usual treatment of blood
orders. The system It fllle<l with Veroary and
rath raim’flifw- - more to be dreaded that) tbe
eate—and In a nliort while It In A far wortn
idilion than before. The common remit it
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Moore, Eugene. The Stephenville Empire. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1896, newspaper, September 18, 1896; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857360/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stephenville Public Library.