The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1896 Page: 4 of 4
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p.E. LDM0ND80M,Editor ill Proprtelir.
LaGRANGE. JULY SO, 18S6.
0. M. BKTMOLDJ.
J. F. WOLTBM
C. M. REYNOLDS & GO.,
PEED & GRAIN
STORE,
Hay, Oats, Bran, Hulls, Cotton
Seed Meal and other feed stuffs.
do White k Bradshaw Store Bnilding,)
IiaCrange, - Texas.
ON ITS OIN BAILS.
'
%i i $?<
J I.;T!
ffjaa
THAIINS OIN TIIE
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
. . RAILWAY . .
Now Run Solid
....TO....
ST. LOUIS
CHICAGO
KANSAS CITY
. . . WITH . . .
Wagner Buffet Sleeping Cars
AND
FREE CHAIR CARS.
LEO FREDE & C0„
WHOLK8ALK AND RETAIL
GROWERS
— AND DEALERS IN —
Western Produce,
LaGKANGK, TEXAS.
AUG. ST HE IT II OFF
PROTECTION FOR COWS.
How m Ohio Farm Hand Bobbed Milk-
ing Time of IU Terror*.
% A a mart, practical fellow who worked
for iue three yearn dropped outo the de-
vice which appears in thin article. It
wa* during a time when file* were ex-
tremely bud that thia fellow, who
thought to *ave both hia head and bin
•hlna, hunted up one of thoae tmmenae
oat dust sank* from the oat mills, and
ripping down one side, threw the aiTair
over the back of tho cow with the closed
end over her rear and pulling it* length
well over her shoulders, so that the en-
tire body wsa covered.
For a few minute* the cow struggled
with her tail in vain effort to it over
his defennel»**s head, a* she hud got in
the habit of doing, file* or no flies. On
flndlng that there were no flies to brush
PROTECTION FOR tOWS.
ofT, she quieted down, and from that
date there wo* no trouble about flies in
our stable at milking time. The device
illustrated answers so well that each
milker hu* a cover and never forgets to
use it.
The closed end practically keeps the
cow from switching her tail in a manner
to annoy the milker, which prevents
many ugly things happening on a wet
summer evening when the milker might
contemplate attending prayer meeting
or his Christian Endeavor.
The presence of this cheap and easily
contriveil uffair beats tying a cow’s tail
to one's boot strap or buttonhole all to
pieces, and we recommend it to all dairy-
men, and especially those who are en-
deavoring to lead a better life.
If there are no large sacks of the de-
scription mentioned, take enough cof-
fee or fertilizer sacks (wash the latter)
and sew together. 1 would suggest
that a continuation of the robe would
cover the neck to the horn1' and be made
sloping to fit. Then the cow will stand
absolutely quiet, not having to throw
her head first one side then the other
to drive the flies from her neck and
sides. When done milking take the right
hand and reach to the neck and jnill
the robe off at one sweep of the hand
toward the jeor. A moment's time will
spread it over the next cow.—George E.
Scott, in Ohio Farmer.
-DEALER IN-
sjm§M
w
— —V—
Stores, Tinware and House Ftir-
nish inf/ Goods.
Kaet Side of Public Square.
LAGUANGK. TKXAH.
_« _
TTA8 juflt received a large and splendid
£ J stock of everything in his line.
Work in the tin line such as roofing, gut-
tering &e. done at moderate prices.
Call and see me. (36-ly.)
LOUIS WALTER,
Mannfactnrer of and Dealer in
Muddles, lluriiess, Collars, llri-
dles anil l.n|> Ousters.
(North Side Public Square,)
LnGrniiKO, - Tcxiih.
J. MEYENBERG, Jr.,
DEALER IN
rhRUOS, Druggist Sundrios, Patent Med-
I 9 * icines. Sponges, Brushes, Comb-, Tol-
let Articles and Perfumeries.
Fine line of Pocket Cutlery, Razors and
Razor Straps.
Finest Brands of Foreign and Domettie
Cigars.
Prescriptions a Specially.
Wert Sid* Public Square,
LaaRiVlPGE, TEXAS
GO TO THE
CHEAP CASH STORE.
BOSENTHAL BROS.,
4-DIALKM nr-e
HE! OOPS UI MM™
SCIENTIFIC DAIRYING.
The Kind of Men Who Make the Keeping;
of Cowu I’tsy Well.
At a recent convention of leading
dairymen ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin,
gave the following, which we quote ver-
batim :
“At the head of my l:*:t is a man
named McPherson. Last, year we paid
him in cash $6.4 j**r head as the earn-
ings of his cows and we returned him
his «kim milk, for which we would
have paid him $12 per head more, ns
an investment of our own That made
his cows earn him $7:’ per head in cash.
Now, says one man, that was success.
Certainly. Right alongside of him Is
another man who had the same op-
portunity, with the same sky above
him, the same earth beneath him, the
same creamery lielihid him and the
same market ahead of him, and we
paid that man $40 per cow. The first
man had 35 cows, (lie hist man 20.
Where lay the difference of success?
Was if in the heavens above or t.lie earth
beneath? It lay in the brains and not
in the hands. In other words, the first
man produced milk intelligently and
made money; the second, carelessly
'and shiftlessly, and lost 35 jwr head,
or $700.“
Now this is intensified, scientific and
successful dairying. These dairymen
study their cows, they study their food
♦o obtain the best results. They rec-
ognize the fact that the cow Is a ma-
chine and they careful 1\ study that
machine until they understand its pe-
culiarities, its capabilities, its delicate
sensitiveness, and then intelligently
and carefully they run the machine
for all it Is worth. These dairymen,
and others whom I might mention,
are all working along the advanced
lines of which I have rpoken. They are
producing a large quantity of milk and
also reducing the cost of production to
a minimum. They have learned that
they cannot receive one cent of profit
until they can produce milk above the
cost, of production. In order to do this
they take the best of care of their
herds, feed the very best rations for
this purpose, and the result is a large
increase and a large profit.
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.
The real test of a cow is her perform-
ance after the first, three or four months
in milk.
A cow with her first calf never milks
so well ac with her third or fourth, and
so is unprofitable thus far.
It is claimed that gill-edge butter
cannot be made from the milk of cows
that are fed largely upon cotton seed
meal.
The worst i nemies of the dairy in-
terest. are those too ignorant or too
lazy to take the )aiins necessary to
make good butter.
Thoroughly wash the buttermilk out
ot the butter as it comes into the churn
mid the butter will not become rancid
so noon.
A large cow on the dairy farm Ls more
expensive to feed «and adds to the cost of
the butter.—Prairie Farmer.
----
Last summer one of oar grand
children was sick with a severe
bowel trouble. Onr doctor’s rem
edies had failed, then we tried
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave
very speedy relief. We regard it
as the best medicine ever put on
the market for bowel complaints.
—Mrs. K. G. Gregory, Fredericks
town, Mo. This certainly is the
best medicine ever pot on the
market for dysentery, summer
complaint, colic and cholera infau-
turn in children. It never fails to
give prompt relief when used in
reasonable time and tbe plain
printed directions are followed
Many mother* have expressed
tbeir sincere gratitude for the
oarea it has effected. For sale by
all draggists.
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Ignorance is bliss to the person
wbo does not know whst others
think of him.—Golveston News.
A woman Is almost divine in
TUBERCULOSIS IN COWS.
Most PrmlMt tn the Dairies Wkleb lap
plj Lars* CitlM.
This subject is one which we have
htwit*ted to treat In these columns, for
the reason that we have not been clear
as to the actual danger from this source
which threatens the farmers as such, or
what action, if any, their own interests
or their duties to society require at
their hands. The protection of the
health of tiie inhabitants of large towns
and cities is a matter for the special care
of the municipal authorities who are
dealing with it.
We know, however, that tuberculosis
is an evil more immediately destructive
to humuu life than any other that ex
i*te. It is more terrible than smallpox,
yellow fever, cholera or war. That em-
inent journal, the San Francisco Chron-
icle, says that of the 65,000,000 people
now living in the United States iuoiv
than 9,000,000 will die of tuberculosis.
We know it to lie contagious by means
of a microscopic bacillus of Hirch tenac-
ity of life and virulence that it* deadly
effect continues after it is dried and
ground to powder; that neat cattle, ns
well a* some other domestic animals,
are quite a* subject to it a* human
beings, and that infection occurs in
differently among all forms of life
which arc subject to tiie disease.
Ilut this, a* may well be the cnee, Is
the worst side of it. The is not
evenly distributed. While some herds
of cows ure nearly all infected, others
are entirely free from it. In general,
tuberculosis in cows is most prevalent
in climates and under condition* which
favor it* ravage* in tine human race. It
Is more prevalent than elsewhere in the
dairies w hich supply large cities with
milk. Of the 9,000,000 of our fellow
citizens who are to die from it, the ma-
jority, probably, are helpless children
who will imbibe the deadly microbe
with their milk.
There are some who believe that if
we can stamp out tuberculosis from our
domestic animals we can eradicate the
di*ease from the human race. There
are none who doubt that t.lie control (if
the disease in the lower animals could
enormously decrease human mortality
and lengthen the average of human
life. To accomplish this the only meth-
od is to destroy every infected animal.
The inhabitant* of cities, as is natural,
are moving first and most actively.
What is to be done in the country an 1
among farmers does not yet appear. It
is not known to what extent the disease
is prevalent among farm cattle in dif-
ferent localities. Apparently the first
step must be a thorough official investi-
gation of farm cattle, that we may know
what we have to deal with. Farmers
certainly do not wish to kill themselves
and their families, and if there is any
serious danger of this from infected
animals they ought to know it.—Col-
man's Rural World.
FREIBURG CATTLE.
A Dairy llrrcil Which In Very 1’opular In
Nontlicrn Ucrnmny.
This is a Swiss breed. The United
States consular report says of it:
There are several off-shoot breeds de-
rived from the pure Bernese, known
as the Freiburg, the Frutiger, the Illie?
and Ormond breeds, but they are all
more or les* inferior to the pure orig-
inal race. As a principle, cross-breed-
ing has failed in Switzerland, and the
best results have always been obtained
from in-breedlng from the pure orig
inal stork.
Of these minor Kjiotted breeds the*
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wards persona of the otbar sax.
FREIBURG BLACK SPOTTED HULL
only one that deserves notice here is the
Freiburg, which originated in the can-
ton of that name, and is still bred there
in great, purity, although even there it
is gradually giving way in the best
herds to the light colored Snnnen and
8 ini men Ihal variety.
The distinctive mark of the Freiburg
cattle is found in the fact, that their
spot* ?re black. Many examples are
seen In which the entire animal i.s
black, except perhaps the* head and a
stripe under the belly. It is fully as
heavy aw its Bernese rival, but has
larger, heavier bone*, courser flesh, and
Is in other respect* inferior to it in the
technical point* that characterize u per-
fect stock. As working animals and a*
milkers the Freiburgors rank next to
the Bernese.
Ncpitraior Milk for Calves.
Certainly the dairy farmer who makes
money on a 15-cent butter market must
employ every modern convenience at
hi* command and see to it that nothing
goes to waste. The hand and small
power separators liave been n blessing
in these times. The butter fat. is quick-
ly separated and the freshly-skimmed
milk, with the addition of a small part
of oil meal makes a complete and de-
licious ration for the young calf. Is
not this better than tlieold way of feed-
ing cold milk to the calves, and what
sort, of calves did we have? The pot
belly sort and no larger ns yearlings
than a well-fed calf at six months ought
to be. We believe that any careful farm-
er, with ten good cows, will easily pay
for a hand machine during a single
year, in the quicker handling of his
product and in mnking good yearling
calves.—Prairie Farmer.
Chitin|»tg;na from Apples.
It. is reported that tlie Germans, who
recently made heavy purchases of Amer-
ican apples, intend to use this fruit in
in the manufacture of champagne by
an entirely new and secret, process.
Whether this be true or not, the Amer-
ican apple is gaining n firm foothold in
European markets.
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Mrs. Rlwxlie Noah, of this place,
«as taken in the night with cram-
ping pains and the next, day (liar
rhoea set in. She took half a bot-
tle of blackberry cordial but. got
no relief. She then sent to me to
see if I bad anything that would
help. I sent her a bottle of Cham-
berlains, Colic, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy and the first dose
relieved her. Another of our
neighbors had been sick for about
a week and tried different reme-
dies for diarrhoea bat kept get-
ting worse. 1 sent him the same
remedy. Only four doses of it
were required to enra him. He
says he owes his recovery to this
wonderful remedy.—Mrs. Mary
Sibley, Sidney, Mich. For sale by
all druggists.
A woman can keep some se-
oreta, yon esn And ont what her
bonnet costs, bnt not borage.
CANCER CUREO
-AMD ▲-
LIFE SAVED
By the Persistent Use of
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
“ I was troubled for years witli a
sore on my knee, which several
physicians, who treated me, called a
cancer, assuring me that nothing
could he done to save my life. As
a last resort, I was induced to try
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, after tak-
ing a number of bottles, tbe sore
began to disappear and my general
health improve. I persisted in this
treatment, until the sore was en-
tirely healed. Since then, I use
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla occasionally as
a tonic and blood-purifier, and, in-
deed, it seems as though I could not
keep house without it,”—Mrs. S. A.
Fiki.ds, Bloomfield, la.
AYER’S
The Only World’s Fair Sarsaparilla.
Ayor's Pills Regulate the Liver.
Chamberlain's Congh Remedy
_ _____________________ enrea colds, cronp and whooping
her capacity for forgiveness—to ing coogb. It is pleasant, safe and
reliabln. For sale by all draggists.
Emperor William wu much elated
wlisu lie heard of the escape of Presi-
dent Faure from assassination, and
wired his congratulations to Paris to
the French President upon hia escape.
The National Business Men’s league
has issued an address from Chicago to
the busainess men of the United States
urging them to take an active part in
the campaign against the nominee of
the Chicago convention.
Late advices from Havana report the
yellow fever to be raging with great
virulence along the line of the troeba,
both Spaniards and insurgent troops
suffering from its attack.
Thunder storms, hurricanes and hail
storms have devastated various dis-
tricts in Germany during the past
week, especially in Hesse, Mocklen-
berg, Moselle regions and around the
city of Colmar.
The Empress Augusta of Germany
and six of the imperial family are prac-
ticing bicycle racing in the park at
Wilhelmsruhe, Berlin, under the tui-
tion of her eldest sons, both of whom
are expert bicyclists.
The railroad depot, two hotels, the
bank and all the principal business
houses in the town of Malvern, Ark.,
a city of 6000 inhabitants, was nearly
destroyed by tire on the 18th inst.,only
three business houses remaining. The
loss will reach 9400,000.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who has for
some time been very ill at his homo in
New York city, and at one time about
to bo given up by his physicians as be-
yond recovery, has passed the danger
line and his family and physicians now
hope for his speedy convalescenne.
The postoffice department at Wash-
ington has decided that all railway
matter, from a bundle of advertising
folders down to a communication con-
cerning rates, must be adorned with a
United States postage stamp and trans-
mitted exactly as is the mail of ordin-
ary business firms and individuals.
This law took effect July 17, 1896.
( lia toil, Missouri.
Mr. A. L. Armstrong, an old
druggist and a prominent citizen
ol this enterprising town, says: “I
sell some forty different kinds of
cough medicines, bnt have never
in my experience sold so much of
any one article ns I have of llal-
lard's Iforehound Syrup. All who
use it sav it is the most per-
fect remedy for cough, cold, con-
sumption and nil diseases of the
throat and lungs,they have ever
tried.” It is a specific for croup
and whooping cough. It will re-
lieve cough in one minute. Con-
tains no opiates. For sale by Kb-
linger & Reynolds. .’5,
It is better to have one hand on
postoflice than to have both eyes on
a foreign mission.—Texas Sifter.
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A Sound Liver Makes a Well Man.
Are you billions, constipated or
troubled with jaundice, sick head
ache, bad taste in mouth, foul
breath, coated tongue, dyspepsia,
hot, dry akin, pain in back and be-
tween the shoulders, chills and
fever, etc. If you have any of
these symptoms your liver is out
of order, and your blood is slowly
being poisoned,because your liver
does not act properly. Hkkbink
w ill cure any disorder of the liver,
stomach, or bowels. It lias no
e<|iinl as a liver medicine. Price
76 cents at Ehlinger & Reynolds.
All fresh fruit should be mixed
with sugar before tilling in pies. A
little butter increases I he delicacy.
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linflard’i* Snow Liniment.
This wonderful liniment is known
from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from the lakes to the gulf. It
Is the most penetrating liniment
in the world. It will care rheu-
matism, neuralgia, cuts, sprains,
bruises, wounds, old sores, burrs,
sciatica, sore throat, sore chest
and nil infinmmauon after all others
have failed. It will cure limbed
wire cuts, and heal all wounds
where proud fieah has set it). It
is equally efficient for animals.
Try it add yon will not he with-
out it. Price 60 cents. For sale
by Khlinger & Reynolds. 3.
-- , a ♦- ■ —.
No mau lores his neighbor as
himself theBe days—unless she is
a pretty girl.
W. F. Severs, Cedar Rapids,
la.—Dear Sir: I received the
medicine sent by you and thank
yon very much for your prompt-
ness. My wife feels entirely well
again and I shall always keep
onr preparations at my home,
onr bloood purifier and yonr
liver pirlls are excellent. Please
accept my tbanka. Yosra truly,
Mat Hollar, Savannah, (la.
STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
TUB WHOtE PtlTFORM1
1. The democracy of Texas, in
convention assembled, reaffirms
its tradilloual principles, in favor
of a strict construction of the fed-
eral constitution and the preser-
vation of (be rights of the Bta'e
and the liberties of the people,
tbe political equality of our citi-
zens, freedom of conscience, tbe
separation of church and state,
and the freedom of the press as
among the fundamental doctrines
embodied in'tbe declaration of in-
dependence and the constitution
of the United States and at all
times adhered to by tbe democ-
racy of the nniou.
2. We are opposed to all monop-
olies and trusts and all class leg-
islation, and demand equal rights
to all and exclusive privileges to
none; and we insist that all of the
great corporations, while protect-
ed in all rights, should be held su-
bordinate to law and held subject
to legal restraint and control.
3. We favor a tariff for revenue
only, but in u sufficient amount,
supplemented by other taxation,
to meet the expenses of the gov-
ernment, economically adminis-
tered, so as to render it unneces-
sary to increase the public debt
in any manner or form whatever.
And we believe that the present
tariff’ law which lets into this
country raw material free of duty
and levies heavy duties on manu-
factured products, thus subject-
ing our agricultural and pastoral
classes to competition with the
world while it enables the rich
manufacturers, by means of com-
binations and trusts, to extort
their own prices for their pro-
ducts from the people, violates
the federal constitution as well as
the fundamental principles of the
democratic party that tariff duty
should he levied and collected
for the purpose of revenue only.
4. We favor an economical ad-
ministration of the government.
And we view with alarm the in-
creased expenses caused by tiie
session of congress just adjourn-
ed, which has appropriated for ex-
penditures timing the next fiscal
year #5 15,759,820.29. We condemn
this excessive appropriation of
the people’s money, and insist on
a large reduction of the public ex-
penditures, and we believe that
there has been an unnecessary in-
crease in the number of officers
and employes of the federal gov-
fnuction of tbe government,which
should not be farmed out to auy
individual, either natural or arti-
tiflcial.
11. That the democracy recog-
nises as a necessary result of tbe
war between the states, that the
federal soldiers who were therein
disabled, and whose necessities
may require it, should receive a
pension; bnt it is insisted that the
pension roll should be made a
roll of honor, and those who per-
formed no servioe for the govern-
ment or who are in affluent cir-
cumstances, should not demand
that the masses be taxed to in-
crease tbeir wealth, and a still
greater burden should not be im-
posed upon those who are so lit-
tle able to bear it. The democrat-
ic party views with alaruj the
growing tendency in peusion leg-
islation to discriminate between
the officers aud the soldiers of the
late war, and gives to the widows
of deceased officers large pen-
sions, and to the widows ;of the
common soldiers very much small-
er amounts, without reference to
the needs of the one or the wealth
of the other, thereby creating
what the spirit of our go vernmerit
prohibits—a privileged class akin
to ami fashioned after the class
distinctions of European monarch-
ies.
12. The democracy of Texas
further hereby instructs its dele-
gates to the national convention
to assemble at Chicago to use
their utmost endeavors to secure
tin-a of the platform above
outlined in its entirety, and par-
ticularly that portion which re-
lates to the money question,
which we believe to he Hie para-
mount issue in this campaign.
13. They are further specially
instructed to use utmost and best
endeavors to securo the nomina-
tion of candidates for president
aud vice-president of the United
States at said convention who are
known to he in perfect harmony
with the money plank herein pro-
posed, and who will endeavor to
secure its enactment into a law
by the federal congress in the
event of their election.
14. They are further instructed
to vote as a unit upon all ques
lions that may be presented to the
convention, as upon the ones
above specifically mentioned.
15. We believe that any law
eminent and that the number which permits the president of
should he greatly and speedily re- t|l0 United States to send troops
dticed.
'into a state without a request
5. We demand the submission thereof by the legislature or ex
of a constitutional amendment to ecutive of the state, when there is
the several states which will an no insurrection against the gov-
thorizo congress to pass an in- ernment of the United States, nor
come tax law, to the end that the 1 resistance to the enforcement of
wealth of the nation may tie com-; Die national laws, not only vto-
pelled to bear its just share of the laics a plain provision of the con-
expenses of the government. ; stitntion, hut is dangerous to the
liberties of the people and should
0 The democratic party ts mi- : repealed.
alterably opposed to the issuance
of then, tcrest hearing bonds by I Resolved, That, we, the dele-
the federal government in times 1 «“««■ co.npostng this convent.,,.,
of peace, and we demand that the I <'<' ,l,ereby l> edge ourselves and,
national debt shall he diminished , '*?' RS, wt* 1,ave * 1“’wl,r ° <<>
rather .......increased until ,. shall 8°- »’« democracy of this state to
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7. We favor the free and unlim-juic democratic national party to
ited coinage of gold and silver in ' he put forth by it at the national
standard money, without discrimi- ] conveution soon to he held in the
nation against either and at the
ratio of 10 io 1, independently of
the action of other nations, which
standard money shall he legal ten-
der for all debts, public and pri-
vate; and we fnrtuer demand that
the money of the country shall
consist of gold and silver tints
coined, and of paper convertible
into theso coins on demand of the
city of Chicago.
We indorse and confirm in de-
tail and in whole the action of the
State executive committee in the
conduct of the campaign up to
the present time, and congratulate
the chairman, Hon. J. G. Dudley,
upon the able and patiiolic man
ner in which he has discharged
the onorous duties devolved upon
holder, and in this connection as chairman of said commit-
demand that the practice of the lee
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in silver, the eelue Beld, l'"rror ............... »f
of the people to adopt the wild
vagaries advocated by the popu-
list party.
Resolved, We believe that nil
differences of opinion upon po-
ll Iieal issues that may exist among
democrats should exist within
party line, and wo deplore the dis
position of any democrat to leave
I,is party because he may not
agree with the majority Upon eco
uoinic questions, and trust that
all democrats will abandon such
purpose and remain with us and
help to defeat ull enemies in our
grand old party.
Resolved, That we view with
alarm the fact that the republican
party is unable to profit by the
light of experience or observa-
tion, and that by its recent plat-
form adopted at St. Louis, it has
shown Ihat it is stiil in favor of
carrying out all of the pernicious
policies so long practiced by it,
io the great detriment of the peo-
ple, and that the people can no
longer hope for any relief by the
! supremacy of that party.
shall he discontinued, because
the same Is an unwarranted use of
power which results in making
the federal treasury hut a broker-
erage office for speculation in
gold.
8. We demand that a law shall
be enacted by the federal con-
gress making gold and silver coin
ed at the ratio heretofore men-
tioned, and the paper convertible
into such notes, legal tender for
all debts, public or private, there-
after contracted, without refer-
ence to any contract or agreement
that the debts si,all he paid in
some particular kind of money,
reserving alone to the federal
government the right to designate
the kind of money in which cus-
toms and dues may he paid.
fl. We are opposed to the can-
cellation and retirement of the le
gal tender notes of the govern-
ment, which serve all the purpos-
es of money to the government
and people at the least expense at
which currency can be supplied.
10. We oppose national banks --••■»-
ol issue, for the reason that the Whoever yon marry, you will
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Principles Upon Which the
Democrats Will Stand.
SILVER THE BTR0HGE8T PLATE.
Oaalaraa In rarer of tha Free and Un-
Ilinitsd Coinsf* °* Sllvor Wltbouf
Waiting For tho Conobnt or Aid ol
Any €Hhor Nation, and Touches Upon
Tarloos Other Matter*.
The following i» the platform sub-
mitted to the convention by the com-
mittee and which was adopted :
We, the Democrat* of the United
States, In national convention assembled
do reaffirm onr allegianoe to those great
and eeeential priuciplee of justice and
liberty upon whioh our ln»titutlonn aru
founded and which the Democratic
party has ndvooated from Jefferson s
time to our own, freedom of speech,
freedom of the press, freedom of oonj
science, tho preservation of personal
rights, the equality of all citizens b«for<J
the law, and the faithful observance of
constitutional limitations.
During all these years the Democratic
party has resisted the tendency of selfish
interests, the centralization of govern-
mental power and steadfastly main-
tained the integrity of tho dual sohome
of government established by the found-
ers of this republio of republics. Unde*
its guidance the great principle of local
self government has found its best ex-
pression in the maintenance of the
rights of tho states aud in its assertion
of the necessity of confining the general
government to the exercise of the pow-
ers granted by the constitution of tho
United States.
Recognizing that tho money question
is paramount to all others at this time
we invite attention to the fact that tha
Federal constitution names silver and
gold together as tho money metals of
the United States, and that the first
coinage law passed by congress under
the constitution made the silver dollar
the monetary unit and admitted gold to
free coinage at a ratio based upon tho
silver unit.
We declare that the act of 1873 de-
monetizin;; silver without tho know-
ledge (i- th ) approval of the Amerioan
people has resulted in ihe appreciation
of ; old and a correspond ng fall in tho
pri 'iw of commodities produced by tho
pei >plo.
Wo ure unalterably opposed to tho
monometallism which has locked fust
the prosperity of an indnvtrioos people
in the paralysis of hal'd times. Gold
monometallism is a British policy,
and its adoption has brought other
nations iuto financial servitude to
London. It is not only nnamerioan, but
nntiumerican, and it can be fastened on
the United States only by the stifling of
that spirit of love of liberty which pro-
claimed onr political independence in
17 it! and won it in tho war of the rev-
olution.
Wo demand the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of both gold and silver at
tho present legal ratio of 10 to 1 without
waiting for the consent or aid of any
other nation. We demand that tho
standard silver dollar shall bo a full le-
gal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public and private, and wo favor
such legislation as will prevent for the
fnl aro the demonetization of any kind
of legal tondcr money by private con-
tract.
Wo are opposed to tho policy and
practice of surrendering to the holders
of the obligations of the United States
the option reserved by law to the gov-
ernment of redeeming such obligations
in cither silver or gold coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of in-
t res! bearing bonds of the United States
in times of ] eace and condemn the traf-
t. king of banking syndicates, which, in
exchange for bonds and an onormous
profit to themselves, supply the Federal
treasury witji gold to maintain the pol-
ioy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has tho power to coin
and issno money aud President Jackson
declarod that this power could not ho
delegated to corporations or individuals,
wo therefore, denonneo the issuance of
notes as money for national hanks as in
derogation of the constitution, aud wo
demand all paper whioh is legal tender
for public or privato debts or whioh is
receivable for dues to the United States,
shall bo issued by the government of tho
United States, and shall ho redeemable
in coin.
The constitution of the United States
guarantees to every citizen the rights
of civil and religious liberty. Tho
Democratic party has always been tho
exponent of political liberty and l-elig-
iou* freedom, and it renews its obliga-
tions and reaffirms itB devotion to those
fundamental principles of the constitu-
tion .
We are in favor of tho arbitration of
differences between employers engaged
in interstate commerce and their em-
ployees, and rocommoud such logisla-
lation as is necessary to carry out this
principle.
We hold that the tariff duties should
be levied for pnrjKwes of revenue. Hneli
duties to he so adjusted as to operate
equally throughout the United Htatos,
and not discriminate between classes
or sections, and that taxation should
he limited by the needs of tho gov-
ernment, honestly and economically
administered. We denounce as dis-
turbing to business the Republican
throat to restore the McKinley law,
which has been twice condemned by
tho people in national olections,
and which, enacted under the false
plea of protection to home industry
proved a prolific breeder of trusts
and monopolies, enriched the few at tho
expense of the many, restricted trade
and deprived the producers of tho great
American staples of access to their
natural markets. Until the mom
question is settled we are opposed io
any agitation for further changes in onr
tariff laws except such as are necessarv
to make up the deficit in revenue
caused by the adverse decision of tho
supreme court on tho income tax, bnt
for this decision by the supremo court
there would have been no deficit in
tho Federal revenue under the law
passed by a Democratic congress, thal
court having under that decision sun-
tained constitutional objections to its
enactment whioh had been overruled by
the ablest judges who ever sat. on thd
bench. We declare that it is the duty
of congress to nse all tho constitutional
power which remains aftor that decis-
ion or which may come from its reversal
by the court as it may hereafter be oon-
stitnted so that the bnrdons of taxation
may be equally and impartially laid, M
the end that wealth may boar its dn*
proportionate expenses of the govern-
ment.
Wo hold that the most efficient way of
protecting Amerioan labor is to prevc- |
the importation of foreign pauper lat ot
to rtmipRtfl with it in the home mer1 -» L
and that the mine of the homo mm kai
to onr American farmers and artisan 1
is greatly reduced by a vicious mnn«»tiiry
system which depresses thopric' of tb - f
products below the cost of products i
and thus deprive them of the means of
purchasing the products of «mr li< ,i*
i of wealth Iiv the few.
tife eonswicnmon or our umbbm|
systems and the formation*!^
pools requires a stricter ,-<«*
Federal government of them m
commerce We demand
ment of the powers of the t
commerce commission and M
tlon» and guarantees tn the cunhrtJ
railroads as will protect the peupuZl
robbery aud oppression.
We duuounoe the profligate WMtakffi
the money yrung from the p,^,, ?
oppressive taxation and the laviA
propriations of reoent Republican
grasses, which have kept tuxes lmt
while tho labor that puys them ieuam
ployed, aud the product* of the p,. o..
toil are depressed in price uutil they *
longor repny the cost of {>rodoa£| *
Wo demand a return to that siinnlu*
ty and economy which best befltf
Democratic government aud a redtugJ
tn the number of useless othour, ^
salaries of which drain tho substaaos (j
the peoplo. i
Wo deuounoo arbitrary interfere,, I
by Federal authorities in local affain M
a violation of the constitution of jC"
United States and a crime igainst W
institutions and we especially object k
government by injunction os a new m*
highly dangerous form of oppression by
whloli Federal judges in contempt ol
the laws of tho states and the rights ol
oitizens booome at onoe legislators, jadg,
and executioners, and wo approve th«
bill passed at the last session of th«
United States senate and now pendlm
In the liouBe relative to contempt* is
Federal courts and providing for trials
by jury in certain cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be indulsM I
in by the government of the UtiiU j
States in favor of its debtors. We sp i
prove of the refusal of the Fifty-thbd
congress to paN* the Pacific railroad w.
funding bill, and denounce the effort (A
tho present Republican con gross to onset
a similar measure.
Wo heartily indorse the role of the
present commissioner of pension* that
no name* shall bo arbitrarily dropped
from tho pensionroll, and the fact d
enlistment and service should be deenwd
conclusive evidence against disease «
or disability before enlistment.
We favor the admission of the tend-
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the union as states and we favor the
early admission of all tho territories hav-
ing the necessary population and re.
sources entitling them to statohood, and
while tlioy remain territories we hold
that the officials appointed to adminWii
thp government of any territory, to-
gether with the District of Oolumbisand
Alaska, should bo Ixma fide resident* ot
tho territory or district in whioh thou
duties arc to lie performed. The Demo-
cratic party believes in home rule and
that all public lands of the United StatS
should lie applied to tho cHtihlishment
of free homes for Amerioan citizens.
Wo recommend that tho territory ot
Alaska bo granted a delegate in oon-
gross and that tho general land and
lumber laws of tho United States be**- I
tended to said territory.
We extend onr sympathy to tho peo-
pie of Onba in their heroic struggle lot
liberty and independence.
Wo are opposed to life tenure in thd
public service. We favor appointment*
based upon merit, fixed terms of office
and such an administration of (he civil :
service laws as will afford equal oppor- 1
t uni ties to ull citizens of ascertained fit-
ness.
We declare to be tho unwritten law at
this republic established by custom and
usages of 100 years and sanctioned by thd
examples of the greatest and wisest ol
those who have maintained our govern- i
ment that no man should be eligible fa
a third term of the presidential offloe. j
The federal -government should oan |
for the improvement of the Mississippi I
river and other great waterways of thd j
republic so as to secure for the interior!
states easy and cheap transportation to
the tidewater. When any waterway ol
the republio is of sufficient important)*
to demand aid of the government snob
aid should be extended on a definite plan
of continuous work until permanent
improvement is secured.
Confiding iu the justioo of our cause
and the necessity of its succoss at the
polls, we submit the foregoing deolsr*-
tion of principles and purposes to thd
considerate judgment of the American
peoplo. Wo invite the support of all good
citizens who approve them and we de-
sire to have them made effective through
legislation for the relief of the people
and restoration of tho country’s pros-
Deri tv
M'ELEEE’S
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Will Demand Beformf.
A Nsw York Herald apff^
from Washington says: The I"1'
ted States will demand morefrs*
China for the outrages upou AB^j
lean miissionsries during tb«
ols of a year ago thau tbs
" eiit of a money indemnity.
Imr i r- :i decided to demand .
i tn g.intion of such reforaA
>i|l pievent n repetition^••1
ns1 r. uke in the future. Th#
drinaiids '(ill he made siish
' oiib y, nnd probably wltbHI
'•ext fez (leys. The depf“*‘
i* wal'mg for a report from
ilixnii hi HlMiighai, befors
Melton, mill this is expected
ri-ciDed at tlie department
most any mail.
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Edmonson, P. E. The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1896, newspaper, July 30, 1896; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997513/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.