The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 4, 1892, Page 1

1e ry |: { | eng ee Che Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XTV. BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 1892. NO. 24 Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Receives Deposits subject to Chec DEPOSITORY FOR In the Real Estate Loan Department. Make on Real Estate on long or short time a lowest rates without delay. Allen, Mrs. Levina Boulware, TC, Physician Burk, Monroe Farmer Ballard, J N Farmer Brown, Lula Bartlett, Edmund Farmer Bryner. Margaret Chelf, 1. B. Farmer Coleman, Sam’l Hardinger, WN Heath, Kinneg Don Levy, Caruthers, GA F Miller, Alf Farmer yatt, H oY | Christy, JM Phy McCracken, A Farmer Wells, Wiley Te | Clark, Robert Farmer McCracken, Robt Farmer West, RG Farmer | Courtne M Stock Dealer Owen, M V Farmer Wolfe, Pattie Deerwester, John Farmer Pharis, John Grocery Walton, Wm E Cashier Davis, J R Foreman Timks oficePharis, C F Groc Dutcher, © H Prof Normal Sch Powell, Booker Farmer € Pigott, H H Bank Clerk > M rank Co seh com Roster, J M Farmer Walton, GW Farmer shh Farmer Reeder, Oscar Walls, J T Physician | igham, J Physic! Radford, Chas R Farmer Whipple. NLP an | ‘m, Caroline and Eliza Reisner, J W Insurance Williams, R V Farmer Francis, SP Lawyer Sullens, J L Banker | WM. E. WALTON president J. R. JENKINS cashier* BOOKER POWELL vice-president SILVER QUE its Origin and What its | Status. What | A History of the Manner and the Rea- | a Political | Leader. | son Why it is now National Democrat. | What is the free silver question which equally interests democrats and republicans?! What was its or and what has led to its present consequence? It will be the purpose of this arti> cle to answer, as far as may be pos- the taking no sides but simply making a fair and equitable state- it understood by its opponents and advocates. It is one of the most important ques- tions before the country, and should be treated with perfect impartiality and even justice. The silver question hed its rise in two great causes—the recessity for for one thing, and the desire to divide the republican party on some issue that did not in- volve old time democratic issues,and had nothing to do with either the war or the tariff. Consequently, it | may not improperly be denominated a shrewd political question having its foundation in the dgsire of the west and south for an increase of our monetary facilities, and more currency for actual use among the people. The question of resuming specie payment was settled by the act of 1871. It was made certain when the senate passed Mr. Allison's bill and the house that of Mr. Bland, both looking to the same end. When that bill or rather the joint measure | became alaw the paper dollar was | pethaps one third of a cent under | par. Resumption had about come | of its own accord, as nobody doubt- ed the United States government's ability to pay its obligations ia coin of either metal if it was so desired. wOW THE QUESTION STARTED. gin sible, questions propounded abov ment of the case as more currency SILVER The west especially was, to bor- row a new but very expressive term, “booming.” New railways were be- | ing constructed—not | population, but right through the | wilderness, where the Indian war | to centers of | trail was almost fresh on the sand. | to develop any mining interest. The | ruary. Great masses of immigrants follow- ed these new iron pathways from ation to the wilderness. Rail- roads were built, the people followed their trend. We altered the usages ef the older countries, a k civil aud where the people had to ask a cor- | poration to build a road before it | came. The American reversed the old conditions. He built his read and the population followed after. All this took enormous sums of money. It had to be cash, for steel rails were high and must be paid for Hannah, WD me Hickman,G B Furniture dealer Starke, L B Deputy Ass’t am Dry Goods & Clothing Voris. Frank M Farme Morrison. € Hi Farmer 1 $110,000. , Loans Money, Makes Collections and | does a General Banking Business. COUNTY FUNDS. s loan t Slayback, Ed ical student Smith, i Farmer Smith, J Mrs M Cashier Tyler, W B Farmer | ry Wright, TJ Capitali Weiner, Max Boots & Shoes | Walls, Wm Farmer DON KINNEY asst. cashier on delivery. The armies of sittin! received them wages either every | Saturday night or fortnightly. Ev- erything in these great enterprises was conducted on a ready money Here was the first call for more ready money. The democratic party was the first of the two migh- ty political organizatious to see the wisdom of endeavoring to meet this call in a practical, basis. sensible way, by supplying the demand for more money. The first movement this direction was made by Gov. Seymour, of New York. speech as early as 1868, in which he expressed himself as in favor paying the interest the United States bonded debt and the prineipal, too, in greenbacks, the same money that had been current all through the war then so lately ended. at ence became popular. in He made a on The idea The publican party tried to steal it, but it was democratic measure that on it Seymour carried the state of New York by 2 hand-| some democratic aiijority. The real and original purpose of the shrewder democrats was served. | They had raised an issue, whoily unconnected either with ante-bellum politics or the war, that did split up the republicans toa very great ex- tent. The “greenback” idea—what- ever we may think of it now—serv- ed its purpose, excellently well. It raised a question in which the war did not figure. The more money became g held to be a democratic that party made its first gains in the] east mainly on this issue. For the} first time in years, the legislature of Pennsylvania. was democratic, and Jobn Scott and W. A. Wallace both democrats, were elected to the Unit- ed States senate. THE BEGINNING OF THE SILVER MOVE MENT. re so clearly a demand for general. It was } issue, and “Meantime the railways bad got in-| to the mighty ranges of the back- bone of the North American conti- nent, the Rocky mountains. In Cole orado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, in fact about all the new- ly opened territories vast deposits of silver were discovered. It had long been known that these territories were full of all sorts of mineral wealth, but with no means of trans- portation at hand, it was impossible greenbacker of 1868 became the sil- | ver man of 1877 and the years later. | “Why here is a basis for enlarging the amouut of ev said these Let ducts of our min sey in eireulas | s ¢ | gatators for more | us utilize the pro- tion,” mouey and place gold aud silver wpou an equality of value.” The idea grew. Silver had always It the world’s been a favorite with Am older of precious metals than gold. | Bible, where the two are men-} | yer usually pre-| was probabl in history In the tioned together, a | gency tosuch ud lresenting the equivalent v | ment with other nations, that an at- cedes gold. “Silver or gold have I none, said the Master, such as T have I As we | abundas.t Its first tional levislature was the passage in 1878 of the Bland bill aid its equivalent introduced by Mr This was the act that provided for the issue of vate, based favor of an grew. in the na- victory in the house, Alison in the senate. Our present silver cori vwitof eiv r ¢ i tely relieve the iueney strin- | yiee that con goa little further. Tarough the act of 1878, introduced deemed it wise to jand pressed to passage in the house by Mr Bland, of Missouri, wasa democratic measure, the republicaus were unwilling that their opponepts | should have all the glory and polit-; cal advantage that ac ed from the; aS Hee : } | silver law of 1878, for in 150 they aided the democrats to puss “the | 54,000,000 ounce” law, or the act jauthorizing the United Siates treas- urer to purchase in the open market that quantity of silver bullion each year, and upon it to issue no the bullion coined and deposited in the vaults of the treasury Thus fur, the silver movement had | keep the feelmg between the silver line we met with favor generally from busi- In the south especially the coinage idea | wi The laborer } knew what « silver dollar meant, for ness men all over the countr 3 popular. negro his earliest notions of money was de- rived from the day, when as a boy, his old hima quarter for some little service. It was bulky to be sure, but the color- | ed laborer liked to feel his money's | weight. Its ponderosity seemed to insure its value and give it digaity that a bit of green paper never could attain. It has been said that the silver coinage act of 1890 was generally master had tossed received with favor among business men. But when it was proposed to throw open the gates and pass a bill) for the free,unlimited and unrestrict ed coinage of silver on the basis of | sixteen to one—as compared with | gold—some of the ablest business men in the country, regardiess of | party, began to fear t They said if Europe | would take our silver as it did our} gold, there would not ba the slight | est objection to making as many sil ver dollars as the metal would turn out. But Europe, as yet, will not do this. The opponents of unlimit | ed coinage said we did not want a circu’atiug medium that nobody outside our own government would accept. It is to reach some agree-| we were | going too far. tempt is being made to bave an in-} ternational monetary conference call-| ed with a view to reashing an under- | standing in regard to this silver | question. SILVER IN THE PRESENT CONGRESS. When the present, or fifty second | congress was organized Mr. Bland, | the author of the act of 1878, was | appointed chairman of the commit: | tee on coinage to which would be | referred the bills relative to the} coinage of the two metals. There | were a great many of them so intro- | duced and so referred. From the | mass of these bills Mr. Bland com-| posed a bill incorporating into it | such features of the bills referred to | his committee as he thought were} advantageous, which he reported to | the house in the latter days of Feb-) It provides for the free | coinage of silver and gold at the le- that the owner silver in bullion nt it and receive coin gal ratio, aud also of either gold or shall be abe to United States mint notes—such as provided for in the act of 1890—which shall be a legal at amy | tender for all debts, public or pri- vate. Finally, the scientific bi me whieh, up to this about as much silver in col the United States, when that nation | shall open its mints te free coinage! a concession to as ists of France, time has used nage as | avoided, no matter how strong per- jers to sacrifice personal vie |threaten our opponents. ithe time set to vote on the site at the rate of 15} to 1, the United adopt that ratio, t Bland b:ll over w there has been so uch discussion and difference of parties. Opinion in both It is not the purpose of this arti- cle to enter d the merits the Unfortunately | for the silver question, the chairman of the ways and Mr. Spr cussion of aby intu mittee, leader of the lemocratic house, mide a great mis- take. At a banquet given by the New York chamber of commerce Mr Sprisger, speaking as le ader of the house, stated that the present cou gress would not pass a free coir bill, and all that would be done the house would be the adoption « resolution providing for an interna- tional conference looking to an \ agreement m regard to the coinage of silver aud gold Mr Bland held that in making such a| statement, at the time and place | where it was made, Mr. Springer had trespassed on his official rights chairman of the coinage committee. | Mr. Springer probably never thought | such thing, but tl speech aroused Mr. Bland to bitter) | which has done much to} of doing auy resentment, and the anti-siiver men at its present tension. WHY THE SILVER BILL WAS DEFEATED. It may be interesting to consider the real cause, with so many mem- bers really favorable to silver legis- lation, of the silver bill's defeat. It was not that southern or western members kad changed their opinion, or been intimidated by any cause from voting their real sentiments. But the conviction that the demo cratic party might lose its holdin New England and seriously injure its standing in New York induced | the men from the south and west to relinquish their personal preferences for the good of the democratic party in the coming elections. It was the opinion of some of the wisest heads in the democratic counsels, men like Gorman, Jones of Ark , and Carlisle that the chances of the party for suc- cess were almost certain, anything that weakened them or placed them in jeopardy to any degree must be sonal opinion might be in favor of such a thing. sion that course. It was 2 wise conclu- determined It shows the homogeneity of the democracy all over the coun- try, and the willingness of its lead- upon this v8 oF in- clinations to the general welfare and prospects of party success. This is the true democfatic spirit. and with | such a feeling imbueing the hearts | of its leaders there will be none of the irreconcilable difficulties that Just now the brainiest and most daring young men in the republican party are looking about for somebody to nom- inate in place of Mr. Harrisov,whom nobody seemsto want. With this feeling pervading the ranks of the opposition and with the silver ques- tion for the present remitted demo- cratic success seems more than rea- sonably sure. Wittram Hue Roserrs. Pleasant Gap Musings. The click of the corn planter is now heard in the land, and the far- | mer is industriously prepanng to feed the millionaire through another winter....Mrs Joe Ellington, who has been suffering for some time past with a felon on her thumb is some better. ...-. stricken down with paral Monday and it was at would prove fatal, but he is improy ing nicely now....Rome will how! in Pleasant Gap the 14th of May. jas feared ysis first or the new school bouse...1 W Brooks bas opened up bari” not of bov- le, but of queensware which is now ale at his store The big bass of Squire Cau I's supper | still resounds through the streets Uncle Ike Scifers was |< ys of Ple t Gap....Any ing to trade horses or bet n the election will do well to call cn Bud Henry as he is known to be FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. Bp ® Toke B.A ED ¥ Dr. J, ETERINGHAM TY. W! SILVERS : Reesives Deposits s trapsacts a general Banking business Solicited. $50,000.00 President Vice-President ad Vice-President Sashier “k, Lones Money, issues Drafts and Your patronage respectfully a game man,one who never refuses a bet nor a horse trade....Geo Walk- | er must be planting the whole south praizie in corn tins year, judging Y the number of trips he has made out north for seed corn. ...J L Rogers of Vernon county, was up hi the last of xt Saturday is con- nd McGinty is of the opinion that Pleasant Gap township will senda solid delegation for both Stone and Harper...... It was said that Mr Kown and Bud Henry went off with the gypsies, but we are in clined to belieye it is a mi take. McGiy T¥. on a visit to parents vention day Virginia Items, Mrs H D Hendeison of Foster is home ona visit.... Little folks see Benny Durrett’s bicyle he got from Chicago before buying; Ben can give you full particulars....Dr J J Mitchell is in Kansas C ...Mor ton Jenkins is in the viacksmith shop with his un in Kansas City Tou Wright has just returned from the Nation where he has taken up aclaim of 160 acres of as fine land as ever a crow flew over. Tom dug a well, planted corn and after being on his claim one week was of fered the Bill Stephens farm for it ....John T Hensley went down to get a claim but failed... .Girls look out for Ed Dudley, he has a new cart, horse aud and will let you all ride....CH Morrison has half a tonvuf good bright prairie hay for sale. George Thompson has more of the same kind for sa'e....John Hedger is having his house painted; that’s right Jobn, for it looked like you had neglected it for some time.... A J Park is letting out lots of corn this spring and on easy and fair terms....Charley Kinney of the south part of the state is home on 4 visit....Miss Sarah Oldham is rath- | er down in the mouth hearing that | ber Johnny B has time choice talking of his brother chines call on Ed Dudley. N. M. Nesrrerope. made his life ng to Ilinoia to visit King of Medicines Serofulous Humor—A Cure «Almost Mtraculous.’? “When I was 14 years of age I had a severe attack of rheumatism, and after I recovered had to go on crutches, A year later, scrofula, in the form of white swellings, appeared on various parts of my body, and for 11 years I was an invalid, being confined to my bed years. In that time ten or eleven sores ap- peared and broke, causing me great pain and suffering. I feared I never should get well. ** Early in 1586 I went to Chicago to visit a sister, but was confined to my bed most of the time I was there. 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