The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1893, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKL J. D. ALLEN Eprror. rare! NO FAULT OF COUNTRY BANKS. TIMES | ~~ | banker the scarcity of money is due jto the fact that it is hoarded away |in little country banks. It is the | opinion of the little country banker |that, if this is true, the big New J. D. Atren & Co., Ptoprietors. | would be willing to an increase.|and the American people is one of bi-| In the opinion of a New York} But we are willing to trust the wis-|metallism. Every intelligent man dom and patriotism of our statesmen | knows it. There is no citizen of the { who have made this matter a life! United States to day who has given | vill be sent to any addr postage paid, for $1.00. : F | are who The free silver congressmen are on | ® thew metal and the fight is on. standing up for the silver dollar and Missouri. The condition of the miners of} Colorado is describe as well nigh desperate. A yellow fever scare is on at Pen- sacola, Florida, and the people by the hundreds are fleeing the city. if congress will look out for the| interests of the people of the United States, England will take care of herself. Silver Dick Bland is in the saddle. He will not “ride through blood to the bridle bits”but he'll get there just the same. President Cleveland has bad his say and the matter of doing the right thing and doing it quick is left with congress. ——_———_—— The Massachusetts white cappers atruck the wrong persimmon bush. It was loaded and four of its mem- bers bit the dust. The tariff thieves aud coupon elippers have been taken care of for the past thirty years. Now give the common people a show. People who have a desire to study the money question now have the opportunity of their life. The ques- tion will be presented in all its phases. It looks as though the cholera is determined to make its way into this country in spite of the government. Ite better to stop immigration be- fore cholera gets through the lines than after. ——_____. We do not ask through idle curi- osity or levity, but we would like to know why the silver dollar is at a premium on Wall street when the amount of bullion therein is less than sixty cents at the present price | customers, of silver. Congressman DeArmond in a pri- vate letter to a gentleman} in this vity, said that it is impossible at this time to tell what the extra session will do on the money question, but it looks favorable for silver. Senator Vest is said to have a bill which proposes a change of the ratio between the gold and silver money from 17 to 1, to 24 to 1. That is awfully steep we think, but then it is within the provisions of the plat- form and therefore democratic.— Journal Democrat. There is one thing sure, different atandards of money can not be made for different sections of this govern- ment. A dollar must be able to buy as much in New York as in Denver. It appears now that the silver dollar is worth the most in New York. The new men in congress are forging to the front in the silver de- bate. There was never any sense in the custom of“orcing a man to spend more than one term in congress be- fore he could be of use to his con- stituents. If a man has anything to say that will throw light on any public question his time of stay in the House should not be weighed against his utterances. —_— The Ohio democratic convention which met in Cincinnati Thursday nominated the following ticket: For governor, Lawrence T. Neal; lieuten- ant governor, Wm. A. Taylor; judge of the supreme court, John W. Sater; atate treasurer, E. C. Blackburn; at- Norney general, Joan P. Baley; mem- ber of board of public works, Lewis B. Wilhelm; food and dairy commis- sioner, P. McKeown. A true money policy will never be obtained until the two metals are treated at the mints exactly alike. If the ratio of 16 to lcan be main- tained, let it stand. If not, find out the ratio and coin dollars of gold and silver without discrimination, as the democratic platform promised. —St. Louis Republic. lly responsible for the tight- ness of times and scarcity of money. | The country banks do a legitimate} = = ; | | Senators Vest and Cockrell are| business and generally look to the} interests In this connection we are pleased to know that the manag- ment and solidity of the banks in this county have the full and com plete confidence of the people and although the country has been pan- icky and the people have been dis- trustful, not the slightest apprehen sion has been felt in this community and the banks in this city have con ducted business successfully and satisfactorily. This happy state of affairs in our own town is due to the abiding confidence in the men who manage these institutions. and the good judgement and correct ideas of our business men and otheas who have had the good sense to keep their heads. And now that the crisis has passed and the business world has settled itself the Trves feels like extending congratulations to Messrs. Tygard, Clark, Walton, Jenkins, Thompson, and Kipp for the safe and judicious management of the respective banks they represent in this town and for the high esteem in which they are held by the patrons of the institu- tions and the public generally. We are also gratified to know that our business men have passed through the tight times without the slightest mishap and are now moving along in hopes of better days. WILL SETTLE IT SATISFACTORILY. The government is passing through a financial crisis. It is only at times when legislation of great importance to the country isimperative that an extra session of Congress is called. The financial situation has created the greatest excitement in every sec- tion and the need for immediate, wise and judicious legislation is felt. It is not expected that we will all see alike on this question. If we did it could be quickly and easily settled. While we have our different yiews and each believes his plan of settle ment the best, we should be fair enough*to allow other the same privilege we take ourselves of form- ing an opinion from the data at hand. Mr. Cleveland believes that to the workings of the Sherman law is directly traceable the cause for the present financial crisis. He be lieves that portion of the law relat ing to the purchase of silver bullion should be repealed unconditionally. Believing this he did not stop to con- sider the popularity of such an opin- ion, but presented to Congress his recommendation in a straightforward, manly, courageous, and strong mes sage. There was no uncertainty as to his meaning. It is not suscepta ble of a double interpretation. This is Mr. Cleveland’s honest judgment after years of mature deliberation and close study of finances. If his opinions are not popular in different sections of the country, they should at least be given respectful consider- ation. We of the West do not think that his views on the money question, if enacted into laws,would be for the best interest of our section. We have a right to our opinions and | we should make the best fight possi- ble to promote the interests and wel- fare of our state and section;but while we do this we should not impute improper and impure motives to the action of others. The wild and fa- natical talk of Governor Waite, the absurd and criminal action of mis- guided miners in burning in effigy our president, injures the cause of silver more than the arguments of its opponents, while the course of such papers as the Kansas City Times, in abusing, misrepresenting, and vilifying every representative and senator who casts his voice and vote for bimetallism helps to pro- mote rater than injure that cause. The great west and south demand the free coinage of silver. They want a dollar worth a dollar in any money, and if the present ratio of 16 of silver to 1 of gold is not suf- ficent to maintain a parity, they of their depositors and} | York bankers, who inaugurated the |interests of our whole country. xty Times, published eyery | panic for the purpose of forcing the} | government to issue bonds that they | might rob and plunder the people | | SILVER’S SLOGAN. Senate. MASTERLY ARGUMENT IN ADYVO- CACY OF BIMETALLISM. Homeless Dog, Senator Vest of Missouri spoke on the silver question in the Senate to-day, advocating free coinage. Mr. Vest began by having read by the clerk the platforms of the Demo cratic and Republiean parties on the silver question. He then proceed- ed: Mr. President, I assume that after the readiug of the platforms of the two great political organiza- tions of the country no one can in timate that there is anything partis- an in the joint resolution which I have offered. To vote against this res- olution, whether that vote comes from one side of the chamber or the other, is to declare to the people of the United States what is believed already by many of them, the plat- forms of political parties are mere traps to catch votes, without sincer ity ard without honesty. It is time that the people of the United States shoul know whether politics is a juggle and a fraud or whether when the great political parties which seek to conirol the destinies of a free people meet in council and make solemn decluration of policy and principle they are worthy of the con- fidence of a free people. Mr. President, we are told that the r peal of the socalled Sherman all that is necessary at the present juncture and that the clouds will be immediately lifted from the business and financial horizon and the sun of prosperity again beam on every por- tion of our land. NEVER A FRIEND OF THE MAKESHIFT. I was never the friend of the so- called Sherman act. I voted against it, spoke against it, denédunced it as a makeshift, and declared it to be the wo:st measure for silver aud for bimetallism that could be invented and placed upon the statute books. I am in no sense responsible for its enactment. To-day its malig- nant, distorted features look out upon a land staggering and reel- ing uponthe verge of bankruptcy. Its putative fathers have bastardiz- ed it and are falling over each other now in a vigorous attempt to prove that they never favored it and are not responsible for its existence. In the report of the Herschell committee, appointed by the British House of Commons to investigate the question of mintage in India, the principal reason given for stopping the coinage of silver by private per- sons in the Indian mints is that the Sherman act might at any time pre- cipitate upon the world a mass of silver that would probably fall to such an extent as to make free coin- age in India absolutely ruinous. So this measure, introduced here osten- sibly in the interest of silver, has come home like a curse to roost, as was said by a great author, young chicken at the home of those who brought it here ostensibly to help the free coinage of silver in the United States. LIKE A HOMELESS DOG. The act to-day is like a houseless and homeless legislative dog. There ident if the issue presented now to the congress of the United States and the people was simply the re- peal of the Sherman act, I take it that there would be very little de- act or the purchasing clause of it is) is no one to give it even a bone, and | assuage discontent. it cannot find a kennel in which to | is dangerous —-Republic. hide its dishonored head. Mr. Pres-| The above is good doctrine but study and we have the utmost confi-| any attention to public affairs, | |dence in this congress settling the|who has read the message of financial question to the very best/the President of the United ‘States, who has seen the utteracces of bis cabinet and the meg who en- j »y Lis special confidence who does not know that we stand now face to ‘Senator Vest Sounds it in the | face with the great question of bi-| metallism or a single gold standard. The time for makeshifts and eva- sions and subterfuge hss paseed. MEANS A GOLD STANDARD. | No man in this country is so ig-| ; norapt to-day that he does not know | The Sherman Act Characterized as a} that under the circumstances and/ with the declarations made by its advocates, the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act stamps forever upon our financial policy the single gold standard. Not one single silver dollar will ever be coined again in this country if we permit the pur- | chasing clause of the Sherman act to | be repealed without a guarantee as solemn as the great necessities of the people that silver shall continue to exist in the United States asa money metal. Mr. President, without making janything like a personal statement Ihave been known as a steadfast and unflinching friend of the Presi- dent. I defended him when assailed in the canvass for nomination, I de fended him in the campaign and in every speech I made to the people of Missouri. I declared:that Mr. Cleve- land, hke myself, was a bimetallist and that we only differed in regard to the ratio at which the coiage of silver should be had. I had the right to make that statement, because he had accepted the nomination on the platform that pledged the dem ocratic party to bimetallism. It was as well known that the democratic party stood on the doctrine of bimet- allism as that it met in Chicago and nominated Grover Cleveland for President of the United States. The Only Colored Member. Washington, D. C. Aug. 6 —Rep- reseatative Bland to-day received a |recruit to the silver force from an junexpected quarter. The only col- ored member of the house is Mr. George Washington Murray of \South Carolina He is, of course, a republican After the silver caucus to day, Mr. Murray hunted up Mr. Bland and told him that he represent- ed a constituency of working people among whom there was not a half a dozen voters who could be called moneyed men. He said he believed that Mr Bland was right. He had read Mr. Bland’s speech and has looked over the situa- tion pretty carefully since he came to Washington. He wanted Mr. Bland to understand that he had suf- ficient confidence in him and his ability to properly prescribe what should be the course under existing circumstances. He would therefore vote with the side headed by Mr. Bland. A democratic programme is alore safe. Democratic harmony and con- sistency will alone be strong before the people when the makeshifts of the moment have vanished, and the appeal to sober public opinion is made at the polls in 1894 and 1896. Suspend the purchase clause of the Sherman act. Put this undemocrat- De- Sub- the way without discussion. bate and pass a coinage act. like a|Stitute a revenue tariff for the Mc- Kinley law. Cut down needless expense. Satisfy the west and south and all the people with liberty to make the most of cpportunities, free from government meddling. This will be democratic and right. It wili last and grow in popular approval with each year of reflection. It will Anything else why not “put the disturbing expedi- ent out of the way” with a coinage act? The Iron and Steel Outlook Good. Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 15.—The bate and singular unanimity in our|9Utlook for the iron and steel trade | is better now than for many months. ic and disturbing expedient out of| BENNETT-WHEELER MERC. CO. | | { —— REAL Hardware, Groceries: Stoves $ Queensware, Studebaker, Moline Farm proved Buggies, | Pumps and all | Fittings, Wire and Salt. ERS-IN —— Schuttler Wagons, and Im- Indiana Crain drills, Sulky and Gang plows, Top Road ' Spring wagons, Wind Mills, Carts and kinds of Pipe Grass Seeds, Barb Wealways pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICE in CASH or TRADE for all kinds of Country Produce. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. BUTLER, MO. Bloomington, Il!., Aug. 11.—The drouth in McLean county is unprec edented and the situation is critical. The corn fields are burning up, the leaves and stalks of the corn being withered. The ground is full of deep, wide cracks, and the atmos- phere of dust. The pastures burn ed brown, the farmers are feeding their cattle and hauling water long distances. Alleyes ure upon the two rain makers who went to Chena plenty of rain within five days Gold as a standard may be all right with the exception that the standard is too limited, but fgold as a circulating medium, is less appre- ciated and lees used than any other money. What ia the use of coining gold for fools to worship? Congress should give the country an actual bimetallic dollar. There will be no necessity then of an increased ratio. —Dade Co. Advocate Of course if Neal should win the Governorship in Obio this year he would have a chance to be beaten in 1895, and a defeat then would burt him in the National Convention of 1896. Butif he should win this year and in 1895 he would haye a walk-over for the presidential nomi- nation a year later. Auyhow there is a strong incentive for him to make an active canvass, and doubtless Ohio will cast a heavy vote this year.—Globe Democrat. KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal rightly used. The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the meats of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- | ative; effectually cleansing the system, permanently curing constipation. Wednesday and promise to pio lace | ; O'neil, Neb, Aug. 13.—Barrett | Scott, county treasurer of Holt county, has disappeared and investi- ( gation of his accounts shows a short- age of $60,000 It is th ought Seott has gone to Mexico. | Philadelphia, Pa, | chel Boyle, aged 22 | B, Aug. 13.—Ra- years, during religious excitement to day, cut off a portion of her lip and then broiled it as an Offering to God. She |in the Philadelphia hospital. is now Thinks the Worst is Over. | Denver,Colo, August 10.—Gov. Stone, of Missouriis here. He be- of the financial troubles are over, and sees signs of |returning confidence. The Gover- nor thinks Cleveland’s message will have no effect on either Congress, the Democratic party or the country. He sticks to the coinage 16 to 1 but expects a higher ratio will be agre- ed upon. lieves the worst The “Bazoo”’ Attached. Sedalia, Mo., Aug. 9.—The Morn- ing Bazoo, the oldest paper in Cen- tral Missouri, having been published for nearly a quarter of a century without missing an issue, went to i the wall at 6 o'clock this evening. |The paper is owned by the J. West | Goodwin Printing Co., and the | building and contents were taken | charge of by the sheriff on an execu- | tion in favor of Fairbanks, Morse & |Co., of Chicago, for $475.45, with ‘interest and costs. The property | was placed in the hands of John | Montgomery, Jr., as trustee, but no statement can be obtained as to the assets and liabilities. Trustee’s Sale. | Whereas, E P Nickell and Carrie E | Nickell his wife by their deed of | trust dated October 13, 1892. corded in the recorder’s off ‘and for Bates count Mi , in book 105 at page conveyed to | the undersigned trustee the follow- ) ing described real estate lying and | being situate in the county of Batex | and state of Missouri, to-wit: The north half of the northwest | quarter and the west three-fourths of enjoyment when | the south half of the northwest quar- ter and thirty (30) acres off of the | west side of the north half of the | northeast quarter of section twenty- | four (24) township forty (40) range | thirty-three (33) and containing 170 | acres more or less, which conveyance was made in trust to secure the pay- ment of one certain principal note and ten interest notes fully deseribed | in said deed of trust, and whereas de- in the form most acceptable and pleas | fanit has been made in the payment | of one of said interest notes, and said l interest note is now past due and un- | paid. Now therefore at the request cispeiling colds, headaches and fevers | of the legal holder of said note and am | pursuant to the conditions of said action, but the issue has gone be- Several de, ments of the Jones & yond the repeal of the Sherman act. Laughlin ane opened yesterday | It is no longer a question of elimi-| with 500 or more men at work and nating that statute, but it has grown/| the steel department will soon re into a question so grave mo-jopen. The Carnegie mills and the mentous that the congress of the! Braddock Iron works are also open United States must of necessity|again, while the National Tube earnestly consider it before going | works and the National Rolling mills any further in the direction which | will re-open this week and the Black has been indicated to us. Diamond Steel works will resume The question now before congress | full time Monday. It has given satisfaction to millions and | deed of trust, I will proceed to sell met with the approval of the medical | the above described premises at pub- profession, because it acts on the Kid- | lic vendue to the highest bidder for peys, Liver and Bowels without weak-| cash at the east front door of the ening them and it is perfectly free from | Court house, in the city of Butler, every objectionable substance. | county of Bates and state of Missouri, < 5 |on Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- | gists in 5c and $1 bottles, but it isman-| Monday, September Ath, 1893, ufactured by the California Fig Syrup | between the hours of nine o'clock in Co. only, whose name is printed on every | ne abmaged rar! be ode in the package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, Tnoon of th ¥, for the pur- cad bebe well ied od, you will not | Pose of satisfying said — interest i ii pe he costs. re RWELL, somepe aay meventane it | eae Trustee. 4