The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 1, 1895, Page 2

a 4 ae K. C. Pitts burg & Gulf Time Tabla. Arrival and departure of trains at Worland. NORTH BOUND. No. 7, Freight dally except Sunday 12:10 p m No, 1 Expressdaily - - - SOUT EOUND. Express daily - - - , Frieght daily except Sunday Remember this is the pogvies short line be- tween Knneas City, Mo., and Pittsburg, Kan., Joplin, mo. Neosho, mo., Sulpher yo ios et Ark., Siloam Springs, Ark., and the direct route from the south to St Louis, Chi- cago, and points north and northeast and to Denver, Ogden, San Francisco, Portland and Fie west and northwest. No expense has een spared to make the passenger equipment of this line second to none in the west. Travel yia the new line. JAS. DONOHUE, Gen’l Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. Adopted by the Silver Editors Convention. nied that the act of demonetization | of 1873, characterized in 1878 by| Mr. Carlisle as “ihe most gigantic! crime of this or any other age,” dis- turbed and dislocated this ration by increasing the commercial value of gold and lessening the commercial value of silver the next year after the passage of the act, showing that the | ratio of gold bullion over silver rose | 16,17, and has continued to rise year) after year, until it has now reached | the point of 32to 1. This disloca-| tion of the ratio, prometed and ace | complished in the interest of the) plutocrats of Europe and America, | the creditor classes, has lessened the | debt-paying power of silver money aud the prices of property and labor HELD AT SEDALIA LAST WEEK. To the People ot Missouri—A large per cent of the Democratic ed itors here assembled are conductors of weekly country newspapers, and arein daily personal intercourse with the people. Therefore, they are in close touch with the people and en- joy opportunities favorabe to an un- derstanding of their views on pub- lic questions and of their best inter- ests. Hence they have no reason to doubt that at least 90 per cent of the Democratic voters of Missouri are not only reasonably well inform- ed in respect to the financial ques- tions so frequently and so earnestly discussed, but are true bimetallists, in favor of the free coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to land are irrevocably against the simple gold standard. Without any attempt in this short paper to discuss these questions, the following may be submitted as some of the reasons, briefly stated, that influence the Democrats of Misseuri to entertain and advocate the views mentioned. 1. The Democratic party, during its entire history, from Jefferson to Cleveland, has been in favor of bi- metallism, by which is money con- atituted by admitting both gold and silver to free coinage and making each a legal tender at a certain rela- tion in value to the other, as one of its oardinal principles of faith. 2. The Democratic party, both of the nation and the State, have in dursed bimetallism, the free and un- limited coinage of both and silver, time and time again in thier plat- forms, and in unmistakable words of English the party is committed to this policy. We now repledge our loyalty to the traditions and platforms of the Democratic party, national and State, and to the bime. tallis record often made in Congress by a very large majority of its Rep rosentatives in beth Houses. 3. Congress has power,under the Constitution, “to coin money, regu- late the value thereof,and of foreign coins, and measures,” and ‘no State shall coin money or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” The power granted to Congress is the power to coin money—that it is, to coin gold and silver metal into money and to regulate its value, not to coin gold “or” silver and regulate its value but gold “and” silver. Neither met- al is money under the Constitution, and neither can become money un- less coined as such by authority of Congress and both thereby become the legal standard measures ef the yalues of all property. Both when thus coined, are inherently and hen- estly of the exact values stamped up- en their faces,its legal tender power in all payments. 4. Therefore, it is logically true that no power is given Congress to regulate or fix the commercial value of gold and silver as metals or to declare that coins made of them by congressional authority, or of either of them, shall not be money, sound, honest money, and no power is granted to Congress to demonetize either gold or silver. 5. The coinage history of gold and silver from the first coinage act 1792 to the demonetization act of 1873. illustrates the wisdom of the policy of the firat act mentioned, in conformity to the authority granted to Congress by the Constitution,and shows beyond cavil or dispute that the legal ratio between the two coins then established, or about 16 to 1, was successfully maintained for the entire period of eighty-one years on substantial equality, without friction financial disaster or loss to the peo- ple. 6. Nor can it be successfully de- tothe financial embarrassment of the debtor class. This depreciation of silver money and shrinkage of commodity values and the appreci- ation of the value of gold is still go- ing on, and if not arrested by restore ing silver to its constitutional right of coinage will finally accomplish the complete undoing of the masses of our people and the further ag- grandizement of the favored few at the expense of the unprotected many. 7. Conditions which compel a farmer debtor to eonfront such shrinkage of values and such corres- ponding shrinkage of ability to pay must necessarily make him poorer and menace him with bankruptcy. To illustrate: Missouri produced 7,695,000 bushels of wheat in 1872, and the product was worth $10,849,- 950, the year before silver was de- monetized: In 1890 we produced 30,113,821 bushels, which at the prices of 1872, would have brought $42,460,487, but a shrinkage of val- ues of about 47 per cent had inter- vened, and our thirty odd million bushels were worth only about $22,- 509,000—a loss of nearly $10,000,- 000 in one State on a single crop. 8. No convention of the people, large or small, Democratic, Repub- lican or Populist, in any county or State, asked for the passage of the demonetization act of 1873. Nor did the combinations and representatives of the money-grabbers who demone- tized silver in 1873 seek or ask the advice, concurrence or intervention of foreign nations, whatever may have been the fact in respect to the intervention of the millionaires in Lombard street, in London. Nor would it be wise for the American people still further to complicate and delay a successful solution of the silver coinage question by fur- ther dallying with the restoration of silver by waiting for the concurrence of England or of the States of the Latin Union. We are strong and old enough and wise enough to at- tend to our own business in our own way. 9. Some of the opponents of free silver coinage, even among our Dem- ocratic friends, claim to be bimetal- lists, but oppose free coinage be- cause of the proposed ratio of 16 to 1. Many conclusive reasons, in our opinion, justify this ratio. But it may be stated asa remarkable de- velopment of the contention by the enemies of free ceinage that while they persistently oppose the zatio of 16 to 1 they suggest no other as bet- ter. 10. It is claimed that if the free coinage of silver were adopted its effect would be to drive gold from ourshores. Without admitting that such would be the case, it may well be questioned whether the present and rapidly incoming evils of de monetization are not more disastrous te the American people than the de- portation of gold. But the phrophecy that our stock of gold would be driven abroad or hoarded on the re- storation of the silver dollar to its constitutional right of coinage is contradicted by the facts and statis- tics of finance. We first attempted to restore the silver dollar in 1878, and the record shows that during the five years immediately succeed- ing demonetization in 1873—that is, from 1873 to 1877, when silver was denied coinage and the single gold standard was in full sway—we ex- ported $127,000,000 of gold more than we imported; while in the sev- eateen years from 1878 inclusive, we imported about $9,600,000 more gold than we exported. 11. It can be established by of- ficial authority that from 1847 to 1860.this eountry alone produced the enormous sum of $1,836,000,000 D Tinware and Stoves, Field and Garde! Seeds, Baggies, Wagons, Machinery, wagor Steel, Nails, Salt Buggy Painte, Machine Oil Groceries and Farm Produce | adyocates of the U May Be Caweit, If you find cheaper Hardware than ours. No customers are trapped by ours; because we sell the best How about rats and mice? Wesellthe finest traps—catch-’em-alive ot kill-’em-on-the-spot kind. Take your choice but get rid of the vermin. For pets and kettles, pans and tin, we have 8 notorious name for charging little and gell- ing high quality. Make things easy and life happy by using our good things. When You Come To Missouri, (and of course, you are coming,) Stop! - In Bates Co. Stop! At Butler. Stop! At Deacon Bros. & Co., For your Groceries, Hardware, Buggies, Sur- ries, Phaetons, Farm Wagons, Barb Wire,Salt Machine Oils, Buggy Paints, n and Wood Pumps, Salt Meats, Cigars and Tobaccos, Rope ‘Twine, Stoves and Ranges, and a fuil line of FARM MACHINERY DEACON BROS. & CO. Low Price Hardware and Grocery House. in gold and that in 1868 we had only $257,000,000 left. Was it driven out by silver coinage? Certainly not, for during these thirteen years the number of silver dollars coined was comparatively very small. 12. That bimetallism can be suc- cessfully maintained we confidently appeal to the financial history of some of the great nations of Europe. For nearly a century France main- tained bimetallism, the free coinage of both silver and gold. In 1884 she had $537,000,090 in legal tender sil- ver in circulstion, at the same time $848,000,000 in gold. That is, France had within $75,000,000 in gold as much as both England and Germany combined, both of the lat- ter being gold standard countries. Why didn’t silver drive gold out of France? 13. Since 1873, with the excep- tion of about eleven months of unlim ited silver coinage under the Bland- Allisen act ef 1875, we have had in the United States no silver coinage, and the single gold standard io un- disputed sway during the whole period. Has silver demonetization and the gold standard protected us against the loss by deportation of our gold? They have not. On the centrary, geld has been hoarded and driven abroad, and to such an extent that the Treasury Department re- cently was forced not only to raid the geld reserve, but to issue bonds to borrow gold from the Rothschilds and ether foreign bankers, and in the midst of finansial difficulties without parallel in our history. Yet the friends of the gold standard at- tempt to alarm the American people about the less of our gold if we re- turn te free silver coinage,as we had | it for the first eight one years of our history. It can not be questioned that the Democratic party of Missouri is in! the midst of great political evente, and that still greater are impending. eacon Bios. & Co, « joi what practical avail is a large nia- jo without a plan of campaign na y without organization? } While all this and more is true of} the friends of the free coinage in the} Democratic party in the State, the) single gold stand | dare marsha | they few or many, for the conilict. | | Be it therefore, resolved | 1. That the Executive Committee |of this body be authorized to con-} stitute a literary bureau to act in co-} jopeartion with a similar bureau, which is it hoped the Democratic State Convention at Pertle Springs will appoint. 2. That each Democratic free-sil- ver editor of the State is earnestly re- quested to actively co-operate with the Executive Committee of his county in perfecting a thorough or- ganization of the Democratic voters in such measures as are best calcu- lated to secure harmony and activi ty fin the canvass, and a full vote and victory at the polls. 3. That we willas one man op- pose every effort, no matter from what source inspired, to commit the Democratic party to the Republican policy of gold monometallism, and that we will in the future, as in the past, fight with unfaltering courage for the old Demecratic doctrine of bi-metallism, by which we mean the free an unlimited coinage of both gold and silver on equal terms and at the old legal ratio of 16 to 1. (Signed) “William F. Switzler, S. G. Tetwiler, William McNamee, H. J. Groves, T. B. White.” Not Sought By Mr, Carlisie. Richmond, Va., July 24.—A repre- sentative of the press had an inter- view with Secretary Carlisle yester- day. The interviewer said to Mr. Carlisle that many Democrats regard him as a strong men for President and regard him as the only legitimate successor to Mr. Cleveland. “Well,” responded the Secretary, “notwithstanding the fact that the Presidency is the greatest honor that can be bestowed, I do not want the office. I have seen too much of the hard work attached to it. The responsibility is not only tremendous, but the work multiplies and becomes more exacting every year. A man must have an iron con- stitution to stand it. Iam sincere when I say I do not want the nomi- nation and election. I will certainly do nothing toward getting the nomination Mr. Carlisle then went on to say that not since the government was founded has any administration had such trying times as this administra- tion has had to contend with. “How about the third term peo- ple? Many people are expressing a desire to see Mr. Cleveland nomi- nated again next year.” “As close as Iam to the Prvsi- dent,” said Mr. Carlisle, “he has never referred to that subject in my presence. I know no more about it than you dc. But as Mr. Cleveland did not seek the nomination of 1892 it is needless to say that he will not be a willing candidate next year. I know he did not want to run the last time.” ‘The fidelity of the slayes during the civil war to the families they served has long beena matter of history and acknowledged as one of the noble qualities of the African race. A more substantial recogni- tion is to be made of it in the village of Fort Mills,S C, one of whose citizens is about to erect a monu ment in honor of the devotion of the Southern slave, and the authori- ties will give it a place in the public square. The monument will be a tall shaft, having on cne side a negro woman nursing her master’s babe, and on the other a negro man hold- ing an agricultural implement. It is proposed to inscribe it with a passage from Henry W. Grady, con cluding with these words: “Often |500 negroes to a single white man, jand yet through these dusky throngs \the women and children walked in safety, and the uzprotected homes rested in peace. Unmarshaled, the | black battalions moved patiently to | Indians Shed Blood, 1 Pocatello, Idaho, July 25.—Re-/ ports from Market Lake say that} the Rexburg, Idaho, paper to day | reports difty-nine white people killed | by the Bannock’s uear Jackson's! Hole, but there is no way to confirm | the report and it is not believed} from the vicinity of Jackson's Hole | with the latest news. No news has | been received from Market Lake for | three days of an authentic nature. | Forty four carload of United} States cavalry left Cheyenne to-night} for Market Lake with provisions, horses, tents, etc. They will reach Pocatello tomorrow afternoon. The troops will be immediately piloted to Wind river and it is not likely that any trouble will ecour after their arrival. It is feared that the Indians will take udvantage of the small number of settlers and commit wolesale murder before the troops can interfere. Four hundred Indians are said to have joined the Bannocks on Fall river and are preparing to make an onslaught on the whites. It is prob- able that Governor McConnell will be called to aid in suppressing vio- lence. Seyeral parties of tourists are in Pocatello awaiting the result before taking their departure for Yellowstone park. PLUG argest piece of tobacco ever sold for 10 cents Six men were seriously injured by the explosion of a thresher engine near Marsball. The | Go There is being built at the state penitentiary a laundry building 165 feet long and sixty feet wide. Settlement Docket. Probate Court Settlement Docket Anguet Term, 1395. IST DaY AUG, l2rH, 1893, ESTATES. AC Alexander, Jno M Coleman Executor Henry Bagby et al, Jas Bagby Guardian James L Jayne, Jas Bagby G& C Geo & M H Burrews,Chas M Burrows G & C Walter Bernhardt,M H Martz G & C Margaret Bright, H Hill Executor Wm J Crow,Martha J Crow Admr 2ND Dar. Myrtle B & Tressie Lee Cox, Nancy Jayne Cox Curator T J Davis,HelenM Davis Admr Mary J Field, Jno if Sullenz Executor Harry & Carl Henry,Lide Henry Guardian Adolph Kaufman, Martin Kaufman G & C Chas D Mitchel, Geo E Logan Guardian 3D Day. J C McKibben, Jas M McKibben Executor Sarah E Owen,H B OwenG &C Albert Owen et al, John Owen G & C Rachel Roe,Sarsh A Stitt G & C Wm D Rich et al, Carrie A Rich G & C Bertha Sickafus et al, Emanuel SickafusG & C Jno E Tuttle,L B Allison G & C Elotse Terry et al, Jas R Gallaway Curator Ebenezer Carver, Samatha Carver Admr F M Golladay, Nannie N Golladay Admr 4TH Day. Chas L Radford,Jno B Newberry G & C Frank R Mize et al, Wm E Walten G & C Lize John et ai,J $ Pierce Guardian Wm L & Sam’! W Valentine, JC Clark Car- ator Rath & Lucy Dark, Wiley Adams G & C Branham Hill,F J Tygard Executor Chas Rice, Effie J RiceG &2t Srl ese J Bard Admr Oscar Andreen, of Lexington, sold his collection of po:tage stamps to St. Louis parties for $200 and ex- pects to get as much more for a lot of revenue stamps Nelson, in Saline county, with a population of less than 500, has five churches belonging to as many white denominaiions «nd two colored churches, both of the latter being Baptist. + Free Pills. | | Send vour address to H. E. Bucklien & | | Co., Chicago, ard get a free sample box |of Dr. King’s New Lite Pills. A trial will convince vou of their merits. These; pills are easy in action and are particu. | The national canvass of 1896 ap-| the fields in the morning to feed the larly effective in the cure of Constipa- proaches, and unless existing condi- | armies their idleness would have tions change in Missouri the genuine | starved, and at night gathered anxi- en ee Te find | ously at the big house to ‘hear the ed with divisions and defeat. | news from marster,’ though consei- The Democratic friends of free|ous that his victory made their coinage of both gold and silver are — enduring.”-—Globe-Democrat. tion Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 25¢ per box. Sold by your druggist. THE Bates County Bank. BUTLER, MQ. * TSuceessor to: g their forces, be} here. “A courier is expected here Eates Co. National®Bank, Established in 1870. Paid up capital 3125,000 A general banking business trang. acted. F.J. TYGARD, - - - President, HON. J. B. NEWBERRY Vice-Pres, J.C.CLARK- - Cashier ——— T. J. Switn. A.W. Tuonman SMITH THURMAN. LAWYERS, Office over Bates County Natn’l Bank, Butler, Missourt, RAVES & CLARK, x ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office over the Missouri State Bank North side square. =e Silvers & Denton STTORNETS AND COUNSELIRS AT LAW BUTLER, MO. Office over the Farmers Bank. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women aad chil- en a specialty. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, McKibben: All callanswered at office day or Office, front room over store. night. Specialattention given to temale dis eases. REAL ESTA'TE. Insurance,Loans and Rentals. Weare oye to handle farm or city prop- erty, sell exchange or rent We represent reliableinsurance companies. We have private money to loan on personal security. Al! business entrusted to us will receive promptand carefull attention. Twe good rigs always ready. Call and see us, MILLHORN & BEESON. The Old Reliable PHOTOGRAPHER North Side Square, Has the best equipped gallery in Southwest Missouri. All Styles of Photogrphing executed in the highest style of the art, and at reasonable prices, Crayon Work A Specialty. All work in my line is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Call and see samples of work. C. HACEDORN. In Poor Health means so much more than you imagine—serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments ne, Don’t play with Nature’s greatest gift—health. HM you are feelin out of sorts, It Cures Dyspepsia, Kidney an¢ Liver Get only the geuuine—‘t has crossed red lineson the wrapper. Aji others are sab- stitutes. On — of two 2c. stamps we will send set of Ten Beautiful World’s Fair Views and book—iree. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, MD. en Caan mestormenescnee TD cermnencernmnnenrc ean nc