Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 19, 1896, Page 6

| . cr DswM=M_avaKoKw«K«K—X—X——K"\*"|>> Che Herald. . BYE. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS. - MINNESOTA Li has come and gone. More power to him. Paper pillows stuffed with fragments of old letters are the latest cure for insomnia. Under certain circum- stances they are also useful in fending off breach-of-promise suits. pia es It is plain that dynamite will be plentifully used in the next war. The skirmishing going on in Cuba and Constantinople is an indication that bombs and high explosives will count for more than gunpowder. SS Connecticut is harvesting one of the fest tobacco crops ever raised in the state. They lack ihe Cuban climate in Yankeeland, but are blessed with what is far better, a free and enlight- ened government. a Our new cruiser, the Brooklyn, gets more power out of a ton of coal than any other vessel of her ¢ . She is not only swifter tban her European sivals, but can cnn longer on the same atmount of coal. The only certainty of Spain if it puts down the revolution in Cuba is that another revolution will break out in & few years. This is the lesson of the st and the undeniable fact of the present. —— Japan has decided to double the strength of her army and add over cne hundred new war ships to her navy. That country is trying to live up te the responsibilities of civilization and an armed peace. ee a A. New York man whe went to sleep on the floor of his own store was roused by the police and arrested, and failing in any other device, preferred a charge of getting drunk and sleep- ing it off in his store. As the new century is pidly com- ing along there is developed what promises to be a world-wide contro- as to whether it will begin on 1. 1, 1900, or Jan. 1, 1901, London rid to be agitated over the subject ‘There was nothing surprising in Li Hung Chang's question when he visit- ed Gen, Grant’s tomb: “When will it be completed /” Thousands of people asked the same question over and over again, and have never got an an- swer to it. Canada 1s commendably slow ia some respects. The buriber of di- yorces granted in the Dominion dur- - the last twenty years Was 116, an average of less than six a year. It is divoree and not marriage that is a failure over the Lorder. a Lord Giasgow has resigned his office as governor of New Zealand. He was shipwrecked at the start, and was af- terwards tossed by a prize bull when ae was doing the honors of an agricult- ural show. As the season of county fairs has now begun with us, budding statesmen should take notice. In Germany cieties fcr insurance vainst want of employment have been rtel. When a man works he pays rin stipulated sum to the com- znd when out of employment, out according to the sum paid is purely co-operative, and has nnmend it. a cert pany many points to new woman lives in Sioux uit adventersus husband tried to clope with a ycung woman ina ba loon, but the plucky wife hung on to his coat tails until a policeman came to the rescue and arrested the young e of “trying to make a self.” man on a fool of hi The young king of Spain was not quite exact when, speaking by proxy, he told the troops that were about to set out for Cuba, that he regretted that he was too young to lead them in person to a glorious victory over the insurgents. Judging from the result of the great majority of battles be- tween the Spaniards and the insurg- ents, what the king really meant was that he was sorry that he could not lead them to another defeat. But then his majesty is quite young, and he had to say something encouraging. A brutal father was brought inte court in New Y-»rk, recently, charged with habitually beating his six-year- old boy, and when an examination of the bo body revealed no less than sixty-nine marks of the rod, the mag- istrate turned to the brute and said: “You ought to be tied to that railing, and then every policeman in this court should flog you and beat you with his clu until the blood ran. You ought te be pilloried, and I wish I could sen- tence you te it. This is the most brut- al and outrageous thing I ever heard or saw.” It is to be regretted that the judge did not have ihe authority to enforce such a penelty. MR. LIND ACCEPTS. NOTIFIES THE DEMOCRATS OF HIS ACCEPTANCE, The Committee Notifies Mr. Lind of His Nomination by the Demo- erats, and, in Accepting, He Dis- cusses the Question Coinage of Silver—State Issues Briefly Referred to. of Free St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 12—Mr. Lind was formally notified of his nomina- tion for governor by the Democratic committee which he replied to with a formal letter of acceptance. The following is the letter of notifi- cation: MR LIND’S NOTIFICATION. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 28) 1896. Hon. Lind, New Uim, Minn.: Sir—The Democratic state ccrvention of Minnesota, which met at Minneapolis on the fourth day of this month, chose you as its candidate for the office of governor of Minnesota at the ensuing election, and we were appointed a committee to formally notify you of such action We take this method of performing this honorable and pleasing duty. We have delayed giving you this notice until the various political ‘parties of this state had met in convention, in the hope that the Democratic tender of support would be reinforced by that of the People’s party of the state. Our hape has” been realized, and you are now in a position to accept the leadership of the allied forces of the friends of free silver now striving for the election of candidates, national and local, who have taken common ground in the great struggle for economic reform in progress in the United States. The convention did not overlook the fact that you have not heretofore affiliated with the Democratic party; but in this cortest rarty lines are and Will be disregarded, or rather Jet us say, that a new alignment of the great political parties is taking place. We find many of our old and trusted leaders, men who in the past our party has loaded with honors, deserting us in the face of the enemy, while from city, farm and hamlet throughout the land have come recruits— men like yourself, men fresh from the p2o- ple, men fill:d with lofty conceptions of true American manhood, who put country before party, who recognize that great reforms can only be secured through some _ sacrifices, and who, in disregard of selfish interests and perscnal advancement, cast their lot and John ‘link their fate with those who are doing battle for the right. We believe the single gold standard now established in the United States and sought to be perpetuated, is an evil so great that, unless abolished, th masses will be reduced to degradation and grinding poverty. Behind THIS WICKED POLICY loom yast aggregations of wealth, gigantic and unlawful trusts and aggressive corpora- tions, all seeking, often by corrupt and un- lawful methods, their further aggrandizement at the expense of the producer. ‘Already in this contest coercive measures are being resorted to to prevent the w of the whole people being fairly expressed through the constitutional means of the bal lot. Such methods presuppose either that the mechanic, the laborer, the farmer and the clerk have not sufficient intelligence to be allowed to vote according to their con- victions, or that they have notythe right to do so. Either claim being once established, government by the people is at an end In offering you this nomination and the support cf the Democratic party of Minne- sota, we cannot promise to wage an expens- ive ‘campaign in your behalf; we can refer you to no well crilled and well paid corps of assistants at (ur command; we can, how- ever, pledge you the manly and intelligent support of the rank and file of our party, men who are earr.est because they think they are right, and wuo are brave because they are honest. ‘And because you have shown that you are able to occupy high official position, without yielding to corrupt influences be- cause you follow your honest convictions without regard to “eur personal advance- ment; because you bei.cve in the brotherhood of man without distinction as to nationality, religion or social position; because you are intelligent and far-seeing enough to realize the needs of our people, and brave enough to advocate the people's rights, we, upon be- half of the Democratic party of the state of Minnesota, tender you the nomination of that party for governor and ask you to accept it. . RANDALL, . C. GRIDLE HW. HIMELMAN, JR., CHRIST O’BRI Not! Committee on MR. LINI'S ACCEPTANCE. The following is Mr. Lind’s letter of ac- ceptance: John P. Rea, Frank S. Randall, E. C. Gridley, H. Himmelman Jr, Thomas ‘O'Brien, Members of the Notification Committee, Ap- State Convention Having received g me of my se- pointed by the Democrat of Minnesota~-Gentlemen your communication ad lection by the Democratic party of the state of Minnesota as its candidate for governor, I beg leave to submit to you my acceptance of the high honor conferred by the convention of your party. In so doing. I deem it proper to state that I have also accepted the nomina- tion of the other great party of this state— the Populist party-—and that in doing so, I stated to its delegates in convention assem- bled that I should accept the nomination by the Democracy ct the state of Minesota, when formally advised of it, as 1 accepted the Populist nomination, not as a Democrat, not as a Populist, nor as a Republican, but as a citizen of our great state, in hearty sympathy with the aims and endeavors of the united reform forces nad ready to do my share of the work in the pending struggie. This strug- gle is to secure the adoption in the nation of a financial policy which will tend to relieve the working and producing classes of the United States from the existing paralysis of business, the loss of profit in production, the enforced idleness of labor, and the misery brought upon our people by the gold stand- ard, as well as to release our great state from the grip of the small clique of individuals, who, under the name and through the organ- ization of the great Republican party in this state, have not only controlleé its action, but have’ also in former years prostituted ‘your party, to give to their schemes, to defeat the will of the neople, to prevent the passage of wholesome reforms in legis‘ation and ad- ministration. and to further the personal in- terests of those in control. In view of this, and as you refer to the fact that T have not heretofore been affiliated with vour party, I deem it not out of place to briefly state my own convictions on the issues in this campaign. Tae present con- test is not one of piatform, but of issues. Hence I shall not devote any time to plat- fo-m discussion, excent to say that in the new alienment of political forces which has taken rlace, and fs in daily protress, there js svMcient wmanimity on the vital and im- rinert questions, as formally expressed in tre several platforms of the reform forces. t> enable us to cheerfully co-operate and work together for the common good of our stvte and nation. Thet thie is not an ordinary campaign is clearly evidenced, not only by the action of your convertion, but by the ection of the other great party, to which I have re‘erred. mere temporary condition of our politics would brirg together such great divisions of our people, who have heretofore been oppos- ing and contending element in our politics, ror would so many members of the Renub- lican party ignore the ties of party asso- ciation and friendships and ally themselves with those to whom they have been opposed in the past, for trivial causes. Nothing but ouestions of vital {mportance--a rense of com- mor danger and an aroused patriotism—would make this great body of our people forget all rast differences. ienore considerations of creed, nationality, party prefudices and party rride, end unite In harmonious action, both pettonally and in this state. UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. The underlying cavse of this great move- ment it may be difficult to express in apt words; but, in my own mind, I am clear that however it may be formulated by different individuals, or In different platforms, the con- vietion has forced itself upon the great mass oof our people that in the anpropriation of the natural wealth of 0 country, and in the distri- bution of the increased products of human industry, caused by the employment of mod- ern inventions and labor-saving machinery, the few, and the owners of capital. have ob- tained more than their fair share. The tarm- er feeis that. though his power of producing riches for others has been increased beyond comparison, his hours of toil have not short- ened. and the net reward for his labor is growing less from year to year. In the field of organized labor, though wages have been { \rly well maintained, by veason of organi- z ‘an, the sp.cter of want of employment i; mstantly before the workman’s mind. It h ‘5 children, his solicitude for their future w. & heavier upon him than his own to! Th~ .arm laborer ‘has not only suffered by a material reduction in wages, but he has largely “eased to look forward with either the hope ir expectation of becoming the own- ev of a faarm himself, as has been the rule in the past. The demand for his service is declining. as the farmers grow less able to employ help, and he, with otiers unem- ployed, drifts to the cities, and makes the condition cf obtaining employment and main- tuining wages more difficult there. Such are the conditions, which no candid observer can deny. The patrictic citizen, while hopeful for ‘the speedy and peaceable solution of this problem, and confident of the ability of the American people to devise means, in accord- ance with the constitution and spirit of our institutions, for correcting the errors of the past, and for securing a more equitable dis- tribution of the enormous wealth which our country produces, cannot but fear the con- sequences if this’ work is long delayed, and it is this fear and solicitude which has united the eople. I hold, and, with me, it has been a matter of conviction ever since I first entered public life. that the most potent factor in producing existing conditions, by which a larger share of the products of the soil and of human labor are taken by capital from year to year, has been the adoption of the gold standard. The attitude of capital, arrayed, as it is, solidly for its continuance, only serves to strengthen me in that conviction, That this attitude of capital is the result of groundless fear, quite as much as sordid motives, I cheerfully concede, but the effect on the question is just the same. The political and industrial liberation of the populations of Western Europe and of our own country, before and during the early decades of this century, gave human ingenuity and energy a scope which it had never before enjoyed. Invention and labor- saving machinery multiplied the results of human endeavor a thousand fold. Production increased enormously, but with the increased production came a period of lower and fall- ing prices, affecting Europe and America alike. The cause of it was the insufficiency ofthe quantity of the metallic money of the w6rld to adequately measure the increased quantity of products and to serve the ex- tended demands of commerce. Panies. crises and failures were the order of the day be- tween the 30's and the 50's—conditions very similar to the present. Industry was par: lyzed, commerce lagging, labor idle and agri- culture suffering. With ‘the discovery of gold in California, human activity and industry were revived. The enormous production of gold entered into the monetary circulation of the world, and gave prices an upward ten- dency. GAIN IS THE MAGIC WAND. Business and every legitimate undertaking, properly conducted, afforded profit. Gain, or the reasonable expectation of it, is the magic wand which starts the idle mill, turns the furrow, and gives labor work. Except as tem- Forarily disturbed by the disastrous results of excessive speculation, induced by reckless issues of bank money,’ the period between 1850 and 1870 was the ‘most prosperous, and contributed more to the advancement of civil- ization than any like period in the history of the world. (But the continued upward tend- ency of peices resulting from this addition to the world’s stock of money was a thorn in the side of the bondholding and ircome draw- ing classes. While the earning capacity of capital engaged in business increased, the purchasing power of fixed incomes, or of the dollar or pound, received from interest on bonds, did not grow. In other words. tha conditions were such as to favor the worker rather than the drone. This was intolerable to the income-drawing classes then, as it is now. They determined on a reversal of things. This could only be accomplished by ipducing governments to discontinue the use of one or the other of the money metals as full and unlimited legal tender and limit- ing its coinage. The production of gold being greater, that metal was attacked first. a learned Frenchman, Mr. Chevalier, wrote A learned Frenchman, Mr. Chevalier, wrote sity of demonetizing . Richard ‘Cobden translated it into English, and wrote a pre- face re-enforcing the arguments of the au- thor. Hoiland, Germany and Belgium, fear- ing the “‘flood of gold,” as the goid advo now pretend to fear a flood of silver, de- monetized gold. Engtand woul@ probably have done the same, had it not been for the fact that gold was largely produced in her own colonies A united onslaught was then made upon silver and it was successful. The story of its demonetization has been so often told that {t needs no repetition, Our country, though the largest producer. con- sented to the degradation of one of its im- portant products. The demonetizat of silver had the desired effect. By lim!irg its coniage and depriving it of its full money functions, it cut off one of the two so s for the supply of standard money, impa‘red the bank reserves of the commercial world. and, as a result, circumscribed credit, and brought on an era of falling prices. The world’s production is largely carried on on credit. Thc banks are the great arteries for conducting the world’s circulating cap- ital to the points where it may be most profitably employed. Bank facilities and im- proved methods of business enable us to economize the handling of money to a great extent, and by rapid transit its cirenlation is accelerated. Nevertheless, the fact re- mains as true as ever, that credit is. and of necessity always will be limited by the extent of the bank resources. A banker who says that he can carry on his banking business without an adequate reserve is either a fooi or an earlv client in the bank- ruptcy court. Jevons, the great authority on finance and a gold standard advocate cause he was an Englishman, says: ‘‘While the elasticity of credit may certainly give prices a more free flight. inflation of credit. must be checked by the vat defined boundary of available capital, which cons in the last resort of the reserve notes eauiv: lent to gold in the banking department of the Bank of England. Prices mav tempo- rarily rise or fall independentlv of the aua tity of gold in the country; ultimately th must be governed by this ouantity. Credit gives a certain latitude without rendering prices ultimately independent of gold.” (Page 30, Investigations in Currency and Finance.) And again (peze 176) “It is the aggregate of coin and gold in circulation or reserve, in short. the supply of gold as com- pared with the work it hss to do. which de- termines the range of prices." Vhile Prof. Jevons here uses the term “gold.” it should be borne in mind that it wes used with refer- ence to the Engiish system which recognizes only gold as ultimate redemntion monev, and that the principle is equally applicable to silver and gold “coin” in countries having the double standard. Since the demonetization of silver in 1872 population, production and commerce have Continued to grow and extend. The use for money has increased. That is. there has heen more work for it to do. and the work has been extended over greater freas. w hoth silver and gold had been fullv the production of those metals w have supplied a_ sufficiency of money to wholly maintain prices to sav. however, that with th. for safe credit which the use of hoth w: have afforded. the fall in renersl prices weld have been slight. With silver dis- carded us staudard money, the basis for credit has heen contracted. ‘snd nrfces have had to shrink to come within the range at which the exchange could be effected by the auantitv of standard money avatlehte and the credit which it could safely sustain. A single illustration is sufficient. Orr Minne~ sata wheet cron this vear is estimated at 000,000 bushels. At one dollar ner bushel srovld take twice as much money and credit to handle it as at present prices. As there is not enough coin to furnish the necessary money and to maintain the needed credit available for handling wheat at that figure, prices have had to shrink to bring them within the amount of money and credit available for handling it. What is true of wheat is substantially true of all products. It is this shrinking process—this necessity for a larger amount of exchange and pro- ducts to be expressed in a relatively smaller amount of money and credit that causes the continued fall in prices, and is responsible for the foreclosure notices and the failures which fill our papers. But, say our oppe- nents. it is not the want of money, it is the wart of confidence that makes the times hard. I grant it. But, let me ask, the lack of confidence in what? In our money? No, our money is so good that it takes two bushels of wheat to buy the silver dollar where it used to take only one. It is want of confidence in business—in production. You can safely challenge any man to point ont a line of industry today that promises profit unless it enjoys a monopoly. Falling rrices and prosperity cannot ex'st together. It is this condition of affairs that has silenced the imiil, closed the shon-and turned hun- dreds of thousands of efficient workmen in- to idlers and tramps. Speaking of the re- sults of a fall in prices. Prof. Marshall, of Cambridge university, says: “A fall in prices lowers profits and impoverishes the manufacturer, while it increases the pur- chasing power of those who have fixed in- comes. So, agatn. it enriches the creditors at the expense of the debtors; for if the Money that is owing to them is reraid. this Money giver them # greater purchasine power. and ‘f they have lent it at a fixed rate cf interest ‘each nayment {s worth mere to them than it would be if prices were stondard Tt fs safe lareer bas’s 4 % biah But for the same reason that {it en- riches creditors and those who receive fixed incomes, it impoverishes those men of bus!- ness who have borrowed capital. and it im- poverishes those who have to make, as most business men have, considerable fixed money payments for rent, salaries and other matters.” FALL OF PRICES. ‘The fall in prices since the demonetization of silver is nearly 50 per cent, as is shown by our statistical reports, and no one can assert, and give valid reason for his assertion, that we have yet reached the bottom. Less money and a narrower basis for credit relative to the amount of work for it to do always has and always will produce lower prices. Six years ago, on the floor of the house of representatives, I stated it as my conviction that if we ceased to utilize more silver for coinage, wheat would sell at 40 cents in Minnesota. Not a dollar of new silver has been added to our coinage in three years, and 40-cent wheat is upon us. The same rules which govern the prices of other commodities govern the price of money. If corn is more plentiful as com- pared to wheat in cne season than it was the previous year, it will take more corn te pro- cure a given quantity of wheat than it did before. If all products have been produced in a larger amount than has been the increase in money, it will take more of commodities to secure the piece of money. The farmer who takes a load of produce to market does so to procure money. If money has become scarcer, as compared to products, he is com- pelled to give more of his products for the dollar, and that is what he has been doing since 1873. The gold standard advocates ad- mit this. After the passage of the Sherman act, adding 4,500.000 ounces of silver to our circulation monthly, prices advanced almost immediately. Wheat and all agricultural products rose with the price of silver. Hon. Jerry Rusk, secretary of agriculture, said of its effects, on page 8 of his report for 1890: “The re- cent legislation looking to the restoration of the bimetallic standard of our currency, and the consequent enhancement of the value of silver, has unquestionably had much to do with ‘the recent advance in the price of cereals. The same cause has advanced the price of wheat in Russia and India, and in the same degree reduced their power of com- petition. English gold was formerly ex- changed for cheap silver, and wheat pur- chased with the cheaner metal was sold in Great Britain for gold. Much of this ad- vantage is lost by the appreciation of silver in those countries. It is reasonable, there- fore, to expect much higher prices for wheat than have heen received in recent years.” President Harrison. in his message to con- gress in December. 1890. ssid: ‘The enlarge- ment of our currency by the silver bill un- doubtedly gave an upward tendency to trade, and had a marked effect on prices. but this natural and desired effect of silver legisla- en, was by many attributed to the tariff ct. The fall in nrice of our export products effects us nationally as it does individually. It makes it more difficult to make both ends meet. We produce and exnort more cereals, meat products and cotton from year to year, but without aprreciahly increasing the value of the total. We exported etton: Year, Pannds, Value. 1873 7 900 AAR FAM isis | 517,433,109 ‘Wheat— ‘Year. Rushols, ynTR , 204.985 1895 78,102.71 43,805, 64% It is gravely suggested that if we sell for lower prices, we buy cheaper. If debt were unknown, our people might heed such an ar- gument. but ever then the falling prices would take from the producer a large share of his products from year to year for those burdens which are comnaratiyely fixed. Our taxes are substantially the sare as they have heen heretofore—not lower. It takes nearly double the preducts of the farm to pay them that it did fifteen or twenty years ago. So with freight and siv>r charges. ON MY FATHER'S FARM in Sibley county in this state, we have raised on an average 2,000 bushels of wheat yearly for the last fifteen years. The average price of wheat in Chicago for the years 1882, 1883 and 1884 was over $1 per bushel. The aver- age price for 1893, 1894 and 1895 was 62 cents, This year it is less, The freight rate from New Ulm was 18 cents per 100 during the first three years and 20 cents during the last three vears. It took a little over 200 bushels, or about one-tenth of the crop to carry it to Chicago during the first period, and 387 bush- els, or nearly one-fifth of the crop, to trans~ port it to the same market during the latter three years. What is true of wheat is true of all other farm products. it is this insid- fous drain cn the farmer's earnings—taking a larger share of his products year after year for interest, for taxes, for freight, for in- surance, etc., that leaves him without a sur- plus at’ the end of the season and without means to be anything but an indifferent cus- tomer of the local merchant. And still, many of the latter advocate the gold standard, while self-protection, it would seem, would prompt them to favor a policy that would kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Again, when we consider the indebtedness of our people and the fact that the gold standard and falling prices make it practically im- possible to discharge it, the situation ap- pears grave. On Jan. 1, 1890, according to the United States census report, the mort- gage indebtedness of the people of this state was 197,745,989. The interest charge on it was over $15,000,000. Add to this the rail- road, the municipal and the unsecured and commercial indebtedness, aggregating a muc! larger amount than the mortgages, and we have an interest charge on the inductries and productions of the state which probably exceeds $40,000,000 per annum. Is it any won- der that merchants complain of dull times, and that business is slow? For this state of affairs our opponents offer no remedy. The gentlemen who recently met at Indianapolis propose the pet scheme of the bankers for issuing bank currency. I do not believe for a moment that the Amer- ican people will ever again farm out the func- tion of issuing money to private corporations, and if congress Aid provide for an issue of bank currency, the increase in our circu- lating medium by that means would afford only temporary relief. It would not affect the prices of our great staples which are fixed by the markets of the world. Nothing but the restoration of silver to its position as standard money can affect the general level of prices throughout the commercial world. Why should it not be restored? Why should not the mints be open to silver as they are to goid? It is conceded that it was a mis- take to close the mints to it. No states- man in any country has ever claimed or re- ceived credit for his participation in its de- monetization. On the contrary, every legis- lator connected with that act, has repudiated any knowledge of how, or why, it was passed, and has apologized for his connection with it. It is said that we cannot nave free coinage of silver at its present ratio, for the reason that the silver bullion in a silver dollar is worth only 53 cents. T omy mind. it is a most remarkabie thing that silver bullion is worth as much as it is, measured in gold. ‘The use for money has always been the prin- cipal use of the metals. When that use was largely taken awav from silver and made to rest alone on gold. it was but natura! that the metal discriminated against should fall in value, as compared to the favored one. The use which an article serves ccxstitutes its value. Two things which serve the same purpose and have the same use. heve the same value. Why is a coined silver dollar of the same value as a gold dollar? Tt is not because it is redeemable in gold. [t is not redeemable in anvthine. Jt 1s because it oes the work of the gold dollar. The silver dollar pays store bile. nays debts, pays taxes. feeds the living rd bnries the dead. just the same ae a eold dollar. ‘Theat is why it has the «rme valve. Tf the Mexican or’ C: nadian ¢@n'lors could nerform the same ser ice, would they not be worth as much? It is said that 'f we onened our mints to the coinage of silver dollars. the silver of the world would he dumped unon us. What warrant is there for this statement? In the Euronean coinage, to the extent that silver is used. it ix used et a higher ratio than ours. Enrorean cain could only be sent here to be coined et a loss. In India, China. Japan and most of the South American countries. a'l the money that the neonle have is silver, and it is pot reasonable to srnpose that these countries would or could strin themselves of their metium of exchange and send it bere. If they dia, haw could they do business? Who would sell silver bullion at a discount when the greatest and wealthiest nation on earth stood ready to treat it the same as gold? If ali the silyer in the world should come here, we would only have about $56 per capita. France now has $36 ner capita of silver and fold. If silver did come. would it be given to us as a gift or would it be ziven to us in exchange for cur products? In either case, wonld it be an evil? But. say our opponents. while we concede that silver must be restored to give us better prices and prosperity. we cannot do it alon ‘We must await an international agreement. We have awaited for an international agree- ment as long as I can remember. Will Eng- land, the great creditor nation of the world. ever consent to a system by which she will get less products for the interest and money due her? Will she not hold out for the pres- ent plan by which she gets.two for one? The commission anointed by Queen Victoria to inau‘re into th's cugg reported to her majesty in Ocig ws: “Sec. 128. It r ‘ist be remembered, too, that this country is iargely a creditor country of debts payable in gold, and any change which P entailed a rise in the price of commodities generally, that is to say, a diminution of the purchasing power of gold, would be to our disadvantage.” The argument that we must wait for England is sham. {t means that we must wait forever. It may be well enough for the little European countries to hesitate to take a step without the consent of the others, or of some of them, but for us to talk of international agreement, when we possess the domain of the better part of the continent, is puerile. The difficulty is that cur own’ people fail to recognize our own strength and greatness. Our great dailies persist in looking at America through En- glish spectacles furnished by Wall street. ‘They speak of English greatness and power, but do not say a word of our own, except to urge that we are impotent to do justice to our own people. STATISTICS ON POWER. Mulhall, the great English statistician, in an article in the June, 1895, number of the North American Review, in making compar- ison between this country and Europe, says: “If we would compare the energy of work- ing power of the United States with that of other nations, the following table would suffice to show at a glance: MILLIONS OF FOOT TONS DAILY. Foot Tons Per Inhab- Hand. Horse.Steam.Total. itant United States. .6,406 55,200 67,700 129,306 1,940 Great Britain. 3,210 6,100 46,800 56,110 1,470 Germany 280 11,500 29,800 45,580 "902 France . 3,380 9,600 21,6004 34.520 910 Austria . 410 9,900 9,200 22,510 560 Italy 0 4,020 4,800 11,390 380 Spain 1540 5,500 3,600 10,640 590 Here we see that the United States pos- sesges almost as much energy as Great Brit- ain, Germany and France collectively, and that the ratic falling to each American is more than what two Frenchmen or Germans have at their disposal. Moreover, the mili- tary armaments which keep in forced idle- ness 4,000,000 in Europe are happily unknown in the United States. It is not merely that European nations are deprived of the labor, skill and exertions of 4,000,000 men in the prime of life; they have also to set apart 1,000,000 workers of the agricultural and in- dustrial classes to feed and clothe the stand- ing armies and defray the cost of artillery, war.vessels. ete. Thus the average of pro- ductive energy of France, Germany, Eng- land, etc., is much less than appears in the above statement.” When in connection with this we consider that we have more miles of railway than the rest of the world; that our commerce, domestic and foreign, is greater than that of all Europe, excluding Russia, and that the shipping and commerce of our tnland lakes is greater than that of the Med- iterranean, is it not humiliating to an Amer- ican citizen to be toid that we must beg leave of Europe to do justice to our own people. I hve devoted this much time to this question, because I besieve it the most important issue in the national campaign, and because it is the first time that the peo- ple have had an opportunity to pass upon it at the polls. You refer in your letter to the trusts and combinations which prey upon the people. So far as it lies in the power of state law and state legislation to destroy and prevent their unjust exactions, that power will be in- voked and applied. But it must not be over- looked that conditions which promise no profit to legitimate business are prone to produce combinations and trusts in the hope that the gain which cannot be gotten legitimately may be secured through the creation of a mon- opoly. A strict enforcement of the obliga- tions of common carriers, fair, open and equal rates of transportation, will go far to- ward destroying the efficacy of trusts and combinations for the oppression of the peo- ple. Few attempts at monopoly succeed un- less they control the facilities for transpor- tation. While the national questions are entitled to great consideration at the hands of the elec- tors. the state issues ecually merit their at- tention. The last legislature, in response to a well defincd public sentiment, passed an act to regulate the selection and appointment of the large number of persons employed in subordinate positions in the civil service of the state. Our present governor vetoed the bill. I think it important that this question be called to the attention of the voters sc that another legislature be returned that will again respond to the popular demand. I do not belicve that the people of Minnesota de- sire that the offices created for their services should be used to bribe the electors and for the promotion of personal ambition. That public officers who are ds of departments or who share the responsibility of adminis- tration with the chief executive should be in harmozy with the policy of the administra- tion in one thing: That subordinate positions reguiring special skill or training should be filled without regard to fitness by any man whose sole claim to place is that of political service, and that often of the most uestion- able kind, is another question. My own views on this question I can best express by stating that, while in public life, I was called upon to appoint nearly 300 of my con- stituents to office. That I always succeeded in selecting the best and fittest among the applicants is not I'kely. © If I failed it was an error of judgment, but I never made an appointment with reference to any personal political interests. Neither did I demand any political service, or solicit or receive money contributions. directly or indirectly, from any of them. Their lips are not now scaled by party obligation. RAILROAD QUESTION. The railroad question demands the atten- tion of the executive of the state, and of the officers appointed by him to administcr that important branch of executive responsibility. It should not be approached in a_ hostile spirit, however hostile the railway interests of the state may be to our political success. Both during the campaign, and if charged with the responsibility of administration, I am sure that those of our people who sup- port me for the great office for which I have been nominated will neither advocate nor seek to enforce any measure tending to cripple any legitimate interest in the state, much Icss one so closely identified with the development and welfare of our great com- monweaith. But, upon this subject, we shall insist, as we shall in ali other cases, that there shall be in this state no power higher or greater than the law and the duly constituted off- cers for its execution. Every railroad cor- poration shall have the strong arm of the law applied in good faith for its protection, but we also propose that it shall submit to its rule as well as the humblest citizen. That transportation rates, at least on cer- tain commoditics, are unreasonably high, and higher than in our sister states less favor- ably s‘tuated, is a fact easily demonstrated. The Republican party in its platform of 1890 pledged itself ‘‘to secure the reduction of rates on grain, lumber and coal.” How it has redeemed the promise let the people answer. In the section of the state, where I reside, on the lines of the C., M. & St. P. and the C. & N. W., where I n the most familiar with the ‘situation, on grain, more especially, instead ‘of having been ‘reduced, have been advanced from 10 to 15 per cent in the last ten years. This fact remains true, though those companies have made nominal reductions at a few points since I called public attention to this state of affairs at Minneapolis some weeke ago. The people have a right to demand, and it is the duty of those in authority te see to it, thet no freater burdens are i posed unon our producers than justice and fair treatment to all intezests demand: No radical action ts proposed, hut we intend to see to it that rates are pdiusted with ref- erence to the interests of the nrocucer as well as the railroad magnate. That such is not now the case is best shown by the evi- dence of Mr. Stickney. president of the Kaneas G'ty road. On Aug. 8 last, before the interstate commerce commission, he tes- tified: “I tell you, gentlemen, this scheme of rate making is what makes anarchists. It says to the farmer, ‘Do as I want you to, or I'll see that you don’t do anything else.’ High rates are charzed the farmer for shipping his grain. and then the rich grain merchants are given low cut rates.” In the matter of taxation the thoughtful citizen cannot escape the conviction that both our laws and our methods of applying them are defective. It is a subject deserving the earnest attention. of our people. Under the present system the largest share falls on property employed in production, while many forms of accummnlated wealth’ escape entirely, and the burden generally is un- equally ‘and unjustly distributed. To remedy this evil wise legislation must come to the aid of better methods of adm’nistration. _ PUBLIC LANDS. Another question demanding the attention of the people is the preservation of the pub- lic lands granted to the state by the genera} government. The management of our swamn lands and the neglect of state execu “vex and officials to guard the interes:s of the state and the public domain in that particu- Jar ia scandalous. I will specify only one case. In 1875 the legislature passed an act granting to the Duluth and Iron Range Rail- road company a grant of 6,400 acres of. I per mile {to aid in the construction .of d. A’ time limit was fixed byt © pired. The grant was not ea™-ed. No steps were taken by the state go ernment to se- cure its forfeiture. Lands have been certi- fied from time to time in large areus to the company, though it was in default. In the selection’ of the lands for the grant the com- pany was Umited to lands lying in St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties. To secure enough lands to fill the immense grant within the counties named, the appointment of servile tools as deputy’ United States survegors was secured, who returned large areas Wi high and timbered uplands as swamp. No not to expose these frauds or to prevent their, con- summation has been made by any staX of- ficial, so far as I know, except the present state auditor. He has refused to certify fur- ther lands, but he is unable to get the qu tion as to whether the company is entitled to any lands tested in the courts, as the attorney general refuses to bring the neces- sary suit for that purpose. Other needed reforms will be discussed in the campaign. I have already made this communication longer than I intended. In conclusion, permit me to add that much as I appreciate the confidence shown and the honor conferred upon me by the great party which you represent, I assure you that I feel and realize more keenly the re- sponsibility which it implies—not only for the campaign, but in the discharge of the high duties of the office—for which I have been nominated, if elected. I bring to your service in this campaign neither money nor great talent. I will aid you in the work before us to the best of my ability. I shall bear with fortitude and patience the calumy and slanders which are always the lot of those who seek to overthrow abuses of power and piace. Over the result I have little anxiety. It is not my contest. My personal success is a matter of small moment. It is not my cause or the cause of any individual that we seek to further. If elected, I shall, by all constitu- tional means, further such’ reforms in state affairs, in legislation, and in administration as the situation and the just expectation of the people demand. I shall do my duty as God gives me judgment to perceive it. —John Lind. CIDER FOR IY LIDS. To Be of Any Value It Must Be Made with Greater Care and Skill. “For many years,” writes Dr. Morti- mer Granville, of the London Times, “I have recommended cider as a use- ful beverage for invalids generally, and especially for the gouty. The great practical difficulty lies in the fact that such cider as the the gouty, for exainple—require, can hardly be pro- cured at a marketable sale price. I am compelled to procure their cider privately and by favor of some farmer who makes his own beverage, and for this reason—that it a fundamental condition of success in the manufac- ture of cider for medical purposes that only apples of a single sort should be used in the production of the must, and that the fermentation should not be arrested, but allowed to proceed until the whole of the ferment is hausted and the fermentable mater broken into its elen-cuts. “No inconsiderable part of the serv- ice performable by good cider is the cure of disease and the preservation of health is due to the same elements which combine to form the phloridzin obtainable from the bark of the stem and root of the apple, the pear, and certain other trees. This phloridzin—a glucoside—was some fifty years ago submitted to a criticism as a probable substitute for quinine. It was found to answer the purpose as’ to it, but experiment then and subse- quently proved that it possessed two remarkable properties—the one of so acting on the digestive functions that, after two or three we use of this phloridzin, persons who could not ap- propriate certain elements of focd necessary for their nutrition were able to do so; the other of acting in such fashion on the glycogen accumulated in muscular tissues for ‘work,’ bu which when over accumulated. causes at least one form of the trouble called ‘rheumatism,’ as te convert it into sugar and thus be rid of it. “Now, ordinary cider would be pow fectly useless for the beneficial p poses covered by the above specific: tion. If phy ans are to have a Vv: able addition to the beverages th can recommend their paticuts, consumers of cider are to enjoy the advantages of this natural prodvXt, there must be no attempt to arrest is no right point at which to arr¢s is no right ponit at which to arres fermentation, either in the must of the apple or the juice—I avoid-the tech- nical term—of the grape. Pure and useful cider must be absolutely natur- al, and so must champagne.” Fan Motors as Life Savers. While from Aug. 5 to Aug. 12 there were 1,2 prostrations by heat in New York city and vicinity, and 625 deatlis, the temperature on the street in the shade seven days out of the eizht reaching over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it is stated that the record would have Deen much more serious and the death- roll much longer but for the general use of electric ventilators and fan mo- tors. This is confirmed by accounts from all over the country. The cur- rents of air set in motion are in such torrid weather the breath of life to workers of every kind, and when one has become accustomed to their miti- gating infiuence it seems impossible that other people should not seek the same boon, now so freely within reach. Many offices, restaurants, bar- ber shops, stores factories and houses, which would be simply be unendurable in days of tropical heat, are made com- fortably habitable by the electric fan. At the same time, it is pointed out that a good deal can be done to make the motor fan more available to the The majority of them are rge. Smaller fans, costing less and having a lower speed, should be put en the market, and the blades might be so shaped that.a greater va- riety of effect, at varying distances, according to the size of tke office or room, could be secured. A singular explanation is given of a large order for electric fans just received by a New York firm from Jersey City. It appears that the street and water board of that place has decided to stop in stores, restaurants and saloons the fans that are operated by water mo- tors, of which there are 110. The mo- tors consume a large volume of water, which has to be supplied by the ¢ at half the price it is paying a company for it. plane Coal in India, The production of co; steadily increasing. In°d8 mined 1,295,000 tons v the figures were ine tons. The Bengal. sponsible for about 2,51 tal. Much attention ha of late years to the eral oil wells, by has not been ve! Digbel field in 1895. Sukker has failed to oil bed, though it has been ied to a depth of 1,500 feet, and is to be sunk 200 feet farther before be- ing abandoned. oe oe 5 iy care