Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 24, 1896, Page 3

a YELLOW GOLD FOR THE RICH. While Silver Alone Is Now Being Paid Out to the Poor. THE EXPERIENCE OF A PRIEST. He Discovers Some of the Beauties of the Gold Standard Idea. Rev. Father Kelley, of Chicago, Who De- ed $500 in Gold with the Llinojs ‘Trust and Savings Bank, Cannot Get the Gold Again and Is Paid in Silver, Chicago, Oct. . —(Special.)—There was an exciting scene one day last week in the great counting room of the Llti- nois Trust and Savings bank. Power- ful pressure induced the Chicago pa- pers, with a single exception, to sup- press the story. The Chicago press is absolutely under the domination of the banks, and not a line damaging to the success of the English gold standard is given publication. Here is the story: Rev. Father Edward Kelley is one of the best-known clergymen in Chi- cago. He was until last week an ar- dent gold standard advocate and a sup- porter of McKinley. Several months ago an aged widow, one of his parish- ioners, became alarmed over the safety of a sum of gold which was stored in her house. ‘The amount was $500, and she intrusted it to Father Kelley and asked him to deposit it in some bank. He placed it on deposit in the Illinois trust and savings bank. Recently the widow became alarmed by the state- ment of the Chicago press that if Bryan should win bank deposits would be paid in 53-cent dollars, and asked her pastor to withdraw the gold from the bank and piace it in a safety deposit vault. fhe following day Father Kelley went to the bank, and, after explaining the cireumstances, presented the orig- nal deposit slip for the $500. The cash- ier refused to pay in gold. Father Kel- ley was astonished. “I deposited this in gold, and I de- mand gold in return,” said the in- dignant churchman. The cashier smiled blandly and said it was inst the rule of the bank to pay out gold. He handed out $460 in silver certificates and $40 in currency. He positively refused to give bank notes or any money directly redeem- able in gold Father Kelley, holding the money in his hand, went to the private office of John J. Mftchell, president of the bank, and, being well known, was admitted. He explained what had occurred, sup- posing, of course, that the wrong would be rectified. “We are not paying out gold and I can make no exception to the rule,” said President Mitchell, firmly. “Do you mean to tell me that this woman cannot have back the gold she intrusted in your keeping?” demanded Father Kelley. “The money you have in your hand is all right,” was the evasive reply of the now uneasy milliona “That is not what you and people of your class are telling the country,” said Father Kelley, his voice trembling with indignation. “You say that these silver certifi s represent coin which hasan insic value of but 53 cents to the dol- compared with gold, and that if ‘yan is elected it will take"two silver dollars to equal the purchasing power of one gold dollar. You have ~ this woman's gold. You pay her back what you publicly proclaim to be 53-cent dol- lars. There can be but two possible constructions placed upon your conduct. You are either a liar ora thief!” Pale with excitement and anger Fa- ther Kelley turned his back on the bank president and went away with his silver certificates. He went to other banks but was unable to secure the $500 in gold. Lodged in the vaults of the Ili- nois trust and savings bank was not jess than $2,000,000 of the yellow gold. It is being hoarded to buy bonds with if Me- Kinley is elected. Itis too valuable and scarce for widows and ordinary people. President Mitcheil is quoted by the financial editor of one of the Chieago pa- pers as saying that “the cashier sup- posed Father Kelley wanted the gold for the purpose of hoarding, and that they did not pay out goldeto such per- sons.” What do you think of that, you gold standard worshipers? If you want to hoard anything hoard silver. The banks will hoard gold. ‘They will keep on forcing down the price of silver and enhancing the price of gold, until gold goes toa premium. They will then buy bonds with their gold and you will pay the interest on the same—you and your children and grandchildren. Do you think you can get gold at a bank? Try it. You cannot get a gold dollar unless as a personal favor. And yet Mr. McKinley tells you that to-day one American dollar is as good as an- other American dollar, and that if he is elected president it always will be. If Mr. McKinley is elected president gold will go to a premium the next day. The banks and “trunsts and syndicates have hoarded it in greedy anticipation of such an event. ‘The lleidelbachs,the Ickleheimers, the Lazards, the Pierpont Morgans, the Kuhns, the Loebs, and all the other gold brokers of Wall street, have recently added $25,000,000 to the gold reserve of the national treasury, and they are now waving the American flag to show how patriotic they are. What does the United States give these gold gamblers for this $25,000,000? Greenbacks. When can Mr. Ickleheimer get baci: his gold for his greenbacks? On demand. He can cash in those greenbacks to-morrow if he cares to and pring the reserve below $100,600,000, but Mr. Ickleheimer is generously maintain- ing the national credit until after the election. gold clique will make a rush on that gold reserve the day after the election, and it will melt like a snow drift in August. And then Mr. Cleveland will issue more bonds. And then President John J. Mitchell, of the Illinois trust and savings bank, will invest the $500, deposited in gold by the aged widow, in interest-bearing bonds, and thus protect our national honor, But the aged widow will not draw the interest. President Mitchell will draw the interest and she will help pay for it by increased taxes on her humble home. HOW PROSPERITY WILL COME. Bimetallism Will Steady Prices—Keeping the Two Metals Together. {From the Cincinnati Enquirer.) Crystal, N. D.—I, with thousands of others, should like to be enlightened upon the following questions: 1. Through what channels will pros- perity come in the event of free coin- age? 2. What laws will preserve equality of the two metals? 3. What will be the effect on foreign silver and what will prevent specula- tion in foreign silver by having it coined into American dollars? J. L. CARR. 1. The fundamental trouble with all productive enterprises at the present time is found in the fact that year by year general prices are falling to a lower and lower level. Every manu- facturer knows that it is impossible to conduct a profitable business when his products are constantly declining in price. It is agreed by all political economists that a general fall in prices really means an appreciation in the value of money. The continued de- celine in general prices since 1873 in all gold standard countries means, therefore, that the volume of money has been insufficient to keep pace with population and business. The great virtue that bimetallists claim for the remonetization of silver is that it will so increase the supply of the money material that our money volume will be adequate to keep prices steady. The minute we steady prices prosperity will set in, because whenever a manufac- turer can sell his goods for a greater price than they cost him to produce no other encouragement is necessar to induce him to manufacture good: The farmer is in the same position as the manufacturer, and, whereas, he now finds his crops cost him as much, if not more, than he ean sell them for, owing to the steady appreciation in the value of money, he will find then conditions reversed and his crops sell- ing for more than they cost him. 2. Bimetallists claim that the equal- ity of the metals in value at the legal ratio will be perserved by the option which bimetallism gives to all persons to use either metal they m choos Should there be a te: dency for gold to rise in com- parison with silver the demand for monetary purposes is thrown upon si ver and withdrawn from gold until par- ity is secured. Should silver show a tendency to become more valuable than gold then the demand is taken from ver and put upon gold, with a like r sult. This action in regard to silver and gold is in no wise different from what it is in other cases where one ar- ticle is a substitute for another. Both wheat and corn can be made into bread, and both will sustain life. If wheat should become very scarce the fact that cornmeal could be used would prevent the price of wheat rising be- yond a certain figure. People would begin to substitute corn bread for wheat bread, and thus the demand for wheat would be decreased. The trouble with the single gold standard is that when gold begins to go up silver could not be substituted, and therefore all the nations ona gold basis have been striv- ing to secure as much as possible of the Nmited supply of gold on hand, with the result that gold keeps steadily mounting higher and higher. 3. Youmustunderstand that the price of silver in the United States would be the price the world over. No one would bring silver here to be coined from any foreign country, because the price in the foreign country would be the same as that here, less, perhaps, charges of transportation, ete. Besides this, no foreign coin would come here to be re- coined, because in most countries their ratio is higher than one to sixteen, and hence there would be a loss in bringing it here to be coined. Foreign subsidiary silver coin, of course, would not come. There is also no great stock of silver bullion, that is, uncoined silver, an where in the world. The silver countries need all the silver money they have on hand. Under these cir- cumstances you will perceive that no speculation would be possible. the Chairman Gowdy, of the Indiana re- publican state committee, recently ad- dressed a letter to the Indiana stove works of Evansville, Ind., detailing the wretched condition of the country and asking a contribution of money to as- sist in the restoration of the republican party to pewer, “to avert further ca- lamit Instead of sending a contri- bution, Mr. J. W. Boehne, secretary of the Indiana stove works, replied: “The election of Bryan will cure most of the evils from which the masses are suffer- ing. Have voted for Garfield, Blaine and Harrison, but will vote for Bryan this time.” If you could enter the homes of this na- tion and see how hope deferred has made the heart sick, if you could see the parents, who, in hopes of better days, have planned for the higher education of their children, in order that the children might begin the battle of life with greater advantages than their parents,but who have been compelied to keep the children at home in order to keep the wolf from the door. you would understand what the gold standard means. It means a lower order of civilization, and, it continued, we will sink down where the few own all the wealth, and the many are simply dependent tenants.—Mr. Bryan at Charlotte, N. C. The Indianapolis convention has beea described as the “finest array of bank- ers, railroad men and attorneys for cor- No matter who is elected, the ! porations and trusts ever got tegether.” THE OUTLOOK IS ALL RIGHT. Democrats Confident of Their Can- didate’s Election. BiG VICTORY COMING IN NOVEMBER. The Democratic Campaign Enters the October Homestretch In the Best of Condition and with Every Assurance of a Triumph — States Claimed and Estimates of the Majorities, Chicago, Oct. , 1896.—(Special.)— The political outlook at the close of September is of the most satisfactory character to the democratic naticnal managers, who are confident that the cause of Bryan and free silver has becn receiving a marked impetus during the past ten days. From every quarter— especially from the central western states — come reports that farmers everywhere are flocking to the Biyan standard, while in the cities there is every indication that an overwhelming majority of the labor vote wiil be east for the free silver president. Jn many of the central western states the dem- ocratic managers have completed their first poll, and the returns indicate that Bryan will carry every one of then: by immense majorities. A poll of Kansas just completed by the allied free silver forces shows that the Bryan electors will have 50,000 majority in that stute. A similar poll of Kentucky shows that Bryan’s majority will not be less than 20,000, not counting the republicans who will vote for free silver. This vote it is estimated will swell the Bryan ma- jority to 30,000. The poll shows that there are less than 15,000 goid demo- Alabama, Arkansas, California, Col- orado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kan- sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississivpi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota. Gregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennes- see, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washing- ton, Wyoming, West Virginia, Dela- ware, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio—giving Mr. Bryan a total of 317 electoral votes. NOTES FROM HEADQUARTERS. items of News Regarding the Progress of the National Campaign. The demand for country newspa- pers and daily papers published in small cities and towns throughout the west for news direct from national democratic headquarters is something marvelous. Gov, Altgeld expresses entire confidence that Bryan and the entire democratic state ticket will earry Illinois by a rousing majority The farmers throughout the state, he says, are almost a unit for silver. They ride 20 and 30 miles to heara free silver orator, and the enthusiasm is intense. Beside the laboring man and thela- bor organizations and the regular democratic vote in Chicago there are over 100 silver republican clubs, em- bracing a total membership in Chicago of between 18,000 and 20,000, all pledged to Bryan and free silver. This, with 30,000 populist votes, which are a unit for Bryan, will undoubtedly carry this city for Bryan and free silver by an overwhelming majority. In the Twelfth ward alone there is a silver republican club of 326 members, every one of whom has heretofore been a life-long republican. This club holds nightly meetings and the mem- bership is inereasing daily. J. R. Sovereign, grand master work- mon of the Knights of Labor in the United States, has arrived in Chicago for the purpose of taking an active part in the campaign for the election of W. J. Bryan. Grand Master Workman R N WE AON: i df’ PEELS Talal (<2 ys GE YALE STUDENTS—“THEY DID NOT WANT TO HEAR MR. RK \\ BS not BRAIN J|WE ARE So] eteseests ELE BRYAN.” erats in the state, and this will more than offset the populist vote. Fusion between the democrats, popu- lists, prohibitionists and silver repub- licans has been consummated in Mich- igan, a result, which, in the minds of the most conservative politicians, gives that state to Bryan by a large majority. Reports from Ohio received during the week are of the most flattering clar- acter. From nearly every county in the state estimates have been made, and _ they indicate that Mr. Bryan will curry that state by not less than 25,000 majority. The republicans have completed a poll of Nebraska, and while they failed to make it public, the returns are known by the democratic managers, and shew thas Bryan will carry the state by 2 000. The democratic poll shows that it will give Mr. Bryan more thin 35,000 majority. . Estimates from Iowa, by counties, give the state to Bryan by more than 30,000. In a majority of the agricul- tural counties from 20 to 30 per cent. of the republican vote will be cast for Bryan, while the democratic defection is very slight. A poll of Missouri gives that state to Bryan by 50,000 majority, and it may run as high as 75,000. The republican poll of Illinois, which it is unnecessary to state was Lot pub- lished, gives to Bryan, outside of Chi- céago, a majority of 25,000. The demo- cratic canvass of the state gives Bryan nearly 40,000 majority outsids of Chi- cage; while Chicago is expected to give him at least 25,000 majority. This, de- spite the fact that the corporationsand large manufacturing institutions «re making every effort to control the voles of their employes by coercion, intimi- dation and false representation. The laboring men of Chicago, however, «te aroused over these outrage:us .at- tempts, and the result is thay within the last week a decided change has iaken place among the workingmen which bids fair to result in a complete landslide of that vote to free silver. This is the case not only in Chicago, but in every large labor center of the country. Taking the reports from the central western states and adding them to the states conceded by the republic- ans the democratic managers claim the following states as absolutely certain for Bryan: Sovereign has established personal headquarters at the Briggs house, but will in a day or two open a labor bureau and begin an active campaign among the workmen of Chicago and other cit- ies of the country. There wiil be a state convention of the Bryan silver clubs of lowa at Mar- shalltown, Ja., October 8, 1896, at ten a. m., for the purpose of unifying and consolidating the club organization of Towa in the interest of free silver. W. J. Rryan and Gov. Boies will address the clubs at Marshalltown on that date, Goy. Boies speaking in the after- noon and Mr. Bryan at night. Re- duced rates will be given on all rail- roads, POLITICAL NOTES. There is not a labor paper in the United States supporting McKinley. The farmers of Iowa and Nebraska will not allow gold standard sportsmen to shoot prairie chickens on their premises. A canvass of the compositors em- ployed by the goldbug newspapers of Chicego resulted as follows: For Mc- Kinley, 2; for Bryan, 683. So far as can be learned there is but ene agricultural paper in the United States supporting McKinley, and that journal was recently purchased out- right by the Mark Hanna corruption fuud. A poll of the employes of the Illinois Steel company resulted as follows: Bryan, 2,217; MeKiniey, 237. It is pre- dicted that McKinley will not get 100 votes from these workmen on Novem- ber 3. Philip Armour started to make a poll of bis employes, but he quit after hear- ing the result from one of his houses. He had an Australian ballot booth erected and the vote was _ perfectly fair. The vote resulted: McKinley, 125; Bryan, 675. The Chicago newspapers state that a poll of the Elgin Watch company showed the following result: McKin- ley, 801; Bryan, 8. The poll was taken by the superintendent and foremen. An actual vote taken with great care by fellow workmen in whom the men had confidence gave the following re- sult: Bryan, 486; McKinley, 244; un- decided, 79. 2 A REMARKABLE CASE. ILL SINCE GIRLHOOD, NOW A PICTURE OF HEALTH. From the Star, Valparaiso, Ind. The attention of the Star having been called to several cases of radical cures effected by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, it was determin- ed to investigate some of the more no- | table of these cases, with a view to | disseminating exact informaticn on the | Subject and benefiting others who were | suffering, Prominent among those who had experienced benefits from the use of this remedy was mentioned | Mrs. Mary Noren, wife of John Noren, | @ prosperous farmer, living northeast | of Valparaiso, Ind., and to her a re- | porter was accordingly dispatched. 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