Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 1

———— aT ( | Voi V.—No, 49. wad) ‘ ” Granp Rapyps, Itasca County, Minn., SATURDAY, AuGuST 7, ‘1897. Bed Room Sui Wardbrobes, Folding Kitchen Cabinets, . Carpets, Rugs, Couches, Folding Bed tes, si5 to $35, Beds, Lounges, : M Carpet Cots, > Mattresses, Pillows, Springs, : Curtains, atting, Sweepers. 6 ft. and 8 ft. Extension Tables, Extension Centre Tables, High Back Dining Chairs, Rockers and Easy Chairs, Folding Camp Chairs. Itasca Mercantile Company, GENERAL SUPPLY HOUSE. One 4 1-2 ft. Oak Roller Top Office Desk at a Ba: rgain. “The quality of our goods is remembered long after the price is forgotten.” —-— A Hardware Store That is strictly up-to-date in every respect is the kind of a store that we keep. We don’t run a ‘‘cheap” store in any sense of the word. We don’t believe it pays to do that, because, no matter how cheap a person buys an article, ifitdon’t just suit him, he kicks, and hlames the store that sold it. It Always Pays Anyway To pay a decent price, and get a good article. Especially is this true of tools and all kinds of hardware. we are willing to buy them back if they don’t suit. We couldn’t do that if we sold cheap truck, because we wculd have to buy back about everything we sold. When you buy hardware, farm machinery, lumbermen’s supplies, sporting goods, paints, or anything else from us, you can know in advance that they are as good as can be made. Our goods are so good that a_—__W. J. & H. D. POWERS. Clothing, Dry Goods, AND Furnishings. These are the lines to which we are giving special attention during this season. Prices are down so low that all can reach them. Quality high grade; prices low grade. We’}] get your trade if prices count. Marr's Clothing & Dry Goods Store GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. HE SEE EE Ee RE EE ERE ee a a a a a a ae ae ae ae ae ae ae eae ae eae ae You Should | Subscribe for the Herald-Review if you want the news of Itasca County and Northern Minnesota. id 1 ih da haha shashasdnstaaheshshasioshashasashasiashashiotashaalesheall The Herald-Review. i chashashachashashaalaatetiatheshashadhadla hashadlathadhodh: lath ic A: deolosleak: kid: ech sk chadhashesloaleabastaslaslesledla: 4. i. dachusos REDE Ee ee ea ae ae a ea ae a ae ae a a AN ABLE ARGUMENT Hon. Charles A. Towne Writes for the July Arena, ANSWERS GROVER CLEVELAND The Reform Ciub’s Feast of Unreason at the Waldorf Hotel in New York, Discussed by the Sixth District Statesman. On Saturday evening, April 24th, 1897, at the Waldorf Hotel, New York, there was held a political ban- quet intended as a most impressive function, but which has passed into history as a very ridiculous one. Big with self-complacance and puffed with pride, as it appeared in the brilliant lights and gorgeous appointments of the palatial supper-hall, within twen- ty-four hours the lacerating indigna- tion of Mr. Watterson and the tren- chant raillery of Mr. Bryan had let the tumid pretentiousness all out of it, and it had collapsed intoa flaccid and “innocuous desuetude.” The “star-eyed goddess,‘ turned her back upon it, the ‘‘wild-orbed anarch” snapped his fingers at it, and even everyday Mrs. Grundy laughed it to scorn. ‘Projected with the most al- luring and satisfying expectations, the feast has dwindled to the memory of a sad mistake in the mind of every man that assisted at it. Planned as asort of coronation ceremony, its completed countenance finally wore the complexion of belated obsequies irreverently disturbed by the guffaws of the multitude. But the aspect of this banquet as a piece of ill-conceived political strat- jegy that never was formidable, or as a rite in the ceremonial ofa hero-wor- ship that is as inexplicable as inop- portune, does not now so much con- cern me as does its office as a dispens- er of misinformation and unsound philosophy, which are always danger- ous. Many who condemn the folly of it as a move in practical politics nevertheless loudly commend the economic doctrines it contributed to spread. But inasmuch as, in my opinion, the science it taught is as bad as the politics it practised, I pro- pose to call attention toa few of the arrogant assumptions and mischiev- ous theories that found emphatic and repeated expression at this feast. Did the purpose of this article per- mit, it would be interesting to make Mr. Cleveland’s speech the text, of some examination into the ex-Presi-| dent’s peculiarities of style. It. was Clevelandesque to the core. ~ All. his protuberant characteristics are there: the leviathanic egotism; the profound and tenebrous ponderosity, the la- bored intricacy of “the commonplace, the pedagogic moralizing, the oracu- lar inconsequence. How absurdly ob- vious it all is now, and how inexpli- cable that the glamour of high place should ever have clothed such mat- ters as his with the seeming of phil- osohpy and statesmanship! "Tis the very frippery and trumpery of the stage after the lights are out and the audience has departed. In his opening Mr. Cleveland says: “On every side we are ‘confronted with popular depression and com- plaint.” This language stirs an echo of the long ago. In his special mes- sage tu the extra session of the Fifty- third Congress’ in August, 1893, he. thus announced a similiar condition: {Suddenly tinancial distrust and -féar have sprung up on every side.” But he accounts differently for these two identical phenomena. The situation today he largely attributes to “the work of agitators and demagogues.” In 1893 he declared: “‘I believe these things are principally charged to congressional legislation touching the purchase and coinage of silver by the general government.” The ex-President’s explanations are both wrong, and nobody ought to know it so well as himself. His rela- tions with the great gold bankers were exceedingly intimate in 1892 and 1893, and have been so ever since. It is notorious that the panic of 1893 was a bankers’ panic deliberately brought about by these men to frigh- ten public sentiment into supple- menting their demand for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sher- man act of 1890. The agitation against that law was a whooped-up and manufactured agitation. No le- gitimate interest had suffered from its operation. On the contrary, the access of standard silver dollars coined under the laws of 1878 and 1890 had been of incalculable advan- tage to the country. In his annual message of December 2, 1890, President Harri- son had thus referred to this fact: “The general tendency of the mar- kets was upward from influences wholly apart from the recent tariff legislation. The enlargement of our currency by the silver bill undoubted- ly gave an upward tendency to trade and had a marked effect on _prices.’? And again: “It is gratifying toknow that the increased circulation secured by the act has exerted and_ will con- tinue toexert a most beneficial” in- fluence upon business and upon gen- eral values.” Such an influence that. circulation did indeed continue to exert. The comparative prosperity of the two fol- lowing years,-which, in contrast with the conditions of the subsequent pe- riod; causes:1s92 to wear to ‘wistful eyes so beautiful a hue in these un- happy days, ‘would have been an ab- solute impossibility but for the silver legislation. - \ Nor was the credit of the govern- ment menaced. It was a, malicious afterthought that represented a sil- ver dollar as a charge upon the credit of the nation, That dojlar was a Two DoLiars a YEAR FURNITURE DEPARTMENT. standard dollar. It was never ‘‘re- deemed” in anything but the money- work it did. There was no law forits redemption, and there was as yet no attempt, such as Mr. Carlisle in 1896 declared himself ready to make, to commit the crime of an administra- tive degredation of the circulating silver dollars into promises for the payment of gold. The ‘Treasury Notes, issued in payment for silver bullion under the law of 1890, were re- deemable in either gold or silver at the discretion of the Seeretary of the ‘Treasury; and inasmuch as there was silver behind every one of them, they could become a menace tu the credit of the governinext only in case of the betrayal of his duty by that official. But the contractionists looked with alarm upon the improving conditions of the country. Something must be done to discredit silver, or by and by there might arise such a demand for the full restoration of its mint privi- leges and money powers as could not be balked, as every similiar demand had been balked since 1873; and in that event the slow villany of many years would have been fruitless and the contractionists’ occupation would be gone. Then was formed the deep design to compel the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law. The gigantic ‘forces that had been behind Mr. Cleveland in the memorable campaign of 1892 had not lust their cunning or their power. They knew their implements, and they had had much experience. Their strategy was customary and it was ef- fective. To-day Mr. Cleveland com- plains because the Republican party, having won the contest of last No- vember on the money question, should have hurried into the current extra session on the tariff question. Let bim recall his own course when, having carried the country in 1892‘ on the tariff question, he summoned the extra sessiun of 1893 to consider -the money question. Such a -reflection might possibly assist him in fathom- ing the present motives of the «men who won in 1892 to achieve ‘the gold standard and in 1896 to preserve it. ~ For the electionof Mr. Cleveland was a carefully executed move in. an elaborate and. merciless programme. ‘The president of a national bank in North Dakota,‘a man of character {and thorough reliability, has recently made:public a conversation between bimself and a prominent New York bank president, held not long after that election, in -which the latter, whose institution was a member of the Associated . National Banks, de- clared in substance as follows: ‘We have just elected Grover Cleveland President of the United. States upon the express understanding with us that the policy of the administration shall.be to uphold and advance the gold standard;” and he foretold, with startlingly faithful prevision, the re- peal_of the Sherman purchase law, the successive bond issues, and the eral and ruinous fall of wi seem to have evidenced the strict per- formance of the agreement by the Continued on page Four, THE COMING EVENT Of Itasea County and Grand Rapids Will Be the Gun Club Tournament. MAKING BIG ARRANGEMENTS Extensive Advertising to Be Done and a Program of Rare Attractions to Be Offered Sportsmen of the West. The Itasca Gun club have under- taken an enterprise that promises to eclipse anything yet advanced for the benefit of the county in the matter of advertising its varied resources and wonderful attractions to the world of sports. The members of the club have had under consideration for some time the matter of holding a fall shoot- ing tournament at Grand Rapids. In this connection it has developed that a great many men who travel hun- dreds and even thousands of miles each year to get a shot at some of the larger game, have contemplated 3 trip to Itasca county this fall to take advantage of the new law which al- lows the killing of moose for five days the first week in November. This suggested the idea of a grand moose hunt following the days of the tour- nament and for which ample pre- parations are to be- made ~immediate- ly. The committee appointed by the club will at once begin in a systemat- 1c-manner » to /advertise the event throughout the western and central cities.of the country. They have al- ready received assurances that a_con- siderable number of gun men will at- tend, and it is believed that the attrac- tions to be offered will bring together the:largest number of sportsmen ever assembled in the west. For moose and‘deer there is to be found no_bet- ter shooting than that afforded by the forests of Itasca county.~ It. will re- quire the raising of considerable funds by the club ta make their great tour- nament the success that isto be de- sired, but the boys propose ta go at it in a systematic, business-like man- ner that will not admit of the possi- bility of failure, +The famous Twin City Mandolin club of Minneapolis, has expressed a desire to visit the headwaters of the Mississippi for a summer: outing, and it is likely they may be induced to come to Grand ‘Rapids within the next two weeks. This club of musi- cians is one of the most noted inthe country. Jt has fur- nished music for the most exclusive and “swell” affairs that have taken place in either St. Paul or Minneapo- lis for a number of years and its putation 1s international. Jt is pro- posed by the Itasca the Mandolin club to 5