Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 8, 1898, Page 4

i SMM own figure, c "WieUudadudluldill ied ld id le ii Grant ‘Rapids WeratsetReview Published Every Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. DOLLARS A Two oF, Six Months .....$1.00 | Three Months.... at Grand Rapids iin the postomic Minnesota. as second-class matter. BELIEVES It is given out from Washington that President McKinley and his secretary of the treasury are not of one mind on the question of bimetall- ism. The president holds*that it is /, desirable and that there is yet a pos- sibility of obtaining it through an international agreement as to the coinage ratio between gold and silver, while Secretary Gage favors commit- ting this country to the unqualitied accepetance of and adhesion to the gold standard, aud regards the failure of Wolcott commission to accomplish anything for silver while abroad as settling it that an international agreement for its coinage cannot ke brought about. It is well known that President McKinley was at one time an out- spoken champion of the restoration of silver coinage, and that the plat- form) on which he stood as a candi- date for presidency by no means ac- corded with the views that he had frequently given utterance to asa member of the house, and on_the rostrum during political campaigns. ‘But he was compelled to suppress his convictions for the time being by the imperative exigency of a pecular political situation, and was elected pyesident indirectly pledged to the policy which Secretary of the Treas- ury Gage is now seeking to perman- ently establish as the financial doc- trine of the government. That he still believes in the utility of a larger use of silver as money is obyious from the promptness with which he ap- pointed the monetary commission ‘headed by Senator Wolcott after he was installed in the presidency, and the interest he took in its work while ‘it was in Europe, as well as by his ‘failure to give hearty approval to the scheme of currency reform formulat- ied by Secretary Gage. But bowever the president may de- sire to have silver coinage restored, he is certain to be disappointed while he looks for this by an agreement of the leading commercial nations of Europe which will include Great, Britain. The English government will never ajd to bring about the adoption of a double standard while the single one operates to the advan- tage of British’ interests as directly and poteotly as it now does. The #ecretary of the ‘rearsury is pretty near right, in our pinion, when he insists that the result of the work abrved of the Wolcott commission -Gispuses of the proposition to reach Dimetallism by ipvernatiunal agree- mept, ap@ his position is, therefore, more logical an@ consistent than that of the president, whose attitude is SAM Shoes, Hats and Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Trunks and Valises I have 35 Men’s prise the natives. UVM ORECKOVSKY,. = CLOTHIN and Gent’s Furnishings. Such as Mackinaws, Rubbers, Mittens, Socks, Etc., at the Very Lowest Prices. Overcoat Specials: Overcoats carried over former stock that I will sell at prices that will sur- If you want an overcoat at If I should advertise a first-class overcoat for sale at $2.00. you would think I didn’t mean what J say. , call and see me. Call and see. from a your Come in and Get My Prices A COMPLETE LINE OF WOODSMEN’S SUPPLIES Before Buying Elsewhere. SAM ORECKOVSKY, Lealand Ave., Opposite Hotel Pokegama, LLL 7 Grand Rapids, Minn Wi luli dled hemi LL Ly Le hl lo ld ld dee kbd VLuddidldldllildliulse {that we ought to have silver coinage hut must not think of getting it until foreigners who are vastly advan- taged by the gold standard will con- sent to abandon it for our benefit of their own free will. ON THE SAME LINES. The Lewiston Journal, published at the home of Congressman Dingley, in | Maine, is supposed to reflect his opin- | tons on public questions when it dis- | cus se from a partisan point of view. This gives importance to an admission made by the paper since the late elections were held, in the course of an article considering the issues ou which the congressional elections of next year parties will line upon the monetary question about as they did in the na- tiono lelection of last year—the Re- publicans as advocates of continued adhesion to the gold standard and the sil.er men of all parties uniting insupport of the demand that silver be admitted to the mints on the same terms as gold. ‘be speaker’s organ expresses deep regret that the currency issue will be the dominant one in the campaign of next year, but we fail to see why the Republicans should object to this if, as their leaders claim, the cause of silver has fewer supporters now than it had a year ago, when it hadn't enough to elect a president or come anywhere near holding cungress even. Ifthe elements opposed to the poli- cies of the Republican party cannot win on the silver issue it is wisdom on the part of the Republicans not to discourage them from continuing their fight for silver coinage. But perhaps Speaker Dingley and his adherents are apprehensive that there may not be a shortage in wheat abroad ‘next year to keep its price at or above ‘the dollar mark, in which case the farmers might begin to doubt tbe efficiency of tariff legislation for the purpose of promoting the pros- perity of the agricultural class, and might be ungrateful enough to turn a willing ear to the blandishments of those who maintain that to increase the supply of coined money by admis- sion of silver to the mints would per- manently enbance the price of wheat and all other farm products. There may be danger in that, but it must be met, forit is certain that the Lewiston paper is right in taking it for granted that, the election next year will turn on the currency issue. MORE REVENUE WANTED. The Dingley bill is not meeting the expectations of its framers asa pro ducer of revenue for the government. A staff correspondent of the Detroit News at Washington states in a dis- patch to that paper that in order to help out the showing for the new tar- iff law as a revenue raiser, a transpar- ent piece of floancial jugglery has been resorted to by the administra- tion, this being placing to the credit | | curate the relatives and close person- of the revenue receipts for November the amount obtained from the sale of the Union Pacific railroad under fore- closure of the gouyernment’s old claim re likely to be | fought, and which concedes that the | “A Good is an old say ing ys a winner. rth cons SFS2 “Clothes make the man,” idering. Many a young man has obtained positions and made a start in life by being well dressed. A neat fitting t better and feel better. workmanship. Lowest Prices. tailor-made suit will make you lock We guarantee the fit, material and Best Workmanship. Broeker & Whiteaker. SLSLSVSWSVSVSWSCSLSVSLSISLSVSLSLSLSS BISVSOLOS pone @ @ beeceesacese? SL®SLSISLCSSSLSWISSSLT SLCSS against that road, thus wiping out the deficit for the month just ended and reducing the deficit for the fiscal year to $32,000,000. The correspondent further states that the president is urging his friends in ‘vongress to exert them- selves to bring about a saving by re- ducing appropriations, and that the administration hopes to get these cut $50,000,000. ‘This proposition, he says, is exceedingly distasteful to the members who are interested in pro- jects of one kindor another which call for liberal expenditures of govern- ment money “Congressmen have been told,” he says, “that all public and harbor appropriations can be held down to $3,000,000, that all public building bills can be pigeon-holed, that pensicn expenditures can be more guardedly made, and that sever- al millions can be lopped off from the judicial, legislative and executive ap- propriations,” and it is hoped to, in this way, reduce the expenses of the government to a point where they wiil be met by the receipts under the Dingley tariff law. The president will find it difficult to persuade congress to adopt a sys- tem of economy such as outlined by the correspondent. Congressmen who fail to get the usual appropriations for their district will have to face very sullen constituencies when they return.to set things up for re-election, A New Form of Personalities. The old style of portraying.famous people through a “sketch” or ‘‘biog- raphy” is to be modernized in The Ladies’ Home Journal during 1898. Five of the most prominent Ameri- cans have been chosen for the depart- ure, President McKinley, Mrs. Cleve- land, Mark Twaine, Joseph Jefferson, and Thomas A. Edson. Each will have a special article, which will con- sist of about fifteen ur twenty fresb, unpublished stories and anecdotes strung together, each anecdote show- ing some characteristic trait or pre- renting a different side of the subject. The idea is to show famous personal- ities threugh their own doings and sayings, and to make the articles ac- al friends of the subjects: have assist- ed and given to the Journal the best stories and anecdotes within their own knowledge. Eacb article will | thus represent the closest view of the one sketched. No authorship will be attached to any of the articles. Every New Idea That’s a good idea, isembodied in the construction of the Burlington’s new “St. Paul and Minneapolis-Chicago and St. Louis Limited.” Electric light, steam heat, wide vestibules, compartment sleeping cars, buffet library. cars—everything that every other train has, and some things that no other train has. Dae Supa ea Time Card. Dwuth e 8 > # BBBBEES xg Wa. ORK, General Passenger ‘xent. Dulutn, Minn. D. M. Pxan.soy. General Superintendent. pWabAGORURETSNPUSTHANDUGSGGURAGROGSAOCEELOSNEaNEOT cd Scroll Grand Rapids, Manufacturers of Sash, Sawing Done on Short Notice W. V. Doors and Blinds. ESTIMATES FURNISHED. 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