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It does not do this in a moment, as will a hair dye; but ina short time the gray color of age gradually disap- pears and the darker color of youth takes its place. Would you like a copy of our book on the Hair and Scalp? It is free. ou Cepested fromn the uso of the Vigor use Uries Re Becker about ‘Address, CANDY CATHARTIC ARTER'S INK Is What Uncle Sam Uses, S stronger in summer MARRY RICH S92 AGAZIN Ec pozes ance to marry .Svories je 170 Fifth Aven, S.¥. oT ladies and gentiemen who musie,ete. ELKSON PUB. C When Answering Advertisements Wiadiy Mention This Paper. PLEDGES REDEEMED 1, Agent Beutner is making a good IF GOLD record in his office. And, in line with action of the other departments, in enforcing laws for the GOVERNOR LIND’S PROMISE KEPT TO | protection of the people, comes Insur- THE LETTER. ‘The Grain Inspection Department in the Hands of the Producers—Clausen’s Forced Retirement—His Successor, Ed- win S. Reishus—Guarantees of Honest and Able Administration — Let the Galled Jade Wince—Other State De- partments — Insurance Commissioner “After August Chickens. O’Shaughnessey *Em”—Game Agent Seutner’s Echoes of National Politics—Natlonal Cemmitteeman O’Brien on “Issues.” Gold Standard Trust and Combine Arrogance; Prosperity Echoes. ‘Their Prices Up, Producers Prices Down—Me- Kinley’s Placid Euchre Plattsburg—Note and Comment of the Week. Games at Reform Press Bureau. Sr. Pau, Aug. 7, 1899. The assurance given in this letter one week ago that Governor Lind would not be balked in his purpose of reform- ing the inspection department was made good with rapidly occurring events of the first days following. No sooner was Inspector Clausen made aware of the situation, than like Davy Crockett’s coon, he ‘‘came down,” and his resignation and the election of Sen- ator Reishus quickly followed. There was never at any time the slightest question but that Gov. Lind would re- deem his pledge to the people of the state, in this regard. The only ques- tionwas as to what ends those who have all these years manipulated the depart- ment would have the cffrontery to go, and therefore what action the governor might be required to take ere he could take these first steps necessary to re- organize and habilitate an utterly dis- credited branch of the public service. Edwin S. Reishus, State Grain Inspector. Inspector Clausen’s successor, Edwin S. Reishus, is of Norwegian parentage, though American born, having been born in Dane County, Wisconsin, March 4, 1852. When 2 years of age his parents re- moved to Filmore county, this state, where his boyhood was spent. He was educated inthe public schools and the state university, which he left in 1872. Three years later he married and settled in Lyon county, where he has since re- sided, and become a prosperous farmer and successful business man. family are wife and two he ha: as been a ion of the state upon questions which have re- He held the office public affairs, leader of hi those econom!| ceived most attention. of county clerk of Lyons county for years, and subsequent! in the state se: , Tep- resenting the Peoples Party. All who know him commend him as an able, ac- tive, honest man, and he comes to the po- sition with the confidence of all such that he will give the grain ra s well as the market men, a 6: ory, because an able and an honest, administration. four The general Republican theory that no one but A. C. Clausen could conduct the state grain department, has re- minded a good story teller at the capi- tol, of the shrewd German, whose man- ager “struck” for more pay. “But John,” said the proprietor, “I was baying you pretty vell, already, eh, John?” “Yes.” said the manager, ‘‘but I have been with youa long time and made your business do well. I feel that I ought to have more pay now.” “Ya,” said the other, “but you have had goot money all thedime, John. Is it not sa?” “Tam not complaining,” said John, “but you know I commenced as office boy and have risen to manager, and I feel that Iam worth more to you than any other man you could get. I feel that I am worth more than I am get- ting.” “Vell, but John,” said the boss, ‘‘sub- bose that you should te, some day. Vat den?” “Oh,” admitted John, “I suppose the business would go on, all the same.” © “Vell den, John,” said the proprietor, “shust consitter dot you vas dead.” And the business went on. The consolation drawn in so copious drafts from Governor Lind’s over-gen- erous compliment to the ability” of Inspeetor Clausen should not be marred, perhaps, by the reflection that it is the trait of a noble man to be generous to a fallen foe. Everyone concedes Inspector Clausen’s ability, but the difference be- tween possessing the ability to de and the actual doing of a duty is as wide as the bonndless sea. The lack of confi- dence which Governor Lind expressed is but that felt by the whole state. Clausen’s administration was~ con- demned. Governor Lind redeems his pledge to change it, and he awaits the outcome with perfect confidence as he believes the people may also do. The vigor with which Game and Fish Executive Beutner is administer- ing his department is shown in the fact that he has turned loose a force of nearly 100 extra deputies te patrol the state during the present month to pro- tect agains: killing of prairie chickens in advance of the regular period, Sept. | Farmer and all the rest? His | ance Commissioner O’Shaughnessey, with a raid on bogus and other un- worthy insarance schemes. One of these, the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Pro- tective Union of Glenwood, formerly the Commercial Life. struggling along with twelve live policies. was found to haye collected some $8,000, of which all but about $1,000 went for “expenses” and commissions. Connected with the concern is the celebrated Realty Rev- enue Company, which recently sued Farm, Stock and Home for $70,000 libel. Through Commissioner O’Shaugh- nessey, the attorney general is expected to commence suit against the insurance company for violation of state laws. The other concern has a species of crop insurance, but claims to be doing no business in Minnesota. It was recently barred from North Dakota. Now hear the G. 0. P. press roar at the “injury to the Insurance business,” as it howled at the refusal of Examiner Pope to permit rotten banks to continue to absorb the good money of depositors. Minnesota’s Democratic National Committeeman, Hon. Thomas D. O’ Brien, in en interview in the St. Paul Globe, sees in the stand taken by Senator Burroughs, criticising the Phil- ippine policy of the administration, a foreshadowing of a feature of the com- ing presidential campaign, when the test will be applied as to responsibility for the sad business into which the na- tion has been*brought under McKinley. It appears to Mr. O’Brien that while no true Democrat has changed his mind on the issues of 1896, still it may very easily happen that the people may be concerned still more, at the moment, with other questions. This will come, as he suggests. in holding the Repub- lican administration to a strict accoun- tability. This would also apply to the trusts as well. Mr. O’Brien confirms the belief now fast becoming general, that the administration has no. inten- tion of stopping short of the absolute ownership of the entire Philippine archipelago, regardless of the extent to which the subjugation of the present owners outrages our boasted American principles. Among the week’s echoes of gold standard prosperity are a fifth boost for lumber, by the combine, continued ad- vance of all trust controlled merchan- dise, further drop in wheat, cotton, corn, oats, potatoes; continued strikes. those beautiful Republican evidences of the happiness of the people, government troops still administering local govern- ment in Idaho, as state troops continue to edify the people of Cleveland, while in that city the boycott rages, and dis- contented labor continues to send cable- grams to Boss Hanna in his Parisian re- treat. As a mere incident the Chicago railroad lines have met and increased the eastbound rates on wheat, corn, oats, etc., by way of emphasizing the continued fall in those’ and other pro- ducts of the soil. In the Philippines, where nothing but the land stage of water and lack of soldiers hinders progress of our war of foreign conquest. the said stage was only four feet. or so on the level. though more rain was falling. But let no one be discouraged. For Alger is out and the *‘Empero.” is re- cuperating his ‘‘nerve” with the se- ductive game of euchre at Lake Cham- plain. Wonder if while “Emperor” Mc- Kinley is playing euchre at Plattsburg, it ever flashes across his Hannaized thiuking apparatus that it was at Plattsburg in 1812 that some of our forefathers gave British soldiers an ex- hibition of our faith that ‘‘government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.” The revenue stamp has come to stay. Without it we must necessarily be de- prived of the misleading bulletins from Otis, and to fail of receiving these would indeed be a hardship. They constitute an expensive luxury to be sure—some $200 or $390 a bulletin—but just think of what they give us in re- turn for our money! Glorious accounts of wonderful battles without material results! Confirmation from day to day of the rumor that Manila is still ours! Estimates as to the strength of the na- tives sufficiently low to furnish surprise at the ginger they put into the fight on the following day! Casualty lists. long and interesting! Other reports, decep- tive, perhaps, as the bulletins sent ou: on the night of election, but for all that exciting and full of cheer to the blinded advocates of a benevolent and Chris- tianizing expansion! Let us not eom- plain, therefore, if the end of the rev- enue stamp is not yet in sight We must have news though we have to go to the trouble of making it. Twelve hundred men walking the streets of Anderson, Ind., are a trust in- cident of the closing of four of the large nail mills. Eight hundred of the 1,200 had wages reduced from 12 toas much as 42 per cent during the pasc year. When they struck, the trast yielded, but the men are waiting the time of resuming work, until they get ready. “When they get ready.” That is the way the retail merchants are treated by the combines, in filling their orders. They must put up the cash on the spot when ordering. and the trust delivers when they “get ready.” How do you like it, Mr. Shoe dealer, Mr. Dry Goods merchants, Mr. Hardware man, and all the rest? ‘When they get ready.” It is the way with the lamber combine. Up go the prices for lumber whenever they get ready, and the “readys” number five or six, already this year. And in the last raise, while 1t was tohave been bu fitty cents per thousand, the thing was so easy to do, that they made it a whole dollar, and done with it, How do you like it, Mr. Builder, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. G.8.C. ;- SHOULD GO. SUCH A RESULT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE. Gut at the Same Time Such a Condition Would Do the Country No Harm— if It Could the Bankers Would Be For 16 to 1. Suppose that a free coinage law were enacted, gold was to retire from circu- lation, and our silver and paper money Were to drop to 50 cents on the dollar. Such a result would be impossible, but We will suppose it. What. would that Mean? Simply this, that it would take two silver or paper dollars to equal one gold dollar, In other words gold would stand at a premium of 100 per cent over other forms of money. But if a silver dollar is only worth half as much as a gold dollar, then manifestly it is only half as hard to get it. If a bushel of wheat is worth 50 cents in gold, it will be worth $1 in silver. Now if a farmer owes a gold debt of $500 he must sell 1,000 bushels of wheat in or- der to get it. If we were on a silver basis and silver dollars were only worth 50 cents in gold, his 1,000 bush- els of wheat would bring him 1,000 sil- ver dollars. With these he could pay his debt as before. His 1,000 silver dollars would be the precise equiva- lent of 500 gold dollars, and he would neither gain nor lose. The gold stan- dard assumes that the silver dollar is going to drop one-half of its present value, and still it will require the same amount of labor and the products of labor to procure it. Then it is further assumed that it will require two of these silver dollars to procure a gold one. If these assumptions were true, it would follow that the free coinage and increased use of silver, and the disuse of gold in this country, had in no way affected the value of silver, but had doubled the value.of gold. This assumption shows the ignorance of the meaning of the word “value” as well as the principle of supply and demand, The reverse would be the case. With the American mint open, silver would be worth more than it is now and gold less. This would be true even though parity were not restored and gold went to a premium. Suppose that under free coinage silver went to $1 an ounce in gold. This would make the silver dol- lar worth 77 cents in gold. The gold dollar would stand at a premium (over silver) of 30 per cent. But it would not take as much wheat or cotton or any other product to buy a gold dollar ! as it does now. Why not? Because the most of the gold forced out of cir- culation here would go to Europe. The annual product of the mines would be the same. As a result gold would be- come more plentiful on that continent and the prices there would rise. Our wheat and cotton and breadstuffs of all kinds would go up in the European market, and that would carry them up here, Thus we would be confronted by the paradox of gold at a premium, and at the same time cheaper. A man with a gold mortgage on his farm could pay it more easily than he can now. A far- mer does not manufacture money for himself—he buys it with his products, and the higher their price the more money he can get whether it be gold or silver or paper. The creditor classes by forcing the gold standard upon the people, have driven the debtor ciasses to extremities, making it almost im- possible for them to pay their debts. Having created these conditions leav- ing the debtor almost hopeless, they now unblushingly declare that if they (the debtors) attempt to relieve them- selves, other and worse conditions will arise whereby they will not be able to pay at all, and consequently will be ruined, In short, they now have the unfortunate debtor in a ditch from which he is struggling desperately to extricate himself, and they tell him that if he does not stop his struggles he will be pushed in still deeper. If such argument as that were to prevail no evil could ever be remedied. Wheat. The enlarged export of wheat from India that set in in 1873 commands at- tention asa partofthe argument taken against the single gold standard. In 1873 the amount was less than 1,000,090 bushels, In 1886 it had swollen to nearly 40,000,000, and since then it has reached .75,000,000 bushels, Every brsnel of this wheat was sold in com- petition with American, and both in wheat and cotton the competition was on a silver basis. Only during the famine in India did our wheat tempo- rarily rise in price. When silver be- gan to drop in the London market it was to the advantage of the English importer to buy in India rather than in the United States. With a certain number of pounds sterling he could buy more rupees than formerly, and with each rupee he could get as much wheat or anything else in India as he could before silver was demonetized. He could therefore afford to sell a lit- tle cheaper than the importer from America could. The lower silver went in the market the more rupees a pound sterling would buy, and consequentiy the more wheat it would buy. The stimulus to East Indian manufacturing was the same in principle, but the pro- cess was somewhat different. When the East Indian made purchases in England, he had to convert his silver into gold at a loss. In some cases he could keep even by getting the goods at lower prices, but in otHers he could not, In the latter class of cases, rather than suffer the loss, he began to man- ufacture for himself. The same con- sideration also induced the investment of English capital in East Indian cot- ton mills, because a given number of sovereigns would buy a greater num- ber of rupees, and each rupee would do as much as it ever would in India. Thus we see that the demonetization of sil- ver had a double effect so far as the United States was concerned. First, it lowered prices generally, by diminish- ing the volume of primary money in Europe and America, and second, it brought the country into’ direct com- petition with silver-using nations. Our Foreign Gold Debts. We often hear it said by way of ob- jection to free coinage that if gold should go to a premium, and retire from circulation, while we could use silver or paper for local trade, our for- eign creditors would take nothing but gold, and we would have no gold to give them. The answer to the objec- tion is very simple. Even if gold should go to a premium and retire from circulation it does not follow that we could not get gold. Any nation can get gold if it has anything to buy it. with. Russia has been a silver stand- ard country nominally, but with a Paper currency. Nevertheless Russia has Succeeded in storing away in her war chest something like $400,000,005 in gold. India is a silver-using coun- try, and she is supposed to have from $600,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 in gold hoarded away. So with other silver countries. If we were on a silver ba: to-morrow it would not make our com- mand over gold any the less, but, on the contrary, greater. In the first place every doilar that was expelled from the United States would add just so much to the stock of Europe, where our surplus commodities must be large- ly sold. This would raise prices there, and give us more gold for our wheat cotton, petroleum and breadstuffs. Our mines would go on producing go‘d just the same, and if we were to stop using that metal for money at home every ounce that we could get from any source would be available for the pay- ment of our foreign debts. Under ex- isting conditions we have to provide gold both for home use and to satisfy foreign demand as well. When the foreign demand becomes unysually strong and a heavy export of gold fol- lows the ery of “danger’ is raised, and the whole country is nearly or quite thrown into a panic. This is ‘because we are attempting to maintain a gold stahdard with an insufficient supply of gold. If we were upon a silver basis or a paper basis either, it would make no difference to us whether there was much gold or little gold in New York. “Closed Down.” In the town of Fairmount, near Cin- cinnati, the people are now experienc- ing a taste of the good things which the great system of trusts has in store for the people everywhere, At Fair- mount’there has been in steady oper- ation for twenty years a barbed wire fence factory employing some 500 men. This factory having now fallen under the control of one of the steel trusts that concern now closes down. The trust acquired the factory for that very purpose. The shut-down was not oc- casioned by an over-supply of barbed wire fencing; it was ordered with the intention of creating an under-supply. Of course the 500 employes have been thrown out of work, and some of them who voted, either willingly or under coercion, for the ‘“‘advance agent of prosperity” two years and a half ago, are doubtless wondering whether clos- ing the mints has any virtues in the direction of opening the mills. The disemployment of these 500 men at Fairmount is chiefly notable because it happens to be concentrated in its ef- fects. There is nothing else peculiar about it. In a more scattered way that same thing is going on all over the country. Under the trust regime not only mechanics, but salesmen, clerks, bookkeepers and small business men are being crowded into the growing army of the disemployed. Yet we are told that times are prosperous. For whom?—The Public, Chicago. Entirely One-Sided. For months the tendency of the prices of wheat, cattle and all other farm products has been downward. This is the natural effect of the sin- gle gold standard, But the trusts have been gaining a monopoly of the mar- ket and have been raising prices as follows on what the farmers have to buy: Per cent. Iron pipe Tin and enamel ware - 30 Brass goods ... 60 Chairs and other furniture . - 30 Rubber and overshoes .. 14 Tin plate News and book paper 10 Pipes, combs and brushes . 12.5 Brass, pins, etc......++.++++ eee es Be Ribbons 10 Clock metals - 60 Common soap - 10 This is a slight foretaste. Soon the sole buyers of farm products will be the trusts, and the sole sellers of what manufactured articles the farmers need will be the same trusts. Then, when they pay us as little’ as’ they choose and charge us as much as they please, will we quit voting the Wall street ticket. The Official Badge. One of the notable features of the magnificent Auditorium meeting of' last Thursday was the unique and handsome little ‘Official Democratic Badge,” conspicuously worn by nearly every one of the national committee- men and speakers of the evening. This is the badge which the committee ex- pects every Democrat in the country to wear. It can be obtained only through | the undersigned. Communications from Democratic county committee- ; The | men and chairmen solicited. Badge Committee, Uinity Bldg.. Chi- cago, Ml. NO REMEDY EQUALS PERUNA, SO THE WOMEN ALL SAY. Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the: Richmond school, Chicago, Ill., writes” the following letter to Dr. Hartman re- garding Pe-ru-na. She says: “Only those who have suffered as I have can know what a blessing it is to be able to” i 72 AA: MH Miss Susan Wymar. find relief m Pe-ru-na. This has bi my experience. A friend in need is friend indeed, and every bottle of Tu-na I ever bought proved a friend to me.”—Susan Wymar. Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1214 North Superior St., Racine City, Wis., writes: “I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Pe-ry-na is everything to me. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good.” Pe-ru-na has no equal in all of the irregularities and emergencies peculiar to women caused by pelvic catarrh. Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, 0O., for a free book for women only. Remember that cholera morbus, cholera infantum, summer com- plaint, bilious colic, diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all catarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the only correct name for these affections. Pe-ru-na is an absolute specific for these ailments, which are so com- mon in summer. Dr. Hartman, in a practice of over forty years, never lost a single case of cholera infan- tum, dysentary, diarrhoea, or chol- era morbus, and his only remedy was Pe-ru-na. 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