Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 16, 1899, Page 7

Piutd Dizzy? aa your liver Aone acting well. You suffer from bifious- ness, constipation. Ayer’s Pills act directly on the liver. “For 60 years the Standard Family Pill. Small doses cure. 25c. ‘Aut druggists. Want your} pocessache = Facing beautiful brown or ri BUCKINGHAM’S DYE {ehh 50_c78. oF DRUGGISTS, OR RP. HALL d& CO. Nat Modest Golf Player. “I know one modest fellow who plays golf,” said the observer. “He never has a word to say about himself as a crack player, but his wife makes up for it, and she keeps all her friends in- formed about his phenomenal plays.” “How does she know?” Why, he tells her, of course.”—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Agness Amess and M. A. Powlison, Perth, N. D., bieyele stand and lock; Martin O. Arnegaard, Hillsborough, N. D., governor cut-off; Henry Grey, Du- luth, Minn., apparatus for rolling beams, einders, ete; Eli F. Isgrig, Pierre, S. D., mowing machine attach- ment for hay g gatherer; Walter M. Thur- be N. , Valley City, D., tool for farriers’ John D. Wileox, Pine City, Minn, potato digger. Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson . Patent At- torneys, 910 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul Met With Misfortune. Wiggles—Let’s see, that young doctor that set up around the corner a couple of years ago committed suicide, didn’t ke Mrs. Wiggles—Why, no; he got mar ried. Wiggles—Well, I knew he got into trouble of some kind.—Somerville Jour- nal. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much beter if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most amusing study, and will you you in the way of geting some ex- cellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable; they send what they adver- tise. Crushing the Old Man, Purse-proud Father—Can you support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed? Complacent Young Man—I could if I were contented with it, but I hope to give her something better—Somerville Journal. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes nt er New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corn: Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Addres Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. The Hatchways of Poetry. He—What a quantity of poetry Mrs. Pansy Quickfoot turns out? Sh She reminds me of an in- dustrious “hen, Not a day without its lay.—Judy. A Perfect Cathartic. ‘Not violently emptying the bowels or cleaning but tly stimulating, toning, strengthening the stinal walls—Cascarets Candy Cathartic 0c, 25c, 50c. Byen the most successful dentist en- counters :a snag occasionally. citisioi’y DEMANDS ON SILVER. EASY TO MAINTAIN THE PRES- ENT LEGAL RATIO. Chere Would Be Widespread Demand for the White Metal for Paying Debts Aggregating Twenty Billions of Dol- lars. It has been estimated that there are between $20,000,000,000 and $30,000,000,- 000 of long-time indebtedness, consist- ing of national, state, county, city and corporations, bends, and individual promissory notes owed in this nation. Over one-half of this is payable in law- ful money of the United States. Under free coinage, silver dollars become le- gal tender for the payment of all that ten or fifteen billions of debt. It is a principle recognized in all political economies that if one dollar is cheaper than another, that all the obligations payable in lawful money will be paid in the cheaper dollar and thus if silver should ever go to a discount compared to gold there would be that enormous demand created for silver by the debt- ors who owe the $10,000,0¢0,000 or $15,- 000,000,000. With such an enormous demand upon the limited quantity of silver available for coinage, is it pos- sible that anyone would part with sil- ver at an appreciable discount? You must remember that this silver dollar is not only a legal tender for the pay- ment of private debts, but it is also a legal tender for the discharge‘of state, county and city taxes, which aggregate $500,000,000 a year. It is a legal ten- der for the payment of all import du- ties, internal revenue duties, and post- age dues of the national government, and you must remember that the na- tional government raises by those du- iL | ties the enormous sum of $500,000,000 a year. The premiums contracted to be paid in lawful money each year in the United States upon life insurance 4 policies is $323,902,327,and upon the fire f An Excellent Combination. { The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, Syrup or Fies, manufactured by the Catirornia Fie Syrup Co., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa- tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and senting them in the form most refreshing tothe taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one ‘ect. strengthening laxa- tive, cleansing the ridlet feats erp on dispelling colds, h and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one overcome habitual constipation Spreng ead manently. Its perfect freedom every objectionable quality and sub- stance, and its acting on the kidne: liver and bowels, without weaken: or irritating them, make it the id laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but. the medicinal raneities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the CALirorniA Fie SyRuP Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the fuil name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Fer male by all Druggiote, Price Soe. per bottle, OWENS’ . AZMALINE A Sure Cure for Asthma and Hay Fever, Manufactuy by NORTHWESTERN DRUG CO., St. Paul, Minn, Price $2 per bottle—3 bottles for $5. TRY iT. For sale by all druggists. insurance policies is $58,819,388. The total amount of life insurance in force in the United States, all of which is payable in lawful money,is $13,742,495,- 420. According to the report of the comptroller of the currency for the year 1897, the amount of deposits, pay- able in lawful money, in our Savings banks is.. - -$1,939,376,035 National banks is. 1,863,349,128 State banks’ is .. 723,640,795 Loan and trust companies is -- 566,922,205, Private banks is... 50,278,243 The amount of loans,consisting most- ly of thirty, sixty and ninety-day pa- per, all of which is payable in lawful money, in favor of our Savings banks is.. National banks is. State banks is..... Loan and trust companies iis 445,629,725 Private banks is. 50,278,243, The total amount payable on shares in public associations is $459,667,594. The amounts agreed to be paid in law- ful money at periods of from one to five years, on contracts for construc- tion of buildings, railroads, ships, ca- nals, and other improvements in the United States, must aggregate several billions of dollars. The desire on the part of all the people and corporations o g these enormous amounts to pay in the cheaper money would make such a tremendous demand upon silver should it go to a discount of even 1 per cent as to immediately restore its parity with gold. No one would part with silver dollars or silver certifi- cates at a discount when he could util- ize them at par for so many purposes and to such enormous extent. It is claimed by the gold standard people that there can be no pa::iy maintained between the metals, because there is a variation in the amount of each pro- duced. They seem to lose sight of the fact that, in addition to the qucstion of production there is an increased de- mand made for the cheaper metal by reason of the legal tender quality given to the money coined therefrom. Un- der free coinage the minute one metal becomes cheaper than the other all the demand is taken from the dearer and transferred to the cheaper metal. That demand is so great compared to the ++ 31,066,507,686 2,066,776,113 669,973,556 i | difference in annual production that it almost immeditely restores the value of the cheaper metal. It is on that account that bimetallism acts as an au- tomatic regulator of the value of the metals. From the years 1800 to 1841 there was three times as much silver produced in the world as gold,and from the year 1850 to 1873 there was more than three times as much gold pro- duced as silver, and yet during all that time, while the mints of France were open to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold, the variation be- tween the market price of both silver and gold did not exceed the difference between the coinage ratio of the vari- ous nations.—J. F. Shafroth. Annie Gravenstock’s Case. Annie Gravenstock died of starva- tion in Chicago the other day. Like her husband, who barely escaped the same fate, she was old, infirm and al- most helpless. Yet she had done noth- ing to deserve death, unless old age and pdverty are to be accounted crimes. She perished in the midst of plenty. What answer can society make to the indictment for homicide? The story is a distressing one. Mrs. Gravenstock was stricken with typhoid fever two months ago. Too poor to employ physician or nurse, her aged husband performed the functions of both, and by so doing lost the employ- ment through which he gained a scanty livelihood. When the fever had run its course there was no food in the house. The pitiful stock of furniture went piecemeal, and when it was gone the woman starved to death. That is the substance of the story, The fact that stupldity or indifference at the ! county agent’s office hastened the tragedy is of minor consequence. The indictment lies against society itself— against society which maintains a sys- tem that renders the stupid county agent necessary. There is something radically wrong in a condition which permits a poor, innocent, helpless hu- man being to perish for the lack of sustenance which would cost no more than is paid for a cigar or a drink of whisky. It is monstrous. Within a mile from the spot where Annie Gravenstock was done to death at the hands of society are the greatest cat- tle yards in the world. Within a stone’s throw of her deathbed are tow- ering elevators filled to bursting with grain enough to feed the armies of all nations. Yet, with abundance on ev- ery side of her—with countless trains taden with food rattling past her door every day—Annie Gravenstock perish- ed of starvation within sight of the world’s granary. With her feeble old husband holding her hand her soul went out in quest of a better world than this. She could not find a worse one. What has society got to say about it? What have the fashionable churghes, the professional philanthrop- ists, the civic federations, the munici- pal leagues, and all the other organi- zations which teach us morals—what have they to say about this case of Annie Gravenstock, sentenced to death because she was old, poor and friend- less? Will they say, ‘““We would have saved her had we known of her neces- sity?” Why should she have been re- duced to any such necessity? Why should a human being formed in God’s image be so utterly bewretched as was Annie Gravenstock in a professedly Christian land—a. land flowing with milk and honey? The case hinges not upon the fact that Annie Gravenstock was denied succor, but upon the fact that she stood in need of succor. The world—the great Christian world— owed Annie Gravenstock a living. What it has accorded to her is a grave in the potter’s field. And we continue to send moral handkerchiefs to the in- habitants of heathen lands and talk about spreading the blessings of Amer- ican civilization among eastern peo- ples. God help the eastern peoples. But this case is only one of hun- dreds that never came to the surface. Yet smug-faced Hannaism stalks abroad and flaunts the empty cry of “prosperity everywhere.” The judg- ment of God through the people is awaiting the republican party. The Campaign in Nebraska. Mr. William J. Bryan is a bold leader, The Nebraska election this year is not of great importance. One judicial office and two regents of the university are to be elected. Such campaigns usually poss off without in- cidents and the elections go by default. Of itself the Nebraska campaign would have no national interest or signifi- cance—not so Much as a municipal election in a great city like Chicago or New York. Nebraska is naturally a Republican state, although Mr. Bryan carried it in 1896 by a majority of 13,- 576, and the “fusion” candidate for governor was elected last year by a majority of 2,751, the Republicans car- rying the legislature. But Mr. Bryan this year adopted the policy of forcing the fighting. He determined that the Nebraska election should be clothed with a national character. He made himself and his platform the issue, to be determined by the election or defeat of a candidate for chief justice nomin- ated in a fusion convention, or, rather, in three simultaneous conventions, by bodies of delegates representing him- self as a presidential candidate and advocating the platform of 1896 with his own most recent construction and with new particulars and details. The Republicans understand, or pretend to undersiand, the brilliant audacity of Mr. Bryan’s policy as asking the judg- ment of his own state on his candidacy for president on his special platform. It is probable that the country will so understand it. If Mr. Bryan earries his state triumphantly in this off-year with only a judicial candidate in the field, he and the platform of 1896 be- ing the avowed and real issue, no doubt he will be much nearer the Democratic nomination for president than he would have been without the advan- tage of so decisive a personel victory. ‘The Republicans are acting on their explanation of the issue. They will put up the biggest fight that tne state has ever seen. Speakers of national fame ‘will be heard on every stump. McKin- ley will incidentally appear on the scene as a second-term candidate to meet his opponent of 1896. The peo- ple of the whole country will regard the result with extreme interest.—Chi- cago Chronicle, The Eeal Philippine Issue. From the Indianapolis Sentinel: Of all the cheap demagogy that our local contemporaries have been guilty of the cheapest is their talk about Aguinaldo being the candidate of those who op- pose imperialism and the subjugation of the Philippines. They might make some headway with that plea if they were talking to a crowd of children who are carried away by epithet, but not with sane people who have arrived at years of discretion. The point at is- sue is whether President McKinley is justified in forcing this country into the policy of subjugating the Filipinos and not whether the Filipinos are ideal people. It would be just the same if he were trying to subjugate the Peru- vians or the Japanese or any other na- tion entitled to be free. It makes lit- tle difference what Aguinaldo is,though by all reports he is much better than his persecutors paint him. An Amer- ican president ought to be ashamed to treat a dog as we have treated him and his allies. That is the issue in the Philippine case, and the ee under- stand it. 4 PLENTY OF MONEY? PROSPERITY DEPENDS UPON THE SUPPLY OF CURRENCY. The Volume of Currency in Proportion to the Amount of Business Is So Small That It Falls to Reach Around. We are told by the republican mob that there is plenty of money in circu- lation; we are told it by both preacher and layman. Those whom we class as laymen, and who comprise the common herd, are honest in making the assertion; inasmuch as they are innocext in their ignorance and nar- row-mindedness, not being permitted, for as they are the faithful, to think or speak for themselves,or to take any- thing as a criterion of faith, except what emanates from the preacher of the gold standard. Those who comprise the latter class are wanting the one redeeming quali- ty found in the other, honesty. Those statements which they hand out as statistics and upon which the common herd base their assertions as princi- ples or supposed truths, are in fact a compound of lies, damning and mis- leading. Their official reports to con- gress at stated times are fine illustra- tions of deception, being truthful in so far as they go, but leaving untold the better half, thereby acting a lie in the omission. For instance, the messages of the president and secretary of treasury, showing that there is more money in circulation, per capita, at present than ever before during our history as a nation, are allowed to stop before they explain that under the present policy only a portion of this circulation is real money; that is to say, over one- half of it is merely exchange at home, to all purposes and all intents for use in times of panic when balance of for- eign trade is against us or for the purpose of paying interest on our for- eign debt, public and national. (By the way, these debts were contracted at a time when we had no_ redeemable money.) And, further, in their at- tempts to lead the unsophisticated public into the belief that the lack of prosperity was not due to a shortage of money, they tried to show there was more money in circulation than ever before (as heretofore stated); and, therefore, if money had anything to do with prosperity we ought to be hay- ing it in great chunks. But alas! They are here again mis- leading in omitting to compare the business done today, with the present money, with that done at any other known date. To speak more plainly, there is more work for a dollar to do than ever before; there is more wheat, corn and cotton to be sold; there is more coal, iron, lead and other prod- ucts of the mines to be disposed of; more manufacturing done; more con sumption of clothes; more food is eat- en; a continual and larger growth in eur population. In fact, there has been a continuous increase throughout the whole United States for thirty years past, and in the face of a non-increas- ing, depreciating currency. In this lies the secret of hard times. We may have an almost total fail- ure of wheat, and by governing our ex- pectations by what we suppose to be the immutable law of supply and de- mand, we think wheat ought to bring a good price. Yet it is not so. The price dees not advance materially, We are at fault in not having taken into account the full subject of supply and demand. If the stomachs of the hungry governed the demand for wheat the supply would forever be inadequate until the hungry were all fed and enough in the graineries to last until the harvest. To sum the matter in a nutshell, the supply of money is so small in proportion to the amount of business to be done that it fails to reach around and do justice to all trade, consequently internal improvement has ceased and idle, hungry men are plentiful, As to whether the money question has anything to do with prosperity, we must admit that the natural effect of the laws of supply and demand as they effect the price of products are over-balanced by the imperfect supply of money furnished to satisfy the de- mands of the publie in business tran- sactions. Some, in their frantic efforts to maintain a grasp on whatever enter- prise they may be engaged in, and oftentimes to purchase the necessaries of life, are forced to pay the knights of usury from 2 to 5 per cent a month. In the west stealing by such unjust assessments of interest is the regular method by which the money loaner lets his money to the public; and then it must be secured by an iron-clad mortgage on either real estate or per- sonal property, worth, in hard cash, twenty-five dollars to one of the money loaned. Common observation and practical |. experience should be sufficient to teach the most rat-witted bread winner in America what the gold standard policy is doing for the country; and where and in what hands the money of the country lay while such rottenness. was being carried on as the policy of the fhonest dollar—a dollar which is worth 100 cents to the banker and 50 cents to the laborer. E, M. REDDICK. ? Altgeld on Government Ownership. “It is my belief,” said the ex-govern- or, “that if the convention were held within thirty days it would almost unanimously adopt a tentative plank declaring for governmental ownership of railroads. An unequivocal declara- tion would be a step so far beyond the existing limit-tion of public thought that the convention might hes- itate about adopting it. The people are beginning to appreciate that the rail- roads are largely if not altogether re- sponsible for the existence of the great industrial combinations known as trusts. Without continuous assist- ance from the railroads the trusts could not survive a year. If they had to transact business on the same terms as their competitors which do not belong to trusts they would quick- ly disintegrate and go to pieces and the trust problem, which is now agi- tating the public mind, would be solved to the satisfaction of every one, except the promoters, “The railroads built up the Standard Qil trust, which is nothing more or less than a criminal conspiracy. With- out railway co-operations that octopus could not have survived to assume the proportions which it has reached. The original organization of the trust in- cluded railway men, the Rockefellers and some of their friends. The rail- way men bound their corporations to the trust by the contracts which ena- bled it to stifle competition in every oil field in the country. It was not alone given the benefit of a system of re- bates, but one-half of the excess charges that were levied against its competitors, It was a stupendous con- spiracy, and is being carried on to this day. All trusts that have followed the Standard Oil are organized on preity near the same lines. The same scheme of rebates for themselves and excess charges for their competitors is in operation, and that being the case, it can truthfully be charged that the railroads are really the promoters of trusts. To make war on the trusts without also attacking the railroads under the circumstances, would be ridiculous, but how far the assault will be carried is at this time a matter of speculation, “These great questions can not be solved in a day or a year. Political leaders can bring them before the bar of public opinion, discuss them from every standpoint and endeavor to force action by congress and legislatures, but until the public mind has been fully aroused, and there is a wide- spread demand for reform, nothing can be accomplished. If the disposi- tion of the issue were left to Chicago it would be settled satisfactorily and in the interest of the public within the next two years. But Chicago is far ahead of the rest of the country in these matters. It is easily the thought center of the republic, not the center o? literary dilettanteism, but of good, strong masculine thought that has a bearing upon human affairs, “In outlining the probable course of action of the next national conven- tion,” the ex-governor went on, “I do not mean to say that it is actually go- ing to take up these subjects. I only surmise that it will do so. They ccn- stitute the greatest issues that the Am- erican public have to deal with. Al! men are beginning to study them. For my own part I regard this as the mosi fascinating and interesting period of my life. I believe we have reached that status of national existence when the most stupendous questions of governmental policy that the world has ever known will formulate one after another and force themselves on the attention of the people. The na- tional conventions next year will deal with some of them. Others will re- main in abeyance for a few years, but conditions will bring them out into the light, where their merits and de- merits can be discussed. The trust problem is under discussion now. We will hear more of it during the nex! twelve months, Caustic Criticism. Morning News: Mr. Collis P. Hunv ington makes a strong point when he declared that too many boys of today are only willing to work at “genteel” jobs. All labor is honorable and the poy who is willing to dirty his hands and soil his clothes in order to earn more money than he could in a clean occupation will surely succeed. For example: Compare the poverty of Mr. Huntington with the weaith and luxury of the laborers who built the Northern Pacific. Minneapolis Tribune: Admiral Dew- ey very properly snubbed the sultan of Turkey, the most cruel and blood-thirs- ty monarch in Europe, by declining the latter’s invitation to call at Constanti- nople. Who killed the most people this year, the sultan or McKinley? Morning News: A thief recently broke into a church in a New York town and stole a Bible. Possibly that is what he needs more than anything else. If he sticks to it and reads it carefully he may be persuaded to stop thieving. Wonder how it would do to present the Standard Oil magnates with copies? The Wrong Countersign. “Advance and give the countersign,” sang out the American sentinel, The Filipino crept forward with bowed head and muttered: “All men are born free and equal.” But. as this declaration was not the proper password, and because it con- yeyed a meaning decidedly revolution- ary and antagonistic to revised Amer- icanism, the sentinel, after a prelimine ary discharge, cut the twenty-sixth' notch on the stock of his rifle.—Life, WON'T MAKE IT PUBLIC. Dr. Keeley Declines to Let Oth-rs Know His Wonderfal Form Various doctors have endeavore: to have Dr. Leslie E. Keeley make prbtice the formula for making his wonderful remedy, but Dr. Keeley has aboslurely il- declined to do so. Considerabl feeling was engendered on the some doctors, who evidently t get ‘possession of the wonderful old man’s secret for their own benefit. A few days ago Dr. Keeley was a guest of Manager Franc R. E. Woowward, at the Institute in Minneapolis, located at the corner of Tenth street south aud Park avenue. “After making my discovery.” Dr. Keeley, “I spent eleven I maintain all information in r to the making of the remedy because I believe that the only p tion for suffering humanity li guarding the formula so that it successfully administered. In hands of the ignorant, or the es or the young doctors of an expe al turn of mind, its use would come abused and discredited. “If I believed my remedy would be made in allits purity, handled only | the educated members of the me profession, and administered in proper way, I would most chee: make it known to the such would be the casi however. Unscrupulo pretend to improve on i ate it for added pecuniary gain. would result in repeated failw which would finally utterly discr Te" Dr. Keeley denounces which claim to us 00) the frands only real Keeley Institute in Minn ta. He is very proud of the Minn lis Institute, because it does such ¢ work. There are many frauds and imi ors which promise fimpossibi There is no cure but the Keeley Cure. Those interested in the subject of the Keeley Cure can secure information by writing to 629 Tenth street south, M-n- neapolis, Minn. STOCK RAISERS Will find it greatly to their advantage, if before purchasing a farm, they will look at the country along the line of the Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad. DAIRY FARMERS Who desire the best Clover and Timothy jJand, in a district which can boast of a fine climate, good pure water, rich soil. fine meadows, and near to the markets of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Superior should apply immediately by leter or in person to WM. P. TROWBRIDGE, Asst. Land Commissioner, 8t. Paul & Duluth R. R. Box U—903 Globe Bidg., St. Paui. '@ your town, write for catalogue to A. J. TOWER, Boston, Ma_s. W. L. DOUCLAS $3 & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE, Worth $4 to $6 compared withy other makes. Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers; ALL LEATHERS. ALL STYLES THE GENUINE have W. L. Doogins’ mame and price stamped om bottom, Take no substitute claimed tobeas good, Largest makers of $3 and 3.50 shoes in the world. Your dealer should keep pair on receipt of price. St kind of leather, es “ind width, plain or cap ‘oe Catalogue A Free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass— PROTUBI “Tr you Have — it and like it, ict E it alone, or use E some worthless But E If. you wnat Rolie? aad 4 Permanent Cure, try Trudgen’s Asthma and Hay — Fever Cure. Never fails, fully guarar~ & teed. cheap, safe and certain. Pric $2.00 per bottle; three bottles, $5. ‘Trudgen’s Pharmacy, St. Paul, Minne eye re nerve rrr rrr e: CANDY CATHARTIC ARTER'S INK Too Good and Too Cheap to be Withont it. peseusant claims, atty since OR A Niriitedtotrsretana: LADY ee ese vere acs weet FHOmpSON’s Eye Water. Wheo Answering Advertisements Hisdip Mention This Paper. N.U. No. 37. 1899. XN. W. 4 +. | | i { i H i mee