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PERRY ENTERPRISE-TIMES.
Official Paper of Noble County and City of Perry—Published Daily.
VOL.IV
PERRY, NOBLE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, AUG 24, im.
NO 95
DEATH TO CRETANS.
FRIGHTFUL BARBARITIES TO
THE HUMBLE CHRISTIANS.
I
Th P«iil Torn from Their <>rav*a nn<l
Tbalr roiim Kt'at tared to th* Wind*
— Appalling firfrifi of CtrnaiB In
Cretan.
HE whole world
has been horrified
by the frightful
Turkish war of ex-
termination on the
Armenians. Now
the same crime 1h
being repeated in
another part of the
Sultan's dominions
—in the island of
Crete.
The Cretans, like the Armenians, are
Christians, and it is for this reason
that they are being massacred. Their
slaughter is accompanied by the same
circumstances of horror as was that of
the Armenians. Old men, women and
children arc outraged and murdered
and nameless cruelties are committed.
The Sultan is again demonstrating
that he is a monster, capable of any
crime. He has permitted during the
space of two years every conceivable
outrago and cruelty to be perpetrated
under his authority and by his officers
In one part of the unhappy land which
he rules. Now he allows the sanu*
crimo to be committed in another part.
As in the other case, he is doggedly re-
sisting every effort to obtain mercy for
the victims of his brutal officers.
In personal intercourse with Euro-
peans the Sultan appears to possess
many of the qualities of civilized hu-
manity, but those superficial qualities
do not make le:;s hideous the crimes
which he has permitted. He is really
an inflnitely worse savage than King
thi crosses which served a« tomb-
stones. Many other graveyard* were
plmilarly desecrated.
Some light is thrown on such conduct
by the following Mohammedan prayer,
which is sanctioned by the highest au-
thority and Is recited five times dally
throughout Turkey:
"Oh, Lord of all creaturcs! Oh. Allah!
destroy the Ohiaourn and Polytheists.
thine enemies, the enemies of religion.
Oh, Allah! Make their children or-
phans. and defile their bodies; cause
their feet to slip; give them and their
families, their household, and their
women, their children, and their rela-
tions by marriage, their brethren and
their friends, their possessions, and
their race, their wealthy and their
lands, as booty to the Mop'.ems, Oh
Lord of all creatures!"
On June 4 Mr. Bourchier saw two
steamers and a gunboat land four thou-
sand soldiers at Srbrona, where the
garrison was besieged by a small form
of Cretans. After liberating the gar-
rison they proceeded along the shore,
burning all the villages they parsed.
These soldiers were fresh from the Ar-
menian atrocities.
They had then spent five successive
days in burning unoffending villages
and committing outrages. "A more
disgraceful thing." sny3 Mr. Bourchier
"has never been permitted by Europe."
Crete is an island lying to the south-
east of Greece and to the southwest of
Turkey, in Asia. It is 1""> miles in
length and 35 in width. The popula-
tion is 294,192. It is painful to relate
that they have a European reputation
for untruthfulness, but that, of course,
furnishes no reason for massacring
them.
The people are of pure Greek race,
and ancient Greek Is still ppoken in the
interior. Crete is conspicuous in myth-
ology as the home of Minotaur.
Crete has con si doable commerce in
wines, olives and other natural prod-
ucts, and in very pretty silk fabrics.
many of the*.r houses. The sickening
scenes so often described in the caso
of Armenia were repeated. Little chil-
dren were thrown into the air and
spitted on bayonets, and women wero
abused and then slaughtered. The ca-
vasseB, or guards of the Greek and
Hussian consulates, were stabbed to
death outside the doors of those build-
ings.
Turkish soldiers were to be seen nf-
terward in the streets of Canea carry-
ing ears of Christian women as decora-
tions.
A state of bloody anarchy continued
in Canea for two days, at the end of
which the authorities,? thinking that
the patience of the European* powers
might be pushed too far, did their best
to restore order.
After tfils affair the Cretan moun- !
talneers assembled under arms and •
swore that they would not lay them ]
down until they had avenged their I
brethren and rscaped the yoke of the
Sultan, either by annexation to Greece
or by independence.
The outrages in Canea wero the more
criminal because the city had taken j
little or no part in the patriotic agi-
Mtlon. The Turk is a savage, who wiil
rather attack the helpless and unof-
fending than the armed and aggressive.
The affair at Canea was followed by
risings of Cretans in many places. The
Turkish government immediately sent
reinforcements to the island, and the
army there now numbers over 7,000
men. They have been unsuccessful In
many encounters with Cretans, but
they have found most occupation in
outrages on the helpless.
JS AGAINST SILVER.
CATECHISM WHICH REVEALS
SOME COLD, HARD FACTS#
Tha Volume of llepreientatlve Moimy llm
Tr«bl«d Since the Demonetization or
•liver In 1873 — Overproduction Il«-
sponsible for Low Prices.
the loch salmon.
How hii Klchtcttn-found One We* t'apt-
ii re<l.
Cruising along the sandy shore and
trailing the flies just where the water
suddenly becomes profound there camo
to pass a mighty commotion; a great
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A coinage catechism, published by
The Nation, gets so directly nt the
meat of the whole financial controversy
that it is worth the while of every voter
ti study it closely and preserve the
facts and figures here given:
Q. What is the fundamental conten-
tion of the free coinage advocates?
A. That the amount of money In circu-
lation has been decreasing since the de-
monetization of silver, and that this de-
crease has caused a general fall in
prices.
Q. Is it true that the money supply
has been decreasing? A. It is not. |
Q. What are the facts? A. So far a3
the United States is concerned, there !
las been an enormous Increase. In
1861) the money in circulation in this
country was $412,102,477; in 1S72 it was
$738,307,5lit: by the treasury bulletin, ,
at the beginning of the present month
of July, It was $1,509,725,200.
Q. What does this show? A. It
shows that our money supply has in-
creased 240 per cent as compiled with
1860. and 104 per cent as compared |
with 1872.
Q. Has the money supply Increased
faster than the population? A. Very
much fnster.
Q. How do you prove tills? A. IJy di-
viding the total money in circulation ai
each date by the total population of
the country at the same date, and thus
finding the ejaculation per capita.
Q. What .does such a process show*
A. The per capita circulation of tin*'
United States July 1
July 1, lS72,'it"was Sl^ 'O; at the be-
ginning of July, In 1S96, It wa $21.1
crease over the prtsent rate of pro-
duction.
Q. But has not the disuse of stiver
with full coinage privileges cut down
the total unnual addition to the world's
metallic money supply? A. It has not.
Q. Why? A. In 1873 the world's
gold production was $96,200,000; Its sil-
ver production, $81,800,000; total, $178,-
000,000. Last year the production (f
gold alone was $199,500,000.
Q. Was not the combined annual pro-
duction of gold and silver larger than
this in the "bonanza days"? A. It waa
•not.
Q. What was the highest record of
that period? A. Between 1856 and 1860
the world's average annual production
of gold was $134,083,000; of silver, $37,-
618,000; total, $171,701,000, or less, by
$27,800,000, than last year's production
of gold alone.
Q. What are we to say, then, of the
argument that the money supply, since
sliver free coinage was abandoned, has
been contracting? A. That It la utterly
false as applied to the world at large,
and especially so as applied to the
United States.
Q. Is it true, nevertheless, that the
price of wheat and many other farm
products has fallen heavily? A. It is.
Q. How are bucIi declines in wheat
for Instance, to be explained? A. By
the enormously rapid Increase In grain
growing area throughout the world.
Q. Has this Increase been especially
rapid since 1872. A. The increase In
grain-growing area in this period, cs-
i pecially in North America, South
America and Asia, has never been np-
1 proached In any equal period In the
history of the world.
Q. How do we Judge of actual com-
( petition in the sale of wheat? A. By
the supplies thrown annually on the
world's great distributing markets,
i Q. What market In particular? A.
Kngland. where most of the buying na-
tions go to purchase their grain.
y. What are the figures? A. As re-
cently as 1880 Great Britain Imported
for consumption and re-export, 55,261,-
1 924 hundredweight of wheat—a large
increase over the preceding annual
average. In 1895 It Imported 81,749,855
hundredweight.
Q. Whnt has mado possible this re-
markable increase In wheat production?
A. The exceedingly rapid development
of transportation facilities in newly
cultivated grain countries; among them
India. Russia and the Argentine Repub-
lic,
•Irculatlon of th< n nas tliero be'en an increase In the
' }?* • '' United States itself? A. An enormous
POTATOES
60e per Bus)i. _
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VP 'W
W?rm.
AI "II-: It Till-' TURKISH SOI.DIKUS HAD ABANDONED A CHRISTIAN ("CMETERT.
Ilehanxin of Dahomey, or King l'rem-
peli of Aahintee. whom I he French and
Kngllxh have ruined for their alleged
misdeed* The Sultan is a criminal un-
lit to live, let alone to rule
Will the Cretan.! 'lire any better than
the Armenians' That I, still an unde-
rlded question It Is liol probable that
they will get any more help from the
sympathising civilised world than did
the Armenians, bill on the other hand
It I* likely that lh*y will make a ««« •!
fight (or themselves They have strong
friends In the (Ireeks. 10 whose race
they belong, ami tlree.e may even de-
clare war on Turkey to save the Cret-
an* from extermination.
The Cretans are now In open rebel-
linn, and are holding thrlr nwn In cer-
tain parts of the Island The Turk", on
the other hand.have alinmhlrreil Chris-
Hans in the eliles and Heslmjetl many
of the unprotected Villages of the coast
Which were easily accessible to the sol-
tiler*
Home photographs eni tnKngland by
I he Rev, William Hourchler rlnpln'n
of the Mrltlsh war ship The Hood, give
a vivid and grewnnnte idra of Turkish
method* In Cfete Th" IIihm) witnessed
a aerls* of outrage* i iitntnlttcil hy
Turkish war ship*, lint under Instruc-
tions from the government was power-
lean In Interfere
(Hie of Mf HourehlrrV photograph*
•haws Ihe d**e«ratert Christian grove
ynrd al Onlata. It seem, that the Mos-
lem should he **tl*4|ed with his aim-
pie snd sincere belief iHat etery Chris-
Han inttet no In hell hill he la not Me
want* In make e iih a hell for Ihe on
believer whll* he lives and lo Insitl'
hla tetnnlna whet, he Is den**
In the Oalata chun turd th* Turk*
have deWwrnwl' dug evert gray,
thrown rnhhiah mm It. scattered the
the ground and destroyed
ll has several fine linrlmrs. The cnpitit 1
Is Canea.
In the course of Its history It Im* had i
ninny masters. The Roman Kmpl'e
annexed It In ti" 11. <\. and waa followed
hy the Hgracens, and next b> tin' ll
santlne Umpire The Vcnell-in Uepn1
lie acquired It In 1204 A. D. and the
Turks took It from them In ISiW. T'te
Cretans took pail In Ihe Greek war of
Independence, but wire held by the
Turks. Tneuly-flve years ago ihev ob-
tained a local legislature. In spite of
this they are ruled by Turkish officials
and have |e*< freedom than the Cuban"
had under the Spanish.
The present trouble Is one of :i long
series which will continue until the
Cretans have been exterminated or
achieved their Independence. While
the Turkish conduct In Crete and In
Armenia Is similar, ll must be under-
stood that the Cretans nnd lh" Armen-
ians are different. The Cretans are a
\ery gggreaalve and warlike t .ople and
have had a inrg>- share In causing the
present trouble. Thric have li - n tna«-
sncrea because the Turkish soldiers
have taken advantage of ihe helpless
situation of Individuals or «mat| hod lex
of Christians,
Th" Cretan patriots ate In sctlve
communication with the l',m tteiicpiiit
party In Orecce, and have been sup-
plied hy them with arms money and
men Al the outbreak of the preaetit
h opt lilt |rx th't" wire In,is mi Cretans
and I'an Mrllenist* possessing arm*.
They had been drilled *ecre||;
The nuthfenk was precipitated hy the
Turki h *oldierv. men who had tak>h
n*rt in the Arnientsn aitocitr« Th*
Mohammedan citizen, joined them \t
•hte end «f May 'Hev htoke Ion** or
wet* tnsned !* .* la the *treet* nf
Can"*, the capi *1 They murdered III
the Christians they met, and plundered
form loomed out of the side of a wave,
a broad tail sw< pt around In the brown
water, the line tightened bravely, th«
. 'ml i-i-i i nhenrt bent In sympathy and
."' iv went the salmon, bulging off
lb rh yards of line at a atretch, lavi
MaCaaiM, The charm of
tin ■■ Ircli i| |. lii.s in the splendid fight
thev show for liberty. Many • river
li li <- in be i laved under the point of
ib mil and Innded without running out
morn than half a do«en yard* of line.
Hut It Is far different when thera ll
plenty of sea room, with no bankg or
s. oala to cow the flah and nothing lo
b.ir hie powerful rush toward deep
«*tcr It is tills nnd the splendid dis-
play a lo li IIkIi generally makes on the
ri* that compensate* the fisherman for
much \wnry. monotonous Hogging of
the surface. The bold rise la very
characteristic of loch salmon, in
streams where It u expedient to Halt
tlw lly deep, a llslt In seiling It most
often fever breaks the surface; but in .t
loch the flics cannot easily be kept In
motion if sunk; they must lie drawn
along near the lop and th" salmon must
dash lo the surface toratrh them.there-
by imparting * pcrttlim charm lo thl*
kind or sport. Well, nur fish made a
grand run, the gillie bent *tnutly 'o hl«
nnri and followed It, the anchor w*«
dropped III a few mlnuie* and the dls
puie sunn ended In favor of the angler,
who. peel lug at the Index of the *tee|.
yard, complacrntly pronounced the ver-
dict "Klghteen pounds, ne*|e'
Neverseg
Diner Walter, there Is a slight mis-
take i ordered a spring chictnoi ,iM *
bottle of win* Waiter - V**,
air " t>iner -"You ha\' hrnogh ma
*om* ine of last spring nnd * gfcirun
of IMIfnrii Mefseiiger,
50£ j)«r Buth. I
10e_p«r BjtjK.J
67 Cent6
ItlcKinljm
Chicago
Prices1
/. '°C
. Gorman,
prom: "Cluc/s Circular
Q. But has not the muncy supply of
tha world at hrge been decreasing? A.
Onlhaconti .il>, n litis lieen Im l easing
rapidly.
Q. How I* this proved ' A. lly tha
■tatlatlc* of new' gold production.
4). How large h*s this production
been? A. Tlte report* of the director
of the mint, which are acknowledged
authority, show that from II7S lo IW4
inclusive the world s total new gold
production has been $J.fiJil,i3l, oii
g. la this new product of gold in-
rreailng or decreasing? A, ll Is In
creaalnt with enormous rapidity
(). Olve the flgurrs. A. In 1*7.1 the
wurld'a gold prmluciion was $M '.'tsi.m i.
In 1119 II was tli>U.41«. M i. In the year
l*po It wai itln.n4D.iMMt In Ism ll waa
tin,in,lot! for the exact total I*
not jret compiled, but ll I* I loeely es-
timated at |tw ftlHI.tSNt.
Q, Whnt doe* thl* mean? A. It mean*
lhat the amount of gold annually add'd
in the world'* money supply ha* mot*
thin doubled In Ihe laat twent)-three
yMIti
Mi I* not this innual rale of prodttc
tie* llnhl* to decreaae? A. (In the ron
increase.
' Q. How large? A. In 1875 there were
j 26,381,512 acres of wheat cultivated iu
I this country: In 1S91 there were 39,-
; '.'16.897, an increase of 50 per cent. The
i yield In 1875 was 292,136,000 bushels, a
heavy increase over preceding years.
| In 1891 the yield was 611.780,000. Even
last year, with a greatly reduced acre-
age and a partial crop failure, the
yield was 467.100,000 bwshels.
Q. Has the yield of other crops In-
creased correspondingly? A. It has.
Q. Give instancea. A. The culti-
vated area of corn in the Cnited
States In 1871 was 34.091,137 acras; In
1S91 it was 76.204,515; Increase, 124 pet-
cent. The yield of corn last year
was more than double that of any
year prior to 187S. noth tha acreage
and the annual average yield of oats
have doubled since 1871. Our cotton
crop in 1894 was 50 per cent greater
| than In any year prior to 1887.
I Q. Was a decline In grain and cotton
| prices under such conditions Inevl
I table? A. As Inevitable as a decline In
j the price of clothing, or furniture, or
i book*, or steel rails, or pins, when com'
petition In their manufacture haa e*
• tended enormously.
tj. Would free coinage help the pro
dttrer* of grain lo a larger profit under
such conditions? A. Not In the least
g. Why not? A. Because If the nom
Inal price of grain were to rise through
Inflation of the currency, the prlco of
im rythlng ctae would rise also, and
the farmer would ha relatively uo hot-
ter off than he was before.
g. Do the free coinage advocatca
use in thrlr speechea these atatlatlcal
facts which wo have examined? A.
They ilu not,
j g. Can the subject be understood
without riamlnlni them? A. It can-
I not. The whole question rente on these
fact* regarding money and produc-
full.
! g Why do th* free colnnge speakers
' not use these facta and Hgurei? A. w-
I entile the facts and Hgures nre against
• them
g. le theta any dispute over the truth
of the figures quoted In theee answer!?
A They nre undisputed even l y tree
coinaie men They ire tnken from
thi report* of ihe I'nited Hmten trena-
ury. of the department of ngrlcullure,
n' the director of the United Mtntei
mint, of the Cnlied Ainte* bureau of
statistic#, and of the MrPI h board nf
trade, ill of them Ik their respective
spheres, the highe*« known nnthorl-
ilea,
Tli* lies, Miiney for WstcH.
Id one of Mr. Bryan's recent speeches
he made a very glib remark on tha sub-
ject of gooil money. He said that "poor
people" were not in favor of a dollar
"increasing In value." Are "poor peo-
ple" In favor of a dollar decreasing in
value?
Mr. Bryan Bays "When they (sound
money men) tell you that they want
good money you tell them that money
may be too good; It may be so good
that you many pray for it and wish for
It, but you can't got hold of It."
The candidate talks as if he believed
that If we hail silver money It could be
procured In abundance by simply "pray-
ing for It and wishing for it." Under
no system of money can you "get hold
of It" honestly except by working for
It with brains or muscle.
No money Is too good for men who
labor and no money, good, indifferent
or bad, can be procured through any
means but labor. No question of good
money or bad money should be con-
sidered In connection with wages. The
best dollar coined in the world belongs
to the man who earns It by the toll of
his hand or by toil in business and In-
dustrial enterprises from which wages
nre derived.
It is pernicious and malignant for
Candidate Bryan to place in his har-
angues statements or inferences that
there are or can be two kinds of money,
one for the poor and the other for the
rich. That is impossible under tha
present system. The day laborer Is
paid in the same kind of money that la
paid to redeem a coupon clipped from a
I'nited States bond.
Cnder a silver system the wages cf
labor would be paid iu dollars of half
value. Then there would be money "too
good" for wages. The "too good" money
would be absorbed by the rich.
But it would require as much and a*
hard work to get cheap dollars as It
now requires to get good dollars. No
m- by wishing for it or praying for it
"oulil get silver money. He would hav«
to work for It as he works for gold
money and would get no more for hli
work In actual value.
If there is any kind of a dollar to
which labor Is entitled in payment of
wages it is the dollar "Increasing In
value." If there could be any added
curse for labor, it would be a dollar de-
creasing in value paid as wages.
The laborer paid in currency as good
as gold gets the benefit of the increase.
Paid in silver he would suffer the con-
stant increasing loss of its depreciation
w hile in bis pocket.
No dollar is too good for an American
worklngnian. Chicago Chronicle
(Item).
Mffbwks Lnrti-r l'rot*ctlan.
from Bryan's speech In congree* In
I « 1
Unlit Is I lie I rue llnsl*.
Kx President Harrison In I.idle*
Home Journal: It the holder of a Unit-
ed Htates note cannot act gold at par
for It he will pay a premium for the
gold he mu*t hive to meet u gold obli-
gation A premium on gold would It
once drive gold out ol i Irculitloti, for
a coin lhat I* nt a annot be
uaed In Iridr No oil" Is bound lo pay
gold In the government for any tax or
other debt due to It. Ho that prietlcllly
Ihealtuitlon I* this The tn usury holdi
Itself bound to live I dil III every onn
presenting I'niird "Hat's note, and
his no way of ntinp. Hit any on* to
pay gold m It fun n ' I ** It get*
entiles from person- « lui I inee to tike
paper mouei fnr to ld dep «lted In the
mini* or ****> nUb • rs. or m pay in gold
ruins *ome goveiutuettt tax Kntmerly
nil dutle* upon tmiiort* w-i pnyihle
onlv In noli! Now when the gold
nerve get* low, It can only lie reatared
by the «ale of t*mds litnln the p«weM
gin n t« the MN ietnty in ihe legialntlnn
relating to the resumption nf
paymehii.
«n**e Ham Mn hot lot
ituppn*e ll in he trite thnt ton Min-
nie will dnnbln ihe price nf vhnni nnd
nthnr (nnd product* wham Im the
trnrj, «M «#*rti«the American Ann- nothinimii M, 44 _
trnMM nnd Unnth African «nld held* i prteea fnr hi* fctnnd. nwnt Hi the llh* ttint vnnr aerennt hid been
)nnh far • further nnd very henry in- in* ihn name old w g4* | a rerv mng tint* Motto* dUM.
>«i Mnoelett-
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•Inn icce-tn' -■ t o a A fnyng', Irt
much h*"e •: n in fot neh IH«
lln purrhisi mn kn>* Mm.
■ere A running scemtnt * Why,
collect"' af th* Htm tild my
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