The Daily Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1895 Page: 3 of 4
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ratio of hi to 1 argue that should the
United States enact a law declaring a
ratio <>f 10 to 1, that silver bullion
would immediately come up to the
p;iin! of equal value, coined or un-
coined. as it stood at the time Jeffer-
son found the true ratio. It seems to
me that if there was anything in this
argument, that all the countries
friendly to silver would immediately
see the point, and if need be, spend
millions to secure the passage of the
law, for it would double the value of
the money of all free silver countries.
It would double the price of bullion
throughout the world. Hut Mr. Jef-
ferson, seeing the fallacy of all such
propositions, says: "Just principles
will lead us to disregard legal ratios
altogether, and inquire into the com-
mercial ratio."
It is theretore plain that he had no
patience whatever with the whimsi-
cal notions of our friends. It is plain
also that France, Spain, (Jermany and
all the great powers that favor bimet-
allism have no confidence whatever in
the proposition. While those great
powers want bimetallism they have
no thought for a moment of undertsk-
ing such a wild-eyed scheme as that
advocated by our free and unlimited
hi to 1 friends in America.
It is plain also that monied men
haye no confidence in the scheme, for
it they did, it stands to reason that
they would buy up all the bullion on
the markets and purchase the silver
mines of the county, and appear in the
halls of congress with an argument
far more potent than that <>f any
friend of free silver now on the stage
of action. It is plain that Silver Dick
lllatid had no confidence iu this propo-
sition prior to 1S!W. In l.siii he wrote
on these lines: "There is no disagree-
upon the proposition that this coinage has been the experiei
ratio shall have reference totherela- * u
tive commercial or exchange value of
the two metals.' It would seem,
therefore, that Dick Miami up to that
time had never thought of this new
declaration of independence. And in
all his efforts in congress for the past
ten years in behalf of free silver it
was not the ratio that was in the way,
because all were agreed that the ratio
would necessarily be based upon the
exchange value of the metals. The
obstacles that lie had to combat were:
First, the size of the dollar; second.
the uncertainty ever attendant upon
the efforts to coin these two metals
upon equal terms.
The business world objected to a
dollar so large and difficult to handle
as it would necessarily be at the ex-
change ratio then existing a dollar
near twice as large as the coin of our
fathers.
The second objection was the un-
certainty of keeping these two metals
upon an exact ratio or parity and the
consequences that would necessarily
follow upon the failure to do so.
Jiy reference to the debates in con-
gress in ls;;i. when the ratio of silver
was changed from 1." to 1 to 10 to 1, it
will be observed that this new declara-
tion never entered into the minds of
those statesmen. The trouble they
were seeking to remedy was that grow-
ing out of the decline in the price of
silver bullion since lT'.r.', by virtue of
which decline our gold went out of cir-
culation and we were actually on silver
basis. The true ratio at that time was
assert:iined to be about l.* .8to 1, but
Thomas II Kenton, of Missouri, took
the position that it was safer to adopt
17 to t so as to secure the return of our
gold. This view prevailed and as a
couscquelice gold became the standard
and silver I**ft the country. As a mat-
ter of fact from that date to this we
have had a gold standard. So you will
see that :ill along the line of history in
this country this new and brilliant de-
claration of independence never broke
in and da///led the mind of any states
man in the past.
If you can now bring the price of
bullion up to hi to 1, or loo per cent,
why did we fail prior to 1834 to bring
it up to 15 to 1, or s on the pound?
And why did we fail to bring it down
to 10 to 1 subsequent to IH.'UV
We will tell you why. Because the
prices of gold and silver bullion are
(ixed by the laws, customs and usages
of trade, growing out of the relations
of the human race, and therefore as
expansive as the human family itself.
as bullion, as compared with the sil-
ver dollar, than was certified on the
face of the coin.
It therefore went to where its full
value was appreciated Where it
would pay more debts tliau its face
value would permit it to pay in this
country. We, in consequence, found
ourselves without any gold at all
circulating among the people. Our
cireulatilion per capita was the sinal 1-
ebt in the history of our government.
The attention of the country was
called to this alarming state of affairs.
Hence the act of 1834.
We have already intimated the work-
ings of this act, that is, that under its
operations our silver went abroad ami
our gold stayed at home for the same
reasons given relative to silver. At a
I ratio of 10 to 1, silver was underval-
ued, that is hi pounds of silver was
I worth a little than 1 pound of gold
| and while under that act, it had only
the same debt paving powers at home,
lit had greater debt paying powers
I abroad. That is the bullion contained
I in the dollar was worth more than the
dollar as coined. The certificate writ-
I ten on its face naming it one hundred
cents was a disgrace to it, so it went
to where it could be weighed ami
countcd for its full value. So it. us a
consequence retired from business in
this country and gold became the sole
standard of values.
Now, we have said this proposition
was a new one, that it was never sub-
mitted for discussion until lsw.'l. And
we might have added that it was a
child of desperation, born in the
throes of the great panic in that year.
It is obvious to my mind that hud
the democratic' party not succeeded to
power in the year 1892. and had they
not fulfilled,verbatim-et-literatum, the
prophecy of Schylcr Colfax, when he
said, "That when the time comes that
the republican party can't defeat the
democratic party,the democratic party
will defeat itself." that the proposi
tion of "Free anil unlimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, independ-
ent of other nations, would never have
been heard of. Ami we can see no ex-
cuse for its birth in 1893, except the
fact that a few democratic politicians
•lie hard. And the further fact that
the populist party stands ready at any
and all times to mount any sort of a
wild-eyed hobby on general principles.
That the proposition enacted into law
would be ruinous in its effects is pat-
ent to every candid student of history.
Historians, the recorders of human
successes and human failures, have
given us to know that no government,
great or small, by its coinage laws
ever added one cent to or took one
cent from the intrinsic or exchange
value of the metal coined, as was
demonstrated by the coinage laws of
I'iiigland for a period of live hundred
years. That great government never
succeeded for once during that entire
time in controling by her laws, the
price of silver or gold bullion for one
day, much less for all times, as is con-
templated in the pending proposition.
When our government in 1792 said by
its coinage laws, that the difference
between the values of silver and gold
was 15 to 1. which was the true
difference at that time, the immutable
laws, customs and usages of trade
swept right on, wholy ignoring the
fact that such laws existed. And such
every na-
tion on the earth, and such today is
the experience of China, Japan, Mexi-
co and the 8outh American republics.
And what arc the consequences at-
tendant upon these experiences in
China, Japan, Mexico,and these south-
ern countries'.' And be it remembered
that none of these countries ever at-
tempted to coin a dollar on such a
radical scale as that demanded in this
proposition. All these countries have
failed to keep gold in circulation. All
are using a fifty-cent dollar. All are
battled in the race of life. All are
tloundering on the commercial seas.
All are plowing with wooden mould-
boards, using pack-saddles and riding
donkeys, while their neighbors, the
I'nited States leading, arc using Besse-
mer steel plows, driving iron horses
fed on steam, and riding steeds shod
with lightning. Then why force his-
tory to repeal myself? Why try
again that which the history of the
human race' has demonstrated over
and over cannot be done'.' Why enter
that celebrated school of which it is
said some people will learn in no
other?
No doubt Kngland would delight to
see us take such a foolish step. No
doubt she would like to see our pres-
tige broken in the great race of na-
tions. N'odoobtshe would rejoice to
see us stall in the marts of trade, all
because our tifty-cent dollar could not
"make the mare go."
No doubt she would hi' glad to see
our commercial barks go down to rise
above the waves no more. No doubt
she would receive our $ii:jo,niM),ooO of
gold with complacency and bid us re-
joice and be exceedingly glad that we
mid a fifty-cent dollar left.
No doubt England would like to see
us crouching at tne foot, instead « f
perching as we now do, on the top
round of the ladder of nations
But you say that we cannot worse
the pandemonium that was set up in
this country in 1893. You say that the
alleged act demonetizing silver in 1*73
was the cause of this fearful calamity
overtaking the country That an un-
paralleled panic spread over this, the
fairest land beneath the sun, in W. 3,
and that its effects are lingering still,
is only too true. That it was caused
directly or indirectly by the so-called
crime of 1873, we most emphatically
deny.
The secretary of the treasury of the
I'nited States and the census takers of
the same, the sworn historians of the
government on these topics have
handed down to prosterity the follow
and as fixed in t heir operations as the j ing facts relative to this sweeping as
Medes ami Per- sertion that the act of 1*7 ! was the
celebrated law
sians. You can no more affect, by an
act of the congress of the I'nited
States, the force and vigor of these
laws, customs an I usages than you
can affect the sunshine on the earth
by throwing a saddle blanket on the
fence. You con now begin to see why
this da/./.ling idea never dazzled in the
mind of any American statesman. It
dazzled or frizzled out by its own voli-
tion in the face of the act of 179?,
when we had whipped England once
and it. fizzled out in the face of the act
of 1 *31, when we had whipped En-
gland twice, ami that, too, in face of | of this republic
.ause of the panic of 1^(j:i Secretary
Carlisle in his statistical abstract of
the United States, sixteenth number,
gives the amount of money in circula-
tion per capita for the year 1800 when
gold and silver had free access to our
mints, #13.85.
For the year 1873, at which time
silver lost its head. #18.04, and that v as
no silver little gold and the balance
paper. For the year 1892, the last
year of republican rule, #24.41, the
largest amount per capita ever circii
latcd in any given year in the history
fact that all the nations of the
world were helping us, having their
mints open to silver as we bail ours,
except England.
Now. we said in the beginning that
we would explain why our gold left
us prior to 1*31 ami why our silver
left us subsequent to that time. Soon
after Rthe coinage act of 1792, silver
bullion declined a little in value iu
the markets of the woild. so that as a
matter of fact fifteen pounds of silver
was not worth one pound of gold in
the marts of trade. Hence the metal
in a silver dollar at that ratio was not
worth as much as the metal in a gold
dollar, or as much as the figures on its
face certified it to be worth.
But it would pay nil d *bts at home
both public mid private. It theref re
became strictly a home money, ami as
consequence the standard of value
our history; confidence in the business
world was registered at fever heat;
our industries were employed to their
utmost capacity; the output of our
mines the greatest ever known; more
people employed at better wages than
auy period of teu years prior to that
time; more happy homes builded by
the poor man: more churches ami
school houses erected; more colleges
endowed; more asylums founded; more
territory settled up. more railroad en
giues snorting up anil down the coun-
try; more money iu circulation; anil
last, but not least, more general pros-
perity and advancement than during
any period of like tiui*. iu this or any
other country.
Let us speak specifically of the year
1892, the omega of republican rule.
Secretary Carlisle in his report says
that our exports of domestic merchan
diw f"i the year 1899 VII #1,015,-
7 2,011 against #.'75,227,017 in 187.*, a
difference of #410,504,894 in favor of
the results of the act of 1873. Mr.
Carlisle's report all shows that the ex-
ports of domestic merchandise for the
year '9? exceed any in our history by
#143,401,729. which we must say is a
very creditable showing for the act of
'73, coupled with the reciprocity clause
of the McKinley bill.
This report also shows that the ex-
cess of exports for that year over im-
ports was $188,329,549, a very neat lit-
tle sum to come our way just at the
parting hours of republican control,
and by far a neater sum than ever
came our way in any one year of our
national existence.
This report shows also, that the
year 1892 stands conspicuously out. as
the most universal prosperous twelve
mouths in the aunals of this or any
other country, and this too with the
awful crime of '73, upon its back, and
the cussedness of the McKinley bill
tethered like a mill stone about its
neck, and the weight of a republican
administration on top of its head.
One would think from the stand
point of our free silver friends, that
the awful consequence resulting from
the "crime of '73," and the ruin that
followed in the wake of the "Itober
Tariff,"both backed by an administra-
tion that was the author and finisher
of each, that the year 1892, in a busi-
ness sense, would never have entered
upon the stage «f action at all. But
notwithstanding, "the villians still
pursued her," she was on time as ad-
vertised.
And when she retired from business
on the 31st day of the twelfth month
of her existence, she wore a purple
robe, bedecked with the diamonds of
success and studded with the rubies
of confidence. Such a robe as was
never worn before.
By any year, in any time.
Iii any faml. or any eliine.
I Ive-Fold More Hllver C Ih«iI.
We have said that this government
had coined since 1873, five times as
much silver as was ever coined in all
our history prior to that time. But to
be exact, we wish to modify this state-
ment, and say that we have coined
3.03 times as much. That is to say.we
coined in twenty years under the re-
publican system 3.03 times as many
silver dollars as was coined in eighty-
one years under the old system
We find by reference to the reports
of the director of our mints from 1702
to 1893, that we coiued from 17'. ? to
lS7;i. ^ 145,509,sus; from IsT.'t to ls'.'i,
104,323; a difference of #383,954,425
in favor of the republican system. Our
free silver friends say that the silver
dollar is the friend of the poor man.
And we want to admit that it has a
disposition to be on intimate terms
with the common people.
And perhaps that was the reason
the republican system gave you i.ii.'t
times as many friends in twenty years,
as the old system did in eighty-one
years.
We find that in the year 1*90 there
was coined #40,587,700 silver friends at
the United States mints, against #1,-
806,100 in the year 1850, and against
#?,259,390 in the year I860, as against
#1,378,250 in the year 1870, subsidary
coins.
Suppose the republican system had
run for a period of eighty-one years,
and had kept up its record for making
the friends of the poor man, it would
have made the following record as
against your old system, viz.
Old system in eighty-one years.si 4
509,990 friends.
New system in eighty-one years.
141,380.091 friends.
It strikes me that if friends on this
line are what you are pining for, that
you had best get down on your knees
and implore the (ireat Jehovah,by day
and by night, to move the hearts of
our rulers to again restore the system
growing out of the act of IsT't.
My dear friends, we want to prove
to you, here and now, that the silver
dollar coined since 1873 is a better
friend than the dollar coined from l".'U
to 1*7.1. That the one has done busi-
ness side by side with gold, that the
other got up. spit in your face and left
this country never to return. For the
reason that it was undervalued at the
mint, that is, its coined weight was
not equal in value to its bullion
weight.
As proof that this dollar did desert
the country we submit the following
facts taken from the report of the
secretary of the treasury:
On July 1st. 1872, we had in circula-
tion among our people S25,000,000 in
gold coins, and we had not a dollar in
silver, that is a dollar silver coin. The
entire #1 15,509,898 silver friends that
had been coined under the good old
system had long since taken the wings
of the morning and down to parts un-
known. There was not one of them
to stand up and be counted on that
day, July 1st. 1872 This entire sum
of money had escaped from the I nited
States by reason of the act of 1*34 to
return no more.
But you say that one half of our
primary or redemption money has
been stricken down and therefore the
power behind the throne is trembling
We deny that there la any truth what-
ever in this assertion, and for the
truth of what we say will again go in-
to history.
Admitting for the sake of argument
that silver is not a redemption money,
which is not true in fact, on
July 1st. 1872. we had in the
I'nited States $25,000,000 of gold, or
what you call redemption money We
had in circulation all told $738,:io9.5l9
leaving a sum of #715,309,549 without a
redeemer in sight. A sum which Un-
democratic party held at that time
could never be redeemed. In 1892 our
gold circulation was #020,00<>,000, our
entire circulation was #1,001,341
dollars, leaving without a gold
deemer *975.3 17,181 dollars. That is
to say that in 1*72 then
token dollars without a redeemer to
I1, token dollars in 1*92 We there-
fore conclude that the volume of ie-
demption money has not been cut down
as bad as you heard it was, and that
too reasoning from your own stand
point
llliiirtMlllMiii.
You are posing before the people of
the I'nited States, and before the peo-
ple of the whole world, as the only
i true bimetal list* on earth, when in
Mr. Carlisle gives the further as-
tounding fact that there were coined
five fold more silver dollars at our
mints since It?73 than in all our history
prior to that time. But you say:
"While these figures are true that as a
matter of fact gold has been cornered.
that it is therefore in the hands of the
few and net in circulation among the
masses, that it is the rich man's money
and therefore can never reach the
poor man and that the #21.11 per capita
as given by Mr. Carlisle is a myth,
that there has been a dearth of a cir-
culation per capita since 1873.'" Let us
again turn the search light of history
on these assertions
Ky turning to the census reports of
the I'nited States the following facts
will be discovered:
The growth and wealth between
1880 and 1890 was more steady and fact and in truth your proposition car-
While our jrold dollar was worth more | uniform than during any decade in | ries with It the most extreme mono
metal 1 ism that has ever been proposed
in this or any other country, a propo-
sition so ridiculous on its face that it
has not been considered for one mo-
ment b;. any government iu the world.
Did you ever stop to think that while
Cermauy wauts bimetallism, she has
not once thought of your proposition?
Oid you ever stop to think that while
France, ^paiu. Italy and all the great
powers want bimetallism, none of
them have conceived of the radical
and brilliant scheme proposed by you .'
And if not, why not?
It must be admitted that each na-
tion knows its own business better
than we know it for them
It must be admitted that if your
proposition carried with it the truths
of history, that the nations of the
earth now desiring bimetallism would
consider it.
It must be admitted that if your
proposition carries with it a Hat eon
tradiction of history and the experi-
ences of mankind, that no nation un
der the sun would consider it.
We want to tell you now, whether
you have thought of it or not. that
this is the reason that no nation is
considering your proposition, and this
is the reason that no nation ever will
consider it. These great nations, to
gcther with the United States, are
seeking bimetallism on a more plausi
lile theory—on a theory that all great
financiers of the world agree would be
a success; a system which, if adopted
would once and for all settle this
great question, that has troubled the
nations of the world since nations
were; a system that would take our
financial affairs out of politics and
place us upon a plane where every
little demagogue in congress could
not rise up with a new financial
scheme, producing distrust on the
part of the business world. We mean
international bimetallism. But you
say this is impossible. To this asser-
tion we want to interpose the follow-
ing. adduced from your own reason-
ing:
You say that the United States is
powerful enough to name a ratio of
10 to 1, when the true ratio is 32 to 1,
and force the bullion of the world up
to that standard, and that, too, when
no nation on the face of the earth has
ever intimated that the is willing to
join you in the enterprise; we*mean a
nation that is now on a gold standard.
If there is a semblance of ti nth in this
assertion, does it not follow that sin-
has the power to bring about interna-
tional bimetallism, when every nation
under heavens has signified a willing-
ness to join her in that enterprise, ex
cept (ireat Britain, and she now with
a ministry that is friendly to silver?
It is a historical fact that the repub-
lican party has never undertaken a
great enterprise that she did not ac-
complish. And had she succeeded to
power again in 1*92, we today would
perhaps be enjoying the fruits of true
bimetallism.
This is the kind of bimetallism, my
friends, that the republican party of
the United States is going before the
country in 1*96, with the greatest
amount of silver consistent with a
sound currency, in the meantime.
This is the kind of bemetallism that is
going to win not only in the United
States but throughout the whole
world. So your assertion that Inter
national Bimetallism is impossible,
has about the same effect on the pub-
lic mind, that a fiy speck would have
on the walls of Tammany Hall,which,
owing to its present condition, would
be no effect at all.
That is to say. your assertion falls
dead fiat without any effect whatever
on the minds of the people of this or
any other country.
We said your proposition carried with
it the most radical theory of mono-
metallism ever proposed in this or any
other country. That the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at an arbi
trary ratio of 10 to 1, independent of
other nations, under present circum-
stances would immediately drive all
our gold out of circulation is patent to
every candid student of history. Is
patent to every financier in the world.
That it would result in a quick, posi-
tive silver standard is known to every
nation on the globe, and to all kin-
dreds, toungucs and peoples, except
our few free silver friends, who have
won the apt designation of "free sil
ver cranks."
History has repeated the truth of
these assertions over and over. To
him who says that he favors a free sil
ver standard at this period of the
world's history, we ha
to make. To him who says
a cheap dollar,we leave alot
his own miseries.
Our time is so short that we cannot
linger longer on this theme.
t'urier Which 8ti inhir«i Were We Miwl
ProNperoiiH.
We have said that we were in fact
on a silver basis from 1792 to 1*34, and
in fact on a gold basis from 1834 to
187.3, and from 1873 to 1893 on a gold
basis both in law as well as in fact.
It will be interesting to know under
which of these conditions our people
prospered most. It seems to be that
an opporiunity to learn an im-
portant lesson in view of the historical
fact that true bimetallism never exist
d for any considerable length of time
n this or any other country. There is
no fact that stands out more boldly,
and therefore more conspicuously, in
all our national history than the fact
that the decade ending January - 1st,
1*00, was by far the most prosperous
ten years in our national life prior to
that time, and in fact the most pros
perous ten years in all our history savi
and except that from 1**0 to 1*90. And
all this at a time when gold was the
standard of values, wln n gold was the
money of our people. What lessons do
we learn from the facts herein cited'.'
Do we learn that a standard of values
measured by go'd at that time was
detrimental to the growth and develop-
ment of the country ' Do we learn
that a gold standard from l*8o to 1 *91
was detrimental to the general pros
perity of our people ' Do we learn
that a gold standard in law from 1873
to 1*93 was injurious to our develop
ment as a nation? No, my friends, w<
have learned none of these things.
But we have learned
First. That the act of 1*34, which
drove silver out of circulation, wit-
nesses a growth and development of
our resources unprecedented prior to
that time.
Second. That the act of Is*3 wit-
nessed a growth and development of
our country unparalleled in the his
tory of the whole world; witnessed a
greater circulation per capita and a
greater volume of business transacted
therewith; witnessed a confidence, en-
ergy, enterprise and success such as
no time in any age ever witnessed be-
fore; and finally, witnessed the proud
day upon which the government of
the United States took its position, as
we said, on the top round of the ladder
of nations. We do not wish to be un-
derstood in this c mnet tion as assum-
ing that tin* act of 1*73 was alone the
cause of the unpre •••dented advance-
ment subsequent to that time. But
we do mean to be understood as as-
suming that lhat act made it possible
for the government of the I nited
States to float a greater volume >f
sound money, and therefore the peo-
ple had a greater leverage with which
icial sys-1
ince the'
> argument
he wants
e to nurse
to do business than any ti nan-
teiu ever enacted into law since the
adoption of the present constitution.
That la to say, the aet of 1873, with
the subsequent sets that grew out
Of it
Therefore, we mean to assume that
the tiuancial system which grew out
of the act of lHT'i was superior to auy
tinaucial system enacted into law, ou
the part of the government, previous
to that time, for the reason that the
act of 17' - or the legitimate conse-
quences of that act, drove all our gold
abroad and left our fathers doing bus-
iness with a depreciated silver dollar
at a per capita of about SO; a dollar
that \\ as not worth too cents iu any
country in the world; a dollar that
stayed at home because it could not
go abroad. Therefore, the slow pro-
gress made in this country up to 1*34.
For the reason that the act of 1*34
only resulted in sending all our silver
out of the country leaving gold to do
the business of the people, which was
an improvement on the aet of 1*92.but
was not equal to the system inaugura-
ted in 189.3, for the reason that under
that act it was impossible for the gov-
ernment to keep Ootli gold and silver
doing business at home, and therefore
impossible to have so much circulation
per capita as we have under the act of
1S73. and the acts that followed it
Since 1 >TO our government has been
able to coin and Hoat 3.03 times more
silver as has been demonstrated, than
in all the years prior to that time
She has been able to keep it doing
business side by side with gold, the
one dollar being the equal of the other
dollar in its purchasing power both at
home and abroad. In view of these
actual existing historical facts, we
feel justified in the position we have
taken relative to the results of the act
of 1*73. We also feel justified iu de-
nying that the alleged crime of 1*73
was the cause directly or otherwise of
the panic of 1893.
Suppose that for a long period prior
to 1 *. 3, that a part, of your blood had
been escaping as fast as it accumulat
ed in your system, and that as a eon-
sequence you are not the man physi-
cally that you otherwise would have
been. Suppose that in 1*73 you em-
ployed a nhysician to look after this
state of your health. Suppose this
physician went to work and stopped
this chronic loss of blood and put you
on a tonic that made you physically
the greatest man iu the
world. And that in the year
1*92. under his treatment, you were I
ientcd with a felt such as Joltu L.
Sullivan or Jim Corbett never wore.
Suppose immediately after receiving
the belt you turned off your old physi- |
i and employed a new one. A doc-
whose theory of medicine was
■ctly adverse to that of your former
physician. A doctor who had been
making war on his system of treat-
ment for a long period of years, and
uppose that when you discovered
your great mistake you began to fear
and tremble, and that your confidence
in your future prowess was disturbed,
and that as soon as the effects of his
medicine were felt you became very
sick, and the more you took of the
dit ine the sicker you got and that
under his treatment your condition
went from bad to worse, until you
found .loli's alllictions light compared
with yours.
Who would you blame? And what
ould you do?
These questions suggest their own
answers. First. That the wild-eyed,
riproarious ignoramus at your bedside
was the cause of all of it. Second.
That you take the advice of Bildad,
the Shuhite repent of your foolish-
ness and straightway discharge that
doctor for once and forever, and send
for your old physician. This, my
friends, is exactly what the people of
the United States are going to do in
November, 1890. They are going to
discharge the democratic party for-
ever and ever ami ever. The advice
of Mr. Bildad has already sunk deep
down in the hearts of the American
people. They have been wearing sack
cloth and ashes and cursing the day
when the Cleveland administration
was born, for the past two and three-
quarters years And tiny are going
to send for that old physician at a
speed such as was never witnessed by
any doctor in modern times.
But some of you will speak up and
say, that the country is now gradually
recovering from the effects of the
panic of 1893 and 1891. notwithstand-
ing the fact that the democratic party
is still in control of affair*.
That is true, ray friends, absolutely
true, that the country ix convalesing.
But you must remember that the last
dose of medicine given by that demo-
cratic doctor, was administered on the
day that the last congress adjourned.
You must remember that the power of
that doctor to do harm ceased on that
day. so far as any additional medicine
was concerned,and that the prefix "ex"
has been written in front of hisoflicial
cognomen, as a token and as a sign,
that there will be no more of his nox-
ious medicine administered in the way
of additional laws for a period of time
wholly unknown to deponent. You
must remember also that Mr. Cleve-
land is now in the hands of a ^publi-
can congress, and therefore p iwerless
to do any more harm. Hence the con-
fidence inspired and therefore the con-
valescing condition of the country,
while Mr. Cleveland is only acting in
the capacity of a disgruntled nurse.
And herein, my dear free silver
friends, is a lesson for you. A lesson
that should have the same effect upon
you, that a prosperous season has on
populists. That is, it should cool your
ardor.
I f you are right in asserting that the
contraction, ruin ami suffering of 1*93,
was due to the "crime of ls73." and
intensified by the repeal of the par-
chasing clause of the Sherman act, it
would follow as a logical sequence
that the condition of the country
would go from bad to worse, until tin-
very midnight of despair would brood. I
like a pall, over the ruins of a one
prosperous, but now starving peopl
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M. L. TURNER, President.
GKO. K. BII.UNCSLEY, Cashier.
Capital National Bank
The Largest National Hank in Oklahoma Territory.
Capital and Undivided Profits, $100,000.00
ssis3?s
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W ICK Kll & F^IRFI WLD
Prompt attention giveu to Moving House hold Hoods, Pians and Safes.
Coal Delivered to any Part of the City.
Office 500 Harrison Avenue West of Depot. Telephone No. 80.
Have
You
a Boy?
Do you wish to place him in a
•school built for the purpose of
j providing a boy with a Christian
I home, while he is receiving the
id worth a
ent.
And it seems to me that it is about
time for you to get down ami out of
that little free silver craft while it is
yet day. for the night cometh In No-
I vember. 1*90, when no man can get
.nit. On that night there will be a
ratling of dry bones in tile valley of
Llehossaphat . Confidence, the motive
power of human action, will leap
mountain high, the withered grass of
11893 11 will again put on an emerald
hue. the wheels of commerce and of
| industry will hum with a music excell-
j ing that of the sirens of the deep, a
bow of promise will span the heavens
I as a covenant, us a token and as a sign
I that on that night all free silver boats
built on the plan of the one named
will sink, like McQinty, to the bottom
of the
tO do .'
Then what are you going
> you going to take the ail
Old Moses
j dollar per ca
delivered at
[orders at Ml
iliiiiii l.nl *•><• Milliter skill*
sells bottled beer at o
e, 24 bottles to the ca;
\ our residence. Lea
Harrison avenue
1 say! I did not go away 1
Hut I staid and ate one of those
delicious spring chickens with
cream gravy set up by
Frink & Hisself
coffee LIKE your HHOTHfcR
made
Opposite Postoffice.
Open Day and Night.
GAME OF All KINDS IN SEASON.
LAWYtHS OFFICL DOCKET.
Something Which Kvary Attorney Hhuulil
Hava.
Tuk Statk Capital has put in tock
a lawyer's office docket. It is deuiy
size, printed on the heaviest linen pa-
per, handsomely bound, with front in-
dex, and in every way a neat and con-
venient book to have iu the ofllce. It
contains the number and style of the
case and eveiy particular about it,
with space to place citations, etc.
When you see this docket we know
you will declare you cant do without
it Price, 3 qr. S bound, #3.50; 5 qr.
\ bouud go ou. ('ash invariably in
advance.
very best moral, physical and in-
tellectual training ? Do you
wish to know about the only
school in Kansas where supervi-
sion is constant, yet pleasing;
where boys are happy, while
their morals are uniler constant
scrutiny? Then send for a cata-
logue of ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL
Salina, Kansas, of which parents
and pupils speak in unmeasured
praise. Splendid equipments,
excellent table, cheerful sur-
roundings, able professors.
St. John's School, Salina, Kas
The IMhIiop of Kiln., ltector
Walter M. .lay, A. M.,
Mead .Mauler.
II. VOlMi,
City Scavenger,
Also Cleans Yards, Alleys. Etc.
Drop Order on Postal Card.
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