The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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T£E REPRESENTATIVE.
' rnbllahad every Thur«d«y by
•fiiE VINCKNT DAILY l'LHLlHHlNO CO.
•guthrie,
OKLAHOMA
No well balanced man ever baa a big
head. •
Lies that are alloyed with truth are
seldom dangc roi..
The wipe man never Introduces peo-
ple unless li«' Is obliged.
The world Is generally friendly to
those who make the fli- t advances.
The person v/ho does not know how
to end a story should never try to t* II
Few people appreciate how much of
a nuisance they are to those who wish
them well.
Queen Victoria's breaking of records
in the matter of reigning is also break-
ing her son's creditors.
a Chicago man la said to have died
of joy, but the health authorities are
not fearing an epidemic on that ac-
count.
The Englcwood, 111., policeman who
killed a mad dog with a shovel Is prob-
ably a graduate from the Holmes cas-
tle school for sleuths.
Three Cubans are to be garroted by
order of Gen. Weyler, and the . om-
mander's private secretary is doubtless
preparing a glowing description of this
great Spanish victory, in which the
enemy will bo totally exterminated
with small loss to the Spanish troops.
There is a man In Memphis with
enough charges against him to put
h!m in jail for 1,425 years. He is evi-
dently one of those individuals with
a mania for telling every one he meets
why the country is going to the doga
if it doesn't fall in line with his
views.
The Chicago police have raided a cer-
tain gambling house in which they
found a wheel so cleverly controlled
by a compressed air device that there
was not the slightest chance of a play-
er's winning, aa the man in control of
the wheel could step It on any number
he desired. Doubtless there are plenty
more such "sure thing" wheels in
guileless Chicago.
Among the common offenders in the
cell at Jefferson market police court in
New York, Albert Weber, the former
millionaire piano-forte manufacturer,
spent several hours waiting for some
one to come and pay a $5 fine. He
was fined for assaulting a workman
in his factory, and by some accident
ncne of his friends were at hand when
hi3 case came up and he himself had
Lot the required sum In his pocket.
Stephen Crane, the novelint, appears
as a witness in a New York police court
to testify to the orderly conduct ol
Dora Clark, who was arrested as a
street walker. His evidence secured
her discharge, but she protested that
the police were persecuting her. Crane's
friends state that in risking his own
reputation by thus appearing he was
performing what he considers to be a
"knightly" act of justice to an op-
pressed woman.
There Is a terrific scandal in New
York at present over the manner In
which certain hospitals are run. It Ih
openly cla med that certain well known
hospitals frequently refuse to receive
badly injured patients—that is, such
whose capes appear desperate— beeaus®
they wish to keep their death-rate as
low as possible. An investigation will
probably take place, and it is believed
that serious mismanagement, If not
worse, will be developed.
OUR FAILMfttt* LAND.
. •
(WOEFUL DEPRECIATION IN
PRICES THEREFOR.
fll.trk Hanna ml Hit Crowd of l.atior
CrtiiihArH Imngino That Uacllnlns
VttluoN Keep tlii AcrlculturUts—A Tell
Tulo Senate Itcport.
According to the Senate report on
"Agricultural Depression," in Illinois
Improved lands 1(11 from S-0 1 in 17::
to $11.18 In 18!)2; wheat fell In the
came time from $1.10 to 0!) cents a
bushel; cattle dropped nearly CO per
cent; horee3 and mules went Jjidow
that; hogs fell CO per cent,tand sheep
33 per cent.
In Nebraska Improved lands have
fallen more than 20 per cent since 18S5
and live stock about 40 per cent.
In Kansas the tenant farmers in-
creased 30,503.
In the Pacific and mountain states
Hid the territories, the number of ten-
int farmers increased 20,350.
In the Middle states the number of
iwnlng farmers decreased 42,304, and
he tenants increased 24,075.
In fifteen Southern states there was
in Increase of 390.275 tenant farmers.
The Middlo West, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois gives evidence of the same
change, and the group lost 31,259 own-
ing farmers and gained 48,804 tenant
farmers.
In Illinois the tenants increased to
3C.72 per cent of the whole. In eight
states of the Northwest the number of
tenant farmers increased 108,507.
In Pennsylvania farm lands have
fallen 25 to 30 per cent in less than
twenty years.
In the New England states, farm
lands have fallen 30 per cent since
1875.
In forty-seven states and territories
the number of tenant farmers increased
599,337. In 1880, 25.G2 per cent of the
farms were cultivated by tenants, in
1890, 34.13 per cent of the farm families
were tenants. 4
According to the report of the secre-
tary of agriculture for 1893 the value
of an average acre of wheat that year
In the United Stales was $0.16, and the
cost of raising It was $11.48—a net loss
to the wheat-growers of this country
of $5.32 for every acre cultivated that
year.
The report also says the average an-
nual value of an acre of wheat for the
fourteen yearn from 1880 to 1S93, in-
clusive, was only $9.73, while it cost to
raise it per acre $11.48—a net annual
loss to the farmers of the United States
of $1.75 for every acre of wheat pro-
duced since 1879.
The same report shows that the cost
of raising an acre of corn in 1893 was
$11.71, and that the value of an acre of
corn that year was $8.21.
How to I>e*troy Public Credit.
! If the government has been paying
gold interest, it had that right by the
| original agreement, and it may here-
after pay silver interest by the same
] right. The option is in the government,
! and it has never been surrendered and
j never will be. How often must this be
I repeated before the foidites will con-
i sent to accept the fact' We have had
| enough Shylock talk about "public
j credit," "good faith," "honor," "under-
| standings," "expectations," and "sup-
positions." The surest way to kill
' "public credit, good faith and honor"
j is to smash down the price of property,
. paralyze business, pauperize labor,
bankrupt enterprise, and drive the peo-
| pie into poverty and despair; and that
Is precisely the role the gold-yelpers
are playing.—Chicago Tribune, Janu-
ary IB, 1878.
Fay Tcmpleton is again before the
public as least she personally has dis-
appeared, but her affairs are again be-
fore the public. She was playing in
lUce's new burlesque. Excelsior. Jr.
In Montreal, Can., and it is supposed
that she has gone to Europe, her com-
panion being a man named Urown who
is said io be a nephew of John Wana-
maker s. Rice is making every en-
deavor to discover her whereabouts, at
Is also her aunt, Mrs. Adams of New
^ ork. but not the slightest clue has
been found.
When Gen. Scott was ;i ked Ills au-
thority for spelling wagon with twe
g's. he said that the spelling was on the
authority of \\ Infield Scott, command-
er of the armies of the United States
of America. When the officials of the
bureau of engraving and printing are
criticized for spelling tranquillity with
one 1, on the face of the recently Issued
one-dollar silver certificates, they reply
that In quoting from the constitution
they followed the snelllng of tile origin-
al document; and in view of this au-
thority It Is not worth while to hoard
for future premiums one dollar r,ilver
certificates of the Issue of 1890.
1 .
The arrest In New York of counter-
feiters Knapp and Scott has lead to a
very Interesting and Important discov-
ery on the part of the United States
secret service officials. It appears Hint
* this gang had In their employ a large
number of their spurious half and quar-
ter dollars. It is believed that this dis-
covery will b ad to the^inearthlng of a
very e'.aborate system In Whkfi a num-
ber of street car men have been mixed
f up for years. It Is a very clever
heme, fqr few p< i>on would fV*r
iiink of examining a coin .giw ij |n
liifngf) on a car, as to Its ieuulnsn«
Hi« su
tin- I nit.
Tha Ancient ( nchuneralilfl Dollar.
A correspondent asks us why we
give so marked a preference to the sil-
ver dollar of 371 \ grains of pure sil-
ver, and reject the proposed "Christi-
ancy dollar," or the "Blaine dollar," or
the trade dollar? We shall not under-
take now to repeat or restate all of
them. .Hut the first reason Is that the
dollar of 371U grains pure silver has
been the monetary standard or unit
of value In this ountry from
1792 until 1S73, a period of eighty-one
years. It Is the ancient, unchangeable
dollar of this country.—Chicago Trib-
une, February 11, 1878.
Tho silver dollar was not changed.
In 1792 congress enacted that 371 i
grains of silver should constitute the
American dollar; that tills Jollir
should bo the unit of value of Ameri-
can money, and be a legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and
private. During the eighty ycajs 'hat
followed, though the size and quantity
of pure metal In the gold coins were
changed more than once, the silver dol-
lar, the American unit of value, re-
mained unchanged.—Chicago Tribune.
Feb. 23, 1S78.
In tho controversies with goldltes It
Is proper to point out and keep con-
stantly in view the fact, which they ,\re
so anxious to blink, that this country
always ha 1 the double metallic stand-
ard from 1792 till 1S73, when silver was
clandestinely dropped.—Chicago Trib-
une, FA. 11, 1878.
Th# Tribune *nil Work ln?m*n.
A laboring man would Infinitely pre-
fer to I"- ;et at .worli* trning liver dol-
lars than to starve waiting for employ-
ment on a gold basis.—Chicago Trib-
une, January 9, 187°
— ->
This campaign Is not so much a con-
test of political parties as It Is a pro-*
test of a large ■ Jnri' nf of"
liberty-loving people m.i.nst financial
•la*ery. • , *
A QOLD BUG OUTFIT.
A Private Car Loaded with U«neraLi U
Storm the Weit.
General Alger, General Howard,
General Sickles, General Stewart and
General Sigel are toiying the country
in General Alger's private <%r. They
will travel through Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebras
ka, Kansas, Indiana Kentucky and
Ohio. They have a mission to per-
form and propose to enjoy themselves
while at It.
It is tjie object of thes* gentlemanly
generals to expound the gold standard
theory of money in ail its purity. They
know all about its benefits, and who so
able to explain them to others as those
who have personal knowledge of th"lr
general utility? In a general way th"so
doughty warriors know, of course, that
tv' " aro some people, usually of the
Co .non classes, however, who do not
approvo of the gold standard. They
have also heard indistinct rumors cf
suffering and hardship among the or-
dinary people who are so lacking in
foresight and common sense as to toil
for a living, but as for anything defi-
nite in that way penetrating their pri-
vate car why, it wasn't built that way.
Private cars are usually built with an
eye to the purpose of excluding the disa-
greeable characteristics of life, and suf-
fering, destitution and starvation aie
generally included in that category.
In order to make them effective in ac-
complishing their purpose they are
also built in such a way as to exclude
the common people because it is only
among the common people that the
stupid habit of suffering for want of
something to cat ever prevails to an.
extent.
It is well known that it is the duty
of a general to command, a. i equally
the duty of the private to obey,
and wh°n five generals bunch
themselves together and start out to
give commands it may be taken for
granted that the privates will line
themselves up, right about face, double
quick, charge, Just as they are ordered
to. Thus it would seem that our tour-
ing generals have an enormous advant-
age on their side from the start, and it
only needs that those conditions which
are the acknowledged proper ones, be-
tween generals and privates should ob-
tain to make them preeminently suc-
cessful in fulfilling their mission.
However, there is some difference
between a political campaign and a
war campaign. One difference of con-
siderable importance, too, is that po-
litical generals have no means of com-
pelling obedlencee to their commands
and therefore have to rely entirely on
their persuasive powers to accomplish
their end. This fact may not set well
with the quintuplet who are riding in
Genera! Alger's car and whose exclu-
sive surroundings naturally will ap-
pear incomplete unless accompanied
with all the attributes of unlimited
power over their fcllowmen which they
seem to imply, but they will have to
put up with it. It does seem a little
hard that a silken-clad general from
the environments of a palatial private
car should be reduced to the level of a
Sockloss Simpson or "Stump" Ashby
in his dealings with the private voiers
of the country, but this is one of the
inconveniences of popular government
which the Alger crowd will have tc
endure. But this is not all nor per-
haps the greatest obstacle they will
find in their pathway.
Some.of the "demagogues and agi-
tators'" with whom they will likely
come in contact have traveled so far
along tho road that leads to anarchy
as to question seriously the right ol
any man or set of men to avail them-
selves of exclusive privileges at the
hands of monopolistic railways whose
very roadbed was acquired through
public condemnation of private prop-
erty on the pretense that such condem-
nation was necessary for the benefit of
the public. Tlio?e "anarchists" aro
actually demanding that the govarn-
ment shall take possession of all the
railroads in tho country and thus de-
prive the few God-favored ones of the
free ride3 which they now enjoy at the
expense of the people. Alger. Sigel &
Co. will have to put up the best light
they can and even at the best, it is
likely that they will not find their path-
way among the ten-cent corn raisers
of tho west spread with roses.
(live 1 * More Folld Money.
The prime object in remonetizlng
silver is to add to the solid substantial
Intrinsic money stock of the country.
There can't be too much hard money-
real money—in circulation, guch an
Inflation is stimulating and invigorat-
ing. It is at once a sign and prop of
national and commercial prosperity.
The simple remone;ii:ation of tho sil-
ver dollar, with proper provisions for
Its coinage, will contribute n steuly
stream to the money resources of the
United States.—Chicago Tribune, Jan.
23. 1878.
! j BKLHEVB THAT Till-: 8TUUO-
i <51.K NOW GOING ON IN' THIS COUN-
TRY "\NI> OTHER COUNTRIES FOB
A SINOI.E GOI.I) STANDARD,
WOULD. IF SUCCESSFUL. PRODUCE
WIDESPREAD DISASTER IN THE
END THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SILVER
\S MONEY AND ESTABLISHING
GOLD AS THE SOLE UNIT OF VAL-
UE MUST HAVE A RUINOUS EF-
FECT ON ALL FORMS OF PROP-
ERTY EXCEPT THO.-te INVEST-
MENTS WHICH YIELD A FIXED
RETURN IN MONEY JAM!*? (I.
BLAINE. (CONGRESSIONAL UKO
ORD, PAGES 820 TO 822, 1ST*.)
Sufferer—"You advertise to pull
teeth without pain. Is that true 01
#Dentist—"It's true—if th
teeth are false!"
He—"Have you ever noticed what
simple tastes Mrs. /ftlcasli has?" She
—"Goodness, yes! I met her husband
to-day.H
Because there is no tax on manufac-
tories in New Orleans, 43 were estab-
lished tlx^re^luring- the past*twelve
ui >111 lib.
It is estimated that there are thirty
million fruit trees in California, of
which about one-half are now in full
beari n g. *
Every man is privately of the opin
ion ttiat his wife saves the bulk of her
week's housework to do on Sunday
morning1.
A man's idea of a pood woman is one
who thinks her husband doesn't need
praying for.
Nothing pleases a man so much as
to be coaxed to do a thing he wants
to do, any way.
If the devil will just burn him, and
find no fault, a man won't mind hell
very much.
TO cuiu: A COM) IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative- Hromo Quinine Tablets. All
Drut'gisi.s refund tbe money if ii fails tocuro.
We have noticed that the greatest,
kicker is the best patron of the medi*
cine fakir.
No college graduate ever became old
enough to forget ail his college fool-
ishness.
No girl whose hair is naturally cur-
ly should complain of her environ-
ments.
Frequently if a friend sticks to you
it is from the same motives as tho
leech.
Cascarets stimulates liver, kidneys and
drwels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
Everyone is looking for sum? one
who will think he is always right.
How many pretty girls there are, and
how wretchedly poor they are!
If thoughts were deeds, what n
guilty humanity it would be!
It is the medicine prescribed by
circumstances which hurts
EAT AND GROW FAT
MRS. M. A. HINKLE'S RESTAURANT,
0
Farmers and Everybody ELe should remember that meals hsri
arc only if cents straight, or $3 per wcqJc,
and strictly lirst-class.
TWO DCQRS NORTH OF L5LLIE'S„
IN BUSINESS AGAIN!
IS. F, BElmvl.
Is doing business again at the old stand, and canies the fargestlin#
WAGONS, BUGGIES and CARTS,
As well as all kinds of
Farm Implements, as Corn Shelters, Wind-
Mills, Harrows, Drills, Etc.
cots a: skk rac.
B. F. BERKEY, 124 North Division St-. GUTHRIE.
Speedy tougues seem to run in fami.
lies like dther afflictions.
If you get a particularly poor pencil-
you will never lose it.
Winchester, California, reports an
asbestos find recently.
A genius and a good fellow are two
d i fferen t person s.
You assist the liar if you believe his
tales.
A guilty heart imagines universal
juilt.
San Francisco has a Chinese detective-
+ XXX~XXXXXXXXXXX+-H-+XXXXXXXXXXXXX-r
X MONEY! - TO im MONEY ! *
& TEN PER CENT MONEY READY Oil GOOD REAL ESTATE. +
i SiL HA6AN AND PAINE, $
£ GRAY BLOCK. - GUTHRIE, x
+X XXXX XXXXXXXX++++XXXX XXXXXXXXX+
TO BE HAPPY YOU MUST EATI
The Oldest and Best Restaurant and Short Order House in Okla-
homa it yet running, and for a Good Meal go see
ANDY FRINK!
Everything the Best. He will treat you the best and furnish you
Coffee Like Your Mother Used to Make
Boston street cleaners have a union.
California will import Japanese coal.
Detroit is to have a Labor Temple.
There are paper telegraph wires.
America has 40 Jewish weeklies.
India's coal output is increasing
Canada sends eggs to England.
Canada has 19,000 teachers.
Coal is cheapest in China.
llcrlin is to be a seaport.
Money and women talk.
Nobody 111*33 everybody.
PONT GET LEFT
THE KATY FLYER
ANEW FAST TRAIN
VIA
Take
Cnrn of your physical health. Ttuild up Y°"-
pystrm, tone your atomach. enrich y<>ur blood,
prevent colds, pneumonia and fevers by taking
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
The Best—in fact the One True Blood Pnrifier.
Ti .. aro the only pills tuUk«
HOOtl S FlllS with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
DAILYAND JCHICAG0
"SUNDAYST00" 1ST.L0UIS
ANDPRINCIPALPOINTSIN
THE NORTH AND EAST
ALSO TO TEXAS AND
THE SOUTHWEST.
COLUMBIAN PRIZE WIKKERS.
DON"?
GET
WET.
nss-3 umm
SLICKERS
WILL KEEP YOU DSIY.
DRUGS.
A complete stock of intra* for sale cheap. Id
volco fiauo.oo.
Ciood reaaon for telling.
FRANK BUSHEY,
Wichita. Kan.
PENSIONS, PATENTS. CLAIMS.
JOHN W MORRIS, WASHINGTON D C.
L*t« Trincip*! C* niln*r U P i"*Bilon Burt*;
S j ti. m ii a«]jua cjkuu4 *uj. Bsc*.
roil l^t In 1871. Thonwmds
i «t and heat core. I rk* Trial.
Marmii, t^iiincy. Mich.
CONOVER
PIANOS
CHICAGO
COTTAGS
ORGANS
WERB GIVEN
Highest Awards
At the World's Exposition
for excellent manufacture,
quality, uniformity and
volume of tone, elasticity
of touch, artistic cases,
materials and workman^
ahr? of highest grade.
FAST THROUGH TRAINS
DAILY,
St. Loiii3 and Kansas City
TO.
St. Paul end Minneapolis.
THE BEST LINE
FROM
ST, LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY TO
OMAHA, DENVER,
2SOKTAWA, COLORADO, NS
BIlAnKA, UTAH ASD
PACIFIC COAST.
Vestlbuisd Trains with Sleepers, Chali
Gars (Sr) and Dining cars.
OPIUM" " :
VI IwVW
OATALOQUS3 ON APPLICATION FRC2.
Kansao City to Eastern Cltleo
via Chicago or Peoria.
L. W. Wakoloy, Q. P. A.,
ST. LOUIS, MO,
Howard elliott, Cen. Mgr.,
8T. JOSEPH, MO,
L. J. U-rlckor, T. P. A.,
KANE AS CITY, Mfll
L HAYNES BUXTON.
The November elertion will prove
>hat Carl Schiirz. who ti.i ii< ■< I in
turn with the republican?, democrats,
and muRwumpD. du> not ^.rr thn>
German-Amcrit-«Ui >ote ln«hl« pocket
[SFFJ S
CURU we
Rest Tnugli Syri.i*.
In tlina^H
jSFFi.'ili
dhicago cottage organ co.'
OHICAGO. ILL.
N AND
UR6EST MANUFACTURERS OF
PIANOS AND ORGANS IN THE WORLP
•SURGEOn.
GUTHRIE, . - ' OKLAHOMA*
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