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CARLISLE TALKS AT CHICAGO.
MEX OF TOIL SEEK THE TRLTH
A BOLT FREE COINAGE.
To Hundred Officers of (he Chicago
Trade and Labor Assemblies Oc
cupy the Stage—Every One of the
5,4*00 Seats in the Auditorium Oc
cupied by an Eager Listener—The
Secretary Given au Enthusiastic
Reception.
Chicago, April 15.—John G. Carlisle, Sec
retary of the Treasury, arrived in this
city from Washington this afternoon on
the Pennsylvania limited. As the secre
tary stepped from the train he was greet
ed by a large delegation of labor men,
among whom were James McGill and
Humphrey Knight of the Louisville Cen
tral Labor Union, who had come from
that city to hear Mr. Carlisle's lecture.
After a hearty handshake all around. Sec
retary Carlisle entered a carriage, and,
accompanied by Henry S. Robbins, presi
dent of the Sound Money League, anti
George W. Geary, chairman of the com
mittee which has arranged for the lec
ture, and W. K. Carlisle, his son, was
driven to the latter's home.
Every one of the 5,0(X) seats in Chicago's
great Auditorium was filled to-night with
people, who came to hear the address of
Secretary Carlisle on currency and finan
ces. Several hundred people stood through
the entire address, and several hundred
more went away, being unable to gain
admittance. The secretary received a
hearty welcome and was loudly cheered
upon entering the hall.
The stage was occupied by about 200
officers of the Chicago trade and labor
assemblies, at whose invitation Mr. Car
lisle came to Chicago. M. J. Carroll, edi
tor of the Eight-Hour Herald, presided.
Mr. Carroll said that it was the desire
of the laboring people of Chicago to hear
some plain, intelligent truth regarding
the'currency question, and that the Sec
retary of the L'nited States Treasury had
been selected as the most fit person for
giving the information wanted. He then
introduced Mr. Carlisle, who, alter ex
pressing his pleasure at meetinfc such a
large assemblage of Chicago people, be
gan his speech, from which liberal ex
tracts follow:
• • • •
Whether the general business of the peo
ple shall be transacted with good money
or bad money, whether the wages of labor
shall be paid In a sound and stable curren
cy, with lull purchasing power In the
markets where they are exchanged for the
necessaries of life, or in a depreciated and
fluctuating currencv,having no fixed value
and therefore bearing no permanent rela
tion to the current, prices of commodities,
are questions which affect the comfort and
happiness of every heme and the peace
and prosperity of every community. While
uli ore deeply interested in the settlement
of these questions, it is unfortunately the
ease that all will not be equally affected
by an erroneous decision upon them. The
wealthy man, the man who has accumu
lated property or hoarded money, is al
ways exempt from many of the most se
rious consequences of a financial or indus
trial disturbance. He has both means and
credit, and while he may be subjected to
much loss and inconvenience, neither he
nor his family will be pinched hy hunger,
or compelled to go without raiment or
shelter. It is the poor man and the man
of moderate means, the man who has not
been fortunate enough to accumulate
property or money, but who depends up
on his wages or upon the products of his
own labor for the means of supporting
himself and his family, that always feels
the first and most disastrous effects of a
business or Industrial depression, no mat
ter whether it reaults from a depreciated
and fluctuating currency or from other
causes.
• * • •
Whether we shall or shall not have a
long period of financial, commercial and
industrial disturbance in this country,
and whether labor shall be deprived of
permanent employment or be partially
employed and inadequately paid, are ques
tions directly and neressar.iy involved in
thq demand now seriously made by many
of our fellow oitizens that the United
States, without the co-operation of any
other government in the world, and in op
position to the established policy of every
other great civilized and commercial na
tion, shall authorize the free and unlim
ited coinage of full legal tender silver at
the ratio of 16 to 1, notwithstanding the
true market ratio between the two metals
is about 31 to 1; or, in other words, that
the United States alone shall declare by
Jaw that sixteen ounces of silver are
equal in value to one ounce of gold, when
It is an indisputable fact everywhere rec
cognized that in all the markets of the
world, in silver standard countries as well
as in goCd standard countries, sixteen
ounces of silver are worth only about
one-half as much as one ounce of gold, and
will purchase only about one-half as much
of the necessaries of life. The naked pro
position is that the United States shall
coin, at the public expense, for the exclu
sive benefit of the individuals and corpora
tions owning the bullion, all t'he silver that
may be presented at the mints into dol
lars containing 371Vw grains of pure silver,
or 41214 grains of standard silver, worth
intrinsically about 51 or 52 cents, deliver
the coins to t'he depositors of the bullion,
and compel all the people in the country
to receive these coins at a valuation of
100 cents each in the payment of debts
due them for property sold, for ikbor and
service of all kinds, for pensions to sol
diers and sailors and their widows and
children, for losses sustained under poli-'
cies issued by life and other
insurance • companies, for deposits
in savings banks, trust com
fianies, building associations and other
nstltutions, for debts due to widows and
orphans by guardians, executors and ad
ministrators of decedents' estates and
other trustees, for salaries of all civil,
military and naval officials, and the com
pensation of private soldiers and seamen,
and, in short, for every kind of obligation
recognized by the laws of the land, except
only in cases where the prudent capitalist
has taken the precaution in advance to
contract for payment in gold or Its
equivalent. To'say nothing of the gross
partiality and manifest injustice of such a
policy, its immediate effect would be to
contract our currency to the extent o,
about $620,000,000 by stopping the use of
gold as money and putting a premium
upon the coins of that metal equal, or
about “equal, to the difference between
the intrinsic value of the gold dollar and
■the intrinsic value of the silver dollar.
Gold coins would at once become a com
modity and would be bought and sold by
speculators in the market just as they
were during t'he war when we had a de
preciated paper currency. The value of
the silver dollar would fluctuate from day
■to day, moving up and down with the rise
and fall of the commercial price of the bul
lion contained in it, as the Mexican dollar
does no<w, and the premium on the gold
dollar would of course fluctuate to the
same extent, thus affording an opportunity
to bullion brokers and speculators to buy
and sell it at a priflt. It would cease
to be used as money, because no
nian would pay his debt in gold dollars, or
in paper redeemable in gold dollars, worth
Kh> cents, when the law permitted him to
pay It in silver dollars, worth only 51 or
52 cents each. The sudden withdrawal of
$620,000,000 from the volume of cur
rency in the country would undoubtedly
produce a financial and industrial dis
turbance far more disastrous to the Inter
ests of labor than has ever been experi
enced In our history, and no man who has
a particle of sympathy for workingmen
ind women and their dependent families
can contemplate the possibility of such a
calamity without feeling that it is his
duty, whteher he occupies a public or a
private station, to employ every honora
ble means at his command to avert It.
While the sudden expulsion of s63o,oft>,rtX)
! n gold from our stock of money would
itself be sufficient to create a financial
disturbance unparalleled In the history of
this or any other country, the situation
would be very greatly aggravated by the
fact that the purchasing power of all the
remainder of our currency would be sud
denly reduced about one-half; we should
bitv.- only about two-thirds as much our
!■ my as we have now. and at the same
■Jit would be so depreciated Iti value
'bat It would require about twice as much
1 “ ** have now to transact the business
"•lJ if provided there should ha
"'if, business ip transact.
■** j •‘LtWRI to maintain what la called
nc aoui*i* standard of value, (hat la, Uie
attempt to keep the legal tender coins of
the two metals, gpld and silver, in use as
mpney at the same time, upon a ratio
of value fixed by law, has repeatedly been
made by kings and parliaments In every
civilized country In the world, and it has
failed again and again in every one of
them; and It requires no gift of prophecy
to forsee that it must continue to fail
so long as self-interest constitutes a
controlling factor In the business affairs
of men.
• •••••
We have now about $620,000,000 In gold,
and $413,000,000 In full legal tender silver,
besides $78,216,677 in subsidiary silver
coins, which are legal tender in payments
not exceeding $lO. and the real question
for the people to decide is whether they
will continue to use the coins of both
metals or adopt a monetary system which
always has and always will drive one ot
them out of the country. I am not here,
therefore, this evening to advocate the
exclusive use of gold coin as money, or to
oppose a conservative and safe use of sil
ver coin as money along with gold and at
a parity with gold, but I am here to in
sist that we shall hot abandon the present
legal standard of value, expel all the gold
from the country, and adopt silver mono
metallism, with free coinage of a nomi
nal dollar worth intrinsically only 51 or
52 cents. I am here to insist that the
mints of the United States, which were
constructed and are maintained and op
erated at the expense of the people, shall
not he used for the exclusive benefit ot
the owners of silver bullion under a law
giving them th* right to have 51 or 52
cents worth of their silver coined free
of charge and stamped as a dollar, and
compelling you and all others to receive
it from them as a dollar. All the mints
of the United States, operated to their
full capacity, and doing no other work,
could not coin into standard silver dol
lars two-thirds Of the annual production
of silver in our own country, but, notwith
standing this, it is seriously proposed to
offer free coinage to all the silver In the
work! at a legal valuation almost double
its commercial value in the markets of
the foreign countries where it isproduced.
The annual production of silver in the
world is about $216,000,090 at our coining
rate, and the annual capacity of our
mints to coin standard silver dollars *s
only about $40,000,000. Last year we coined
$43,933,475 in gold, and $9,069,480 in silver;
so that if our mints were devoted exclu
sively to the free coinage of standard sil
ver dollars the addition to our stock ot
metallic money would be about $15,000,000
less every year than It is now; and it
would not be good money after It was
coined. More than fifteen years would
elapse before we could at this rate coin
enough depreciated silver dollars to sup
ply the place of the good gold dollars ex
pelled from the country, and, in the mean
time, a complete revolution would have
to be effected In our commercial relations
with other nations, and in all our domes
tic business affairs, including a readjust
ment of the wages of labor, the prices ot
commodities, the rates of municipal, state
and federal taxation, charges for trans
portation, and every other matter involv
ing the use of money or credit. We should
descend by a single step from the high
est standard of value to silver monometal
lism. with a contracted and at the same
time a depreciated currency, a financial
experiment which has no precedent in
the monetary history of the world
*•*•
After struggling for more than a quarter
of a century, through labor organizations
*nd otherwise, to secure a rate of wages
which would make the proceeds of a day’**
work equal to the cost of a day's subsis
tence for the workingman and his familv.
you are asked by the advocates of free
coinage to Join them in destroying one-half
the purchasing power of the money in
W'nich you are paid and impose upon your
selves the task of doubling the nominal
amount of your wages hereafter; that is,
to struggle for another quarter of a cen
tury, or perhaps longer, to raise your
wages in a depreciated currency to a point
which will enable you to purchase with
them as much of the necessaries of life as
you can purchase now; and if, after years
of contention, privation, and industrial
disorder, you should at last succeed in so
adjusting wages that they would procure
at the higher prices of commodities just
what they will procure now at the existing
prices, what would you have gained by the
change from the old to the new conditions’’
Money received for wages, like money re
ceived on every other amount, is valuable
only to the extent that It can be exchanged
for other commodities, and it is scarcely
necessary to suggest that a dollar worth oO
cents will not purchase as much in the
markets as a dollar worth 100 cents To
call a dime a dollar would add nothing
whatever to Its intrinsic value, or to its
purchasing power. If these propositions
are correct, it is clear that when wages
are paid in a depreciated currency the
rates of wages must be increased in pro
portion to the depreciation of the money
and In proportion to the increase in the
prices of other things, or the laborer will
suffer a loss. But, I affirm that it is the
universal rule that the rates of wages do
not increase in proportion to the deprecia
tion in the value of the money in which
they are paid, and that when the currency
is depreciated the rates of wages do not
increase in proportion to the increase in
the prices or the commodities the laborer
is compelled to purchase. If there has
been a single exception to this rule in this
or in any other country, my investigations
have not enabled me to find it, and I do not
believe one can be found.
* * * * *
In 1862 the wages of labor, paid in de
predated paper, were less than 3 per
cent, 'higher in paper ithan when paid in
gold, but the prices ,of the 223 articles
used by tihe laborers ami other people
in t'he maintenance of their families were
nearly 18 tier cent, higher than they were
when paid tn gold; In 1863 the wages of
labor paid In depreciated paper worth
about 69 cents on the dollar, were 10H per
cent, higher than when pakl in gold but
the prices of the articles the laborer
had to buy with ihis wages were nearly
49 per cent, higher; in 1864 the wages of
labor paid in depreciated paper dollars
worth 49 cents each, had advanced 25*4
■per cerrt., but the prices of hhe necessaries
of life 'had advanced 90(4 per cent.; In
1865 wages paid in paper currency worth
63 cents on Che dollar had advanced 43
per cent, above the rates previously paid
In gold, or Its equivalent, but the prices
of commodities had advanced nearly 117
per cent.—(that is to say, had more than
doubled—and in 1866 wages paid in a
currency worth 71 cents on the dollar had
advanced a fraction more than 52 per
cent, from the previous rates in gold
or its equivalent, but fhe prices of com
modities 'had advanced 90 per cent The
rise in t'he rates of wages never corre
sponded with the rise in the prices of other
things until the year 1869, four years after
Che close of the war. when the value
of our currency was 71 cents on the dol
lar, and i>t was quite certain that no fur
ther depreciations would occur. In 1860
this country was on a gold basis and
had been on that basis for many years
under t'he operation of Che acts of 1834
and 1837. Wages were then paid in gold
or its equivalent, and by reducing the
wages paid in a depreciated currency to
a gold basis, and comparing them with
Che rates paid in gold in 1860, we shall
have another demonstration of the in
jurious effects of cheap money on the
interests of Che laborer. On this basis
fhe laborer received 76 cents and 2 mills
1n 1863, instead of rhe gold dollar he re
ceived 1n 1860; in 1884 he received 80 cents
and 8 mills instead of a gold dollar
and In 1865 he received 66 cents and 2 mills
instead of a gold dollar. In other words
the wages of labor, measured by gold
as rhey were In 1860, when we had a
sound currency, had fallen about 24 per
cent, in 1863, more than 19 per cent in
1864, and nearly 44 per cent, in 1865 when
we ha<i a depreciated currency; and
gentlemen, the force of this illustration
is greatly augmented by the facts that
Chese reductions in the rates of wages
occurred at a time when several hundred
thousand laborers had been withdrawn
from Che field of competition, when the
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government was engaged In the prose
cution of a great war. and was expending
money lavishly for all kinds of supplies
for the army and navy, and when the;
prices of all fhe products of labor had
largely increased. Surely, if there ever
can be a time when an abundance of
cheap money will increase -the wages and
improve the condition of laboring men,
-these results ought to have been accom
plished under the combination of favora
ble circumstances existing, especially in
the great centers of industry, from 1861
to 1865, and yet there has been no other
period in our hiisiory when the rates of
wages fell so rapidly or so low.
• * • • *
Our neighboring republic of Mexico,
with a constitutional government very
similar to our own, with an area of 767,0 ft)
square miles and a population of only
about 12,009,000 with almost marvelous nat
ural resources awaiting develpoment, and
offering a most inviting field for the in
vestment of capital and the employment
of labor, has the silver standard of value,
gold not being In use, and if cheap money
is a blessing to the laboring man he ought
to be prosperous and happy In that coun
try. The Mexican dollar contains 377.17
grains of pure silver, or nearly 6 grains
more than is contained in our dollar, and
yet, not being sustained by a monetary
system which keeps it at a parity with
gold, it is worth only about 53 cents in
our money. Wages are paid in silver and
are very low in comparison with the wages
paid -in this country for the same services,
in many instances not being half as much,
while the prices of commodities generally
are much higher than they are here. The
prices of imported articles especially are
exorbitantly high In Mexico, because they
have to be paid for abroad In gold, and
the depreciation of their money is so
great that it requires nearly two dollars
in silver to pay one in gold. Although
our own silver dollar contains less fine
silver than the Mexican dollar, one of
ours is nearly equal in exchangeable value
to two of theirs, because here the coinage
is limited and the government issues the
coins on its own account and has pledged
its faith and credit to keep them as good
as gold, a pledge that has been faithfully
kept up to this time, notwithstanding the
complaints and denunciations of our free
coinage opponents. Under this policy
the dollar paid to the laboring man for
his wages is just as good and will pur
chase just as much in the markets as the
dollar paid to the bondholders, or to any
other class of creditors; but if we are to
haye free and unlimited coinage of legal
tender silver for the benefit of the owners
of the bullion, the government and the
people at large would have no interest
whatever in the coins, and it would lie
grossly unjust to require the government
to keep them equal in exchangeable value
to gold. The dollars, as rapidly as coined,
would be delivered to the owners of the
bullion free of charge, and the government
would have no legal or moral right to tax
all the people of the country in order to
procure gold with which to redeem these
private coins. The value of our dollar
would, therefore, be no greater than the
Intrinsic or commercial value of the silver
contained in It, and its purchasing power
in the markets would be diminished about
one-half; but the wages of labor would
remain, for a long time, at
least substantially at the present rates, or
if they should be nominally increased on
account of the depreciation of the cur
rency. experience in the past shows that
they would not Increase in proportion to
the increase in prices of commodities.
Rises in the rates of wages take place
very slowly, while the prices of commodi
ties move rapidly, at some periods chang
ing several times in the course of a sin
gle day, and these movements are always
more frequent and more harmful when tho
currency is in an unsettled condition.
* * * * •
If the solution of this question affected
only the character and amount and pur
chasing power of the future earnings of
the American laborer, it would still be a
subject of the-gravest importance to him
but its importance is greatly Increased by
the fact that the safety and value of a
very' considerable part of his past earn
ings are also involved. The thrifty and
provident workingman, anticipating a
time when he may be disabled or deprived
of employment, has endeavored to save
something out of his earnings, in order
to provide for the comfort of his wife and
children in the future, and has laid it
away at home, or deposited it in a bank or
building association, or invested it In a
life insurance policy, or loaned it to some
friend in whom he has confidence. He is
not a debtor, but a creditor, and the cor
porations and individuals having the cus
tody of his earnings are indebted to him
and ought to pay what they owe him in
Just as good, money as he put into their
hands.
According to the latest reports, the sav
ings banks in your own state hold $24,-
357,400 on deposit for 83,802 people, or an
average of $257 for each depositor, and In
the whole country they hold $1,810,597,000
for 4.875.519 people, or an average of $371
for each depositor. State banks, trust
companies and private banks hold $1,340,-
838,000 for about 1,500,000 people, and na
tional hanks hold $1,701.853,521 for 1,929,340
depositors, of whom 1,724,000 have less than
SI,OOO to their credit. Besides these insti
tutions there are 6,000 building and loan
associations In the United States, having
about 1,800,000 shareholders, male and fe
male, who have paid dues in good money,
amounting to more than $500,000,000. There
are nearly 700 of these associations in the
state of Illinois alone, and in these In3tl
stutions many laborers, men, women, and
even children, have deposited every dol
lar they could spare, often denying them
selves some of the comforts of life, in or
der to lay up something for a time of
need.
More than 7,500,000 of our people have
| taken out life insurance policies, which
are now in force, amounting to $4,202,857,-
323, and have paid the premiums on them
1 year after year in good money, while the
mutual benefit and assessment and co
operative and fraternal companies and as
sociations have 3,500.000 members, who
have contributed a large part of their
earnings to the funds held to reimburse
losses sustained by sickness or death. The
obligations of these companies and asso
ciations to their members amount to $5.-
184,670,936; and the Industrial companies in
the United States have a membership of
6,919.598, with insurance amounting to $816,-
650,678 in addition to all the foregoing, and
it Is constantly Increasing. How many la
boring *men and women have taken out
policies, or otherwise contributed from
their earnings to insure themselves against
loss by accident while engaged in the pros
ecution of their work, cannot he accu
rately ascertained, but the number is
known to be very large.
The banks, trust companies, building
associations and other similar institutions
owe the people of the United States to
day $5,353,138,521 for money actually de
posited. a sum nearly eight times greater
than the total capital or all the national
banks in the country; while the life in
surance policies held by the people in the
variants kinds of corporations and asso
ciations and in force to-day amount to
$10,203,804,357, a larger sum than has been
actually invested in all our railroads, and
about fifteen times larger than the capi
tal of all the national hanks. In view or
these frfete. which cannot be successfully
disputed, I submit that you ought seri
ously to consider all the consequences to
yourselves and your fellow-citizens before
you agree to the free and unlimited coin
age of legal tender silver at a ratio of 16
to 1, In order that these great corpora
tions and associations may have the privi
lege of discharging their debts to the peo
ple by paying J 1 or 52 cents on the dollar,
for that is exactly what It means. It is a
low estimate to say that each one of the
depositors in savings and other hanks
and lo building associations, and each
holder of a life-insurance policy and mem-'
ber of a mutual benefit and assessment
association, has dependent upon him or
her an average of at least two other per
sons, and, If so, a majority of all our
people are directly or Indirectly creditors
of these corporations and associations and
are interested ui the preservation of a
standard of value which will insure the
payment of their claims in as good money
as they parted with when they made their
loans or deposits or paid their assess
ments or premiums. Every dollar the peo
ple put Into these banks and trust com
panies and other institutions, and every
dollar they paid for insurance was worth
100 cents and would procure lnO cents
worth of commodities tn the market when
they earned it and when they Invested it,
and they have an unquestionable right
to demand that it shall he refunded to
them in dollars worth too cents every
where. The adoption of any policy that
would deprive them of this right would
not only inflict an enormous loss upon
them, but would so seriously impair their
faith in the fidelity and utility of such
institutions, that attempts to accumu
late and save surplus earnings would be
abandoned, or at least greatly discour
aged. for a long time to come.
But If free and unlimited coinage or
legal tender sliver at the ratio of 16 to 1
Is established in this country, a very large
part of the money deposited in these vari
ous kinds of savings Institutions will
not even be repaid In depreciated silver,
but will -be wholly lost, because surh a
reckless monetary system would precipi
tate a financial panic, which very few, if
any, of the depositories could survive. 1
doubt that there is a single financial in
stitution in the country that could sus
tain the pressure that would lie Imme
diately made upon It hy Its depositors
and other creditors, when it became ap
parent that our standard of value was to
be lowered and our currency depreciated
by free coinage. Payment of ull our on
ligations held abroad would be demanded
in gold a* once; every Investment of for
eign capital in this country would lie in
stantly withdrawn; every man who owed
a debt at home or abroad would be called
upon to pay It; all depositors in banks and
other institutions wduld want to with
draw their money at the same time; no
loans could be negotiated, and no credit
would he given, because no man would
lend money or sell property on time when
he knew with absolute certainty that he
would be paid in a depreciated currency.
Creditors would not wait for the actual
passage of a free coinage law, but as
soon as such a measure had received the
approval of the people at an election they
would demand their money, and if not
paid they would enforce its collection by
judicial proceedings and the forced sa.
of property. It Is useless for you and me
or anybody else to say lhat depositors In
banks and other creditors, oujrht not to
pursue this course when a crisis comes
or is apprehended, for they always have
pursued it. and always will, unless hu
man nature Itself should be changed
SESSION OF THE SEN VTE.
The Hope* of an Early Adjournment
not Apt to He Realised.
Washington, April 15.—1 t was made pret
ty clear from an incidental remark in the
Senate to-day that the predictions as to
an early adjournment of congress are not
likely to be verified. The slowly moving
Dupont election had been taken up and
Mr. Gray, dem„ of Delaware, was Just be
ginning his argument against the right
of Mr. Dupont, when the chairman of the
committee on appropriations (Mr. Allison)
made air Inquiry as’fo-the time When'tlhe
election case would probably come to a
vote.
Mr. Mitchell, rpn., of Oregon, chairman
of the committee on privileges and elec
tions, said that there were at least half
a dozen more speeches to be made upon
it. and that, therefore, he could not Hit
any time for the vote, although he was
anxious to have the case disposed of. He
consented, however, 'to let the matter go
over, when Mr. Gray should have finished
his speech, so as to make wav for the
Indian and the naval appropriation bills
and Mr. Peffer's resolution for an inves
tigation of the recent bond issues
"That practically means,” Mr. Gorman
dem., of Maryland, interposed, "that the
Dupont case Is not to be disposed of un
til after June 1.”
Mr. Gray occupied over three hours In
the presentation of the case against Mr.
Dupont's claim to the vacant seat of the
state of Delaware and had not finished his
siieech when the Senate at 5:30 o'clock,
after an executive session, adjourned un
til to-morrow.
MADRID’S CROOKED ELECTION’.
The Government Now Trying to
Muzzle the Kickers,
Madrid, April, 15,—1n consequence Of the
Irregularities in handling the votes polled
in the recent election, the president of the
electoral bureau in Madrid, have been
lined 100 pesetas each. The liberal candi
dates elected In Madrid Will probably re
sign.
The Judges have ordered the Marquis of
Ca'brlnana to furnish bail in the sum of
3,000 pesetas for having accused the mu
nicipal council of Madrid for corrupt prac
tices. The marquis has refused to furnish
the bail required, declaring that the
charges he made are thue, and that lie
would prefer to go to prison rather than
furnish bonds.
MINERS FOR FREE COINAGE.
They Also Want nn Eiglit-llour Day
and no Store System.
Columbus, 0., April 15.—The National
Mine Workers convention to-day adopted
a resolution declaring for the free coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1
without consulting with any other na
tions. Resolutions declaring that the or
ganization will support the eight-hour
system, and urging the members of the
organization to discourage by every
means in their jiow* r the truck or com
pany store system, were also adopted.
WAIFS FROM THE WIRES.
Some of the Dny* Events Set Forth
In Short Stories.
London, April 15. —Eighteen men were
killed by the explosion in the Braneepeth
mine at Willington, Durham, yesterday.
Washington, April 15.—The treasury gold
reserve at the close of business to-dav
stood at $126,616,494. The withdrawals for
the day were $263,500.
Palermo, April 15. —A terrific storm, with
a heavy fall of snow, has swept over
Sicily, doing great dam Age. Four ships
are known to (have been wrecked.
Washington, April 15.—President Cleve
land tceday sent to the Senate the nomi
nation of Leo Berghclz of New York, to
be consul to Erzeroitm, Armenia.
Jackson, Miss., April 15.—The Merchants
Bank was organized here to-day to begin
business May 15 with SIOO,OOO capita). Kx-
Gov. Stone is its president, Bryan
vice president, and Richard Griffith, cash
ier.
Raleigh, N. 0., April IS.—Fire at New
bern this morning burned the East Caro
lina. barrel factory and storage house, A
R. Denison's cotton gin and a warehouse
owned by the Atlantic and North Caro
lina railway. The loss la only $6,500.
A lllg Flood in Minnesota.
Ht. Paul, Minn., April 15.—The Missis
sippi river is on the rampage from Grand
Rapids to Bt. Paul, The river has been
rising rapidly here for two days, and
is now eight feet higher than on Sun
day. A further rise of two feet will drlva
the people on the west aide fiats to the
hills. At Koyalton. Minn., the Missis
sippi river bridge west of there, built aix
years ago, and the Piatt* river dam were
swept a way yesterday. It is the higgeat
flood In yearu.
BRUNSWICK S WIRE BUDGET.
LBSIBTANT TKKVSI HER STEER I>
TOW3.
t )1 eddins Thai \% 111 Surprise (he
Friend* of (lie Cuntraetlns Par
die*—The Contrail in n Steamship
Company Change* II nuit *— \ Sad
Home-Coming for Comml Jacob
Mart.
Brunswick. Ga.. April 15.—Assistant
State Treasurer and Candidate for Treas
urer W. J. Speer is here examining
Brunswick's hanks, and receiving calls
from numerous personal and political ad
mirers. Judging from rhe personnel of
the politicians who are with him Mr.
Speer will get Glynn county's vote.
At the home of W. H. Berrle. to-morrow
morning at 7;3rt o'clock Rev. Botiert Camp
bell Gillmore will unite In marriage Mrs.
M. E. Taylor, formerly of MtltedgevHle
and Atlanta, to It. J. Bliss of California.
The couple will leave at once on a bridal
tour to Virginia, and thence to California
This marriage has been unheralded, anil
will prove a great surprise to the friends
of the parties, both of whom are very
estimable people.
Col. J. E. dultignon and others owning
the controlling stock In the Florid* In
land steamboat routes, have sold out to
H. H. Raymond, southern agent of the
Mallory line, and \V. M. Tupper. Their
steamers ply dally between Brunswick,
Cumberland Island and Kernandlna, and
In the future the Hne will handle all the
freight for Florida points brought south
by the Mallory steamships.
Consul Jacob E. Dart of Guadaloupe left
his post six weeks ago to attend the bed
side of his wife, then In the last stages
of consumption. Before his departure She
died, but Information to that effect failed
to reach him before his departure, and on
his arrival at New Orleans yesterday, he
wired her a cheering message, announcing
his earlv presence near her. Relatives
went to Waycroaa to meet him to-day, ami
break the news of his affliction before he
reached Brunswick.
FIGHT OF TIIE A. P. A. OX M'ItINLEI
Chairman Stephens Claims the Cath
olic* Are Harking; the Ohioan.
Louisville, Ky„ April 15.—1n a speech
at Linton hall this morning Chairman J.
H. Stephens of the national advisory board
of the American Urotective Association,
stated that the Catholic church was hack
ing McKinley with the hope of killing A.
P. Aism In the republican party In the
event of McKinley's success. The slate
advisory board of the A. I*. A. hold a meet
ing at noon and decided that A. T. A. dele
gates to the republican convention should
not vote for either Bradley or McKinley.
This is regarded as a McKinley victory.
NORTH CAROLINA’S NINTH.
I'cnrson Henomlnntcil for Congress
and Delegate* Chosen.
Asheville, N. C„ April 15.—The Ninth
district republican convention held here
to-day renominated Richmond Pearson for
congress, and nomlnaiied for presiden
tial elector E. I). Carter. The delegates
to the St. Louis convention are C. J.
Harris and J. G. Grant, and the alter
nates Charles I‘. MeNamee and George
H. Smat'bers. The convention reaffirmed
the Minneapolis platform and Indorsed
McKinley.
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ECZEMA REMEDIES
Our baby Yrlien thrre woeks old was badly at-
Ulctod wltn Ecwma. Iler lu ad, arms, neck, limbs,
and nc-arly every Joint In Ikt body was raw and
bleodlny when we concluded to try CUTICURA
Ke.mf.diks. We began with CUTICURA (oint
ment) and Citticuka Boat*, aud offer the jtrn
appf'cation we could sec a rliange. After we bad
usM them one week some of the sores had healed
entirely, and ceased to spread. ]u lens than a
month, she waa fn*o from scab’s and blemishes, and
to-day has as lovely ekln and hulr us nny child.
She was shown at the (iransre Fair, and took a
premium as the prettiest baby, over el x teen other#
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arii M. Prince, V. S, A. Touching
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None quite so good; and the prices—
none are sold so low. Besides we give
to cash purchasers a
h Discount of 15 Per Cent.
jfT '
We solicit your presence and ask you
to examine our stock of Blue, Black and
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Our stylish Spring Ilats in Derbys and
Straws. Our fine line of Negligee Shirts.
Our merchant tailoring goods. 20 per cent,
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REFRIGERATORS.
J have a law stock of summer style* In
REFRIGERATORS, an<l want to soil
them before next winter. In order to do no
1 have pul the price at the freexing point.
BABY CARRIAGES.
I've enough of the modern styles to fur
nish every new comer In the city. They
don't cost half as much as they did some
time ago—the carriages.
JAPANESE MATTINGS
in some lovely rieHigns and excellent
qualities at prieeii way down.
SUMMER FURNITURE.
Take a look nt the new and handsome
goods In BEDROOM SUITES.
Emil A. Schwarz’s Son,
The Only Exclusive Furniture and Carpet Store
T Jlephone 569. 127 Broughton.
Spalding: Challenges
the Bicycle World.-**
We have claimed that the SPALDING Bicycle is the
Fastest and Easiest Running Bicycle built, the Per*
fection of Mechanical Skill and a bicycle that can out
coast any other bicycle made. Many manufacturers
have at times claimed at least one of these important
features, but we feel positive that we have the only
bicycle that combines all the qualities mentioned above.
OPPENIIEIMER, SLOAT & CO., Agents,
Whitaker ami State Streets.
MCDONOUGH * BALLANTYNE,
IRON FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS,
Blacksmiths, Boilermakers, Manufacturers of Stationery and Portable
Engines, Vertical and Top Running Corn Mills, Sugar Mills and Paas,
SHAFTING, PULLEYS, ETC.
vuraon mo. m.
§MOKERS’ £UT JJATES:
Aragon Havana Cigars—
TAMPA OIRL-ALL HAVANA...T..Sc.
MORAS Bc.
FEDORAS 10c.
XSPLANADOB 11c.
PERFECTOS BUPERBOS 12c.
J. B. FERNANDEZ, Bull aud Broughton.
LOWERED A TRACK ItECOHI).
Tartartnn Don Sovm Furlongs In
1 i'M af Memphis.
Memphis, Tenn., April 15.—Every condi
tion was favorable for the sixth day of
the race meeting—weather good, track
fast and the attendance rather heavy.
The feature of the card was the Tennes
see Brerwing Company’s stake, the en
tries for which narrowed to four fleet
ones. Nat P, the outsider, set the pace,
getting an advantage at the start, but
(lid not last, and finished third. Tarta
rian, the winner, knocked a fourth off
the track record for the distance, making
it 1:29 flat. The hookies were hard hit
by the winning. A summary follows:
First Race —Half mile. Treopla, 113, J.
Tabor, 1 to 4, won, with Dr. Newman sec
ond and Tunic third. Time :51.
Second Race—Six furlongs. Irish Rady,
107, Thorpe, 8 to 1, won, with Helena
Belle second and Lucille H. third. Time
1:17%.
Third Race—Seven furlongs, Tennessee
Brewing Company’s stake, {I,OOO added.
Tartarian, 10<>, T. Murphy, 9 to 5, won,
with Free Advice second and Nat P third.
Time 1:29.
Fourth Race-t Mile and a sixteenth.
Tranby, 101, Murphy, 4 to 1, won, with
Rondo second and Frontier third. Time
1:64%.
Fifth Race—Five furlongs, Sky Blue,
110, R. Williams, 11 to 5, won, with Little
Cliff second and John P. third. Time 1:98)4.
Sixth Race—Five furlongs, Roy Loebief,
124, Thorpe, 2 to 5, won, with Constantine
second and Ben Naiad third. Time 1:03V
Newport, Ky., April 15.—Only two fa
vorites won to-day. The balance of the
card went to second choices and outsiders.
The track was good, the weather pleasant
and the attendance 2,500. A summary fol
lows:
First Race—Six furlongs—Ban Ban, 103,
FVtster, IP to 1, won, with Summer Coon
second and Readlna third. Time 1:155*.
Second Race—Mile and a sixteenth. Sld
kel, 98, Neweom, 7 to 10. won, with Light
foot second and Muskalonge third. Time
1:49.
Third Race—Six furlongs. Zanone, 99,
Garner, even, won, with Miss Young sec
ond and Alamo third. Time 1:15.
Fourth Race—Mile. The Banker, 93,
Morris, 6 to 1, won, with Tariff Reform
second and Ilulbert third. Time 1:43%.
Fifth Race—Half mile. The Blossom, 101
won, with Princess Maude second and
Vinesca third. Time :01.
SEW JERSEY’S ELECTIONS.
Newark's Democratic Mayor Has
a,.374 Majority.
Newark, N. J. April 15.—Corrected re
turns from yesterday's elections give Sey
mour, dem., over rep., for
mayor, 3,374 majority. The republicans
elect Joralcmon and Ulrich over Gray ami
English to the Kami of public works, by
about 4i> majority. Mersa’s plurality for
otiy home trustee over Brenplng, dem..
1,968.
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