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THE ROME IRIBUNE.
Published continuously since IM3. Name
changed in 18S7 from The Rome Courier to
The Rome Tribune.
W. A. KNOWLES, . . Editor.
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France must back down, or fight.
The farmers of North Georgia
should plant large crops of wheat this
fall.
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Rome should congratulate itself on
the re organization of the Lanier
circle.
Who will succeed Laura Jean
Libbey as the writer of novels for
lovers? ,
If Spain should be so foolish as to
desire to renew the war Uncle Sam
can accommodate her.
The up-to-date story of Sampsom
differs considerably from ;the biblical
version. It is a Schley story.
The Memphis yellow fever and na
tional quarantine convention has
been called for Nov. 28, 29 and 30.
The Veterinary surgeons in session in
Chattanooga should adopt resolutions
of regret at the absence of Dr. Rush
Hnidekoper.
• The Cuban General, Jose Martel, has
issued a proclamation addressed to the
people of Cnba, demanding Cuba for
the Cubans.
It is predicted that Dodson, for
president of the senate, Little, for
speaker of the house and Boifeuillet,
for clerk of the house, will be the
winners in the Georgia legislature
today.
The average yield of wheat the
world over is 12.7 bushels per acre
according to statistics gathered by
Sir William Crookes, F. R. 8., presi
dent of the British association. It will
thus be seen that North Georgia’s
yield is far above the average.
Hobson told a Boston reporter on
his arrival there Monday that the
government had appropriated $500,000
for the raising of the Cristobal Colon.
He thinks it will be money well spent
as the is worth $4,000,000. The
Reina Mercedes can be raised with
little cost, but the Vizcaya wjjl re-'
quire an outlay of $1,000,000. The
Almirante Oquendo is a hopeless
wreck.
Two of a Kind.
The spectacle of Teddy Roosevelt
cavorting over New York state in the
role of Buffalo Bill is only equaled by
that of McKinley parading through
the west in the role of a little tin God.
Both are disgusting and in the name
of political decency they ought to be
stopped.
Got the Wrong Sow by the Ear,
Old Bombastes Furiosso Biagg of
Wisconsin who played out |with Cleve
land lifts his hoary head from the politi
cal cesspool in which he is wollering
long enough to yawp:
‘•Coin clipping” was a crime at com
mon law. Debasement of currency is a
crime against the people, a crime
against honest government, a crime in
morals, a viola ion of recognized princi
ples of right, a violation of economic
laws, a repudiation of national credit
and honor. All these heresies aie
adopted as democratic principles when
you swallow Bryan and the Chicago
plat* or m.
The old sinner don’t know what he is
talking about.
The debasement of the currency was
effected in 1873 when the republicans
dishonored and debased silver, thereby
destroying half the basic money of the
country.
The Legislature,
The legislature of the state meets
today. It will be a body of more
than ordinary strength and intelli
gence, and comes from near r the
hearts of the people than anv rep
resentat ve body that has assembled
in the capital for many years
Their nominations were iu most
cases made by the people theme Ives
iu open primaries, instead of the old
fashioned way of political hugger
mugger) and it is safe to say that
ttiey will come nearer representing
the wishes and interests of the people
than any legislature ever before
convened.
A more than ordinary responsi
bility rests upon each member. Rep
resent! < g the people, instead of a po
litical clientele, they will have a wider
and broader field for the exercise of
their judgment and political talents.
Though soundly democratic to the
core, the present legislature will be
practically non partizan and will in
fact represent all the people for all
the people,thank God,are democratic.
A number of important measures
will be brought before the legisla
ture, all of them on the line of re
form.
One of these, the most important
of all, will be election laws, and it is
to be hoped they will so amended
as to provide for the Australian
ballot.
There is no doubt but what the
people of the state are practically
unanimous in their wish for the Aus
tralian ballot. Everywhere that it
has been tried it has proved highly
suocessrtil, as it comes nearer giving
the people a free and unbiased ex
pression of their choice of offiicals.
As to Intrinsic Value,
The Indianapolis News says:
“A gold eagle passes for simply
what the gold of which it is composed
is worth. The exact value as money
of a quantity of gold eagles or sover
eigns can be determined by weighing
them as well as by counting them. In
all ‘international transactions, in fact,
gold passes by weight and not by tale.
Gold coins will stand the anvil or the
melting-pot test. That is to say, you
may hammer them into any form or
melt them ipto a shapeless mass, and
still anywhere in the civilized world
they are worth as much in the pay
ment of debts or in the purchase of
commodities as they were before. The
eagle is worth in all kinds of exchange
just what the quantity of gold in it is
worth and vice versa. When we
speak as intrinsic va'ue of coins that
is what we mean. Whether that is
the best phrase to express the fact is
immaterial. The fact is there and is
inescapable. And it makes not the
slightest difference with the fact
what elements contribute to make it
a fact.”
This is all true so far as present
conditions are concerned, but it was
not always so and may not always
remain so.
The New’s idea of intrinsic value
may do for the present but it is not
the true meanings! the term. The
intrinsic value of a thing is inherent
in itself and cannot be changed by
circumstances, it is more of a quality
than an attribute and though the
use of a thing may change and there
by change its value, the intrinsic
quality that makes it useful will
remain the same.
The intrinsic value of any metal'
is what it is worth in the arts and not
in commerce.
The Intrinsic value of silver is the
same now that it was before its de
monetization although its commercial
value is not half what it was then.
As to the test of the hammer and
the melting pot, that is no test at all.
A hammered piece of gold can be
carried to the mint and recoined free
of charge to the owner, but a muti
lated piece of silver is outlawed and
must be melted into bare and sold for
what it will fetch, and that is why
the gold bar is worth as much as
bullion as it would be if converted
into coin.
The time was, and not so far back
when a silver bar would briug more
in bullion than it would if coined
into American dollars.
That time was when silver bars
could be carried to the mint and
coined into money. That time will
come again and when Jt does come
the bar of silver will be worth as
TM> KOMk TKIBVMJC, riILLSDA 9 OCTOBER 27, IbVb.
much as its weight iu dollars.
The News has a dim idea of the
fallacy of its argument when it saje:
“When we spiak ot intrinsic value
of c 'ins that is what w mean.
Whether that is the best phraee to
express the fact is imm<t>rial.”
Os course if you mean a goat when
you say sheep it must be a goat.
There is nothing in a neine nohow.
The Tribune's Figures,
In an editorial a few days ago refer
ring to the figures, quoted by the
Wacuu Telegraph tr'iu the Treasury
Bureau of statistics, The Tribune
said the figures in question were false
and misleading. We should have
explained their falsit then but we
felt sure the’Telegraph would chal
lenge the statement and demand the
proof.
Just as we expected the Telegraph
comes back at us and says:
“Now The Tribune says these
figures are false «nd misleading, but
it does not tell how it learned that
fact. It is not worth while to discuss
the several doctrines of the several
churches with one who denies the
authority and truth of the Scrip
tures. To deny and dispute the most
reliable official statistics which we
have, and which are sustained by the
reports of all the commercial bodies
and set up a bald ipse dixit agains
them, is to close discussiou and bar
out reason. We will not attempt by
counter dogmatism to establish their
correctness. ”
This is a very polite way to put it
and as such distinguished courtesy
deserves a reply, we will state that
knowing the partisan character of
the administration in all its ramifica
tions and the penchant it has for doc
toring all its reports for partisan effect
we always take them cum grano sails,
and never use them without compare
ing them with other more reliable and
ess partial authorities.
In the case of the cotton table given
out by the bureau, which our highly
esteemed comtemporary so credu
lously accepts as law and gospel, we
thought it well to compare its figures
with the reports of cotton men, men
skilled in the trade and whose busi-
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nees was to know what they reported
and to report nothing but the truth.
One* such report, that of Latham,
Alexander & Co., the highest cotton
authority.knowrqand who can account
for every bale of cotton marketed in
the last half a century, hap
pened to be on our table at the time
and referring to it we found that
the cotton crop 1872-3, amounted to
3,930,508 bales of 444 to the bale, which
reduced to pounds make 1,745,455,532
pounds
The treasury expert made it 1,384,-
084,496 pounds so here is a discrepency
of 361,061,056 pounds.
The price reported .by Latham,
Alexander & Co., was 18.15. The
price quoted by the treasury expert
was 22.19, so here is another discrep
ency of 4.04 cents in price.
This is why we characterized the
treasury report as misleadingly false.
So much for The Tribune’s bald
ipse dixit, but the Telegraph goes on,
and asks:
•‘What does our contemporary
mean by ‘fall of prices?’ We presume
he means the comparative difference
between prices now and prices at
some other time. What other time
or times? When they were very much
higher than now, of coulee. When
were they higher, and why were they
higher? are important questions.’
You should not presume sonny, but
take us literally at what we say.
We were explicit in our citation of
prices and of dates. We are not given
to a repetition of our own editorials
but in order to answer the Telegraph
we will have to reproduce our state
ment that so puzzled our befuddled if
not obtuse neighbor.
Here it is verbatim et literatim:
“And there is another thing con
nected with this.matter that we would
ask our readers to think of, and that
s the close almost m athematical con
nection between the fall in the price
of cotton and cotton goods, and the
price of silver..
In 1873 the price of silver iu London
was 1,02; in 1883 it was 83,1. In 1893
it was 41 06. Nor is this connection
with cotton the only thing that is
remarkable. In 1873 breadstuffs, veg
etables etc, were 106: In 1883 they
had fallen to 83 and in 1894 to 55
Sugar, coffee and tea in 1873 were 160;
in 1883 they h«<l fpl’en to 76, and in
1894 to 65. Minerals, all classes
averaged, in 1873 were 141; In 1883.
76, and in 1894,64.
Thus we see as silver went down as
I measured by rhe sln.le gold dollar,
everything else cluug to it and wen>
d >wu w>th it, and an ounce of it
tixiav will buy Hsmuch of aggregated
c<iiiiiU‘>ditieH as it would have bought
i 1873.”
W gave the dares by decades as
t e downward trend of prices Was
1 S ' uniform and gradual that it did not
I necessitate giving them each year.
The j ears quoted w-re 1873, 'B3 and '93
Lest the Telegraph should “pre
sume” hat we are giving these figures
upon our “bald ipse dixit” we "ill
state that they are taken from tanles
prepared by Augustus Sauerbeck,,
himself a gold bug, for the Royal
Statistical Society of London, first
given.iu 1886 and continued down to
March 1895.
The labor statistics so gushingly
presented by the Telegraph with
which to confound the “stock con
tention of the average per capity
crank” are as false and misleading as
the figures of the Treasury Burea of
statistics.
We happen to know something of
the junketing commission that col
lected and collated the statistics. It
was gotten up in the interest of tariff
legislation, and the figures had to be
doctored to suit the occasion.
Any workman, skilled or unskilled
can tell that he cannot get half the
work to do now that he could in 1873
and that be cannot get half the pay
for what he does as be got then,
And by the way as to the ‘‘per cap
ity crank;” is not the Telegraph dig
ging his goldbug confreres in the rib-.
“Per capity” belongs wholly to
them, they invented it to humbug
the people with the idea that there
was oodles of money in the country.
Twenty four dollars for each man,
woman and child, negro, Indian and
mongrel in the land.
The expression has the gold idiot
earmark if not its trade mark, and is
on a beautiful parity with its finan
cial yard stick and its “honest” dol
lar. Humbugs all! ,
The Reason Why.
The Chattanooga Times in answer
to The Tribune’s suggestion as to the
silence of the Chicago Inter-Ocean
silence on the Virden affair says:
“The reason the Inter Ocean stands
mute is found in the action of Qov.
Tanner. He takes sides with the
armed strikers and against the coal
company, and against the imported
negro miners. He is after the votes of
the strikers and the votes of their
friends. He cares nothing for the
laboring man only to use him for his
purposes. Hi» organs must, of course,
give tacit and silent consent to the
high banded and lawless course of
the rather low demagogue who is
governor of the great state of Illinois
by republican votes. He ran 20,000
votes behind McKinley in 1886, and if
the people had a chance at him now
he’d go. His mobocracy and dema
gogy wouldn’t save him.”
Too Much of a Good Thing.
Iu his grand hallelujah,, “big in jin
me” hoorah out west McKinley said at
Bushnell 41L, “there were 200,000 vol
unteers within sixty days.”
Whereupon the New York World
irreverently asks:
Very true. But why? Would not
50,000 at the outside have been enough?
And did not General Schofield warn you
that 50,000 were as many as could be
handled without needlessly imperilling
lives and health?
The question of the World is*perti
net, and we would ask further, what
was the use of a single volunteer?
We < ad, or was supposed to have had
a regular army of 25,000 men, which
was more in fact than was used at San
tiago. And further, now that the peace
jubilee has been jubilated why nor dis
miss the volunteer army and let the
regulars run it?
Faith in Hood’s
The Great Cures by Hood’s Sarsa
parilla Are Indeed Marvelous.
“My husband suffered with stomach
trouble so bad at times he could not work.
He has taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it is
helping him wonderfully’. • He also had a
scrotum.humor but Hood’s Scrsapt” - illa
cured this and he has had no trouble
with it since. My little boy, too, has been
taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it has
given him a ;ood appetite. Wehave great
faitbin Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” MRS. J.ll.
Edwards, .">0 Edinburg 81., Rochester,
New York. Be sure to get Hood's because
£ *** Sarsa-
ITISOOU S psrilla
Ist it-1> < in faettlie line True Blood Purifier.
Sviu Uy all druggists. Si; six lor $5.
I Ollie are the best after-dinner
1 lOOu » I 11 lb pills, aid digestion. 25c.
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BargainsGakirtT I
At lhe People’s Store i I
The Crowds Continue. Neto These Prices. The Rs I
One lot of stamped linens, closed One lot French! n 1
out a drummer’s samples; cant and extra widd * *°° II
get them again; at the low I
price ofsc, 8c and 10c each ne ay ser ‘’’ e > ’ I
w, a e
The new Battenburg M.u, latest AH-wool Sooteh , re ,' the I
fads for Dresser. . ~s l sc thing for street )J
Ladies’ trimmed white aprons.. 10c Ladies’ cloth 54 iLide and I
Long mantle Lambrequins, made all W ° ol l
of golden draperies2sc One lot black canid whip I
Extra Long Feather Boas39c ,
Ladies heavy fleeced undervests 15c clltck glasXl 8 .. 1
Ladi* 8 heavy gray ribbed vests, Lar o e bleached fnd OWv ] 8 jl
Onei'a style2sc Extra large bleach L] towel !■
Ladies’ wool mixed union suits, Splendid twill schofebrella tl
Oneita style79c Large Carala steel il m hrella J
Children’s Merino vest or pants 10c Silk gloria, steel rodV re lla I
We have a few left of those 4t a
LADIES FINE MU
beaver jacketsV«v
Ladies’ Plush Capes $1.48 and upwards.
Ladies’ Cloth Cape from 19c to $7.48.
Children’s school Shoes from 30c to $1.50. The best|ir<on
Come to the Busy Store
For Bargains this Wek.
Governor Atkinson's Message.
Today Gov. Atkinson will transmit
to the legislature bis last message. As
we have seen some of the most impor
tant portions of the message from
advance proofs we can predict that it
is a state paper which will create
much comment.
It is an able paper, concise clear
and forcible and cannot fail to have
a telling effect upon the legislature.
The governor deals exhaustively
with ths question of ballot reform
strongly recommending a primary
election law in which the action of
parties in nominating primaries may
be vested with the authority and
prestige of 'aw.
He suggests that primaries for
general elections shall be held
throughout the state upen the same
day, and that day, be fixed by law.
He also, recommends that the pri
mary itself be provided by law and
not dependent upon the pleasure of
the party executive committees.
Upon this point the governor will
say:
•‘The practice of general primaries
upon a stated day, under fixed rules,
which has been found so satisfactory
in recent years, should be made the
statutory law, which cannot be
changed at the whim of a committee,
or the will of a candidate who may
control a ma jority of its members,and
should be binding upon all parties.
In framing such a statute, there will
be many additional features besides
those with which we have been made
familiar, the character of which I can
only suggest here, leaving the details
to the wisdom of your body, should
you give this matter the considera
tion which, in my earnest opinion,
its importance demands.
So satisfactory has been the prac
tice of holding state primaries on
one day that I would by all means
incorporate this in the law; and I
would also advice that the date of
the primary be made a fixed day, at
such season as may be most con
venient to the masses of the voters.
If necessary, separate succeeding days
might be named for each party, or all
could be held on one day. The
first provision prevails in New York,
whose legislature last Match unan
imously passed what is generally
regarded as the broadest aud mos’ com
plete law regulating primary elections,
political committees- aud conventions;
thq second provision is part of the
recently enacted law of Michigan,
Such a proviso would be peifectly just
and satisfactory to all candidates aud
factions alike, and would remove a
serious cause of complaint
made. ’ ’ ®
The governor thus
imDortnnce of an absolutely secret
sacred ballot and says:
“No possible opportunity
given to the briber to see that/he
corruptly purchased is faitJlfally
livered, and thus corruption" i'l
couraged. Neither should an
have any method of ascertaining
his employees really vote, and thus
laboring man, whose interest
always be the same as that of
talist, but whose views are
worthy of exppresston in a free
rnent, cannot be successfully
This becomes more vitally
every year, as industrial and
factors enlarge their scope and
increasing numbers of intelligent
gists, whose franchise cannot be ■
vigilantly protected against any
proper influences. ” H
The governor recommends sues®
change in the assessment laws otM
state as will assure a more equal dial®
butioa of the burden of taxation®
making all pay in equal proportion. ■
Altogether the message will P tjV *®
valuable „contribution to the politu®
literature of the state. B
Somebody advertises in the Forth®
Oregonian for “a small boy to debt®
oysters that can ride a wheel. B
The first day of January and the®
day of October of any year, fall on ®
same day of the week, unless it beß
leap year. J
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