The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1898 Page: 1 of 9
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slaughtered
Prices cut in every department to clear out all j
Summer Goods, It’s our ironclad rule to j
never carry stock from season to season.
While it is a “no-profit” sale for us, it pays usj
in the end in the way of always having j
CLEAN, DOWN-TO-DATE, DEPENDABLE!
MERCHANDISE. Hence prices like these:
12Jc yd. wide Percales for 10c.
65c Mouseline de Soie for 25c.
25c Organdies for........ 15c.
15.00 Parasols for........63.50
61.25 Slippers (8J to 10)... 25c
5ct Calicoes, iancv, for.... 04c
Ladies 50ct Hats for...... 10c
61.25 Shirt Waists for.... 50c
Pine Lace Stripe colored
Zephpr Ginghams worth 20c,
for......................... 10c
20c 40-in. Turkish Towels for 10c)
Ladies’ black Oxfords,4 to 8,
for......................... 60c;
125 pairs Ladies’ Oxfords
and Sandals, 2 and 3 pair of a
kind, worth 61.25 to 63,50 a
pair, for.................. 61.00)
Ott Ladies’
and 61.00, now.
Slippers 75c
50c
Pine line Figured Lawns
worth 7j to 12icts, for......05c j
Ladies’ Oxblood and Fancy
Hose were 20 and 30cts, now 10c (
Only room for perhaps one bargain j
in a hundred. We can please youj
and make you good money. Come!!
Bentley, Bass & Bo.
THE CASH HOUSE,
-The republicans may be allowed
to settle their own political quarrel#
with the secretary of war. What the
country wishes to know is why our
army was not better supplied and
cared for, and who is responsible for
the i lefflcieacy. — Louisville Coprier-
Journal.
-When scores o' soldiers are dying
and- thousands are ailing from yellow
and malarial fevers, the secretary of
war would be more decently employed
if, instead1 of attempting to advance hi#
political schemes, he were devoting hi#
time to a letter of resignation.—Chica-
go Journal.
-Mark Hanna has opinedlhat the
next republican campaign will be
fought out on war issues. It would be
agreeable to Mark to have it this way,
but the democrats are not going to per-
mit him to send a substitute to the
front when the battle begins.—St,
Louis Republic.
-Cannot President McKinley find
some place, north or south of tie
equator, to locate Secretary A'lger and
renew confidence in the capacity and
integrity of the war department by the
selection of some one who has the qual-
ities needed? Alger was appointed for
pretty much the same reason Mr. Lin-
coln named Simon Cameron, to dis-
charge obligation# and pledge# in-
curred in the nominating convention.
—Pittsburgh Posit.
-Secretary Alger went into the
cabinet under a cloud, and evidence of
mismanagement of his department for
political purpose# hascroppedout from
the beginning. Many of the grave mis-
takes that have been made have been
susceptible of the suspicion of unwor-
thy Influences. Secretary Alger does
not redeem his mistakes by attacking
the men who are trying for the good of
the army and the countryto prevent or
correct them.—St. Louis Posit-Dispatch.
Llanfairpwligwyngy I rg'ogerycnw >»u-
drobwllllandisiliogogogoch appears in
theBritishpostoffice guide as the name
of a post and telegraph office in the Is-
land of Anglesey. It is said to mean
"The Church of St. Mary in a hollow
of white hazel near to the rapid whirl-
pool and to St. Disilio’s church neltr
to a red cave.”
-It is coming to be better under
stood with each year that American*
are more in danger of losing foreign
markets by a restricted tariff policy
than they are of saving their own
from corn petition. Instances are thick-
ening all the time in proof that the
world is moving just in this way.—Bo#-
ton Braid.
12 & [14 Main St.
Alger's Denial.
Secretary Alger has sought the
»yer of denial of any responsibility
or the abuses that have grown up
l ider his administration of the war
apartment, for the outrages infiict-
d upon American solders, for their
ortue by starvation until they died
py hundreds in pestilential camps.
He shrinks from the impending
[torm and sends forth the piteous
til: “Its all a falsehood; there has
ea no suffering, no tortue no star-
ition, no dving—but if there has
Bn, somebody else is responsible,
iot I, I am innocent and guiltless.” ]
But the clouds continue to lower
id the rumbling of the approach-
storm acquires deeper volume
; each day rolls around, It is not
lifficult in the light ot the evidence
lready brought, for any one to see
lat the bolt of condemnation will
rikesoon and strike heavily.
^General Miles is on his way home
tun Porto Rico, and General feels that the war deParlmeQt
tfter is coming from Santiago,
ieir arrival is only a question of a
days and their coming may pre-
{pifcate the tempest, ill the war
Apartment officials seem to be labor-
bunder a heavy strain ol anxie
All are not guilty, but all dread
Temple, Texas.
it Gen. Miles and to nullify his
work. They indicate they deliber-
ately deceived the president, b>
whose orders as commander-in-
chief, Miles was sent to Santiago,
and they show that if Shafter hat
obeyed the commands of Miles much
of the suffering and deaths among
the Santiago troops would have
been avoided.
These dispatches define the re-
sponsibility for the Santiago outrag-
es so clearly that an investigation
seems scarcely necessary to deter
mine upon whose head it should
rest.
There is no sort of doubt that
there is trouble in store for Mc-
Kinley’s cabinet. It is the talk in
official circles tonight. Every mem-
ber of the cabinet, with the poss lble
exception of Scretary Bliss, is ag-
gressively in favor of a rigid an d
impartial investigation of the out-
rages in the army, and each one
has
made woeful mistakes and they are
anxious that the administration, as
a whole, should not suffer for it.
1 necesstiy of revealing the truth,
6st in the out burst of popular in-
lignation the officials of the depart-
ment may be swept out. the inno-
fent to suffer with the guilty,
(here can be no doubt that there
been a leak somewhere in the
Bpartment, which makes it certain
; in his present stress Secretary
£er can not rely on his subordi-
»tes to defend him by suppressing
he truth.
[Some of the dispatches made pub-
ithis morning, to corroborate a
Bnt interview between General
lies and the correspondent of the
ansas CityStar.are verbatim copies
{•Official documents and are known
pe such. They seem to prove
1 there was an intrigue between
cretary Alger, Adjutant General
jrbin and Gen. Shafter to discred-
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
-Over in Wisconsin a public treas-
ury is looked on by republican poli-
ticians as a private snap. — St. Paul
Globe.
--Perhaps Mark Hanna would like
to know whether the Philippines would
go democratic or not before expressing
an opinion as to their future.—Chicago
Record (Ind.).
-The war revenue won’t have
much to do now except to take care of
the Dingley deficit. Some folks can’t
be convinced that war is all a curse.—
Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.
-A Spanish newspaper says “Mc-
Kinley's chief adviser is an old lady by
the name of Hanna.” Hanna and Mc-
Kinley can fight it out, but that there
is an old woman in the president’s offi-
cial family no one doubts.—Kansas
City Times.
-Every dollar that goes into bonds
comes out of trade and puts up the in-
terest rate against merchants andl pro-
ducers. That i# why Wall street hold#
$200,000,000 idle gold in the treasury
and insists on more bonds—Mississip-
pi Valley Democrat.
corv*,eHr .go*, *
We are Still
In the Lead
And as a parting shot at
summer driving, we offer
you an elegant set of,...
SINGLE TRACK HARNESS AT
$7.50.
This is a bargain, and at
the present high price of
leather, cannot be touch-
ed by competition. We
also manufacture an ele
gant line of____
Double Bugiiy Harness
at equally low prices.
ISmome-inade goods from
home people.......
Tirado & fioodwin,
Exclusiye Manufacturers
Saddlery, & Harness,
TEMPLE, - - TEX.
It Hoes not seem possible that so
much! asinine Ignorance of the first
principles of monetary science, or
shameless mendacity, could be
crandped into a brief newspaper arti-
cle, that in the News of this city
titled “Dishonest Money.” Either
the writer of thi# article is pitiably ig-
norant of the subject upon which he
essays to write, or else he 1b guilty of u
cold-blooded and mendacious misrep-
resentation of the facts in the case.
The article in question complains
that the new revenue law proposes to
coin an ounce of silver worth $1.25 in-
to legal tender dollars, whil&the coins
so printed ure worth, intrinsically, but
45 cents each. An ounce of silver at
the present coinage ratio is worth
$1.29, and no! $1.25, as stated by the
writer of this article; but suppose the
metal in a silver dollar, as metal, la
worth but 45 cents, what on earth baa
that to do with the exchange value o<
a silver dollar? A coined silver dol-
lar being legal tender, primary, debt-
paying dollar, has an exchange value
of 100 cents in gold, and that is all
anyone wants any dollar for, not to
sell the metal in the dollar, whether
of gold or silver, but to exchange the
coined dollar for 100 cents worth of
debts or property or necessaries of
life, and it is utterly immaterial to
them, and no one ever thinks about it
or care# about it, what the metal in
the gold or silver dollar is worth as
metal.
This shamele»s liar also has the
brazen assurance to say that “nobody
will take” these silver dollars when
coined under the new law, and that
"no one wants silver dollurs now.”
Does this reckless falsifier of the plain
everyday facts and experiences and
observations of every sane person ex-
pect to be believed when he says that
“nobody will take” these legal tender,
debt-paying dollars? Will be not take
them himself, and does he not take
them every day in the ordinary busi-
ness transactions of his own news-
paper office, or silver containing exact-
ly the same amount of silver and metal
and having the same legal tender debt-
paying power as gold dollars, as every
silver dollar now in existence has, and
every silver dollar to be coined under
this new law will have? Does the
New# make a business of giving these
legal tender, debt-paying silver dollars
away to those who want them with-
out exacting for them 1T)0 cents worth
of labor and debts and property and
necessaries of life? Not on your life.
This ignorant bungler, or worse, also
says that we have 500,000,000 of these
silver dollars, and that we can only
keep 50,000,000 of them in circulation,
thus conveying the impression that
450.000. 000 of them are piled up hi
the United States treasury, while
it is an official fact, and so shown
by the books of the treasury de-
partment, that not more than 50,-
000,000 of these legal tender, debt-
paying dollars are actually in the
treasury, and that practically all of
them are kept there to redeem silver
certificates under the Bland law of
1878, and the Sherman law of 1890, and
that practically every one of these
500.000. 000 silver dollars are doing
business as legal tender, debt-paying
money, either in the form of sliver
dollars or as silver certificates and
"Sherman notes, and besides, that
something like $80,000,000 in frac-
tional Bilver currency are also doing
business as legal tender debt-paying
money in this eouhtry. Does not this
writer know that fully seven-tenths of
all the money actually in circulation
among the people consist of silver dol-
lars, silver certificates, Sherman notes
and fractional silver currency ? We did
not think that there was a man in
Springfield, and especially an editor of
a newspaper, who would be guilty of
making such a mendacious statement
as this. If he believes it himself he
is a fit subject for a lunatic asylum,
and if he knows better, but still feeds
his readers with such stuff, he falls
far short of being an honest man.
This writer also speaks of benefiting
the mine owners by coining ounces of
silver into legal tender money, thus
increasing the purchasing price of
their product. Well, what of it? It
was the demonetization of silver in
1873, and constantly discriminating
against it since then,that has redticed
the bullion value of the metal in a sil-
ver dollar from $1.03 in gold, as it was
in 1873, to 45 cents, and if the govern-
ment has thus legislated the value out
of the product of the silver miner, to
his absolute ruin, in most cases, would
there be anything unjust, or morally
wrong, in the government reestablish-
ing the equilibrium between the sil-
ver producer and the debt owner and
money manipulator by reestablishing
the price of silver bullion, and espe-
cially so, when It can be done to the
great advantage of 99 out of every 100
people in this country, including the
mine owner. But wc do not want to
argue the money question here. We
simply started out to show up a little
of the asinine ignorance or reckless
mendacity Of the nrticle. In the
language of the Spanish proverb, it
may be a waste of lather to shave an
ass, but the good of the beast and es-
pecially when he takes to braying such
nonsense of this News article, makes
it necessary, seeing the public good,
to do so.—Illinois State Register.
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Monday
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Crow, J. D. The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1898, newspaper, September 2, 1898; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth585335/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.