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HE UNTY UNION. DUNN, llaroatt Conuty, N. C. Entered aflBdidlng to poral irnla Uoim at ttMl poctofSee at Duun, JJ. C, u framd cUs matter. J. P. PlITHAK, Proprietor, A. M. WOODALL, Editor. TER3S CF SUBSCRIPTION Three Months...... 25 Cents. SK Month-....... - 50 ftVnn" gent by Mall. Payable In advance. DUJTN. X. C, AUOU8T 10 189G. It is lUted that Ju-'ge Russell will not come down bat will open the Re ptbliean campaign at Hendersonville Baturdiy. The Populists tried to arrange a ticket at their State contri tion lait week that would draw Re publicans to them. To do this thej nominated O. H Dockery, a life-long Republican who will rote for MoKin ley and the gold standard,, for Lien tenant Governor. The Republican party baa accepted part of the Popu lint nominee! and plaeed them on their tieket with Russell and will run a straight ticket. . -. - 8xxaio& Bctlse proved himself to be the Boss of the Populist conven tion. He commanded and it was done. He reigned with a high hand and was supreme dictator. They all ' did bis biddings as menials obey their masters. . Harry Skinner, the only man in the Populist party who has been bold enough to come out publicly and say that "the Populist party must not be a party to putting North Carolina under negro rule," would not obey at his bidding and interposed objections when Butler -wanted to put McKinley Republi cans on the ticket; but Butler ad journed the convention and sent out his henchmen and ran rough shod over poor Harry, who, of all that great band of patriots (?) assembled, stood alone for principle and dared to "raise a hand against the political boss. Whsxi is all the principle which the Populists have, olaimed to have? v. . . ... . . v. .1 IVU&VU It WM .UUklCrtBUl against principle at the Populist eon vention and Butlsriam won. Butler's - aehemt to capture the Republican party and btat the Democrats may fail. There will be three tiokets in . the field if the Populists don't take . juthrit down and endorse tho Eepub lieaa ticket. What will thev do Iftthey go on principle they will have to reverse their State ticket and take 'Deekery off; but the principle which governs the majority of Populist lead rt if any thing to beat the Democrats -This is all the principle the Rtpubli eaa party has had for years. They have made that their party slogan but never suoeeeded until two years ago when they fused with the Popu- liafa ah tVi a mm m m tMiniiirl a m . pritciple is not working harmoniously now. The Pops wanted too much and consequently when eleotion day oomes round thev will ret nothing m m The Democrats will get in again. 1 'Although I have always been a stalwart Republican, and am still, my admiration for Bryan is not exceeded by that of any Democrat' said Mr John T, Clarke, one of the leading bwhieii men of Omaha, to a Post re votUM the Shoreham. I do not ay that my liking . for the man will carry me to the length of supporting u v.uuiu.o, uun mat is just wnai ' hundreds of Republicans are going to do in Nebraska. I don't think Bryan will have the least difficulty in carry- ing the State. With the united ef fort! of the Democrats and Populists, not to speak of the large Republican vote that will go to him, he will have a oomfortable majority. State pride also will cause him to get thousands of votes. I predict that his speech in New York will strengthen him with the whdle couatrv. I am satisfied that he will defend the Chicago plat form in such a way as to put an en tirely different phase on those sections whioh have been denounoed as revo lutionary and anarohistio. Bryan himself is as far removed from an anarchist as any man living. If elect ed President, as I believe he will be, pe wm aaminisier toe government with prudenoe and wisdom. Those oi his critics who have made the absurd charge of anarchy are ignorant of the man. He will always stand for law and order and the preservation of our republican institutions. I don't ex peet to change my political allegiance, but I say this mnoh as a matter ol jastico to the Democratic candidate He is a credit to his State and the tiation, and his entire record, privat. and public, is one that eminently firs him for the high office wh:oh bis coun trymen seem disposed tp accord him." Yuaintoa Pest. FREE COINAGE ASD SURANCE. ; The gold standard papers - are cir culating a reply from Secretary Carlisle to a life insurance policy holder who wrote to him asking the truth in regard to a circular sent out by the insurance company stating that in the event of free coinage all the polioies woulJ be paid in silver. Mr. Carlisle says that all insurance -policies are paid with checks and with free coinage, these cheeks' would be paid by the banks in silver or its equivalent,- instesd of gold as at present. He says silver dollars would be eoined on private account and delivered to individuals as private property and the government would be under no obligation to guarantee its value. Does not the government do the tame with gold at the present? If we had gold bullion we could take it to the mint and receive a gold dol lar for every 23.2 grains of it and the government has nothing more to do with it; or we could reoeive certifi cates for it redeemable in gold The stamp of the government does not make gold any more valuable; -but it does silver now. With free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1, 16 ounces of silver would be as valuable as one ounce of gold. One ounce of gold is now worth nearly as much as thirty-two ounces of silver. Why ? Because gold is coined free and is money, the redemption money of . the United States, and silver is only a commodity, being denied free coinage. Mr. Carlisle and the gold stand ard people tell us that the silver dol lars in circulation are lb good as gold because the government stamp is on them and the credit of the government says so. Of course the sliver dollar will buy as much as a gold - dollar. Neither silver dollars nor gold coins are redeemable. Paper money issued on gold and silver is the only money that is redeemable and when redeemed and the gold or silver paid out for it the gold and silver then goes into the hands of the people and is money because the stamp of the government makes it so. Is our silver dollar an honest dol lar? Let us se see. A coin certificate redeemable in gold, if mutilated, can be redeemed in gold and the holder does not loose anything by the muti a a lawon. a goia oom, mutiutea. is worth its bulion value at the rate one dollar for 23.2 grains of gold. the holder loses only the loss in the weight of the coin. But how about the silver dollar which is denied free coinage? Mutilate or deface it and do you have a dollar less the amount of weight taken away? No. It be comes bullion and is nothing more man a commodity ana at the present prlee would only be worth but little more than a half dollar piece of silver, when it contains twice the amount o silver thai, the coin contains which you get for it. Who loses the fifty cents? The holder of the mutilated or do faeed coin, or the government? Take a hammer and mash one and take it to the treasury and see - what it is worth and who loses it. But let us go back to the insuranoe wwr . " . companies. no . suppose mere are men living now who were paying in auranoe before the demonetization of silver in 1873, and are carrying their policies jet. Has yonr premiums grown any less? Are not they the same now they were in . 1873? Did the insurance policies specify that the dath losses should be paid in gold and the premiums on them also to be paid in gold or in the lawful money of the United Statet? " A farmer, for instance, insured his lite in 1870 for $10,000, his pre mium was $250 per year. He could p7 ib meu wua oaies. oi cotton or : . .1 .I ill m 200 bushels of wheat. That same farmer is living to day and to pay his premium, whioh is still $250, it takes 10 bales of cotton or 1000 bushels of wheat. Tet the inauranoe companies say that if you vote for the free coin age of silver when you die we will pay your heirs $10,000 in silver. Oi course the insurance companies and moneyed corporations want to keep the wealth producers where they have got them. The price you pay them is the same as it was in .1873 but they can buy from you just four times as much of your produce. Will the farm ers and wealth producers of this great country submit to such treatment longer. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, a man whom we do not much admire, voiced our eentiments in "a rpeech at Cooper Union in New York City when he said; America for American; to hell with the British gold stand ard." THE UNION will keep you posted during the campaign, 'Sut scribe tor it and keep up. WAGES -AND SILVER. 4 WoaxiNGXAX is Nor Hurt by Fax Coi5aox. Tax The 7 following article, recently written by Mr. Clinton Furbish, of the National Bureau' of American Republics, is one of the ablest, most philosophical and practical exposi tions of the silver question we have yet read : Since the early days of the Repub lic there has been little change in the attitude of beneficiaries of special leg islation. Those who accept the teachings of Hamilton as the only true foundation for a political faith firmly believe in the duty of government to legislate for the rich that the rich may take care of the poor. This is the basic principle of Hamiltonism and of modern protection. And wher ever special privilege is attaoked its beneficiaries become at once the voci ferous protectors of the poor working man and of the widows and orphans whose savings are said to be threat ened by communism. Just now the old cries are repeated and prospects and iorestallers of wealth are making the welkin ring with shouts in behalf of the laboring classes. It is de clared that if tho people of the country secure, in answer to the pressing de mand, free coinage of bilver, the work ingmen and the depositors in our sav ings banks will be the greatest suf ferers. The situation becomes amus ing by iteration. The laborer is asked to believe that his employer is lying awake nights to prevent: the passage of laws whioh will dimioibh his wages. And it is a serious situa tion for the poor employers. Still staggering under the shook of a de nial of their right to incrcaso taxation that they might the better pay high wages, another evil impends and an other class is drawn into the fight for the maintenance of vested rights. The special privilege of issuing the paper money of 75,000,000 people is attaoked, and the banks join with other employers of labor to protest against the danger threatening those so unable to protect themselves. To emphasize the argument it is custom ary for the press devoted to defense of the status quo to hold up the ter rible condition of the workingmen in Mexioo and other Latin-American countries. There are, doubtless, those who will be influenced by such appeals. But it is safe to assert they will not be found among intelligent laborers, who have been forced to a study of economic conditions and laws. Tbese have found that the laws governing production and distribution are as changeless as that of gravitation Toilers in mines and work-shops have come to understand that wealth re sults from the application of labor to natural opportunities. Tney have also learned that in pro portion as the access of labor to the natural opportunities is denied by forestalled and monopolists, in just that proportion is labor robbed of its rights and denied its just wage. And for this reaaoi the citation of Mexico as a terrible example cf the e vil of free coinage of silver is peculiarly unfor tunate for those who would argu therefrom that the Mexican laborer is being robbed because he is not forced to use the most expensive tools where cheaper ones would answer just as well. For the purpose of arriving at a clear understanding of the condi tion of the workingmen in M- xico we may safely take the results of the ob servation of English officials as being entirely unbiased by a prevalent po litical discussion. The British for eign office has recently published a report of the coffee industry of Mexi co, from whieh the following is taken: "The wages paid vary in different districts, but the average rate fpt the whole country was officially estimated in 1892 at 37 cents, Mexican curren cy Cor 9id"). per diem. Si ce that date prices have certainly risen, and the daily wage is now generally plaeedVt about 50 cents (Is Id) )th employers and employed fre quently prefer piece-work to a daily wsg, particularly for such work an clearing land before planting coffee. "Xne Mexican laoorer requires . m ar careful handling if the most is to be made of him. A rich soil and a trop ical climate supply , nearly all his re quirements with little effort on his part, and will not easily submit to harsh or unfair treatment from his employer." If reliance be placed upoa the first of these paragraphs it would be pos sible to extract therefrom arguments entirely favorable to the claim that the use of silver as money in Mexico had caused a rue in the rate of wages, because such rise had been coincident with such use. But the only conclu sion fairly to be taken from that state-. UNN -FOR MALE Ij- C- BROGDEN, (University of FIRST SEPTEMBER 1ST., 1896. "Yon are again making preparations FIRST CLASS HIGH SCHOOL, and patronize that school whose chief aim is not In the number of pupils enrolled but whose supieme purpose is in thorough, practical and progressive "work. As thoroughness without progress is stagnation and as progress without thoroughness means but little, it is our determinstion to combine both in i ; - j every department of the work. f ": It is not only our intention to give careful attention to the different grades of High School work but also. to fully prepnra pupils for the .Univer sity or any other college in the State. The scnool is conveniently situated In a healthy and 'progressive town. The building is commodiously arranged and furnished with patent desks, flnoil hnnrii han be obtained in the town at from 7 to 8 dollars per month. Tuition at reasonable rates. For further particulars address, Au2-l-4t ment is that the use of silver as money has not been enough of an evil to pre vent the advance of wages in Mexico. And when wo turn to the second para graph quoted we find a hint as to a possible solution of the Mf xican wage question. Let it be carefully noted that the Mexican laborer does not have to organize a trades, union nor a confederation of labor. He eeeuis to have his employer: at his mercy and can give up his job without fear of results. And whj? Simply . be causo "rich soil and a tropical climate supply nearly all his requirements with little effort on hi8part.,, Let us measure his "wants" in bananas, this being a commodity we can readi ly understand without tho use of Latin terms for money. Let us sup pose the Mt xican laborer wants twenty-five bananas a day. (If he can pick them from a tree by U&lf an 'hour's work and if the cultivation of. his banana plantation: does not require much further effort it is quite clear that he will not work for any employ er for less .than twenty bananas a day. The Mexican laborer may not know as much about politioal economy as some of the eminent financiers in Wall street, but he does know when he has bananas enough, and he can easily satisfy himself whether or not he had better work for an employer a whole day for what he can get by half an hour's labor. It would seam, therefore, that wages in Mexico are determined in a measure as tbey are everywhere else, by factors entirely outside the financial system. It can easily be seen that the Mexican work ing man might be : driven to a very different condition. A judicious sys tem of fencing and properly executed "laws" might make it impossible for him to reach the banana trees as he does now and he might be forced to i wQrk longer hours for tho protected employer, whose 'capital would then seem to be all that 6tood between the workingmen and starvation. If tho fences were sufficiently numerous, high and well defended by stacutes the power of capital would be more readily seen by the laborers seeking employment. Then they would be prepared to thank the kind capitalist, whose money offered them chance to get bananas. There is little danger that; the American workiogman will ever be reduced to a ' condition . like that of his Mexican brother. For the pres ent, at least, be will enjoy the luxu ry of labor unions and harsh employ ers As a people we have become proficient both in the building of fences and in the; enactment of laws to make them effective against ' the I i anarchistic and communistic elemenf But because - of this the American workiDgman should be the more care ful as to the possible tffect of his po litical action upon his friends in; the younger republics. They are now urged by gentlemen who have learned all about the laws of finance in bank parlors and as statesmen in offices where such knowledge is assumed, to i . vote against the use of silver as money in this country! lest they be reduced to the level of the poor workingmen in Mex:cc. who have no trade union I ...... j . council in wmcn 10 ipass tueir even- ings. I5at tne American woramgisan U capable of comprehending simple propositions, even though be has never Jrod the eoft carpets of a bank parlor nor even seen the inside of 'an office wherein an appointed statesman rise? to temporary greatnrsa. lie knows in a general way teat a scarcity h -.1 . IGH ACHGOL, AND FEMALE, Ph. Principal North Carolina.) SESSIOIM BEOIIMS for sending your boy or girl to & it is but natural that you desire to L. C. BROGDEN, Dunn, N. C. of money is not to bo remedied, by a destruction of one-half the volume. He knows, too, that lvalue resides in use, and that, therefore, those who pretend a desire to maintain a parity of value between two metals, while destroying one-half the uses of one of them, arc not to be accepted as teach ers of sane people. He knows, too, that wealth is the product of labor applied to natural opportunities, and that, therefore, upon labor must event ually fall all the buidens oFgovern ment and all the evils of improper legislation and administration. If it has happened that an interest bearing debt has been incrtased, no i matter whether properly or improp erly, labor must bear its burden. Noting the efforts of a Senate commit tee to investigate tho salo of govern- i mcnt bonds tho American laboring man has received new proof of what he has been ttught by agitators for financial reform, that a very few own ers of concentrated wealth are able to control the entire gold supply of the country. This has been and is still denied by defenders of the status qip. But newspapers are cheap in this country, and a single statement made by J. Pirpont . Morgan before the Vest committee reveals moro truth than the banker is accustomed to in dulge in without pay. Mr. Morgan was asked why the Treasury had be lieved it proper to make ai arrange ment with his firm for the sale of the bonds. Mr. Morgan replied : "Be cause-we were the' only ones who could get the gold."! An intelligent workingman fiada important sugges tion in this revelation. He should be careful lest be mislead his brothers in the silver-uging oountries where em ployers have to be polite to the em ployed. He is asked to vote for the establishment of a system under whioh gold alone shall be! the "basis" for the money of 75,000,000 enterprising people. Looking at the confession of Mr. Morgan he will be excusable if his vote shows his acceptance of the proposition, that, if a single banker's hand can cover the basis of the money of 75,000.000 people, that' people should either increase . the basis or decrease the capacity of the banker's hand. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MORT GAGE. By virtue of the puwer and authority giveu uy a certain i4aiiU Mortgage, ex ecuted by O. J. Spears and wile Mary to Spears to s A Salmon and by said 3 A Salmon transferred and assigned to Gilbert Bros. & Co.. which is recorded in the office of thu Register of Deeds for tiarneti county, in jsooK "F. Zio. 2." pages coo eie., uie ioiiowinx property hi uv exKseu u Faie uy puDlic auction, viz: Certain pieces or tracts of land Iv-- hg and bein in Hatr.ett count-, in iirove ami upier j.ittle isiver Town ships and described aiid defined as fol lows to wit: 1st tract being the -south ern luili of a one hundred acre survey and grunt, lying on Juniper Brand i in Grove Township, adjoining the laud of t. . m..-. ..t ... ucou .ucivay, niu. snaw, 1 jIcIvhv. C E Turner and the S:mdy Dixon tract oi twenty acres, containing . fiftj-.foiii- acres more or less ami known sis the Sawyer place or Smith place. 2nd tract behig a fifty acre Mirvej- or grant, lvin on Walker's Creek and Upper LUtlo liiverm uppper Little River Township adjoining the lands of Mrs. D C JklcLeau, Mi..s. Flora Campbell laud others. a;nl Known tract was conveyed to " J Spears by 11 T Spears in 1S82 and to him y C E j urner. l'jace ol Pali at the Court uou.se tioor in L.uiingto!i. Time of Pale ut 1 P- m- on Monday September 7tn. 1S96. Terms of sale f-asli. tiii.BERT.mios. & Co.. Assignees. Robinson & Cidgood, Attorney? i JI-22-4t. ..WAN FED AT J ONCE Active agents for each county. Exclusive control and no risk. Will clear VZ to 25 hundred dolltrs a j year. Ej close stamp for full particulars or 25s for 1 sample INj? Ripids Mineral Water Co . Big Kspids, 31 cb. Known as trie Ueorge LMcLwiu place or yctlleinent. The tirst! tract was convey t'll to O J Spears In lsS2 by J V Smith and to him lv C E Turner. The secoml READ. REFLECT A Our immense mer stock is now open and read) i for inspection. We bare the LATE3T STYLES DRESS From a FIVE CENT CALICO to to match. ' It is impossible to enumerate the store it will give us pleasure to show HANDSOMEST line of Dress Goods ever exhibited in This is a broad assertion but wo substantiate us. 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