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ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUAEY 9, 1901.
VOLUME XXXVT-NO. m
kT ..$5.00,
7.50,
10.00,
12.50,
15.00.
You can get the mme prices at Credit Stores.
They caa copy our prices but not our Goods.
We price you au Overcoat at $10.00, and it's worth every
cent. Elsewhere you may find an Overcoat priced at $10.00,
and possibly it's not worth a cent. '
There's lots of diff?rence in Overcoats, and we believe
that you'll find the difference in our favor.
Don't take our word for it. Look at $10.00 Overcoats
elsewhere-then look at ours.
WE COURT COMPARISON
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IT!
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FANCY TRAPS,
And are made by tba best manufacturers, at prices that will
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Come to see me.
JOS. J. FBETWELL.
DON'T FAIL TO SEE
THE HOLIDAY
Now being shown by the Evans' Pharmacy.
All kinds, all prices.
Hurler's Candies-Fresh.
Oet the first look and you will
find what you want.
EVANS9 PHARMACY.
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dealers in Drugs and Medicines, Pendleton, 8. C.
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FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL.
From Our Oom Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7,1900.
"Politics*1, came to the surface
times daring the three days that Con
gress waa in seaaion thia week and held
sway in Doth Senate and House. This
waa the mora striking because the pre
holidey ss??i?Da were marked by the
entire absence of anything of the kind.
The game waa inaugurated in the
House promptly on re-assembling by a
resolution for an investigation by the
Census Committee, as to whether the
franchise waa restricted in tbe South
in such a way aa to call for a reduction
of representation under the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution. The
resolution stirred the Southern mem
bers, who have been aroused before by
the steps taken by Representative
Crumpacker, of Indiana, in tho same
direc'ion. It directs the Census Com
mute J to ascertain where the vote has
been restricted and to make full and
complete reporta to the House. This
involved to a certain extent the con
sideration of the apportionment bill.
The whole subject waa gone over thor
oughly by Mr. Gar Held in the ninth
census. The committee could, of
conreo, bring the information down to
date, and perhaps it would be a good
thing to have that done, lt would
satisfy the public and show something
of what the situation really is. The
language of the fourteensh Amend
ment applies to all male inhabitants.
It would Affect Illinois, fer that State
has a law requiring residence for a coi .
tain period before one can vote. Prob
ably there are 90,000 males over twen
ty-one years of age in Chicago who are
unable to vote because of this State
law. Massachusetts has an educational
qualification, and Rhode Island has a
poll tax. Other States of the North
also have suffrage qualifications which
would bring them within the scope of
the constitutional amondment. Even
'the inmates of the insane asylums and
similar institutions would have to be
counted in reckoning the restriction of
suffrage. So there is likely to be
strong opposition to anything definite
being accomplished under Mr. Olm
sted's resolution, which was finally re
ferred to the Committee on Census.
In the Senate, politice waa played by
no lesa a personage than the President
himself, who sent to that body a re
fusal by the Secretary of War to trans
mit the report by A. L. Lawshe, who in
vestigated, the Cuban postoffice frauds,
demanded from the Secretary of
War by resolution of the Senate.
The President declared curtly that he
did not deem it compatible with the
pnblio interest to make pnblio the re
port. The truth of the matter seems
to be that the report shows gross neg
ligence and possibly corruption on the
part of high officera cf the government,
whom the President and Secretary of
War hope to be able to shield. The re
fusal is a direct defiance of the Senate's
right to inquire into government mat
ters. To say that an executive officer
can refuse to furnish information tc
the legislative branch when that infor
tion concerns the challenged co' duct
of an administration, is a monstrosity.
In this case, especially, it is believed a
festering mass of corruption exists Sn
Cuba, and if the administration de
liberately withholds official reportait
is a matter for the whole country to
know. The determination of the Pres
ident to cut off all information is shown
by the fact that Mr. Lawshe, whose re
port the Secretary declines to make
public, haa been suddenly hurried to
the Philippines to fill a $0,000 position
aa auditor. If he had remained in
Washington, he could have been sum
moned before the Congressional Com
mutes to describe the situation he
discovered in Cuba and which makes
the publication of his report incompati
ble with tho publie interests or with
the well-being of the Republican
party.
The army reorganization bill, which
waa taken up in the Senate on Thurs
day, displacing the subsidy bill from
its favored position, also gave rise to a
semi-political debate, the Democrats
expressing their willingness to give
the President a special army for use in
the Philippines, but objecting strongly
to the pending bill which endows him
with almost absolute power over tho
size of the army used in the United
States. The sensational part of the
debate was when Senator Sewall, of
New Jersey, speaking for the Presi
dent, declared that there was more
fighting in the Philippines to-day than
there had been since the beginning of
the war. During the course of his re
marks he made this statement, which
is significant: "If you will look at the
reports of the general commanding you
will find that every two weeks or every
four weeks there were so many men
killed, so many wounded, and so many
! died of disease in hospital. That ia
' the situation. I have said, and I think
it is the view of the Secretary of War,
that it will take 60,000 men In the Phil
ippines for some time to como." Yet
it waa Secretary Root ?rho prophesied
before the election that the followers
of Affuisalds Trsre only clinging to the
desperate hope that Bryan might be
elected.
The refunding operations under Ute
gold bill ceased on the last day of the
century, about one-half of the out
standin. high-interest bonds expiring
in 1004,1007 and 1008, having been con
verted into two per cents which will
ron for thirty years. The Treasury
Department declares that these trans
actions show a great saving for the
government, estimated to amount to
some $10,000,000, this being the amount
saved hy the reduction of interest to
the date of maturity of the old bonds.
No account is taken of the fant that the
now bonds have to run some twenty- j
two years longer than tho old ones.
Two per cent interest on say $450,000,
000 of converted bonds is $9,000,000 per
annum, or $198,000,000 for twenty-two
years, all of which will be a dead loss
if the government should be able to
pay oft' these bonds at or before their
maturity. The loss will he in propor
tion to the amount that might bo paid
oft'at cr near maturity. However, the
Treasury Department treats tho Amer
ican people as infants by assuring them
that they have made a great saving
when they have actually made a loss.
One of tho means used by the Repub
licans to carry the State of South Da
kota hos been made publio property by
the arrival in this c.'ty of John East
man, a full blooded Indian, who acted
as Mr. Hanna's agent in inducing the
Dakota Indians to become American
citizens and vote solidly for McKinley.
The consideration was* promise of the
renewal of the annual* subsidies, sus
pended in 1803, to/?fee tribes and the
approval by Congress of certain claims
held by them. Eastman, having ful
filled his part of the contract, is now
here insisting that Mr. Hanna deliver
his goods. The Indians' claims are
now befo:**- the Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs. They amount to the
sum of $1,900,000, and despite the
efforts of Mr. Hanna to force the com
mittee to make a favorable report, a
majority refase to be bullied and are
against the scheme. Mr. Pettigrew, as
a member of thu committee, has ex
posed the true inwardness of the
scheme, and has mustered eight votes
against the bill to six favoring it.
Comer Creek Happenings.
We will endeavor this morning-the
beginning of the twentieth century-to
give yon all a few notes from our pen,
as to how oar people spent the merry
Christmas holiday?. It would be useless
for us to say that we all enjoyed our
selves hugely attending parties, turkey
dinners, etc. And now as we start In the
new century, we earnestly trust that
everybody bas started right with new
resolutions to do better and live better
than they have In the nineteenth century
that has Just passed out, and ls only to be
remembered as the things ot the past.
It ik? pleasant to reflect back for a fev?
years and think of the many jolly holi
days of the old century that we have had
the pleasure of enjoying.
One of the most orjoyablo occasions of
the holidays Just past, wasa jpound sup
per given at tho hospitable home of Mr.
Q'.d Mrs. A. B. Shirley on the night of
Dec. 29tb. Early after the JUD had passed
behind the western horizon, the young
people from far and near began to arrive,
and by 8 o'clock a large and merry crowd
were present to participate In the many
amusements of the evening. All plays
of every description that would amuse
the young folks were plnyei until about
10 o'clock, when lo and behold the dining
room door was swung wide open and
each boy with a fair girl-twenty-eight In
number-entered the room to find the
table groaning with so many good and
delicious fruits, candles, meats, salads
and many ether good things too numer
?os to mention. After enioying our
selves to the fullest extent, we again on
te red the parlor, where a couple of hours
more were pleasantly spent, and junt be
foro the hour of departure all gathered |
around the organ, v>iib dayton Bags
dale at the key hoard, to! give ue some
sweet music, and tha others Joined in the
aJnginj: for a few moments, which was
indeed nico, and then?&re all, after"bld
ding each other ad iou/departed for our
respective homes to dream of the happy
moments so pleasantly spentln that home.
Many thanka are doo, and are hereby
tendered to Misa Lois Kay and Clayton
Ragsdale for pettlpg it up and malting
the crowd enjoy themselves so much,
tor every one certainly had a delightful
time.
Mr. Fofl Newell, of Hopewell, snd
Miss Mary Lo wis?, one of Belton's pretti
est girls, were the guests of Mles Jsnie
Digby during the letter part of the holi
days here with friends and relatives.
Miss Lucia Carwile and brother, Jim,
of Level Land, visited re'stlvos lu onr
midst last week.
Rev. E. C. Shirley and wife, of Antro
ville, visited in these parts during tho
merry Christina?.
Mr.*. D. F. Gassawjy, accompanied by
her daughter, Olivia, and soo, Charlie,
visited relatives at Storovillo ?lid Antre
viile last week.
Miss Louie Dunlap spent a few days
above Andersen last week with relatives.
The MoAdama school reopened Monday
with a good attendance.
A delightful soolsble was given at the
home of Mr. B. F. Gaesaway last Ssturdsy
night. A Jolly party of young folks were
present and all bad a nice time.
We regret very muoh to give cn Mr.
and Mis. M. M. Shirley from oar midst,
aa th?y nava been good neighbors and
friends to our people, and our joe* ls Bar
ker's Creek's gain.
Wheat ?nd oats hsrc bad fl?? weather
so far, and lt Ss hoped that m large yield
wi? be msds this year, ?or a very large
acreage has been sowed.
Happy and prosp?rons new year to all
of the readera of the dear.wld IKTKIXI
OKNOBR, ita readers and printers.
O. E. GAESAWAY.
[Tho above communication was intend
ed for publication la*t week but reaohed
us ?co lave.-Editor.)
DIVIDING THE RUM MONEY.
Every Comfy, City and Town in the State
Gets Its Share.
News and Courier,
COLUMBIA, January 2.--Tho report
of the State dispensary for the year
end i UK November 80, shows that on
gnus sales of $2,421,?40.22 the dispen
sary made, through all of its branches,
$208,160.28, which was divided between
the cities and counties, This is inde
pendent of the profit made by the State
and represents the money inado and
divided between tho counties aud
cities. It is noteworthy that from tho
ten dispensaries in Charleston tho net
profit divided between tho city and
county of Cnarlcaton was only $12,
305.20. Tho four dispensaries in Co
lumbia netted nnd paid into tho city
and county treasuries, according to tho
same report, $22,738.70. The city of
Greenville, with two dispensaries, net
ted to the city and county $10,180.42,
and the city of Spartanburg netted to
the city and county $11,882. George
town, as will be noted, went ovor the
$10,000 mark in net profits. Tho state
ment that has just been printed shows
the location of the various dispensa
ries, tho gross and net profits and the
net profits which have been divided,
according to tho report, between the
city and county governments.
Gross sales and net profits of county
dispensaries for the fiscal year ending
November 80, 1000 :
Gross
Despensaries. sales.
Abbeville.$ 84,140 01 4
Adams Run.. 8,005 06
Aiken. 85,310 Cl
Allendale. 17,002 17
Anderson. 00,001 89
Bamberg._ 10,844 76
Barnwell. 27,000 05
Beaufort. 20,407 10
Bishopville... 28,477 15
Blacksbnrg... . 8,402 84
Blackville.... 10,084 83
Branchville... 0,720 73
Branson. 5,532 00
Camden. 43,880 40
Chopin. 8,020 42
Cheraw. 24,004 05
Chester. 40,022 07
Charleston :
Von Santen. 20,400 40
Carpenter .. 16,804 25
Stothart.. .. 17,140 15
Meyer. 10,021 80
Mahlstedt.. 18,042 45
Merritt. 15,081 55
Honour. 20,878 80
Stoppelbein. 27,508 80
Roche. 10,044 10
Percival.... 20,187 70
Columbia :
Bultman.... 41,803 24
Cooper. 37,433 55
Lynch. 44,507 00
Price. 40,000 05
Danville. 008 45
Darlington.... 40,104 50
Denmark. 8,874 70
Dillon. 81,023 70
Edgefield. 23,844 80
Ehrhardt. 0,008 55
Elloree. 10,814 10
Eutaw ville.... 14,848 15
Fairfax....... 8,135 35
Florence...... 48,035 25
Fort Motte.... 7,787 41
Gaffney....... 25,571 85
Georgetown .. 58,782 00
Greeley ville.. 7,108 00
Greenville :
Hill. 40,800 00
Scruggs..... 22.104 15
Hampton. 7,170 87
J ackson boro.. 11,522 40
Kershaw. 20,778 05
Kingstree. 18,058 02
Lancaster_ 24,182 05
Laurens. 40,505 80
Lexington_ 9,151 45
Livingston.... 7,275 19
Lodge. 2,957 20
Luray. 4,230 00
Manning. 80,005 60
Marion. 81,056 40
Moyesville.... 11,186 89
Monck'sCor.. 8,66170
Moultrieville.. 3,470 74
Mt. Pleasant:. 10,645 10
Newberry. ?8,005 35
Nichols. 1,497 20
Olar. 5,255 00
Orangeburg... 40,835 22
Pendleton.. .. 8,755 40
Pickens.... 0,210 82
Port Royal.... 0,742 65
Rantowles_ 15,553 38
Ridgeway. 7,216 80
Ridgeland.... 0,023 07
Saluda. 11,024 13
Sally. 5,709 ll
Seneca. 12,484 Ol
Scotin. 3,012 01
Spartanburg :
Weston. 43,009 30
Brown. 40,635 45
Springfield.... 6,751 68
St. George.... 8,745 63
St. Matthew's. 15,002 47
St. Stephen's.. 8,783 22
Summerville.. 10,714 20
Sumter. 57,801 51
Timmonsville 20,070 50
Todd ville. 0,800 40
Union. 87,480 25
Varaville. 4,871 28
Wagoner. 0,780 55
Walhalla.. 8,841 15
Walterboro... 17,440 08
Williston. 7,978 00
Winnnboro. .. 21,298 85
$2,421,840 23 $S7O,i60 60
Net profits from
towns and coun
ties from beer
dispensers for
fiscal year end
ing November
80, 1900.$ 27,402 81
Payments of old
accounts due
t ow nu and coun
ties. 530 87
Total.$2,431,810 23 $208,100 28
STATE NEW?.
- Tho aggregate loases by fire in tho j
city of Columbia for tho post year were
$133,870.
.*- Tho Cresent cotton mill, Rock Hill,
has been sold to the Charleston Sav
ings bank for $33,500.
- Prof. John L. Pressley has been
lately elected to till tho chair of Greek
and German at Erskiue College.
- Tne Charter mill of the Stnto starts
out tho now year grinding well. A
dozen charters were granted on Now
Year's Day.
- Rock ii ill hu? an anti-spitting or
dinance and tho first oflenders to bo
caught WC?O Aldermen Kerr and Hall
and Mayor Walters.
- A negro woman in Cheraw was os
snssinntcd in her home, a bullet through
tho window entering her side and caus
ing dangerous wounds.
- Governor Mcsweeney has refused
to grant a pardon in the enso of Emma
Odom, thc white woman of Marlboro,
convicted of violating tho dispensary
law and sentenced to $200 fine.
- From tho time tho privilege tax
on fertilizers was provided for this
tax has yielded the State $700,090.18.
Tho largest amount received was
dnring tho pnst yenr, it being $73,
51)9.34.
- Tho Governor will appoint a suc
cessor to tho deceased sheriff of Abbo
villo county ns soon ns tho legislative
delegation from tho county names tho
man. It is understood that the dele
gation will leave it to a primary.
- Tho News and Courier has pub
lished the death list of tho whites in
Charleston for tho year 1900. There
were 840 white persons abovo the ago
of 21 who have died there tho past y orv,
most of them at an advanced age.
- A well which will probably bo 700
feet deep is being suuk at Clover, York
county, by tho cotton mill company.
There is so much granite in that sec
tion thnt shallow wells do not af
ford a genuine or satisfactory supply
of water.
- Dr. H. Baer died at his homo io
Charleston on tho 3rd inst., aged 01
years. Dr. Baer was ono of tho lend
ing men in the Methodist Church in
this State, and a trustee of Woflbrd
Collego. He was a Hebrew by birth
and a highly educated, well read man.
- It is understood that tho inaugu
ration uf Gov. Mcsweeney is%> bo fixed
for January 18. Tho inauguration will
he merely n matter of form, of course,
It will take place in tho hnll of thc
House of Representatives at noon OD
the day named. Tho Governor will
deliver a brief inaugural address.
- Chairman C. S. McColl, of thc
county commisioners of the Charleston
exposition, has issued a call to thc
commissioners of all tho counties tc
meet and organize nt once and notify
the secretory, and to got down to work
for the exposition so as to mako it of
the greatest possible good to tho State
and to each county.
- Camden has hud a special shoot
ing scrape between Mr. W. D. Good
ale and Mr. Allen Deans, in a store.
The trouble grew out of a previous
difficulty. Both men fired and Deane
received a wound in his mouth. Good
ale was not hit. Thore are conflicting
reports aa to who fired the firs: shot.
Both aro gentlemen of high standing
in the community.
- The venerable age of Columbia'a
honored and oldest white citizen, Mr.
Hugh McElrone, presents an unique
feature, in that tho good old man
passed into his third century on Jan
uary 1,1901. Starting lifo in 1798, he
witnessed the closing of the eighteenth,
lived usefully through the nineteenth,
and now, a beloved patriarch, he hails
the twentieth century.
- Jan. ? Sheriff P. D. Gilreath re
tired from tho office of shcritt'of Green
ville county after serving twenty-four
years consecutively. At ll o'clock the
Bar Association of Greenville county
met and after a short speech by Capt.
J. A. Mooney presented Sheriff Gil
reath with a solid silver loving cup,
also unanimously electing him nn hon
orary member. J. D. Gilreath, son of
tho old officer, is now sheriff.
- Tho Rev. A. Teamer Porter, D. D.,
the founder and until now tho princi
pal of tho celebrated military academy
in Charleston which bears his name,
has retired from tho management and
control of that institution. Dr. Por
ter, in addition to beiug old and in bad
health, is losing his eyesight, and these
aro tho reasons for his action. Tho
academy passes into tho hands r tho
Episcopal church of South Caro' i.
- There is an old Indian mound in
the sand hill section of Crooked creek,
fifteen miles north of Bennottsville,
wero skeletons and Iudian relics were
unearthed a few days ago. The mound
Was near tho old wolf pit, where scores
of wolves were baited and captured by
the hunters before tho beasts wero
driven out of the forests, and the coun
try round about is barren and little
frequented. A party of men under
command of Captain Samuel Kirk
patrick decided to investigate the
mound in the. search of hidala treas
ure. The first day's work failed tu
hrisg* results, but tho digging was re
sumed the second day. Skeletons,
bones, arrows and pottery wero un
earthed, and deop down under tho
other discoveries was tho skeleton cf a
human being which measured nino feet
in length. This is tho report from
Bennettsvillo although it is believed
that tho human skeleton was badly
measured.
UENEUAL NfcWS ITEMS.
- Negroes lynched one of their color
in Georgia for assaulting a negro girl.
- Tho American Sugar Relining Co.
has reduced tho price of all sugara ten
points.
- Colorado ami Missouri and other
western States J??VO been visited by
j blizzards.
i - Tho banks in the Indian Territory
have to keep a cashier who can speak
tho Indian language.
- An odd elopement occurred in
Cleveland, O., recently when a young
woman of that city rau away with a
man who had no legs.
- Exports of Southern pig iron for
tho year just past will brer.k tho re
cord by upwards of 15,000 tons, and
will bo (15,000 tons greater than Inst
year.
- Mrs. Mary Folsom of Fort Hamil
ton, N. V., ImB tiled a petitiou praying
tho court to enjoin her son from court
ing a certain young woman who lives
in a nearby town.
- Tho Cubans in Convention are
pushing their constitution ard may
have it completed by tho 15th of Jan
uary. It must como to Washington
aud have tho approval of Unelo Sam
uel.
- How Mr. McKinley's advice to
economize is being tuleen by Congress
is shown b" the River and Harbor bill,
which carries "only" $00,000,000, being
tho largest amount over carried by a
similar bill, with one exception.
- A cork leg was the unusual Christ
mas gift that a young lady of Fishkill,
N. Y., received. She bad tho misfor
tune to lose a leg from some accident?
Tho cork leg was a surprise, but the
public is assured that it fits beauti
fully.
- The compilation of tho popular
vote for President has been complot'- a.
According to the figures, McKinley re
ceived 7,203,200 voteB, and Bryan 0,415,
. 087. McKinley's plurality in 1800 was
- 001,854 and this year it was 847,025, an
increase of 240,025.
i - Tho Minneapolis board ol educa
r tion is agitating tho matter ot intro
. ducing tho study of agriculture into
i tho public schools. The ide?is to pur
1 sue a somewhat practical study of the
i subject under skilled teachers during
tho summer months.
- Very perccptable earthquake
[ shocks were felt at Mound City, Kas,;
[ Rich Hill, Mo., and Pleasanton Kas.,
, last Thursday night. At the latter
> place one or two people were thrown
, out of bed, while hundreds ran into the
1 streets in terror. Buildings suffered
minor damage.
> -Tho shadow of a hand, with the
i forefinger rnised in warning, is said
i to bo visible on one of tho big pillars
> of the White House portico, whenever
. the sun shines on it. Perhaps it is in
: tended to warn Mr. McKinley of an
I adverBe decision of the Supreme Court
\ on the constitutionality of his colonial
policy.
- School children who have been
. afflicted with questions concerning the
, prevalence of capitals in the diminu
i tivo State of Rhode Island, will rejoice
! that there is only ono of them now. A
. three million dollar State House has
? been built at Providence, of white
Georgia marble, and is a ".veritable
: palace. The Newport capital has gone
out of business,
i - England claims the honor of mak
ing the largest plum pudding ever con?
i strncted. Its weight was about a ton
. and a half. The principal ingrediente
were 573 pounds of flour, 101 of bread,
i 882 of raisins, 101 of currants, 882 of
s uet, 05 of sugar, besides 144 nutmegs,
144 lemons, 880 quarto of milk and
quantities of eggs. It was*.cooked in
sections and fitted together.
- There will be three eclipses dar
ing the year 1001, two of the sun and
one of the moon. Tho first eclipse of
tho suu will bo total and will occur on
the 18th of May, visible in Australia
and South Africa. The other eclipse
of the sun will be an annular one on
the ll th of November., but not visible
in this country. Tho eclipse of the
moon will bo partial. It will bo visi
ble in Alaska, tho Philippine islands,
Asia and Eastern Europe.
- Tho richest man in tho United
States at tho latter end of tho eigh
teenth century was Georgo Washing
ton, who was worth pretty nearly a
million dollars. Probably tho richest
man to-day ia John D. Rockefeller,
whose wealth is reckoned at $300,000
000. Mr. Carnogio is supposed to bo
worth $200,000,000, while W. K. Vander
bilt and William Waldorf Aetor prob
ably como next, with over $PX),000,000
apiece. These great millionaires can
not estimate their own riches within a
margin of millions.
- Hereafter, when **io treasury de
partment estimates the average wealth
of tho people of the United States, the
inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands
aro io be taken into account. This
will probably slightly lower the aver
age. The s?cr?tai y of the treasury
bas issued an order that in making up
the per capita calculations for 1900, tho
figures shall include also the popula
tion of Alaska and the Indian Terri
tory. The calculation made a month
ago showed that every man, woman
and child in tho United States has an
average of $27.02 in cash, no account
being taken of real estate or personal
property. Tho statistics of the treasury
I show that tho peoplo of tho United
States aro growing richer every year
in average individual holdings of
cash.
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