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GLANCES AT POLITICS AND
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The administration Is ery much,
agitated at the deficit In the revenue,
Home way or taxing the poor will have
- to be contrived, for the Idea of an In
tome tax cannot lie tolerated, Ae
ardingly, Sehator Allison is to the
fore with a scheme for taxing tea, sea
Senator Morrill ia iS favor of taxing
. mm Ji IM t n 111 1 'i. t a i I a. 1 I .
want to revive the income tax, but the
decision of the Supreme court stands
in the way. But, whatever if to he
the outcome, thing cannot he long
delayed, lor no man, and no govern
ment either, can go on very long if
he or It spends more than ie receiv
ed in the shape of Income.. The idea
f levying a special tax on the rail
road! of fhe country hat been aug
ted, but Mr. McKenna, who li so
toon to go on the bench of the Su
preme court, declares that a national
tax on railroads is unconstitutional,
and we are Inclined to suspect that he
knows all ubout it. Taxes on tn rich
are not apt to he constitutional,
although tax on the poor are in
variably bo. eayi the Twentieth Can
tury, it ib a little) odd to have hum
, Hfce Senator Lodge get up and lay that
Attn AHimlau iu atinttAut hha ah
egflbantl blessed with inexhaustible
natural resources, while at the same
tine there ! no way f providing takes
i enough to run the government, Sena
tor Lodge says the talk about the die
trees of the poor m quite abeurd be
vuiisn thfj tuvue aiti nn ihn nnnn uip! i
ao much, This is really a very striking
and ingenious argument, If the poor
can pay so. much, what. can the ich
pay?
! A Pall River, Massj, dispatch under
a December date, said:
i "At a general meeting of the Cotton.
Manufacturers' " Association it was
ttmanimously voted to reduce all wages
in the mills of the city, the amount
land time of the reduction being left
"to a committee. It is understood that
-the cut will not be less than 10 per
'cent, and that it will go into effect
jjan. 1. The cut will effect 28,000 per
sona. The feeling is prevalent that
. there will be a strike, but how large a
proportion of the operatives will take
part in it 'it is impossible to say. Every
effort will 'be made to avert such ac
tion." i f There is a remedy for all this condi
i jtton, costing less exertion than all
tblese kind of "strikes" Vote! Labor
,las the electoral strength to make a
rstrlke" at the ballot box that will end
for all time the necessity of strikes
against reduction of wages, says the
Journal of the Knights of Labor.
Stand together one time at the polls,
nu viciory win pcrcn upon me stan-
crty" will be won for the industrial
.masses. Let all labor interests combine
.now ror one great future effort to
iflrow off industrial serfdom. Will
you do it, and be free and prosperous?
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workers will not complete the Grand
Trianon in Paris which they recently
started, according to Pilgrim. This
building waa to have cost many mil
. Hons and would have astonished the
world by its magnificence Perhaps
you are surprised to learn that the
y workingmen of the United States have
been engaged upon a building of this
nature. Perhaps you never heard of
ft. Well, they have been doing that
veTv thlnsr. vicarlouslv as it wcri. Yon
er. the laboring peoplrof the United
States annually create and turn over to
the Gould family many million dollars'
in return for. which the (Souldr family
do nothing. I hit in the direction of
royalty the Gould do bend, and hence
tt came about once upon aUlmtf that
Annie Gould married a French count
and the count married Annie and $10,
000,000, which the employees of; the
Missouri Pacific railroad and the West
ern Union Telegraph company had
earned -and turned over to Annie, be
cause her father had given her a few
TittlA nlnoa nf nnrtoi nnWntl otnrl-.- n .1
bonds. So Annie and the Count de
Cistellene were married and soon af
terwards the count turned up in Paris,
and since then the "fur hns flw "
Banquets and yachts, balls and pairtiea
were piennrui ana tne county rn
cudgelling his brains for a way to
spend the creation of American labor
faster, hit upon this scheme ot a mag
nificent building in Paris not in
America But this extravagance cause 1.
the countess who, it is said, is now
tired of her profligate husband to mtop
the flow of the golden dollars. Think
of the hardships it takes to keep this
Irresponsible animal pleased. It has
taken the cold and discomfort of many
thousand railroad men to gratifyi his
inordinate vanity, and more than one
f them are minus limbs in trying to
create wealth for him to throw nt the
birds, and many of them have wt
widowed women and fatherless ehll-
dren to faee a hitter world.
According to the President's mes:
lege, the nation is a lump of prosper
I Ity; heeording to a bill introduced by
Senator Hawley at the earliest blour
possible, - the nation's prosperity Hbas
wide and deep cracks. No sooner was
congress opened and the President
message bad been read, than Senator
Hawley demands attention to a bill
Drougnc iu uy aim ior two additional
regiments of artillery. How is the in-
.frnrlllftion Of thiR bill tn Vio int...... .
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fcut as tne lie direct to the Presidential
claim of our paradisiacal happiness?
Now. then, if McKinley is right, and
We are a nappy, prosperous neoDle
why should we want more regiments
of artillery than we how have? tf, on
the other hand, Hawley is right, and
wc do need such increase Of repressive
power, we are not a happy and pros
perous nation. One at the other ia in
error. Which of the two, McKinley or
Hawley, in giving the lie to the other,
ie right ?
"ftg tramps were arraigned in jut
tiee Bunn'a eourt Tueeday, eharged
with deetroying railroad property,
Among them was a lawyer of no mean
ability who undertook: the defense, end
actually cleared the whole gang, much
to the surprise of all. Thera was no
question as to some of them burning
posts to make a fire, but the tramp lew
yer was smart enough to clear them
all. His name was Norcross, of a noted
family pf lawyers of Illinois.' Pis
patch, Arkansas City, Kas.
Little items like the above that oc
casionally creep into the press show
what kind of people are being crowded
Into the ranks of the trampi, says the
Appeal to Reason. Not Only the la
borer and the skilled mechanic are
getting down In the mire, but
lawyers, doctors, bankrupt merchant!
and speculators men who a few years
ago would have considered you ineane
had you suggested that they or their
kind would have been foreed on the
tramp, tn one smelter in Pueblo, Co,,
five years ago, there Were seven grad
uated physicians doing common labor
alongside of the Italians and Huns,
i n rir dream of life had faded, Pover
ty ia a great equaliser, I often meet
I ramps who are educated and have
ability, hut not in the one line that
counts money making, There are
thousand! oi lawyera, doctor! and oth
er professionals who are on the tramp
because they could not make a livings
and they , had to eat. ftto? system I
ECONOMIC AXIOMS.
Divide the money, you double debt3;
Double the money, you divide ihe
debts;
Divide the money, you divide prices;
Double the money, you double price3.
That commodities would rise and fail
in price in proportion to the increase
or diminution of money, I assume as a
fact that is incontrovertible; that
such would be the case the most cele
brated writers on political economy
are agreed. Ricardo.
If the whole money in circulation
was doubled, prices would double; if it
was only increased one-fourth, prices
would rise one-fourth. John Stuart
Mill.
Numberless as are the evils by which
kingdoms, principalities and republics
are wont to decline, "these four are. in
my judgment, most baleful: Civil
strife, pestilence, sterility of the soil,
and corruption of the coin. The tiiist
three are so manifest, that no one falls
to apprehend them; but the fourth,
which concerns money, is considered
by few, and those the most reflective,
since It Is not by a blow, but little by
little, and through a secret and obscure
approach, that it destroys the state.
Copernlcus in the 16th century.
For men have so well obscured the
faets about money that the great part
of the people do not see them at all.
The moneyers do as the doctors do,
who talk Latin before women, and use
Greek characters, Arab words, and
Latin abbreviations, fearing that If the
people understood their receipts they
would not bave much opinion of them.
Bodln in 1657.
Money Is the life blood of business.
Make it plenty, all business prospers
and workingmen are employed at good
wages. Make It scarce, all business lan
guishes, merchants become bankrupt,
and laborers are starving. Wendell
Phillips.
The Tract Oetopu.
Trust-forming' goes steadily on. It
stops not for season of plenty or ad
versity. One combination after an
other Ie consummated and the under
man squeals every time. The latest is
the steel rod, wire and nail trust, and
J. Pierpont Morgan, prince of the trust,
makers, is the head. Morgan will have
power far beyond anything the Roths
childs ever thought of, if he is spared
to live a few years more. And every
turn he makes is at the direct detri
ment of the public. The voters of the
country had only begun to appreciate
the trust danger when six and a half
millions of them last November cast
their ballots for a man pledged to
throttle the octopus. But in the next
election this issue will far transcend
anything else in importance. Silver
nof tariff can touch it. The vey life
blood of the people is being drawn by
these combinations. The larger cities
are being fed by the sacrifice of the
smaller. The railroads foster the ten
dency. It comes to be a question
whether or not the government some
day will not he faced with the problem
of absorption of the railroad and tele
graph systems aa well as the great in
dust rial enterprise!. That's why the
government talks about building an ar
mor plate plant. It, itself, la coping
with a combination,KnoxviHe lenti-
Btl,
Wlt street' fni
And now the New York gold bug
papers tell us that if England had ae
cepted the offer of our commissioners
for silver colnaga, Wall street wouid
have given this country a panic such
that the one of '93 would not serve
even as a sample. They say that Eng
land's statesmen and business men
saved us. To which we will simply add
that one of these days Wall street will
give us one panic too many, and she
will need several Engiatids to save her.
Free Press.
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Frederick Uphem Adams, In the New
Time, publishes a clever satire upon
the attitude ef the plutecratle prese t
wards reforms and reformers; showing
It to be simply a renewal of the tory
ism of revolutionary times, He writes
as follows: '
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There s no defense for the part
played by George Washington in the
so-called war of the revolution, for
mer school histories have almost del
fled this Virginian revolutionist, who
took up arms against the government,
and cast his wealth, position god tnflu-.
ence on the aide of disorder. The un
trained and incautious historians of
the peat were Ignorant of the Met that
resistance to the established order of
things is always wrong. While we may
admire the perional oharacter of
George Washington and respect end
praise him as the first president of our
glorious republic, we must, tot lose
rdght of th fact that he ralsedyhhi hand
agalst the law and, aided by MRenlus,
such demagogues as Pat Haply, Sam
Adams, Tom Jefferson and ftt Frank
tin, Hia conduct la the more Inexcue
able by reason of the fact thathe waa
thr. wealthiest man I in the eWtey,
"This ia panly explained when it ia
cenaidered that Washington waa a
farmer, You can never depend'1 eh a
farmer to conserve 1 the inteseta of
wealth the true interest! ef a nation,
Had George Washington been eaa
er and lived in New York fce would
never have led the lower classes of the
country against their betters,
"TTifixe was po such thing as the war
of the revolution. There was civil
war, or a period of riots and anarchy,
between a half-organised mob, com
posed mainly of the debtor classes, and
opposed to them were the wealthy and
respeotable people of the country. The
latter had some assistance from Eng
land and the former were aided, by
Prance, which country was already on
the verge of that period of anarchy,
which culminated in the hideous
French revolution. In which nearly all
of the best people of France were
killed. Some American historians
even glorify the French revolution.
"The fact cannot be too plainly stat
ed and too often repeated that from
the first inception of the trouble, which
resulted In our separation from Eng
land, the forces of revolt and , disorder
were recruited from the dangerous
classes, and that this growing! sedition
waB steadily opposed by the wealthy
and conservative element of the com
munity, Demagogues, visionaries, id
lers, debtors and irrespopsible charac
ters fanned the flames of discontents
and started a conflagration Which re
sulted In a loss of untold millions of
dollars to the merchants and bankers
of the country. More than that.. It en
couraged revolt against settled roudl
Hon, and fool writers snd iteschcrs
have unwittingly kept alive thin senti
ment by making heroes of the mlegttid
ed men who sacrificed their jlivrs or
their time In a fight against England.
It-is a pleasure to record the fact hnt
to-day England owns in this j country
five times as much property jM nil of
the revolting colonies were wortr, and
that we are about to borrow fjrow her
$200,000,000 more of gold. The" total
expenses of the 'War of the Revolu
tion' were less than 150,000,000.
"In th'ls book, which Is now idrawlng
to a close, the historian will touch but
briefly on one Incident of this; period,
vis., the framing and signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Tjhls doc
ument should never be printed In a
school book. As a government jac Have
long since outgrown Its foolish, vapid
and bombastic statement!, : but it
should be rigidly suppressed, the fame
as other seditious and unsafe Ipaiaph
lets. It was written by Tom Jefferson,
aided by Tom Pnlne, both of waom
drew their inspiration from jtho es
says of French revolutionary Iwriters.
Its platitudes about 'all men being
freo and equal,' and that the people
'have a right to alter or abolish a gov
ernment,1 have long since been jaughed
to scorn by our statesmen, our clergy
and by. our best public educator,?. It Is
a pleasure to reflect thar the conven
tion of 1787, which framed our present
constitution, never even considered
this Declaration of Independence in de
signing that wise document. The con
vention was controlled by slave-holders,
and they jather effectually settled
the 'free and equal' clause when they
decided that in fixing the basis nf rep
resentation a negro was equal to t l.ree
fifths of a white man,, and that his
owner could vote for him on that basis.
The constitution also wisely provided
that the people could not votb Mr a
president, a senator, a cabinet officer,
or, in fact, for anything but a member
of the lower house of congress, They
then arranged it ao that tht aeaate
could veto any legislation coming from
the house, and that the preaident could
veto the joint action of the two iioueoa.
The constitutional convention fai'ed to
give the eupreme tourt power to veto
legislation, but the fmpeme court has
wisely assumed ihat tower, and the
last danger from the elective mo has
been removed
Lots of iiarroweO $tMh on Hf,
Congress is to bo urged to pass a
bankrupt law. There is, every Indica
tion that the treasury department is in
need of one. Salt Lake Herald.
Even the thoughtless elements
among the producers will not vote
twice . for plutocratic politicians who,
ttirlns the nnwor Hn nnthinir tn r-o
duce the general distress.
PROTECTION AND PRICB .
High Prtefd Dollars Are Cutting the
Wog m at Pall ttivor,
That the Fall River cotton mill man
egers should cut the Wages of 20.000
employee 10 per cent la not surpris
ing, but this action i suggests severs!
queetloaa,
In the f rat place, why should wages
be cut when the country li enjoying
such an unprecedented flood of pros
perity that the Republican newspapers
have scarcely editorial space enough to
exploit the glorious tidings t
Again, It seems rather inconsistent
that under the beneficent influence of
the Dingiey tarff a "home industry"
suoh as cotton manufacturing should
be under the necessity of cutting
wages,
But the treasurer of one of the Fall
River mills says the only hope for ihe
cotton trade is "an improvement in the
print cloth market," says the Chicago
Dispatch. Can it be possible that this
treasurer ie an advocate of gold mono
metallism and yet an advocate of cheap
dollars? When he expresses a hope tor
a rising market he utters a desire ftr
"cheaper" dollars.
This fact is made especially clear by
the Atlanta Constitution, as follows:
"When the dollar depreciates, even
with reapeot to print cloth, it Is no
longer 'sound.' More than that, any
injury woud he done to the holder of
the dollars who wants to buy print
cloth, He can buy now at the mills
fort -odd yarda for a dollar, Should
the price rise even to four eenta a yard,
the holder of the aame dollar -ouM
only buy twentyfive yarda, Thia wiild
be 'repudiation:' Boee the mleaa
urer want to swindle the unfortunate
holder of the dollar In thia way? 1
There are two lessens taught by ihe
situation at Fall River a lesson on the
tariff and a lesson in regard to finance,
lias this treasurer who wants higher
prices for his goods the broadness of
mind to understand these lessons?
VOICES OF THE PEOPLE.
At the present day and this is the
curSe of our social economy capital
is the tyrant of labor. The working
man's share consists simply of his
wages determined previous to the ex
ecution of the work, and without re
gard to the greater or less profits of
the undertaking. Joseph Mazzinl.
We owe all that we have to theJ
steady advance of . the human race
against the compact mass of those Tvho
have always cried out and still cry out
as lustily as ever, "Don't disturb the
existing order of things." William F.
Gaynor.
Civilization takes away our land and
gives it to the landlord; takes away
our machinery and gives it to the capl-
talist; takes away dancing, football,
singing, etc., and hands them over to
the professional; it takes away our
conscieice and gives It to the priest;
It takes away our honesty and hands
it over tb the lawyer. W. Lane.
The right to apply labor to natural
opportunities Is the one essential ot
life, without which It can not be pre
served, even by the payment of unjust
tribute to those who possess no wer
rant from the Creator, or nature, for
ita exaction. That Is, thin tribute or
payment for the right to live is unna
tural, making void the original grant.
And the exaction of this tribute, con
trsry to the laws of nature and ot
Cod, is the fundamental error in ul)
progress and all so-called civilisation.
This will appear the more plainly
when we consider that all wealth, all
that beautifies and embellishes life
and makes it worth tho living. Is the.
product of human exertion applied tc
natural opportunities. Wealth and the
means of living arc obtained lnno other
way. The means of living, It must be
evident, are part and parcel of ;he
grant of life, for if the means whereby
life is prolonged are denied, the right
of life, which it Is agreed are Inalien
able, is destroyed. And this is readily
seen to be true by a reference to man's
past history. All the buried nations of
antiquity,' all previous civilization,
have perished simply and solely be
cause man's fundamental rlghtB have
been denied. Gov. John B. Rogers of
Washington, in the Arena.
Moral for the Hoy.
It is not well to steal, unless thy plan
Be large and regal in its magnitude,
Able to make thy circumstance defy
The scruples and the servants of the
law.
Do thou no paltry stealing do it
. grand;
Fashioh thy schemes from patterns
well approved
In general worship paid to opulence,
And homage to the genteel crime suc
cess. So shait thou seize thy gains with bet
ter grip
And 'scape annoyance from the petty
rules
And regulations made for common
' thieves.
Then "build thee 'round with splendor"
to command
The admiration of the baser world,
Ahd make thyself in Insolence a klng
A royal rascal whom the laws respect
Secauae success respeeteth not the law,
Prof. A, 3, Chittenden,
Wet Without nusiter1,
We have to do with Ideal Ihoorlea,
The two moneys have actually co-ex
lated since the origin of human! society,
They co-exist because the two (together
aro necessary, by their quantity, lo
meet the needs of circulation. This ne
cessity of two metals, has it ceased to
exist? Is it established that the quan
tity of actual and prospective gold is
such that we can now renounce the
use of silver without disaster? M.
Rouland, governor of the Bask of
France. -
THE BATTLE OP 1898.
GEN. JAMES B. WEAVER ON
THE OUTLOOK.
With Meaewett Gaafage and toHtttfettt
ltasessj ef IM Fcapte Advenes It)
eeattpt Against Uktes Male
HhUag fide ! Indigestion,
The reeetlbn in public sentiment
aince the campaign of lied ie some
tblug marvelous, and gives promise of
overwhelming victory in approaching
struggles. The people who were mi -led
ip the whirl of that memorLie
conflict began to comprehend the ral
situation before the smoke of battle
had fairly cleared away. Their indig
nation is now rising like an ocean this.
It is a dangerous thing for party lead
ers to attempt to secure power by falae
pretenses. When the party of the sec
ond part finally learn of the delusion,
they smite hack as with a thunderbolt
hurled by the gods, and the refuge of
Hee is swept away. It is one thing to
win upon the strength of lavish prom
ises, reinforced at the critical Juncture
by the corrupt use of money, fraud,
and Intimidation; but quite another to
retain power in the midst of. a sullun
end Indignant people after those prom
Ises have all been broken. Mvery man
Who was Intimidated' Is filled with r
sentment and every broken pledge give
birth to an avenger, The first end or
their promises looked welii hut it win
the view from the other end that hue
Ailed the people with wrath, Time on i
eyenta have proven, and will continue
to demonstrate that every substantial
assertion uttered by the gold advocate
waa incerreet, and every premise made
basely false and mad to conceal bad
ulterior purposes, Look at the sub
terfuge of international bimetallism,
and lis humiliating sequel. And again
at the explicit promise of McKinley in
his letter of acceptance that the party
would "keep in circulation and as good
as gold all the silver ahd paper money
now included in the currency of the
country." That this was an insincere
promise is shown, three times over, by
the treacherous platitudes concerning
our currency embodied in the iriaugural
address, by the currency message sent
to the extra session of congress, and by
the pitiable annual message of Decem
ber 6. They constitute a substantial
and reiterated plea of guilty on the part
of the president to the charge of dupli
city. Every sane man knows and will
readily admit that McKinley would
have been overwhelmingly defeated
had he given expression to those views
in his letter of acceptance. We charged
at the time that he intended to do
these very things, but the charge was
bitterly denied. Why was this avowal
of their real purposes withheld? Sim
ply to lead the people Into a trap. Th
wily hunter was luring the lion into a
concealed pit. The Indianapolis junta
and its protege, the bankers' commis
sion, which has lately been in session
behind closed doors at Washington,
and even Secretary Gage, of the Pres
ident's official family, have all given
us their estimate of the sanctity of
these ante-election promises by boldly
proceeding to outline a currency
scheme for the administration and for
congress In utter disregard of the
pledge. They have coolly outlined a ,
project, and are now urging It upon
the country, Involving gold bondx, de
struction of greenbacks, contraction
and bank domination, which Is no In
famous that had It been djsclosed be
fore election a It has been since, U
would have been rejoeted by the people
In a whirlwind of disapproval. No :
power on earth could huvo saved them.
Their plot is so grim and cruel as to
suggest Homer's description of Scylla,
as she hollowed from the dreadful pns
sago which lead to hell:
"Her Jaws grin dreadful with three
rows of teeth;
Jagged thely stand, the gaping den of
death."
The people "will revolt against it.
"Vengeance Is on the wing, and heaven
In arms."
What was it that caused the over
whelming popular revolt against Cleve
land? It was not against the person,
but the policy of the edmlnlstratlon.
It was ' his gold bonds and bank
schemes, his attempt to retire the
greenbacks, the revenue deficits under
the Wilson tariff law, and-his pro-Spanish-Cuban
policy. Conceiving all
these essential points, McKlnley's ad
ministration is an exact duplicate of
Cleveland's, minus the Matter's back
bone. With this one, minus quantity,
the parallel is complete. The same
evil counselors who thronged i.he
'white house when Cleveland was there
are all powerful within its walls and
the chamber of every cabinet official
today. If there is any difference the
trust magnates are more potential
there today than ever before. McKin
iley is as. completely within the power
(of his vicious advisers as was the weak
and vacillating Louis XVI, when the
catastrophe of 1789 fell upon him like
a holt from the sky. The thunderclan
will come In our era from the ballot
box. The world moves, and a free
people will abide their time, which ia
hastening on with wonderful rapidity.
James Weaver.
enssMlatlnnere Have Ihe Finer,
Now that the administration hts
shown, through Its mouthpiece Qag.
that It Is in favor of the gold standard
fer this country ad agslost bimetal
lism, will the bimetallic commission"
aeeept sueh evidence as conclusive? If
pot, what further evidence does it de
sire of the bad fait a of the administra
tion ? Silver Knight-Watchman.
Our members of congress are har
monious, which can hardly be said of
the party in some sections. However,
agitation is what is needed during the
next two years. Harmonious action
will come later, through the force of
Circumstances.
DID HE DO WILL? 1
W Mean the stnn Who Veto for P refl
oat Condition!.
The closing of tht great lumber mills
at Olenbrook, Nevada, is an object lee
son which some of our antieiiver
friends may study with profit, these
mills have mw is operation twenty--four
years, says the Jtoehten, 6al
Mall, The wages paid have been high,
Mr, Biles, the head of the concern, has
treated hie employes friends and
fellow workers not as mere machines
to be need awhile and lung away when
worn out, Perhaps nowhere in the
world was them a happier or more
propserous working community.
The closing nf the mint doors to sIU
ve has closed the silver mines of Ne-;
vada. The closing of the sliver mines
has ruined the dumber business. Nor
hss the revivifying influence of "pro- .
tectjon" succeeded In saving the life of
euch communities ns this uUilen brook.
In the last election -the majority, of
the men of California voted, to kill the
great Industry of silver m?nmg Sil
ver mining was killed. That result
has filled the sleek speculators and rich
schemers of Wall street with joy. But
It has brought distress upon our neigh
bors, and prostrated the industries of
the states which ore nearto us and
which do buslnens with u.
The other night 800 wealthy gentle-
men sat down to dine In New Ork,
and when the costly -feast had been
eaten, and while the corks popped snd
the smoke ef fragrant cigars curled up
ward, they roee to their fee and,cheer
ed the announcement ef the chairman
that silver waa dead, The aame week
some 300 American workmen gathered
in Qlenbreek to learn that there waa
no longer work for them,
They, too, were told that silver was
dead, But they did not cheer, They
went silently, soberly homeward to tell.
wlve and children that the jqb was
gone, that there was no bread winning
for willing hands, and Qod knows
what else qf sorrowful tidings that
come to a community thrown put of
work.
There are those who will cheer with
the enthusiastic Wall street gather
ings. For our part we prefer to sym
pathize with the sorrowful Glenbrook
folk. Over against the rich feast, the
costly wines-, the laughter and good
cheer of the millionaires we set the
silent mills, the empty larders and the
distressed idleness of a once happy
community of American workmen, and
we ask the man who voted for all this, i.
if he did well. - .
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
When the people rule, robbers "will
have tb go to work. New Era.
An idle man is a dangerous man. He
cannot remain long idle without Inquir
ing into the cause of his, idleness. He
ncedr not be a philosopher to discover .
that the fault is that of the system,
and the next step is naturally to hold
the present system in contompt.lntcr
natlonal Woodworker.
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The amount of money or property
lost to all the people of the United
States by means ot burglary since the
government wss , founded does not
equal the extortion In one year ihat
they suffer from either of half a do h
combines and monopolies. It Is not
the little fellows whose depredations
are hurting the people, 1ut the big
legal robberies. Appeal to Reason.
A state and government based on the
power of wealth In the hands of t loft-w
cannot be Democratic, however
boastful it .may be about Its (nominally!
Democratic and Republican Institp- .
tions. Wealth and the means of exist
ence in the hands of the few always
mean subjection and pondage for the
many. Coming Nation. '
Wealth is some pairt of nature's
bounty, plus the toll ahd skill of a hu- j
man being. Nature Is the source of
wealth, man is the extractor, miner and
artificer. Whoever enjoys wealth
without the application of his own la
bor to nature's resources In some ao
dally useful exertion, whn obtains 4
more wealth than the value of his own
labor entitles htm to, does so by the
application of the labor of others, and
Is thus stealing from others a part of
the results of their industry Seven-
oaks.
There are but few countries which
pretend to have a gold circulation.
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, the
Balkan provinces, Turkey, Russia "and
all Asia, South America and Mexico are
either on a silver, basis or in suspen
sion, except Japan, which has recently
gone into bankruptcy in an effort to
change from a silver to a gold basis.
Silver Knight-Watchman.
Not Very Surprising.
It is not surprising to read that the
Nicaragua canal scheme is, In reality,
a gigantic piece of stock job
bery. The surprising thing would
be to find out .that -it Isp't.
it will be remembered that
Warner Miller, the ehtef promoter of
the Nicaragua grab, ie a dose friend
of Hanna, visited him during, the pree
idential campalet. and was Jn fact, the
senator's guest but a few weeks ago.
flWi eTreumetanee establishes the eon
peetion of the administration with the -project
in such a way as to lead .to the
inevitable inference that another cam
paign debt will be liquidated when the
Nicaragua jobbers are satiated. It if
true that the Republican party is com
mitted, by its platform, to tha-Nicara-gua
canal scheme, but it is also true
that the Republican party is not above
trading off paragraphs in its platforms
for substantial equivalents. That this
has been done in the Nicaragua canal
matter is only too evident. Cleveland
Recorder.
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