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- -. -' - - - - 1 - - r I, t- -J I "I ' ' r - : i CHATHAM CITIZEN, 1 tUlUSHZD WZlKlf if rrnsBOBo, ; - a Now that the war ii over the battle tips hare taken to running aground once more. There Trill be bo alarm as long as the hoodoo confines its ex trtions to peace periods. There appears to be no possibility f acquiring territory which the mos quito has not already claimed. In ihe far Philippines as well as in Alas ka,he or she is prominently mentioned as a pioneer. -.- ' One of the stamps that brought on ihe American revolution has been sold for $50. One might have expected that the thing would go for a higher figure than that. But stamp collec tors hire little sympathy for purely historical associations. ' The large sura of money to be spent In cleaning Harana need not be re gretted as money spent for the dirty people of a dirty city. It will be pent to make apart of it fit for Ameri can habitation and will save life and health for our troops. The diseases that afflict Harana are mostly the re sult of plain dirt. fThe population of the United States Is about 75,000,000. Their area is 8,602,990 square miles. . We hare therefore a population of only about twenty persons to the square mile. England has about 510 and Belgium about 530 to the square mile. If our country were as densely populated as England and Belgium its people would number nearly two billions, or about twenty-seven time? their actual num ber. The merchant nary of the United States is lamentably behind the rest of the world. Lasf year there were in commission 3160 American Teasels rf orer fifty tons burden, against Great Britain's 11,237, Germany's 1623. Norway's 2762 and France's 1151, these fire nations being the only ones abore the 1000 mark. Proud as we are of our fighting marine, it is humiliating to reflect that our mer chant marine is still down in the same class with Norway. The value of sanitation in cities and centres of population is evidenced by the fact that 5000 people died from typhoid fever in ' thirty-five American and Canadian cities in 1896, while 20, 000 suffered a long and trying illness This is a good snowing, but there is no reason why, with the employment of more sanitary methods to combat disease than are now used, the sick ness and deaths cannot be reduced. It is appalling to read of the conditions of the cities of even a century ago, and the contrast to modern cities, where scientific methods of combatting dis ease are in vogue, is certainly refresh ing. Sanitation is a .municipal savior. It is well established as matter of history that ninety-nine-year leases do 'eventually run out, observes Harper's Bazar. An occurrence of this sort threatens to disturb the status of the Plains of Abraham, at Quebec. (The Plains were held by the Government under a ninety-nine-year lease, which being now very near its end, there is an imminent prospect of the return of the property to the Hotel Dieu (aeon vent), and the partition and sale of the land. . What ought . to happen is " that the Dominion Government should buy the Plains outright and keep them as they are. We Americans have an interest in their preservation, for they include the spot where Montgomery fell, as well as the spot where Bene dict Arnold was wounded in the leg, and missed the greatest opportunity of his lifetime by not being killed in honest battle. The problem how best to provide for .the increasing number of the in digent insane is a pressing one in sev eral States. Many ways have been suggested, from that of centralization in large State institutions (which, plan, however,. is losing favor) to that of county hospitals. The latter plan has been pursued in Wisconsin, and has found some imitators, but it is op posed by the hospital trustees of Minnesota, who regard it as not only expensive, but as unscientific. Prefer ence is given by these Minnesota ex perts to the colony system of eitend. isg the existing accommodations of State institutions. This is advocated on the ground that it will most easily fit in with, existing provisions, and that it combines centralized manage ment with decentralized care of those who need least care, and at a mini mum of initial ontlay and per capita oost. On these farm colonies the in sane occupants are expected to hi nearly or quite self-supporting. Dairy ing will be the chief farming industry prrsned, as milk is the leading article of diet in the hospital, and as the ruminative occupation is regarded as particularly soothing minds. for disordered Conscience The part of a man that tin -wfcsa hU csiiLDcr boh -'T'3 X Bit T ' BUNKER'S" NED. Ha wara't no youthful prodlgeo - As far from that as far km he, A tarn&l tougher little cad v Nerer wriggled hlj toe 'n mad ' . Er rummaged roun In farmer's mews N pelted atones at neighbor eows. ; VmiiUih Ii.ii ftrmtN mnt -' "V- Boon' Dan Jones store so hot, All allowed. n' each one sed. v' -He'd tarn oat had, Bill Banker's Xed. ; Time went on 'n so did he, Cattin his capers kind er free, Really didn't do nuthln bad, -' Jest a miseheevoas sort er lad; Lots er th' other boys eoald spell 'X beat htm at Aggers Jest as well, 1 He'd beat 'em all a hundred time. Gt- Only still when he got ter bed, Farmers' terror. Bill Banker's Ned. , ; All ox er sadden he stiddied down, 'S' ther warn't a boy in all th town Conld swing a better scythe than be Er pick more apples off a tree. S some er th gossips whispered roun He'd rell in love wlta Lindy lir own; Anyhow it did look that way, Fer he went off one Jammer's day Ter city life, 'a some folks sed, Now he is lost,'.' Bill Bunker's Ned. Jest erbout three years had passed,' We found he'd made a fortune fast; Come back 'n married Llndy Brown, 'X d'.d a lot ter help th town- He fixed th' ol' church threngh n through, , 'X' built a town bouse bran fired new. Now, when the farmers talk it e'er Down in Dan Jones' corner store. Each one sez that be alius sed He'd make his mark, Bill Bunker's Ned Wilbur N. Dantley, in New York Journal ' WITH Tl T7STT A TPs! T fk S ICHARD HO taling was in the depths of per plexity as to his status in the af- 'fectionsof a cer . tain, or, more properly speak- certain, young woman whom he much adored. He had been so deeply in love for more than a year that he had had eyes, ears and thoughts for none other than pretty, fascinating Miss Dormer. Yet, so skillfully had he been managed (whether consciously to herself or not, he knew not), that no word of his could have been con struea to give evidence ox more than a friendly feeling. There were others in his predica ment, and misery alwajs loves ' com pany, it the same time he felt there .must be an end to all things, and had resolved to bring matters to a state of certainty without farther delay, know ing full well that he had made a simi lar decision a score of times before She had a way of turning the cbnversa tion at most interesting stages without giving offense and with a show of tact worthy a weightier cause. He could recall any number of times when he was on the eve of making a fall Avowal, and thought her particularly sympathetic, when a turn of her head or a glance of her clear gray eyes would throw him back into the old state of dejection and he would leave with tho words unsaid. Again, inter ruptions had come when he was at the point of growing serious, and there had been much in the way of declaring his love. She must have read it in his eves. in his everj act, yet there were several oiher fellows who wore their hearts on their sleeves in a "much more amazing manner than did he, and who were treated with the same calm im partiality. There was Hilton, member of every clab in town, and cossessed of such an income as is never an objection in I the affair of the heart. There was Kessler. the captain of his college eleven, adored by all the girls, adorins Miss Dormer only. There were Mai- lard. Holliater and Rmitb. all rattlino- goou leiiows, 10 say notmng oi one Bookleigh, a sort of literary man with a p.il . a m long hair, ready made ties and original poems. ?o man feared him as a rival. however, for he made his love as com mon as postage stamps by talking cf her to everyone he knew. Moreover, 1 At 1 " Y ..11 . . ue was xue Kina oi xeuow to make a hit with old Jadics at afternoon teas. and the men not only considered him more of an ass than any one of their acquaintances, but actually guyed him 1 to his face. Among themselves thev jestingly accused him of imperfect cerebration. But in spite of these facts, and that he enjoyed a fair chare of Miss Dormer's favor, they liked hinfc because he was kindlv-natured and altogether harmless. As Hotahng chewed the end of his pen, he meditated upon these things; particularly Milton a ten thousand a year, and wondered if the latter c6n sideratioa would weigh with Miss Dormer. He believed it would not. and wrote her a note accardingly. He asked for an engagement during the week, adding that he had under con sideration an offer to go abroad as foreign correspondent for a daily pa per, and that in case of accepting he would sail the next Saturday. He would leave it for her to decide whether he should go or stay. It was his last resource, and he felt that it would bring things to a crisis. If she refused him, he could go away and lorgec IT she but the other possi bility plunged him into such a delir inm of delightful dreams that he de stroyed the missive and resolved he would see her that evening and set his mind at rest. There is a popular fallacy that van ity is theprerogati7e of woman exclu sively. Many hold that the soul of man is above such petty eonsidera tions as dress and personal adorn rnent. Goto! Vanity hath no limit ations cf eex. At Mr. Bichard Hotaling carefully accomplished his tenet that evening, with frequent aug gestions from his valet, and more fre quent gumces toward the mirror, he thoroughly appreciated his eood points, andj valiently strove to make the most of them, in order to look well in the eyes of her he loved If After donning Ijis dress suit, which he loathed, as mo3t men do, it oo- cuired to luci that he would feel easier and consequently appear to bet ter advantage m his Tuxedo. At length, attired to his satisfaction, he feit that he was not such a bad figure of a man, after all, and. that a girl might well be pleased but, of course. ro one ever really knows what a fellow thinks under such circumstances, and. all things considered, it were unkind to speculate. However, it was with a eUngakin to hope that he closed IS mm the street door and went out . Into the night.- . He was ushered into the music room, where he found her playing a dreamy melody ox .unopin. one was alone, and very lovely in soft tur quoise crape, which brought out the ruddy gold of her hair and the fair ness of her skin to exquisite perfec tion. She heard him, and turned quickly, with a bright smile, saying: 'How good of you to come to-night? Mother and the boys have gone to the opera, and I am alone' for the even ing.?. -'.. . . "I did not dream of being so for tunate' he murmured, as he took her hand. In some way it did not sound ex actly right, but he was fast losing courage, and hardly knew what he said. She sank on a low divan. And as he took the place at her side he ob served that she was tantalizingly near to him. ' Of course, he would have given worlds to take her in his arms at once and tell her all that was in his heart, and have done with suspense. He felt it would be a trifle irrega-. lar, however, and dismissed the thought as he became more at ease under the influence of her smiling eyes. . He endeavored repeatedly to lead up to the point in question, bat in vain, for she was altogether ob livious to the trend'of his thoughts. At length they spoke of the opera the night before. I "To my mind, she said, ''there is nothing more exquisite than 'Romeo and Juliet.' The music is heavenly, mournfully "Every story of love is beautiful," he said, quickly. 'le?, love is best ol All. It is per fect, she returned, with a far-away look in her eyes. . "I have a chance to go to ieanaas foreign correspondent," he began, precipitately, "but before I decide there is a story I want to tell you." She was still smiling dreamily, bat turned to hun with a look of interest. Her silence gave him courage; she seemed to await his next words. "It is a story of love, of my love for you," he said, desperately, taking her hand. She withdrew it quickly, with a look of dismay, seeing he wa3 terribly in earnest. "Will you hear it?" he continued. mistaking her consternation for coy ness. ' "Is it possible that yon have not heard that you did not receive my note announcing that "Anaouncmg what? he demanded in amazement. "My engagement to Morris Book leigh," she replied, with a happy smile. He sailed for Vienna the next Saturdav. . A Surprise Parlr. "Brown had received a setback that he will not recover from for some time,' said Dodson, as he sipped his coffee. "I honestly believe that , he has corrupted every decent waiter in the city by his outlandish system of overtippmg, making it almost impos sible for a modest tipper to get any service at all. "He had a habit of starting with the head waiter, and 'tipping them all down the line. I don't know whether ne ever tipped the tiienwashers or not, but I have my suspicions that he did. "The result has been that the waiters looked upon him as a sort of Indian nabob, or a returned king from the Klondike, and would pay no attention to any one else when he was present lou might complain and storm all Jou liked, but it would have no effect When Brown entered everything else Tras dropped, until the imaginary specks of dirt were wiped froni the immaculate table cloth and spotless china,- and Brown seated in all his solitary glory at his favorite place, which was always reserved for him But all that i changed now, and he is looking around for come anti-tipping society to join. - "Find a fly in his soup?" asked Smith. - "Worse than that. All his life Brown has been trying to get money eomgli ahead to build himself a home, and now he .has discovered that the home he is renting is owned by his former favorite head waiter." Detroit Free Press. Death la the Milk Jojr. CT The omnipotent bacillus is every where. At the Sanitary Conarress. says Humanitarian (England), some very unpleasant revelations were made concerning the milk supply of our large cities. Dr. Scurfield testified that not only was the milk poor in quality as regards the proportion of fat and non-fatty solids in it, but it was often contaminated by dirt or dis ease germs on its way to the consumer. Mr. Kiven, the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester, also gave some unsavory facts about that city. Out of ninety-three samples of milk taken at random, eighteen per cent, were found to contain tubercular infective matter. Medical authorities declare that one of the most fruitful causes of diarrhoea is the boraeio acid used to Adulterate the milk; and that the ex isting Adulteration Acts are inade quate and not strictly enforced. These are not small things, for milk is one of the necessaries of life. They con stitute a great scandal and a grave danger, which should be dealt with firmly and promptly. Generous Pioneers. In the year 1783 frost destroyed the corn crop of the infant settlement which afterward crew into the city of Marietta, Ohio, and the pioneers and their families were reduced almost to a state of famine. It so happened that Isaac Williams, a pioneer who owned a tract of land on the Virginia side of the Ohio Eiver, opposite the destitute colony, had a good crop of corn. .Speculators offered him large prices for it, but he refused to sell. He gave it free, or sold it for a merely nominal price to the poor settlers ovtr the river, and thereby saved them from famine. Laae WUlUms and his wife Rebecca were buried on their own farm in a lonely spot selected by themselves. The land was long ticce told, the graves are sadly neglected, and the people or Uliamstown, W. Ta., and of Marietta, Ohio, are iaking stf?3.io erect a suitable jaonnxent to thegn erous old pioneers. . . LABOR AND INDUSTRY SOME ITEMS OP INTEREST WORKMEN. TO UNION Korthera Labor Problem aa ' Viewed br m Boatberm Kewspaper lXeaetary Initiation TbJa Year RbmU's Ball ways. ; The Laat Man. 1 ' (An Old Favorite.) All worldly shapes shan melt in doom. The sun himself must die. Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I saw a. vision in my sleep, ' That rave my spirit s Irene th to sweep Adown the snlf of Time; I saw the last' of human mould. That shall creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime.' The sun's "eye had a sickly Clare; The earth with are was wan; The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.' Some bad expired in fight, the brands Still rusted in their bony hands; In plarue and famine some. Earth's cities had no round nor tread. And shifts were drlfUnc with the dead To ahoeswhere all was dumb. ret. propbet-nke. that lone cne stood. With dauntless words and hrh. -That shook the sere leaves from the wood As If a storm pass'd by, ; Saylnr. We are twins In death, proud Sun. 1 Thy face is cold, thy race Is run, Tis mercy btds thee ro: f For thou ten thousand thousand years Hast seen the tide of bumsn tears. That shall no longer flow. ' What though beneath thee man put forth Ills pomp, his pride, his skill; And arts that made fire, floods and earth. The vassals of his will; Yet mourn not I thy parted sway. Thou dim, discrowned klnr of day; For all thee trophled arts And triumphs that beneath thee rpranf, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts. Co. let oblivion's the stare curtain fall Upon of men. Nor with thy-rlslna- beams recall Life's traredy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back. Nor waken flesh upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe; Stretch'd In disease's shapes abhorr'd. Or mown in battle by the sword. Like grass beneath the scythe. Even I am weary in 'n Ies " To watch thy. fadlnr Are; : Test of all sumless agonies, - -Rehold not me expire. My Mrs tRat speak thy dirge of death Their rounded rasD and gurgling breath To see thou f halt not boast. The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of darkness shall Receive rny parting ghost! ; J This spirit shall return to Him .) That gave Its heavenly spark: Yet think not. Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No! it shall live again, and shine In Miss unknown to beams- of thine. By Him recail'd to breath. Who captive led captivity. Who robb'd the grave of victory. And took the stlrg from death! Go. Sun, while mercy holds melip On Nature's awful waste To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste- Go. tell that night that hides thy face. Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race, On earth's sepulchral clod. The darkening universe defy , In quench .his Immortality. Or shake his trust in God! Campbell. ' ' ' I Northern Labor Problem. New Orleans Picayune: ; The mine- owners at Pana, being unable to in duce their operatives to ; enter the mines at any lower price than that named In the scale, .brought in negroes from Alabama to take their places. The governor of Illinois found It nec essary to use state troops to enforce and maintain order, and the troops are st;n cn duty at rana ana Mr den. The meaning of all this is that there are S00 mines in that state, and 785 of them are now operating under the Springfield scale. The only . mines which shut down were those at Pana and Virden, but they are now operat ing with negroes, at such wages as will enable them to undersell all the Illinois coal mines. Should this com petition reach the point where the other Illinois mines will be forced to Import negroes from the south, many thousands of white miners will be driven out of the business to make way for the cheaper negro labor. If all the IllnoU mines should be driven by such competition to adopt negro labor, that might have bo profound and far-reaching an effect on the coal market as to force all the western coal operators to secure cheaper labor also. It may take some years to bring this about, but, the premises consid ered, the outlook la by no means un likely.' At any rate, ihe negro ques tion is going; to become so closely In volved In the labor problem of the northern states that It will profound ly affect political and social conditions there. The Days That Are Gone. Of all our earthly possessions time Is cne of which we are possibly the most recklessly extravagant, and it is the one we can . least make "i good when It Is 'squan dered. A measure of health may bs brought back oftentimes when it has been wrecked, by much jeffort; wealth, if lost, can be regained; friends, if estranged, can be won back: knowledge acquired by earnest! study: even blasted reputations can be re stored; but moments sped can never be recalled. They have slipped si lently out; the other hours which coma so swiftly to us are not the j game. Other duties come pressing home with them, which fill all the days and leave not an -Instant to make up for lost time. Our days are but a span breadth. and after a while they will be num bered, j Cod has given u many opportuni ties with all the days that were, but how few of them we really arid trulr make proper use of. Now we sit in the shadow of the old year, and thinx tack upon them, and tt la with re gretful longing. Could we only bring them back again! But this can never be. And -even If we could, should we have done any better than vre are now doing, or than we did? Probably not; but there Is a deep lesson to be gleaned rrom thla retrospective view Into . tho days that are gone, and that Is, If we have a desire to perform a good action we must do It. and do It now. The present only la ours, and if we let the experiences of the past teach1 us their proper lesson It must all be summed up In this thought, "We must do with our mlht whatsoever car hand find- eth to do, and do It now, redeeming the time, for the days are eTlL" " jjfo Moatary legislation. A canvass of the house has been taken to ascertain the exact sentiment of that body on the advisability of holding an extra session for the con sideration of monetary legislation. The result shows an almost overwhelming majority In the negative. The Indian apolis monetary commission, of which H. H. Hanna is chairman, has been supporting a lobby at Washington, and the canvass was made at Mr. Hanna's Instigation. The Indianapolis people are also flooding the country with literature; calculated to mold pub lic sentiment (n favor of further leg islation. The gold-standard Republicans, as well as Republicans, are almost unani mous In favor of letting what they force themselves to call well enough alone. The President, It Is -6aid, wishes the subject to go over until the next regular session of congress. By that time he figures he will' have a Republican In place of a silver ma jority In the senate, and any measure which the house might agree upon would stand a' chance of becoming a law- -i -. This would postpone' thewho!e sub- lect until December. 1839. and the spring of 1300J and make the question again a campaign Issue, and the ac tion or. the Republicans a party pro nouncement, - ' ' Japanese Morality The Yorudio' a newspaper of Japan, published in a recent Issue a long ar ticle roasting ,the Japanese members of j parliament for their lax morality. The paper sajs that once upon a time a Chinese emperor took a fancy to a slender woman, and the court ladles laced themselves so tight that some of them squeezed their little souls out of their bodies! So with the Japanese members of the house. The paper says the masses follow In the footsteps of Marquis Ito, Marquis Yamagata, Count Okuma and Count ItagakI, which ac tion has engendered a low standard of political and social morality. If these great men. do I it, why should not the humble Jap, who certainly has cer tain .vicious tendencies, and he does, and the Influence of Confucianism and Buddhism is destroyed. The paper then makes the startling statement that the women of Japan are insulted In various entertaining ways, but very rarely respected. Woman Is a house hold chattel, but that Is all. Russia's Railways, An American gentleman, who has traveled steadily for more than a year over the vast Trans-Siberian and Trans-Caspian! railways, and who has Just returned to London, says he has been taken by train to the Persian frontier, to the Indian frontier, and to the Chinese frontier, and that Russian troops are being moved about with an ease which chows that Russia can presently concentrate half a million soldiers at any point on the frontiers. and that Britifh supremacy on the sea cannot alter the fact that Russia will drain the whole trade of Asia through her mighty railway system, which is far beyond the reach of British war ships. ' ) It is this tremendous fact that im pels British statesmanship to seek to alienate the IJnlted States from Rus sia and to convert uussia into an enemy rather than a friend. British spies are watching every foot of rail way construction along the Asiatic frontier. ' ! The Spider's Appetite. The spider has a tremendous arj- tite and his gourmandlzlng defies all human competition. A scientist who carefully note& a spider's consumntlon of. food in twenty-fours hours, con cluded that if the spider were built .proportionately to the human scale he would eat at jdaybreak (approximate ly) a small alligator: at 7 a.m..a lamb: by 9 a. m., a young camelopard: bv 1 o'clock, a sheep, and would finish up with a lark pie, in which there werrt 120 birds. Yet. In spite of hi eno: mous appetite, a spider has wonder ful power of refraining from food, and one has been known to live for ten months when absolutely denrived of food. A beetle lived In a similar state of unrefreshment for three years. St. Louis Clote-Democrat. j Urn 114 Doubt. 'That's a flhc, solid baby of rocrp Mlddlcton," said a friend who was Ad miring the first baby. "Do you think he's solid?" asked Mlddleton. IdlsconsolatelyJ "It seems to me a If ;he were all holler." Stray Storicj. : MKd Request. rI wish." said Cholly to the barher. "that you would cut a nick or two In my face, to make It look as If I'had shaved myself. It Is 6uch awfully bad form to get staved in a publie shop. you know." Indianapolis Journal. i One kind of ! harmincss is to knnv exactly what point to be rnlserat! La itccneioucaja. I OO ASECDOTX. On Church etreet a day cr two ago? a very ordinary looking horse har nessed to an old wagon stood by tho curb, and rn the board that served for a seat lay a small dog of such mixed blood that no guess could be made as to his breed. As a delivery wagon passed on the opposite side of the street a large red apple bounded oft and before it stop ped rolling kloggie bounded across the street, picked it np with his teeth. and with wagging tail, rushed back to his horseJ wnere he stood np on his hind leg while the apple was taken from his month. As the horse munched the apple he - niade the pe culiar: little noise that hcrses make when petted, and dogjrie replied with little barks which plainly told what a pleasure it; wa3 to get that apple,' and then weat back to his interijpU4 u.ip on me wagos seal. Two Views of th Csssl No. 1 flo not think she will marsW again. She vowed on the da7 he was burled she would noi. "Ah! Think ing about it already, was she ?" Cla- Inn&tl i-nquirer. ... . . HERE IS EASY RELIEF NECESSITY FOR BONDS AND STAMP ACTS. , NO The GoTernmeat's Credit Would Circu late as Well ta the Form of Green backs as U th Form of Bhylock's Farorlte Roads.' t?i monev Dower refuses to allow the Industries of the people the rellel and stimulus that would be afforded by the free coinage of silver, anam a. time when revenues are msuuicicuv the money power refuses to permit the government to float its own credit un less tribute is paid to usury. Government Is in terrible distress for money.. Enough revenue, is H ed to carry on government But that simple device which has been- tried with success,' a device suggested by common sense, and which any bus!-. ness firm dealing among numbers oi its debtors would adopt, and which would afford perfect relief, will never te adopted. Why? Simply because of the greed of the money lenders and the. miserable Ignorance of the masses. What a spectacle It Is to see men afraid to utter an Independent thought, and to call their soul3 their own. becauso of fashion or opinion. set for them by a cunning combine oi sharpers! We wear opinions, says Holt, as we do clothes. A fashion js set for us by others, who employ that mighty instrument rldlcule to force everybody into the adoption of . the fashion. And we are made to doubt the evidence of our own senses, and to forget the teachings of all past experi ence, whenever a few top-lofty fash ion-setters begin to mock, laugh and belittle cur Independence. A landlord dealing with thousands of his tenants would put his own cred it to circulating among them by his due bills any time it became necessary. But here In this great,' big govern ment, with an income from Its people of several hundred million dollars pex year, and several dozen states, each having Incomes In proportion, yet we will suffer any extremity rather than to revert to the Issue of government bills. Some five hundred millions could be issued-by government every year, and they would return to the govern ment treasury in payment of custom duc3 and Internal revenue taxes, never costing one dollar of Interest Year after year, if common sense governed our affairs, this would be done. But the moment such a proposal is made all that 'mighty combination of men known as Wall etreet, the Standard OH trust and a dozen others all the money brokers and bankers set up a howl of indignation end scorn. A Greenbacker Is as contemptible now S3 once was an Abolitionist The writ er of this has lived to see both terms used to cover people with disgrace and obloquy. And he ba3 seen all the poor people cower down, ashamed to ac knowledge they might be tainted with opinions of Abolitionists, Free-Soilers or Greenbackers. , . Every fool, even, must know that If these fame bankers had the power to tax the people a few hundred millions, as the government has, they would Is sue their own' checks and orders to the people, and never aEk even consent Net much would they bother about a deficiency cf revenue. Why, in the name of God, then, does not this gov ernment, having such a great power and such a mighty revenue, issue Its bills at once? Because it belongs to day to the money power, Just aa much as in 1SC0 it belonged to the slave power and in each case has played' Euch tricks before high heaven, at the beck and nod of the powers, as make angels weep. - . Many years ago, speaking on this very subject from his place In the United States senate, the ablest wis est, deepest-read statesman this na tion ever had July 19, 1841 on the loan bill, used these words: "With all these advantages and the great sav ing. In favor of treasury notes (1. eM greenbacks), why not use them in preference to loans? But one objec- tion is urged government will be tempted to plunge deeply In debt by their use. And from whom comes this objection? From the party which re gards a" public debt as, if not a bless ing, no evil. - The banks or hostile to such Issues. They retard them as rivals. Break all connection with banks." Were It not for them government could at all times use its own credit to supply all deficits. -What did the senator (H?nry Clay) tell us In hU Epeech on the cub-treasury? He said truly that if we had no banks or any connection with them the credit of the government alone, with our limited revenue, could keep in circulation for ty million dollars cf treasury nctes at par all ever the Union, without one cent of Interest rjjrt this great revenue, which would prove a substitute for leans in the hour of dif ficulty, is given up to banks without charge, and is all lost to the communi ty. This brings me to an other point We talk cf loans as if we borrowed gold and silver. This is all a mistake. Under our bank dynas ty it is nothing, but an exchange of credit, and is little short of a fraud on the public. We give to the banks the stock or bonds of government at 6 per cent interest In exchange for bank ctcs or worse a mere credit on the tank books. NQ wonder." then, that Wall street should shout and clap its hands at tie pastaee cf thla bllL- . " The man who. spoke this was John C. Calhoun noted above all men . cf h!s age for wisdom and profundity ca all questions, of public economy. Th forty million dolars revenue referred to then has grown to half a billion, but the principle is the same. Why do not the people of this nation cry with rone voice for the same relief? Be cause, a great aristocratic 1ower has control of all the government and all the business and sources cf Informa tion, and has covered with mockery and Ecom the very name of treasury note or greenback. Anything to avoid the really true -question, who U to control the business of distribution and exchange the people, or the few, who have usurped the whole? POINTS FROM THB.PRESsT; Nature works wonders, and men J; deaTor to get them patented.jUltl -Education makes men dlsconUa but It also shows them how to cr$. come their discontent New. Era. We must not have silver for for that will give us too much mon' but even the. prospect of turnlnr oceans into goia ooes not arous . fear of too much money. Can t vt be, too much if it is only gold? fI Stock, and Home. ; Incidentally, with the few and milking the many, with legisiatfcj a more or less comical game of rob ti, people, with a choice of political era, the perpetual lot of the so-caHea ereign citizens, we may need our tht-ty-thousand-y ear-old fighting iarj-r for business purposes at any time, i' It is aa well not to get rid of it ia great a hurry. New York Journal, Of all despotisms that ever curvj an otherwise free people the tyruu, of partisan politics is the worst. & man can be said to be free who b. blbes his opinions from the edict of l political party. Think for yourstiu The Eclipse. It is a mistake to say that people ft, to be fooled. Perhaps some do. bat ti, majority are fooled because those b are interested in the truth are less . tlve than those who profit by erro:. New York Commonwealth. The people who long for reforn. fc: give no support to the papers vbij advocate reform, are like a man wants a crop, but will not plant fc- seed. National New Era. DESPOTISM OF INERTIA. The old FTcnch revolution la a fa ful instance, showing how violent a the revolt cf a people against in$t& Hons too long maintained by a govt mcnt In spite of the demands of tit; for the change. The institutions we, old and at war against all the newtc ditlons that had arisen. Reforms tlr ought to have been made sixty jo- k.rn worn ttrnlv rpnressM v. despotism. " , - In the same way our own goto ment either, by Its want of power e ( inertia, resisted the demands of ii age for the abolition of slavery. r very stones were crying against next slavery In 1800, yet we held to it r sixty-eight years. Finally it wast! south herself that rote up against tt Inertia and by its action put aneu to it, without intending It .But 4 condition had grown Intolerable to ta south. The rebellion was an inTola tary struggle for.exlstecce by a peri Ing society maddened by its 07a tolerable situation. Aua now Bgatu, uui '"'" i burdening us as though it were d- potlsm. - Conditions are grovtes tolerable. As is always the case, i small oligarchy and a few bnairj thousand dependents upon it and a i government offices, opppose all re!on Inertia is as tyrannical as despotta. j Mail Csr Flnncler!ac The government pays for the ta Ing of 630 postal cars every year, jt it does not own one of them. It only does this, but it throws in $309 e each car for good measure. Aa rj dinary postal car costs $3,000. and fc'j government pays to the railroad ccxi pany $3,500 for the use of that carea: year, says the rsonconiornus;. i7 ar r.so Kiich cars In use for wolcs railroads get aoour. j,wv,wv au One of those cars will last twenty y and during that time the railnj collect from Uncle Sam f 72,000,000, j have a lot of old Iron and kiflij wood left The car cost the railra altogether only $3,250,000, but in t ty years they get from the Tcj States seventy-two millions. I j dition to this we pay the xiV&k $30,OC0,OOO a year for carrying ttez In those cars that we buy every 11 but never owa.' How long would C j business of a private lndiridual f If he would make this kind of tn The railroads carry the expresi j for many times less money tnasu- J charge for carrying the mails. i should the government be robbed more than an express company! Ti rageous extortion, but we are blame if we don't derive from 8 'f cseful lesson in politics. Public c 'ershlp of railways and mail cars settle this stupendous steal and se'1, forever. When, that time comes. ; it la surely coming, the postal sern---instead of being a constant xPf will be a source of prodigious p When we build a mail car we will it for ourselves and not for som. else, and 'we will transport the for six million dollars, Instead . thirty millions. How son'wUI( people qnlt their foolishness and by the lessons of wisdom? I i A ssrlocs question of Jail e'Jq" Has arisen at Eureka Epricz, ivbero four convicts absented selves without leave from t'ae ttf . prison ard -went to a danci 1' " morning thej were all back tP '.'l Uio Jail door, clamoring for ado'-? and breakfast The Justly tesj: Jailor refused to take them la, ibej had abused bis hospitality- ' matter was taken to hljher antlx' nd the exiles have obtained tbeSi luarters. On the whole, this deo- was Just . Some slight pecit rbut a good deal can be excu? I bizh spirits, while" It should held that a more frolicsome ke this should forfeit a priso J gal right U food and shelter. Is a time to dance, but one ca iancJngnll the time. The aot allovr personal pique to i Tlth grave constitutional ir'ti j Qceon Wilhelmlna has a130 that petitioners to the SorerEr! must come t her direct and hs ' .; Intimated that the propose i fu affairs Independently of her This may be a very fine va show, but it Is not reassuring w Mr. WIllKlmina that la to be. t
Chatham Citizen (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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