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THE DISREPUTEOF THE SENATE
That pottlon of the community which
lives by speculation has been very as
siduous in keeping tally of the senato
rial and bMTetiugs over the
sugar duty Senators have had many
friends of late days The demand for
tips has been widespread and earn
est Sudden risings which have occur
red in the market are not believed to
have been mere creatures of impulse
but have been credited directly to the
Senate Chamber in the Washington
Capitol or rather to those mysterious
and well guarded rooms in which the
Senate Finance Committee have shaped
their policy and divided up the spoil
The whole tableau as future history
will present it is one not creditable to
the chosen law makers of the American
republic and the tariff of 1SM7 will
wear during its existence as a statute
tin unmistakable and ineradicable
mark ol the beast corruption
The philosophic poet who lamented
omt the land where wealth accumu
lates and men decay would lind food
for lament had he survived to these
dayf In every hours congressional
proceedings observers have traced the
proofs of unjust bargains degrading
concessions and perverse avarice
Washington and AVall street have been
of the currency in utter disregard for
law is what the money sharks of Wall
street demand Iiepublicans know they
are breaking the law and therefore
they manifest such an eager desire for
a reform of the currency and the ap
pointment of a monetary commission
The people Avill not submit much longer
to Republican lawlessness The law
must and shall be obeyed
The Tyranny of Tniatp
Trusts are jl menace to the welfare
of the people The individual is being
deprived of his right to liberty and the
pursuit of happiness
Not only are the people made subject
to the dictation of the trusts but the
government is forced to recognize and
protect these banded robbers The
laws of business are being repealed
The small dealer can no longer buy in
the cheapest marker lie must buy of
llu trusts or be driven out of trade
The day is fast approaching when
capital integrity and capacity possess
ed by a man of independent mind will
avail him nothing in the struggle for
existence He will be compelled to
face linancial death or bondage to the
trusts Indeed examples of this con
dition of affairs are to be found on
every hand to day
The history of the Standard Oil
J Gold Standard Wanes
The gold standird means falling
prices As the price of an article falls
its sale furnishes a smaller cash fund
to be divided between the employer and
wage earner and if the employer must
pay a fixed sum in cash to liquidate his
interest taxes and other lixed charges
the whole of the shrinkage in price
must be taken from the profits of the
employer and the wages of the employe
Hence wages and profits must fall
faster than prices in general
Yet while falling prices lead to an
even greater fall in wages and profits
there may be other causes operating
to counteract this tendency such as im
proved methods of production by
which the products of a given amount
of labor are increased or trade unions
by which the nominal wages of a por
tion of the community may be sustain
ed at the expense of much enforced
idleness
When the wage earner comes to clear
ly undei stand that upon him must in
evitably fall the chief brunt of falling
prices he will not suffer himself to be
either cajoled or intimidated into sup
porting the gold standard
Lower Prices to the Foreigner
At the very time that our manufac
turers are demanding increased
tion against foreigners they are selling
to foreigners eheaiier than they sell at
home How is it that American steel
rails are worth less a mile outside of
our coast line than they are on our
wharves How is it that our coal is
sold for HO cents a ton less in Hamburg
than in New York Instead of an in
crease of tariff taxes why should wc
not have fair trade prices at home as
well as abroad Minneapolis Times
Teller on the IHngley Bill
Senator Teller himself a protectionist
of the most pronounced type was una
ble to vote for that monstrosity knowu
as the Diugley bill In stating his atti
tude on the bill Wednesday in the Sen
ate he took occasion to arraign the
measure in as severe terms as Mr Mills
or Mr Turpie could have done In my
judgment it is the worst tariff bill ever
passed he said Xoav that Mr Tellers
conscience has been awakened we
hope his eyes will be still further open
ed to the real nature of the theory of
protection and that a protective tariff
without involving these very evils
which he so indignantly denounces if
impossible Detroit Free Press
Breeding Trusts
No law can touch the trusts that does
not go to the root of the matter No
crusade against them can avail any
thing so long as conditions compel men
to combine their capital so as to reduce
expenses to meet the lower prices
caused by the scarcity of money and
the fall of values It is in the neighbor
hood of the preposterous for a govern
ment to launch laws against trusts and
combinations in restraint of competi
tion and at the same time retain on its
statute book the knvs that breed these
combinations and make them an
NONE ARE SO DEAF AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT HEAR
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DOES THE PRESIDENT PEAL1ZE TIIE RESPONSIBILITY OF JUS POSITION AS J ANNAS BOSOM FRIEND
it onstant communication with each
other Concealment of facts is impossi
ble and the public mind has settled
lo n in the belief that the majority of
the men who sit in the highest places in
the commonwealth have condescended
to Uo their otticial positions for pecu
rmrfain and are serving their coun
try rather for the rewards of fortune
than for those of fame It is a painful
but a palpable fact
The most optimistic among us cannot
denj that these things are so nor sug
gest a method of improving them The
fact cannot be gainsaid however that
the Senate is too far from the people
it might be a remedy if we could pop
ularize its selection broaden the fran
chise and abbreviate the terms of of
fitc Anything that would replace these
Wall street speculators by honest and
unpurchaseable citizens New York
News
Republicans Break the aw
It is a poor rule that wont wcik
both ways The treasury of the United
States insists on paying out gold
should it not insist on receiving nothing
but gold Why should it be considered
repudiation for the treasury to pay out
silver for greenbacks and good
for banks to pay checks in silver
certificates Considering the fact that
It publicans claim that silver dollars
are woith less than fifty cents why do
theve scrupulously honest gentlemen
pay the wage earner silver dollars
Tbcie is no law entitling a man to re
ceive gold from the United Slates treas
ury in let urn for greenbacks The law
makes standard silver dollars a legal
t rder lor all debts public and private
D an illegal and unwarrantable
ition lor the treasurer of the Unit
ed States to insist on paying out gold
rj - endless chain is a myth an in
miMdu i fraud and a humbug
t re i a conspiracy on the par of
g i moiometaliists to force the United
s s into the adoption of the single
drd John G Carlisle and J rover
laud lioke the law when they
gold and paid a premium of
uiii for it The lLepubhcan
rjition manifests a purpose to follow
icvelands illegal policy Contraction
trust is a history of rapine confisca
tion ruin and suicide No man has
been able to stand his ground before
this cohort of commercial cut throats
By means of special transportation
rates bribery coercion and the tre
mendous power of unlimited npital
all opponents are undersold all com
petition crushed
Every trust follows the methods of
this typical combine and while tie
people -suffer that is not the greatest
evil wrought Small dealers produc
ers manufacturers are driven out of
business The middle classes are be
ing destroyed The result will he the
er Ttion of a plutocratic aristocracy
ruling with vow hand over a race of
slaves
What is to be done Then1 are laws
against trusts Enforce them Chi
cago Dispatch
itable feature and accompaniment oi
hard times Atlanta Constitution
Chance for Ohio
Where is the promised prosperity
Pile mills were to be reopened work-
j men employed at good Avages the far
mers were to get good prices for their
products Every promise of this kind
has been falsified and business men
workmen and farmers are disgusted
They will manifest that disgust at the
polls by the overthrow of the Repub
lican party in the State the election
of a Democratic Legislature and the
retirement of Senator Ilanna to private
life unless the Democrats throw away
their opportunities by bad manage
ment Cleveland Ilaindealer
Poitical Paragraphs
Mr Ilanna is right when he says the
people expect too much but are not
Mr Ilanna and his assistants avIio
promised so much last year largely re
sponsible for this overproduction of
expectation Washington Post
Annapolis Md was carried high and
dry by the Democrats although the
city gave McKinley over 1200 majority
last fall Such straws as these do not
indicate any great enthusiasm over the
Republican prosperity tariff Man
chester N II Union
When it comes to superstition there
is no telling what men can believe The
man who believes a tariff that raises
the price of sugar will restore prosper
ity to the country Avill lind no difficulty
in believing any declaration that ap
peals to his faith alone Columbus
Ohio Press
The farmer is compelled to sell in the
cheapest market but when he buys
discovers that the government has lim
ited his natural liberty that he cannot
buy in the cheapest market but must
buy in the dearest and so just in pro
portion as prices are raised he is rob
bed The nature of the crime is not al
tered by the fact that it is done under
the forms of law According to ac
cepted estimates 2W00UOJUU is thus
annually taken from the pockets of
American producersDes Moines
Leader
NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
P1L AND TEACHER
Resolutions Adopted by the National
Educational Association in Milwau
kee Modern Mathematical Methods
The College Girl Graduate
Modern Mathematical Methods
When some of us were boys at school
we knew no other way of doing a sum
in subtraction but the way of borrow
ing and paying back Thus suppose
we had to take 1G99 from l87S this
was the method
1S7S
1599
179
Nine from 8 is impossible borrow 1
from the tens 9 from 18 leaves
9 next line pay back your 1 by adding
it to the 9 then borrow again 10 from
17 leaves 7 third line pay back the
borrowed 1 to the 0 and then 7 from S
leaves 1 giving the answer 179 The
modern inspectors pour scorn upon this
system and tell us its absurdity is held
up in every text book This we find to
be a slight exaggeration In one very
excellent modern text book to which
Ave have referred out of curiosity Ave
lind the good old fashioned borrowing
and paying back fully described and
aAvarded the first place in the alterna
tive methods The modern method is
that of finding the number which must
be added to the less to make it equal to
the greater so that the iioav way of
teaching the young idea how to sub
tract is really a continuation of its
a path to Egypt and lecture to thou
sands on ancient Thebes
Cheapening College Degrees
An important suggestion is embodied
in a resolution offered by one of the
attendants upon the convention of edu
cators in session at Milwaukee The
resolution declares
The State should exercise supervis
ion over degree conferring colleges
through some properly constituted tri
bunal having power to fix a minimum
standard of requirements for admission
to or graduation from such institutions
and with the right to deprive of the degree-conferring
power institutions not
conforming to the standard so prescrib
ed
It has long been apparent that if a
college degree is to have any distinction
at all something must be done to pre
vent the distribution of such honors
by inefficient and low grade colleges
There are 400 institutions known as col
leges in the United States The United
States commissioner of education
thinks that only about forty of these
have the right to the name His esti
mate is probably rather Ioav but it is
obvious on a moments reflection that
a large number of the colleges are at
best not qualified to confer a degree
Avhich Atill carry the same distinction
as that gien by a first class college
The method proposed for avoiding the
trouble seems rather cumbersome and
impracticable It is even doubtful if a
law prohibiting an institution from
granting a degree Avould stand If a
dozen men choose to get together and
dub a thirteenth man Master of Arts
there is nothing to hinder them
At the same time the practice of in
discriminate degree giving is an evil
which threatens to deprive college de-
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSN
National Educational Association representing teachers of every grade
TIIE engaged in every form of educational effort again affirms its unswerv
ing allegiance to the highest ideals of our public educational system We he
lieve in the American public school From kindergarten to university it stands
for sound training thorough discipline and good citizenship While incompetent
teaching inadequate supervision insufficient material support or sluggish public
opinion nay for a time limit its usefulness they cannot wholly destroy its benefi
cent and uplifting influence
We would emphasize in particular at this time the duty of the school to the com
munity that it represents The work of the school is not ended when its responsi
bilities to the individual pupils who attend it are discharged It must keep con
stantly before it the aim in co operation with tli home and other social forces
of so enriching and directing the public sentiment of the society it swerves as to in
crease l expect for law and order and devotion to high ideals and sound principles
as well as to promote efficiency in both public and private life
We demand that school administration in all departments including the appoint
ment promotion and removal of teachers and the selection of text hooks shall
be Avholly free from political influence and dictation of every sort We appeal to
educated public opinion and to the press of the country to enforce this demand both
in general and in particular instances
We believe that the public schools are increasing in efficiency as the tenure of
teachers is made longer and more secure An increased tenure of office should
go hand in hand with broader professional preparation and higher standards for
admission to the Avork of teaching We know that education is more than instruc
tion rJ hose subjects of study and those school exercises that develop the pupils
power refine his taste and call out his constructive capacity are not fads but
essential elements of school training Especially do avc ask for closer attention to
the hygienic and sanitary conditions of school Avork and to that instruction and
those influences that giAe insight into the meaning of the aesthetic and artistic
factor in education and that develop an appreciation of it
We believe it to be the duty as well as the opportunity of the American college
even at the sacrifice of some cherished traditions to open its doors to the largest
number of students possible To this end it must keep in close touch Avith the
public high school All efforts to reach this result and to bring college and high
school into intimate relations of mutual dependency have our cordial approval and
sympathy
We urge more attention to the study of the history and principles of education
in colleges and universities not alone that their graduates may be the better pre
pared for the work of teaching but in order that there may be sent out into the
community an increasing number of educated citizens avIio have some knoAvledge
of educational conditions and precedents and who will thus be able to contribute
a prompt and intelligent support to the work of the public school
We ask the attention of the executive and legislative departments of the Govern
ment to the valuable work of the bureau of education and to the pressing need of
adequate appropriations for it- support The salary of the commissioner is pitifully
small and is beneath the dignity of the office and of this nation On behalf of the
teachers of the country Ave ask for its increase and also for the provision of funds
to enable educational investigation ami experiments to be undertaken and extended
The association has contributed to the current discussion of educational problems
three reports of the highest importance prepared after laborious and long continued
study and investigation one on secondary education one on elementary educa
tion and one on the conduct and support of the rural school We earnestly com
mend these reports the Avork of trained specialists not only to teachers but also
to Legislatures to members of School Boards to the press and to intelligent citi
zens generally They offer a safe guide for future progress
To all ollicers associations and individuals who have contributed to the suc
cess of this meeting and to the retiring president Charles K Skinner for his vig
orous intelligent and progressive administration the thanks of this association
are due and are most cordially tendered
lesson in addition The neAV plan of
doing the above sum is this Add to
the figure needed to yield the unit S
This Avill be 9 making IS put uoavii
the 9 and carry the 1 10 to the next 7
namely 17 is 7 carry 1 again 7 to S
is 1 There seems to be as much bor
roAving and paying back in the one
method as in the other London
News
The College Girl Graduate
EdAvard W Bok writes to the college
girl graduate in the Ladies Home
Journal Whatever the necessities
her desires or ambitions he says let
her not forget that first of all she was
designed by God to be a woman to lie
her life in true womanliness so that
she may be an inspiration a strength
a blessing not necessarily to a Avorld
Nbur what is infinitely better to those
within her immediate reach avIioso lives
are touched by hers Very feAv lives
are free free to go and come travel
read study write think paint and sing
at will In the lives of most women
these gifts are an aside in life as it
Avere an underbreath Most of us are
beset with loving calls of toil care re
sponsibility and quiet duties Avhich Ave
must recognize heed and obey We
must love our mothers more than our
Greek If the instinct of daughter sis
ter Avife or mother dies out of a college
bred woman even in the course of a
most brilliant career the Avorld -will
forget to love her it Avill scorn her and
justly If she does not make her sur
roundings homelike wherever she is
whether she be teacher artist musi
cian writer daughter at home or a
mother in the household and if she
herself is not cheery and loving dainty
in dress gentle in manner and beauti
ful in soul as every true Avoman ought
to be the Avorld Avill feel that the one
thing needful is lacking vivid tender
Avomanliness for which no kuoAvledge
hoAvever profound can ever compen
sate It is better for a woman to fill
a simple human part lovingly better to
be sympathetic in trouble and to Avbis
per a comforting message- into one
grieving ear than that she should make
grees of all meaning and the Milwau
kee convention does Avell to turn its
attention to the subject Incidentally
it Avould do Avell to find some means of
preventing also the miscellaneous be
stoAving of honorary degrees upon pub
lic men There is not much honor in
a title which may be gi en at any time
to any politician avIio has been boosted
into prominence Chicago Record
New Methods of Train Jut
At the meeting of the teachers in Mil
waukee there Avere but few who arose
with a good Avord for the old friend of
the profession corporal punishment
Moral suasion has taken the place of
the rod the children are placed on their
honor reasoned Avith and taught to do
right because it is right that they may
be self reliant when the restraining
liueuce of the teacher is removed and
I they pass into the larger field of life
I When they become men thev will
have no one to stand over them with a
rod but what good they do must be
done for its oavii sake
A man goes to Congress It is Lne
theory that he Avill act in a patriotic
manner not because he Avas thrashed
Avithin an inch of his life in the little
red schoolhouse bur because if he does
not do so the President will not appoint
any of his friends to office and when
election again rolls around Avith its
brass bands and misspelled transpar
ency mottoes he will be left on the cold
outside by the organization or if he
does not follow the lead of the speaker
in Avhom is supposed to be Avrapped up
the sum of all patriotism he is placed
ar the tall end of the committee on ven
tilation and his Aoice resounds not in
the halls of legislation for he cannor
catch the speakers eye
The teachers may look at this and
other examples and feo thev are on the
right track Moral suasion is a grand
j and noble ida It i taking firm hold
j the world over The Europtan powers
are seriously thinking or using it on
the Turk
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Leonard Huxley is making good prog
ress with the biography of his father
The book is awaited with great inter
esL
Studio Life in the City illus
trated from photographs is an articlo
concerning Chicagos art circles in the
National
In the Cosmopolis Edmund Gosse
speaks in the highest praise of Pierro
Lotis latest novel Kamuntcho a
story of the Basques The melancholy
sweetness of Loti he says is exhaled
from every section of this look which
is in its narrow way as perfect as hia
wonderful genius can make it
The Crime of Christendom or Tne
Eastern Question Down to rhe Present
Crisis by the He v Dr D S Gregory
editor of the Homiletie lleview is to
be published immediately The au
thors object is to give a comprehensive
view of the Eastern question and t
bring home to the guilty parties tho
responsibility for the periodically re
curring massacres of the helpless Chris
tians in Turkey
Most people now know that Maxwell
Grey is a lady whose name off her
books is Miss Tuttiett She is engaged
on a story which may come to be placed
beside her Silence of Dean Maitland
At any rate she is very hopeful alout
the novel but in such estimates au
thors and public often disagree The
title is a good one namely The
House of the Hidden Treasure Half
the story is written and we may look
for it about next Easter
Li Hung Changs secretary has writ
ten to the Century company expressing
the pleasure the Viceroy is taking in
Jen Horace Porters articles Cam
paigning with Grant now appearing
in rhe Century Mr Pet hick the secre
tary says His Excellency has had
read to him Gen Porters articles on
Gen Grant and has been greatly inter
ested in studying the character of his
great friend during the greatest of his
campaigns for the preservation of tho
Union It is a nire privilege to read
of such deeds related so eloquently by
one Aiio honorably participated iw
them
How well I remember my first inte
View Avith George William Curtis
says Curtis Guild in his volume Al
Chat About Celebrities He avos
then employed by Putnam on Putnams
Magazine about forty years ago I had
a letter of introduction to him from
a mutual friend and on entering thot
office where I had been directed found oi
tall thin gentleman seated upon a ta
ble piled with books swinging his Iongi
legs and with a pen in one hand andj
a pair of scissors in the other earnestly j
laying doAvn a case to Mr G P Put
nam a1io sat quietly beforehimt Jlanc
ing at my letter he said I will be aj
thousand times obliged if you Avill ex
cuse me for an hour Dont fail to re
turn If you do I will never forgiv
you he shouted when I A ont out
When I returned it was to receive a
cordial greeting aiiu his apologies for
what he styled his rudeness But
said he I was just making my arrange
ments to become editor-in-chief of Put
nams Magazine
The Ijions Hoar
Doctor Livingstone noted the odd re
sembkunce of the lions roar to that oC
the oitrich Mr Millais says that
though the roar of the latter is not so
loud it has exactly the same tone aa
that of the lion lUit the ostrich al
Avays roars his best the lion very
seldom That is partly because a
good roar needs a great physical
effort The Avhole interior and muscier
of mouth throat stomach and abdo
men are for the moment converted in
to an organ of terrific sound and tha
sound does make the earth tremble ob
appear to do so But the attitude is
uot that usually drawn Unless he
roars lying down aa hen he puts
his head up like a dog
barking the lion emits his first
moan Lri any position then draws in his
neck and lowers his head with ex
tended paws as if about to be violent
ly sick while at the same time thii
hack is arc lied and the whole animal
bears an appearance of concentrated
strain
This is Captain Millais phonetic
rendering of the sound taken when
listening to three lions roaring thei
best Moan roar roar roar
roar grunt grunt grunt grant
dying away Why lions roar when
It ouht to pay letter to keep silent is
not yet explained General Hamilton
was convinced that tigers hunting in
company roar to confuse and frighten
the deer Possibly the lion roars
when proAvling around a camp in the
hope of causing some of the draft an
imals to break loose at other times It
appears to be a form of conversatioijt
AAith others at a distance
Never Quite Pall
It is impossible to fill a glass com
pletely full Avith any liquid from rim to
center The most common fluids such
as water or milk are attracted to the
sides of the vessel into which are
placed so that they rise round the
brim leaving a IioIIoav in the middle
Hence a cup tilled to the point of
AAith any of these liquids is not
absolutely full though it appears to be
so at the edge Fluids on the other
hand Avhich do not adhere or are nor
attracted upward by the sides of the
vessel sink round the brim and rise in
the center Thus mercury is a glass
forms a convex surface Avhile Avater
forms a concave
Some people like a bad thing so wellf
that they make sliortcate out o
berrlss