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Tho present naval force especially in
ew of Hb increase by the ships now
vnder construction while not as large as
that of a few other powers Is a formid
able force its vesaela are tho very beat
-Of each type ani with the Increase that
Should be made to It from time to time
In the future and careful attention to
keepine it in a high state of efficiency
and repair it Is well adapted to tho ne
ccpsltles of the country
The great Increase of the navy which
has taken place in recent years was Justi
fied by the requirements for national de
fense and has received public approba
tion The time has now arrived how
ever when this increase to which the
country is committed should for a time
take the form of Increased facilities com
mensurate with the Increase of our naval
-vessels Tt Is an unfortunate fact that
there is only one dock on the Pacific coast
capable of docking our largest ships and
-only one on the Atlantic coast and that
the latter has for the last six or seven
months been under repair and therefore
Incapable of we Immediate steps should
be taken to provide three or four docks
of this capacity on the Atlantic coast at
least one on the Pacific coast and a float-
Ing dock on the gulf This is a recommen
dation of a very competent board ap
pointed to Investigate the subject There
should also be ample provision made for
powder and projectiles and other muni
tions of war and for an increased num
ber of officers and enlisted men Some
additions are also necessary to our navy
yards for the repair and care of our larcro
number of vessels As there are now on
the stocks five battleships of the largest
class which cannot be completed for a
year or two I concur with the recom
mendation of the secretary of the navy
an appropriation authorizing the con
ruction of one battleship for the Pacific
voast where at present there is only one
in commission and one under construc
tion while on the Atlantic coast there
are three In commission and four under
construction and also that several tor
pedo boats bo authorized in connection
-with our general system of coast defense
Alaska Demands Attention
The territory of Alaska requires the
prompt and early attention of congress
The conditions now existing demand ma
terial changes in the laws relating to the
territory The great influx of population
-during the past summer and fall and the
-prospect of a still larger immigration In
the spring will not permit us to longer
neglect the extension of civil authority
within the territory or postpone the es
tablishment of a more thorough govern
ment
A general system of public survey has
-not been extended to Alaska and all en
tries tlrss far made in that district are
upon special surveys The act of congress
extending to Alaska the mining laws of
the United States contained the reserva
tion that It should not be construed to put
in force the general land laws of the
country By act approved March 3 1831
luthorlty was given for entry of lands
for town site purposes and also for the
purchase crC not exceeding 160 acres then
or thereafter occupied tor purposes of
trade aud manufacture The purpose of
aongress us thus far expressed has been
that only such rights should apply to that
territpry as should be specifically named
It will bo seen how much remains to be
done for the vast remote and yet prom
ising portion of our country Special au
thority vas given to the president by the
act of congress approved Jcly 24 1897
to divide that territory into land districts
and to designate the boundaries thereof
and to appoint registers and surveyors of
said land offiees and the president was
also authorized to appoint a surveyor
general for the entire district Pursuant
to this authority a surveyor fgeneral and
receiver have been appointed with offices
at Sitka If in the ensuing year the
conditions justify it the additional land
district authorized by law will be estab
lished with art office at some point in the
Yukon valley No appropriation however
was mado for this purpose and that is
now necessary to be done for the two
land districts Into which the territory is
to be divided
I concur with the secretary of war in
his suggestions as to the necessity of a
military force in the territory of Alaska
for tho protection of persons and prop
erty Already a small force consisting of
twenty five men with officers under
command of Lieut Col Raxfoidl of the
Eighth infantry has been sent to St
Michael to establish a military post As
It is to the interest of the government to
encourage the settlement of the country
and its duty to follow up its citizens with
the benefit of legal machinery I earnestly
urge upon congress the establishment of
system of government with such flexi
bility as will enable it to adjust itself to
the future areas of greatest population
The startling though possibly exagger
ated reports from the Yukon river coun
try of the probable shortage of foed for
the largd number of people who are en
tering then without the means of leav
ing the country are confirmed In such a
measure as to justify bringing the matter
to the attention of congress Access td
that country in winter can bo had only by
the passes from Dyea and vicinity which
is a most difficult and perhaps impossi
ble task Knvever should fiese reports
of the suffering of our fellow citteens be
further verifier every effort at any cost
should br Tnrr o oirrv tcni relief
Aoout iiarem LsathK
It has remained for a German news
paper woman Adele Stern to pene
trate the mysteries of the Sultans
harem She says
Along the walls are low settees In
the middle of the room stands a mag
nificent Turkish clock Near by is a
mangnL an open metallic stove from
which monies daintily perfumed heat
On the top is a big bronze pot in which
delicious mocha is being brewed At
every other step is a sort of cradle in
which rest from one to three children
Tho dolce far niente of Turkish fe
male life can nowhere be better studied
than m a bath The women of the
harem enter the bath early in the morn
ing aud spend from an hour to a whole
day there
And now to the bath itself It is a
veritable fairyland The soft damp
air the white marble the perfumed
steam all help the illusion of being in
some Nivic laud Right before me
splashing in the water are two
nymphs Their immense black eyes
glance sadly at me from beneath a
mass of raven black hair Their forms
are exquisite whitcas the alabaster sur
rounding them and with skin as soft
as tho richest velvet
The bath finished I am once more
ushered into the dressing room I drink
a cup of coffiee and depart
Feathered Ventriloquists
Many birds form their sounds with
out opening their bills The pigeon is
a well known instance of this Its coo
ing can be distinctly heard although
it does not open its bilL The call is
formed internally in the throat and
chest and is only rendered audible by
resonance Similar ways may be ob
served in many birds and other ani
mals The clear loud call of the cuckoo
according to one naturalist is the reso
nance of a note formed in the bird The
whirring of the snipe which betrays
the approach of the bird to the hunter
Is an act of ventriloquism Even the
nightingale has certain notes which are
produced internally and which are au
dible while the bill is closed
Democracy Undcfiled
Everybody seems to be on an equal
ity fa Klondike said the shoe clerk
6bfijder
Yes said the cheerful idiot one
mSn can cut as much ice as another up
there Indianapolis Journal
COST OF SCHOOL BOOKS
Most People Have an Exaggerated
Idea of This Expense
Under the hot breath of the profes
sional kicker the cost of school books
is made to appear as an enormous and
unreasonable burden While poor peo
ple who have large families in school
really have some burden to lxar in this
matter the average person has an ex
aggerated idesi of the cost of school
books
It is interesting io note from the last
census report the cost of certaiu things
as compared with the cost of school
books It has been found by a series
of investigations in different States
based upon reliable information that
the cost of school books amounts to a
sum which would be equal to Ion cents
for each inhabitant or 7000000 a
year in the whole United States Com
pare this with the following Cost of
artificial flowers and feathers 9000
000 tobacco and cigars 193000000
confectionery 55000000 cigar box
es 7000000 liquors distilled malt
and vinous 289000000 and the only
Due of the above sums that causes any
considerable complaint is that obnox
ious amount 7000000 paid for
school books
Before we condemn our State legis
latures for the enactment of this law
and the school officials for obeying it
let us consider whether it is not a rea
sonable and just law enacted for the
benelit of the children Jackson Coun
ty School News
Work and Rest
Periods of work and play must alter
nate and the younger the children the
shorter should be the periods of work
The pauses should be spent in free
play out of doors The most difficult
subject should be placed in the morn
ing but there should be a judicious
alternation of the difficult and the
easy The plan of one or two sessions
a day is an open question which should
be decided on hygienic grounds One
session without pauses every hour is
open to serious objections Home work
should be at a minimum The general
aim should be to get the maximum at
tention and freshness
Two pedagogical principles radically
opposed One gViges education by the
hours months and years spent in the
school room by the subjects studied
aud the pages turned by exercises
written and passed The other looks
less at what a pupil has done than
what he can do and deems present in
tellectual health and mental ability
the only evidence of a good education
From the standpoint of the latter work
done by the nervous mechanism under
abnormal conditions may cause irrepar
able injury Of course the latter is the
standpoint of school hygiene Its prob
lem is to determine how long the nerv
ous mechanism can function at its best
Tlie Worst Boy in School
He was about the worst boy in
school and the teacher had punished
him again and again uutil she had be
gun to consider him in the light of a
natural enemy and she felt that the
boys feeling for her must be almost
one of hatred So it was in the nature
of a surprise when in view of the ap
proaching holiday separation other
boys of the school brought to her desk
little gifts of remembrance to have
the bad boy approach with some hesi
tation and place a box of candy on her
desk
But I dont think I can Like it
Tom she said You have been too
bad a boy you have seemed to do ev
erything you could to displease me
Oh please take it Miss Blank said
the bad boy in entreating tones I
worked after school hours to get the
money to get it
And some one felt tears coming very
near the surface then for the bad boy
was a poor boy and had not so many
pleasures in life that he could be ex
pected to sacrifice any of them for any
one School Board Journal
Examination Answers
In a training school for girls one
maiden said that a robin had web feet
and that a sparrow had eyes on both
sides of its head to enable it to see
around a corner In political and legal
lore the pupils were all at sea One
said a bill is permissible when it was
allowed to pass the first time it is
retrospective when it has to be consid
ered again Gharlestown was said to be
a naval arsenic Children too give
some queer definitions Backbiter was
said to be a ilea Blacksmith is a place
where they make horses because you
can see them nailing the feet on A
horse is an animal with four legs one
in each corner Ice is water that went
to sleep in the cold Little sins are
cracked commandments The nest egg
is the one the hen measures by The
four seasons ae pepper salt mustard
and vinegar and stars are the moons
eggs Boston Traveler
Arithmetical Geography
Texas has 203750 square miles Look
in your geographies for the areas of the
other States and countries referred to
How many States of the size of Color
ado could be made from Texas Illi
nois New York NewTersey Penn
sylvania Delaware England Ger
many France Crete Cuba Mex
ico Spain Italy Wales
The population of New York City is
about 151G000 New York City is how
many times the population of Nevada
New Mexico Colorado Arizona
Connecticut Delaware Florida Ida
ho Maine Montana New Hamp
shire North Dakota
Busy Work Exercise
Write names of articles produced by
a farmer by a gardener
Write names of articles that are
mined
Write names of materials used by a
carpenter by a mason
Write names of articles kept for sale
by a grocer by a druggist by a furni
ture dealer by a dry goods dealer by
n hardware dealer
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SCORING PRESIDENT MKINLEY
One of the most polished scorings
that President McKinleys administra
tion has received since the elections is
found in the columns of the New York
Times That paper was his ardent sup
porter during the Presidential cam
paign but it does not hesitate to ad
minister a caustic rebuke to the man
it helped to elect The points that it
makes against him are the calling of
in extra session of Congress and the
passage of an unnecessary tariff bill
which will produce not a surplus but a
deficit the turning over of the patron
age to the Republican bosses in the
several States for the pvrpose of
building up the party machines run
by professional politicians not in the
interest of the public but for selfish
and often corrupt ends and last the
Wolcott bimetallic commission These
three acts the Times predicts will cost
Mr McKinley his renomination and re
election
This arraignment of the administra
tion so far as the first two points of
the Times indictment go is not unjust
Indeed it is fullv deserved although
so far as the Times is concerned it has
no right to kick since it knew full well
that McKinley was a tariff man aud
distinctly pledged to the enactment of
a higher tariff law So far as the bi
metallic commission is concerned that
too was a party pledge in the platform
made as the gold men have wished it to
appear to catch votes and not to be
carried out But the president did sead
t commission to Europe to negotiate
for bimetallism and then did all in his
power at home to nullify its efforts by
lending the entire power of his admin
istration to sustain the single gold
standard As the result of this two
sided policy he has won the curses of
botli sides to the controversy How
ever Ave wisli to approve the predic
tion of the Times Mr McKinley will
not be re elected in 1900 The next
President will be a silver man
Currency Reform
President McKinley is said to be
hopeful that Congress will do some
thing in the way of passing currency
reform legislation The President as
a student of history has some ground
for his hope as Congress lias ever beeu
the tool of the money power and noth
ing but the majority in the Senate fa
voring bimetallism stands between him
and the accomplishment of his wishes
Congress has granted concessions to
corporations and trusts it has demone
tized silver it has changed currency
bonds into coin bonds and following
the logic of its past President McKin
ley has season to believe that it will
join with him in destroying the green
backs and in declaring that te wod
coin means gold
But President McKinley counting on
the coercing strength of the adminis
tration leaning on the support of the
paid attorneys of the trusts relying or
the assistance of the money power and
trusting in the influence of patronage
forgets the authority of the people
Hovever much the members of Con
gress may be threatened with the dis
pleasure of the administration and Ms
allies those who represent a bimetal
lic constituency will remain firm in
their opposition to the dictates of the
gold clique The kind of currency re
form contemplated by the Republican
administration will not be put in prac
tice by the present Congress and as
the changes in the membership of that
body which will be made in 1S98 will
greatly strengthen the silver majority
it may safely be concluded that Presi
deut McKinleys hopes are destined to
be blasted
Classes at the White TJouse
Society unquestionably captured the
White house at the last election In
cousequence the present administra
tion is frantically aristocratic This
passion for high society cropping out
in a hundred places is to be adver
tised to the world by the division of
Congressmen into carefully constituted
groips for White House entertainment
purposes In this way Mr McKinley
will be able to save his noble friends
of the East from all contact with the
rill raff The plan evolved bv Mr Mc
Kinley and J Addison Porter Esq
will work beautifully at social func
tions It will enable Mr McKinley to
make a display before the nobility and
wear out his old clothes before the rab
ble And if the common herd indulges
in feelings of resentment it contains
only a few million more voters than
the nobility and not one thousandth as
many heavy subscribers to Republi
can campaign funds Kansas City
Times
Government Expenses
The report of Secretary Bliss makes
the astounding statement that there
are 200000 pension claims awaiting set
tlement Undoubtedly half of these
claims will be passed upon favorably
and the Secretary estimates that the
annual expense to the Government
will be swelled about 7000000 There
are now 976014 names on the pension
rolls and by the end of next year the
million mark will be passed Under
the last Republican administration
there was an increase of G9000 Mc
Kinley will add 100000 the first twelve
months of his Presidency
Secretary Bliss is altogether too mod
erate in his estimate of the amount of
expense this addition will make neces
sary Instead of 7000000 it will
reach nearly three times that sum As
a matter of record the following
ties as to the pension appropriations
will prove valuable
Clevelands last year
Harrisons iirst year
Harrisons second year
Harrisons third year
Harrisons fourth year
S9000000
100500000
118500000
141000000
158000000
The New York World estimatr iiat
under McKinley the pension appro
priation for his last year of Presiden
tial service will reach the enornK iw to
tal of 1G0000000 The pension ex
penses of this government to day are
larger than the cost to any nation of
the greatest standing army in the
world
But General Miles wants to double
the size of the standing army in this
country The Secretary of the Navy
wants to spend millions on new men-of-war
The Republican politicians
want to have tariff commissions com
merce commissions and monetary com
missions created whose membery shall
hold office for life and draw fat sal
aries Surely these patriots are work
ing like beavers to secure the return of
prosperity
That Tariff Commission
Government by commission is grow
ing to be quite a favorite fad with Re
publicans These patriots are extreme
ly anxious to take out of politics all
questions of importance to the people
They are suggesting monetary com
missions commerce commissions
and among the philanthropic schemes
which have been advanced is a tariff
commission Certainly the Republi
cans need expert assistance on the
matter of tariff but the people are jot
likely to approve of the commission
idea
In the first place it would prove a
very expensive arrangement The sug
gestion is to have seven commissioners
whose aggregate salary would De 55
000 a year In the second place ti se
men are to hold office for life or during
good behavior In the third place each
commission is to have a private secre
tary and the total annual expense for
salaries would be 10000 Then there
are to be a force of clerks and an ex
pense fund The tariff commission
could and probably would spend 200
000 a year of the peoples money and
not half try In the fourth place it is
strictly a partisan proposition and a
scheme to fasten the protective tariff
policy on this government forever
All information given to this commis
sion is to be strictly confidential and
thus a star chamber is proposed for the
settlement of tariff questions It is dif
ficult to believe that such a proposition
can be seriously made but the greed
of Republican politicians is only equal
ed by their stupidity and a bill provid
ing for a tariff commission will doubt
less be presented at the next session of
Congress No such bill ought to pass
Indeed no such bill can pass The grab
is too evident the sinister purpose too
patent The tariff commission will
never come into existence Chicago
Dispatch
Foraker and Bushnell Mnst Fight
Foraker Bushnell and Kurtz are tue
leaders of the disaffected Republicans
The annihilation of Hanna means their
resumption of control over the party
machinery in Ohio It means the re
moval of McKinley as a quantity from
the Presidential equation three years
hence If Hanna returns to the Sen
ate either with their acquiescence or
against their opposition political obliv
ion will be the portion of these three
There is nothing left for them but to
fight and fight to the death Kansas
City Times
Cost M A Hanna 13000
Senator M A Hanna contributed
15000 to the Ohio State Committee to
aid his re election according to the
itemized statement filed with the Sec
retary of State by Treasurer W F
Burdell as required by the Garfield
corrupt practices act The statement
shows besides that the committee bor
rowed 20000 and collected from other
sources 2091440 showing total re
ceipts of 5591440 of which 5487931
was expended Of this sum 13iJj
went to county chairmen
Partisan Position as to Trusts
The Democrats are pledged by their
national platform of last year to bring
the trusts under control The Republi
can national convention under the
domination of Mark Hanna ignored
the subject but the Republican leaders
in Congress know well that the masses
of their party share the feelings of the
Democrats on this subject and that
they would never forgive the defeat of
anti trust legislation These leaders
are in a distressing position Nv
York Journal
Chief Glory of the Republic
Jefferson especially warned the peo
ple against all the encroachments of
government on the domais of tve indi
vidual The history of the past century
has been the greatest chapter in civili
zation because the individual has for
the first time had full liberty and a con
tinent on which to expend himself
American history is glorious not be
cause of government but because of
the individual citizen Louisville Post
Fooling the Old Soldier
The Ohio law which requires that
honorably discharged soldiers shall be
given offices has been declared uncon
stitutional by the Supreme Court of
the State- It was mighty easy for the
Republican Legislature to pass an act
to catch a vote and frame it after a
fashion to compel the courts to hold it
invalftKLouisYiUe Times
DEFENSE OF THE RED HEAD
Artist Telia Why He Fancies Thai
Color Above Others
We went to our favorite bench la
the park sitting so we could view thi
lake I watched my artist friend wh
had asked me to take a quiet stroF
with him
I tried to open conversation by re
marking
Come now let us play truth upoi
honor for one half hour
Very well what shall the topic be
Oh anything from the Humphrey
bills to the question Why has red hal
always been looked upon in all ages
with aversion
Red hair exclaimed he Therei
no such thing Dont let anyone con
vince you that there is such a thing at
real red hair What people call vci
hair is a mixture of two or three shades
of yellow and brown Call it auburr
or Titian
I saw that my friend was getting o
far away look and would soon becom
reminiscent He continued
I never knew a red haired girl to be
stupid She is always interesting
quick of action quick of speech quick
to resent quick to forgive and above
all sympathetic She makes many
bright speeches and sometimes with
the greatest naivette For instance I
knew a charming young lady a golden
haired belle who boasts a family crest
over 300 years old whose wit is equal
ed only by her love of fun She la
somewhat religiously inclined To a
young gentleman who earnestly en
treated her to waltz the other evening
she returned with the startling nega
tive Ill be damned if I do Of course
she meant it as a statement not as an
asseveration
Red hair brings with It great sensi
bility When the owner has blue eyea
and brown brows and lashes she is of a
sentimental turn of mind and always
musical Brown eyes and dark lashes
are noted for their beauty and often de
velop great dramatic talent Red hair
always goes with strong emotions and
the red haired girl laughs and cries at
the theater while her dark haired sis
ter loses half of life by being more dig
nified and less appreciative Yes
sighed my friend meditatively She
Is a lovable darling when she likes you
but sharper than a two edged sword
when she doesnt
I looked at my artist friend in utter
astonishment and wondered why my
Innocent remark had called for so much
enthusiasm However I was rather
pleased than otherwise as my own hair
barely escaped the suspicious color
I see there Is no room for argument
here I ventured to remark
Well no he laughingly replied
but Ill tell you something for your
own consolation When I was abroad
last year I came across a red haired
club in Vienna and to prevent fraudu
lent admissions every candidate was
obliged tc wash his hair in hot water
before the committee
Your apology Is accepted I re
marked
Oh said my artist friend I am
just freeing my mind
Oxford Bible Paper
The paper making of Oxford Bibles
Is a specially Important and Interesting
part of the work says Chambers Jour
nal At Wolvercote a mile or two out
of Oxford the university has a largo
mill for the supply of Its own require
ments A good deal of the paper they
turn out here Is made of old ships sails
the material of which after battling
with storms in all quarters of the
world come here for the purpose of be
ing made Into paper printed In almost
every language under heaven and
bound up In volumes to be again scat
tered far and wide into all the utter
most ends of the earth
This Wolvercote paper has much to
do with the great reputation that Ox
ford has acquired In the production of
Bibles and other devotional books
Twenty years ago and more the man
agement here hit on a valuable inven
tion in paper making and ever since
jtheir India paper has been the envy
land puzzle of manufacturers all over
Ithe kingdom There are said to be only
three persons living who know the se
cret of its make and though the proc
ess has never ben legally protected
and all the world is free to imitate the
extremely thin but thoroughly opaque
and wonderfully strong and durable1
paper of the best Oxford Bibles if they
only know how all the world his hith
erto quite failed to do so
It is thin as tissue but perfectly
opaque and so strong that a strip of it
three inches wide has proved to be
capable of sustaining a quarter of a
hundredweight Over 1G0 works and
editions are now printed on this paper
This special advantage has very largely
helped Oxford to retain the leading po
sition which it originally gained by be
ing nearly the first if not quite the first
printer of books in the kingdom and by
the prestige of its name
A Cretan Custom
In Crete a number of individuals of
ten choose a young girl who must be
pretty no difficult matter in Crete
They inform her parents of their in
tention and the needful consent is nev
er withheld Then a priest is sent for
and told to begin the ceremony Ho
takes a very long girdle and joins all
the men with it in a circle in the center
of which the young girl is placed Then
the clergyman recites a number of
prayers and winds up by giving his
benediction to all present The mo
ment he pronounces the last amen the
circle and its center stand in the
ss ir sn
Gold as n Meaaurc of Value
Advocates of gold monometallism
dare not lay before the people the reil
reason why they are so anxious to es
tablish their theory of finance If they
should frankly say that they want gold
to be made the sole measure of valn
because gold is constantly appreciat
ing they would put the people on their
guard and defeat the end for which
they labor
As a matter of policy gold lnouomct
alllsts deny that gold has grown more
valuable during the last twenty five
years and has thus decreased the value
of all property measured by that metal
as a purchasing medium
Any one who will take the pains to
consult Bradstreets index numbers of
prices will become convinced that
prices have fallen since 1S72 at least
45 per cent This index is based on
the prices of 108 articles and is a mat
ter of statistics prepared with no po
litical bias
1891
1892
1893
1 894
99
90
91
78
Taking the last s
1S93
IS9G
1897
77
71
75
x years up to Nor
1 1897 the fall has been 15 points and
the record stands as follows
In 1S72 the index number stood at
127 according to the Senate report
therefore simple comparison with the
index number for 1897 shows a drop
in average prices of about 45 per cent
There can be but one reasonable con
clusion and that is the purchasing me
dium nas increased just that per cent
in value
How would the merchant like a yard
stick that gradually grew in length
each year until in twenty five years he
had to sell six feet of cloth for a yard
How would a farmer like a bushel
measure that doubled In capacity in a
quarter of a century requiring him to
sell two bushels for one let this is
exactly what the gold standard has
done not only for the merchant andi
the farmer but for the owners of all
property in this country and that is
the kind of monetary reform the Re
publicans want to fasten in perpetuity
on the people
Rcmcmber 1S7JJ
American blmetallists have given
prominence to the date 1873 much to
the derisive amusement of tho subsi
dized press Now it appears that En
glish blmetallists are making the fig
ures 1873 quite as prominent as their
American co workers The famous
gold and silver commission of Great
Britain composed of a membership
made up of the most able advocates of
bimetallism and monometallism in En
gland unanimously agreed to the fol
lowing propositions
That the maintenance of the ratiobe
tween the metals which was practical
ly stable for many years prior to 1S73
was due to the operation of the bimet
allic system That the great divergence
in the relative value of the metals
which has occurred since that date
must be traced to legislation and the
closing of the mints That the main
tenance of a ratio which experience
has shown to be possible in the past
would under the necessary conditions
be practicable in the future
Remember these propositions were
acceded to by Lord Farrer the most
pronounced advocate of gold mono
metallism in England and his con
freres Sir Charles Fremantle and Sir
John Lubcock With these facts in
view is it not folly for the subsidized
gold press of the United States to dis
pute these propositions And is it not
evident that American bimetallism
have the highest authority and the best
of reasons for keeping before the peo
ple that very significant date 1873
A Crime to Be Avenged
Silver is worth as much silver as it
ever was worth Gold is worth as
much gold as it ever was worth Sil
ver when lav made it legal tender
money was worth Its weight in gold
at a ratio also made by law Before
criminal legislation robbed silver of its
legal tender quality in 1S72 in our
country it would buy just as much of
wheat and earn and cotton and wool
and iron and lumber just as much of
these and twenty other of the leading
staple products of the land as it will
to day It has not changed in value
Silver is honest money
But when criminal legislation robbed
this poople of ore half of its coin legal
tender money supply that is when sil
ver was demonetized in 1873 gold was
made dishonest money That is gold
bau daiiy to buy more of the staple
products tuau It would before Just
as if a silver man were stabbed to
death his -old brother these two men
altsne living in the land would have
twice as much fts his former portion
twice as much to eat to wear to have
Gold has profi eti by the crime the
stab the murder of silver And mourn
ing and soitow ill1 the land because of
this the greatest crime the world has
known No prosperity no confidence
cau be estored until this crime is
avenged ami silver is quickened ana
made powerful by law again
The oldest bank note In existence is
in the British museum It was printed
in China in the year 1308 thirty two
years before Johann Gutenberg the
reputed inventor of printing was born
It was issued 300 years before bank
tion of brothers aud sister to each 1 notes were circulated in Europe
ar to all religious ana social intents ana
purposes Each aud every one of the
males is bound In honor to proioet that
girl throughout her life but none ot
them can take her for his wjie Slio is
and remains their sister to the end of
her flays
In a recent test of floor material the
most durable turned out to be a tile
nide of rubber An English
tile comes next Vermont
Dagsione granolith marble
earthen
marble
mosaic
yellow pine oak Oregon picse aM teak
came In Uio order namcl