Conservative.
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the present republican and present
democratic organizations.
Tliese people arc for all that is good
and beneficent in the capable , honest
administration of a popular government.
They are deliberate patriots. They are
influenced by reason. They arc not the
slaves of prejudice. Thoj" can not be
carried away by emotions. They are
conservative ; not radical. They are
constructive ; not destructive.
They iind no satisfaction , no safety in
either the policies or administrative ca
pacities of either of the two old parties.
These two organizations in their present
disguises could not be identified by their
[ ' friends.
Abraham Lincoln descending from
heaven would not recognize the present
republican party as one to which he
ever belonged.
And Andrew Jackson and Thomas H.
Benton descending from the enjoyment
of their gold standard beatitudes would
never guess that the present agglomera
tion of money fallacies and fanatics ,
headed by Coin Harvey , was the democracy -
' ( racy which they inspired and taught.
Tliese two old parties are not new as
suggested by Col. Watterson of the
Louisville Courier Journal but they are
wearing disguises. They are masked.
They are demoralized. They are drunk.
The republican drunk on success. The
democratic drunk on defeat. The for
mer is defiant. The latter is despondent
and desperate.
The bettor citizenship of the United
States should evolve a now , a sober , a
thoughtful , a high-minded , a patriotic ,
conservative party. It could intelli
gently solve now questions.
Russia has again
A nussi AN sue- t J h d n
CKSS IN CHINA. _ . . * , , ,
China. Her latest
victory is not less important than those
that have accrued to her previously , for
she has at last secured the appointment
of a Russian nominee upon the Tsung-
li-Yamen. This personage is the well
known Chinese diplomatist , Hsu Chiug
Cheng , who is president of the Manchurian -
ian railway , which is being constructed
under the supervision of Russian engi
neers. Hsu Ching Cheng was born in
1844 at Kia-ching-fu , in the province of
Chekiang. He distinguished himself in
his native colleges , and in his twenty-
fifth year attained the degree of a "Han-
lin , " which qualified him for the highest
state employment. In 1877 he was of
fered the post of ambassador to Japan ,
but he was unable to accept it.
In 1884 Hsu Ching Cheng was sent to
Europe as minister to Germany , Austria ,
Holland , and Russia. He hold this im
portant position for three years , and in
1887 ho returned to his country with a
great desire to introduce European im
provements , especially in the matter of
railways. It was due to him that efforts
were made to remodel the Chinese army
on a German pattern , and that German
military instructors were engaged and
argo orders for artillery placed with
Krupp of Essen. In 1891 ho was ordered
to rejoin his old post in Europe. On
this occasion he gave a closer attention
to Russian affairs , and succeeded in win
ning the confidence of the imperial gov
ernment. The extension of Russian in
fluence in China has been much facili
tated by Hsu's diplomacy and counsels.
Hsu is a statesman of considerable abil
ity , and a Chinese gentleman of many
accomplishments and considerable
breadth of mind. His memory is said
to be phenomenal , and ho has a peculiar
talent for languages. German , French
and English ho speaks and writes with
considerable fluency , and while in St.
Petersburg he made creditable progress
with his studies of Russian. St. James
Gazette. V4
TIIK TUUTJI AllOUT VACCINATION.
Iii a recent lecture delivered at Rome
and reported in the London Lancet , Dr.
Bizzozzcro made a deep impression by
his summing up of the argument for
vaccination. Ho said :
"Germany stands alone in fulfilling
in great measure the demands of
hygiene , having in consequence of the
calamitous smallpox epidemic of 1870-71
enacted the law of 1874 which 'makes
vaccination obligatory in the first year
of life and revaccination also obligatory
at the tenth year. ' "What was the re
sult ? "With a population of r > 0,000,000 ,
having in 187J lost 148,000 lives by
smallpox , she found by her law of 1874
the mortality diminished so rapidly
that today the disease numbers only 116
victims a year. These cases , moreover ,
occur almost exclusively in towns on her
frontier. If it were true , continued
Prof. Bizzozzero , that a good vaccina
tion does not protect from smallpox wo
ought to find in smallpox epidemics that
the disease diffuses itself in the well-
vaceinated no less than in the non-vac
cinated countries. But it is not so. In
1870-71 , during the Franco-German war ,
the two peoples interpenetrated each
other , the German having its civil pop
ulation vaccinated optionally , but its
army completely revaccinated , while
the French ( population and army alike )
were vaccinated perfunctorily. Both
were attacked by smallpox ; but the
French army numbered 215,000 deaths
by it , while the German army had only
278 ; and in the same tent , breathing
the same air , the French wounded were
heavily visited by the disease , while the
German wounded , having been revacoi-
nated , had not a single ease. "
Prevention of consumption by means
of secluding sufferers from the disease
has now reached so practical a stage in
Great Britain that a deoreaso in the num
ber of cases is already shown. The opin
ion is expressed by one authority that at
the rate observed consumption will have
disappeared there in thirty years
time.
AVAfJKS AND T.AHOU.
While prices have generally fallen in
the United States the wages of labor
lave increased. The best authority on
; his subject is the woll-known United
States senate report , which contains the
following table of wages in 1840 , 1850 ,
1800 and 1890 respectively :
Labor is better paid in the United Status
than anywhere else in the world. The
London Times published an exhaustive
article showing how the cost of produc
tion is divided between (1) ( ) capital , in
profits , (2) ( ) government , in taxes , and (8) ( )
labor , in wages , in different countries.
In England 21 per cent goes to capital ,
28 per cent to government and 5J ( per
cent to labor. In France 81 ! per cent
goes to capital , 28 per cent to govern
ment and 41 per cent to labor. In the
United States 23 per cent goes to capital ,
only t > per cent to government , and 72
per cent to labor.
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The average weekly wages in the
United States as compared with wages
in countries with a silver standard are
as follows :
Few people understand the enormous
importance of the standard of wages in
the United States. It is calculated that
the money that is paid for 2 * < < days'
work to our people who sell their services
would purchase in the market the larg
est output of all our silver mines. The
money paid for six days' work would
buy the largest annual output of both
our gold and silver mines. The money
paid for 18 days'work would buy our
largest cotton crop ; that for 24 days our
largest wheat crop ; for 80 days our larg
est corn crop. The moral of this is that
so long as labor is employed there can
not help being money enough in circu
lation ,
