MANY PEOPLE PERISH
■9 ir >
A GREAT LOSS OF LIFE BY THE
HURRICANE.
9hree Hundred and Fifty Periali In Flor
—Hundred# at Fishermen Over
whelmed—Cedar Keys Almost Laid
Waste—Town After Town Virtually
Wiped Out—A great Property Loss*
The West India Hurricane.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct 3. —At
4east 350 lives—possibly 500— were
lost ia and about Cedar Keys as a re*
*ult of the terrific hurricane and tidal
■ware Tuesday night. Of 100 fishing
and sponge boats with from four to
ten men each, anchored below the
town Monday night only about
twenty escaped destruction, and the
loss of life there is estimated at from
830 to 150. In the town itself, before
tne storm, a thriving place of 1,500
people, twenty dead bodies have been
.recovered from the mud and ruins.
.l'’ew houses are left standing and
scores are suffering from injuries.
The to-.vu was situated at th« mouth
•of the Suwanee river on a number of
.small keys connected by bridges.
Scores of lives were also lost in the
sponge fishing section. The hurri
cane struck the place about 3:30
■o'clock Tuesday morning and contin
ucd for several hours. Though warn
ing had been given, nothing indicated
■a blow of unusual severity, and up to
11 o’clock the night was calm and
■quiet. At that time a moderate
breeze sprang up from the eastward,
increasing grad ually until a thirty
mile wind was blowing. About 4
■o'clock a perfect tofnado.was blowihg.
Then the wind suddenly changed to
the southeast, bringing a perfect del
uge of water, the title rising two feet
"higher.than jn the gale of 1894.
DEATH IN A TIDAL WAVE.
At 7 o’clock an immense tidal wave
■came in from the south, carrying de
' ;struction with it. Boats, wharves
•and small houses were hurled upon
the shore and broken into fragments.
This tidal wave caused the principal
loss of life, many houses being swept
away from their foundations and the
inmates drowned.50’ “l
In Cedar Keys, when the tidal wave
■came and overwhelmed the houses,
many of the inmates floated in the
water, clinging to pieces of timber;
others clung to tree tops for hours,
until the water receded. They were
buffetted by wind and waves and
many men fainted, but clnng even
while uneonseious to the tree limbs.
Many .are still unaccounted for, and
families and friends are filled with
•anxiety, hoping for the best, but fear
ing the worst. In view of the utter
■destruction wrought by the storm, it
seems miraculous that there is a sin
gle person alive in Cedar Keys to-day.
While the gale was at its height fire
broke out in the Bettina house. In a
few seconds the entire building was
wrapped in flames, which quickly
-communicated to the •Schlemmer hotel,
adjoining, and in a very short time
nothing was left of eitner house ex
r-' -eept the bare walla The inmates
■saved nothing. They made their es
cape by wading through four feet of
1 water.
The bridges connecting the keys
were swept away, and the only com
munication is by means of boats, of
*■< W hich few are left. Then, too, most
■oi the victims were buried deep in
mud by the tidal wave, and many of
the bodies will probably never be re
covered.
Beyond the bar there are a score of
masts visible just above the water,
aud each top indicates the burial
place of a sponging schooner and its
•crew. It is possible that many of the
vessels were blowu out into the gulf
and rode out the hurricane, but the
Mary Eliza’s captain thinks that by
far the greater number are beneath
the water with their crews. He says
that there was not one chance in'a
thousand for such frail craft to live in
such a hurricane. It is expected that
for days to come corpses of the
■spongers will be found along the
■coast.
THIRTY DEAD IN LEVY COUNTY.
In the Western part of Levy and
Alachua counties not less than 200
families arc left destitute. Scores
were injured and over thirty were
killed in Levy county. The town of
Fannin was completely destroyed with
the exception of one small house.
The town, of Needmore was demol
ished. The postottice building at that
gilace was completely demolished und
lhe postmaster can find no part of the
mail or poslofiice fixtures ’
Everv house lit Yular, Judson and
•Chiefland was destroyed, with one or
two exceptions, killing people of both
the former places. The people of
Bronson have issued an appeal for aid
for the destitute.
Reports from Baker, Suwanee, Nas
sau aud Columbia couuties confirm
the previous reports of death and de
■struetion. The death list has been
iucreased by nearly a dozen. Colum
bia county fared very badly. All the
•country south of Lake City is devas
tated. In the Caleb Markham neigh
borhood scarcely a house is left stand
ing. In the vicinity of Payne and
Mount Taber postoffices the destruc
tion was great, but the accounts are
yet meager. Fred Hodge, a farmer
of that locality, was fatally crushed
■and his wife killed by the falling of a
tree on their house.
Fort White fared badly, all the
churches, school houses, many stores
and residences being blown down and
many other* b •• I
MUsourl Educator Dead.
Marshall, Mo., Oct. 3.—Professor
J. W. Cat ter, aged'i 3, died suddenly
at his home in Waverly last night. He
has been a prbininent educator in
Central Missouri for many years.
BANK~ ROBBERS SHOT
Townspeople Kill One and Wound An
other, but a Third Gets S2,00O.
La Oiiandk, Ore., Oct. 3.—Cy Fitz
hugh, a man named Brown and an un
known ‘ robbed tiie First National
bank of Joseph, Wallowa county, of
82,0ttJ>. by coercing the officials by a
display of arms, but before they could
escape'they were attacked by a num
ber of residents of the place. Alex.
Donneilv, aged 25, killed Brown and
wounded the unknown, who was
eaught, but Fitzhugh got away on a
horse with the sack of coin.
WATSON AFTER BUTLBR. ,
The Populist Vice Presidential Candidate
Warm Under the Collar.
AThAhTA, Gi„ Oct. A—In thin
week’s issue of his People’s party
paper Thomas £ Watsou, Populist
nominee for vice president, makes the
following editorial attack on Chair
man Marion Butler of the Populist
national committee: "Attempts have
been made to show that Mr. Watson
favored fusion in the state of Indiana.
This is not correct. Mr. Watson took
the position at the beginning of the
campaign that no Populist could con
sistently vote for a single Bewail
elector any more than he oould vote
for a Hobart elector. He filed with
Chairman Butler a written protest
against Mr. Butler’s fusion policy.
Mr. Butler has ignored Mr. Watson's
protest and gone steadily forward on
his own line.
“Mr. Watson's position Is now what
it was when the Georgia state eonven
lim met. He is for a straight ’mid
dle-of-the-road’ ticket. In no other
way can the Democratic managers be
forced to abide by the St Louis con
tract. ' Mr. Watson’s position has been
humiliating and embarrassing, and he
has been compelled to submit to poli
cies he did not approve."
A DRUNKARD’S CRIME.
fatally Injures a 17-Year-Old Girl aw
Kills Himself With a.Basor.
Holoate, Ohio, Oct 8.—A terrible
double tragedy occurred last night two
miles south of this place in the home
of Mrs. J. P. Ricker, a widow. The
family consisted of the widow and
two ohildren, her daughter, Annie, 17
years old, and a son. Another inmate
of the home for some time past has
been a boarder, Nathan E. Spellman.
The latter came home in a beastly
state of intoxication and was repri
manded by Mrs. Ricker. Spellman,
while the son was at school and Mrs.
Kicker was out attending to the stock,
went into the house, and found the
daughter ironing. What followed can
only be surmised. Anna Ricker was
attacked and her skull crushed. Spell
man then undertook to destroy his
own life by hanging. This attempt
being a failure, he resorted to a
method more successful. Lying on his
back across a bed, his head hanging
so it almost touched the floor, he drew
a razor across his throat, severing the
jugular vein.
Anna Ricker, at last accounts, was
alive, but unconscious, and there is no
possible hope of her recovery. Spell
man is dead.
CANNON IN THE AIR.
New Feat Brings Death to a Venture*
some Aeronaut.
Paoi.a, Kan., Oct 3 —At the Miami
county fair here yesterday. Geo ge
Anderson, the aeronaut, who was shot
from a cannon suspended from a bal
loon, missed the parachute and was
hilled in the 1,500 foot fall. Ander
derson was employed by Professor Bo
zart, and St Louis, Mo., was his
home. Ten thousand people wit
nessed the awful accident Anderson
refused to put on the safety belt with
rope attachment and relied only on a
cotton clothes-line cord tied to his
wrist for safety.
COINAGE IN SEPTEMBER.
Nearly as Much Silver as Gold Honey
Turned Out by the Mints.
Washington, Oct 3.—The monthly
statement of the director of the mint
shows the total coinage at the United
States mints during the month of Sep
tember, 1896, to have been *5,915,
363.50, which is divided as follows:
Gold, *3,140,932.50; silver, *2,754,165;
minor coins, *30,226. Of the silver
coined *2,700,100 was in standard dol
lars.
MR. BRYAN IN DANGER.
An Unknown West Virginian Said to
Have Attempted an Assault
Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 3.—A special
lo the Times-Star from Wheeling, W.
Va., says: ‘‘During the Bryan parade
last evening an unknown man tried
to assault the candidate. The fellow
made a rush for the carriage and,
with an oath, cried: 'Let me at him.’
A blow from a cane in the bands of a
guard sent him bleeding and stagger
ing into tile crowd.”
WILL WAIT FOR ELECTION
If McKinley Wins the Leadvllle Miner*?
Will Return to Work at 82-00.
Lbadvili-e, Colo., Oct. 3.—As a re
sult from the miner’s meetiug last
night, the majority have decided to
remain quiescent until after the elec
tion. If McKinley is elected the
present intention is to abandon the
strike. If Bryan is elected the hope
is that the price of silvei will advance
and the management will at once
concede all demands of the union.
Mlddlo-of-the-Road SUoton,
Topeka, Kas., Oct 3.—The middle
of-the-road Populists filed the neceS'
sary documents for the nomination oi
a Bryan and Watson electoral ticket
in Kansas in the office of the secretary
of state at noon to day. The electors
named are: Joseph P. Perkins, of
Columbus; Quincy A Baldwin, of
Tonganoxie; 1. V. B. Kennedy, of Port
Scott; J. W. Woolley, of ldell; J. M,
Bannan, of Clietopa; J. W. Doolittle,
of Cottonwood Pails; S. W, Coombs, of
Junction City; E. J. Hill of Phillips
burg; C. A. Frantz, of Canton; M.
Pemberton, of Ness City. The peti
tions contain between 910 and l,uiio
signatures, the law requiring only
Poison Choked Oat of HU Month.
Carthage, Mo., Oct 3.—William J.
Warrington, an organ salesman, wai
arrested in this city to-day on eighi
counts of embezzlement from the
Newman Bros Organ Company ol
Chicago. He tried to take arsenic
but the officer choked him and made
him spit it out.
A Missouri Hay Train for Georgia.
Custom, Mo., Oct. 3.—A Lowerj
grain company shipped forty-six cart
o f hay in two special trains out ol
here to-day for Atlanta, Ga. They
are decorated with banners and will
be run through by day as hay special)
from southwest Missouri to Atlanta.1
M’KINLEY’S VISITORS.
«*• Tralnloads from Ohio Point* Cnlled
on the Nominee at Canton
Canton, Ohio, o<-t. 3.—Five trains
brought the delegation from Portage
county, Ohio, with greetings to Major
McKinley. The first was a party
from the southern part of the county,
coming over the Pennsylvania lines in
regular truins; Three were specials
of nine coaches each, over the C., C. &
M. No demonstrut'on was made until
the last arrived, when a parade was
organized. After a short march, a
meeting was held in the tabernacle.
The introductory address was deliv
ered by 8. B. Wolcott, cx-state Sen
ator from the Kent, Ohio, district.
Kanm Veterans on Parade.
Topeka, Kan., Oct 8.—The features
ofthe reunion and fall festival yester
day, aside from the visit of the ex
Federal generals, was the grand
street parade of the old soldiers, civic
societies and military organizations.
The procession started to move from
t amp Miles at 11 o'clock, and for over
two hours it wound its way through
the principal streets of the city. It
was about two miles long and there
was a band or drum corps for almost
every company. The school children
of Topeka were also in line.
jfnrMln Gold Dtmoorau
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 8.—The national
Democratic party of Nebraska met
here last night in state convention
and named a full state and congres
sional ticket and electors. The state
ticket is R. 8. Bibbs, Governor; O. F.
Uigliu, Lieutenant-Governor; Aud
itor, Emil Haller; Treasurer, Frank
McGibbons; Secretary of State, James
Mattes; Attorney General, R. S.
Patrick; Superintendent of Public In
struction, S G. Glovei; Commissioner,
G. M. Baer; Regent, Dr. J. L Leas;
Supreme Court, Frank Irvine, W. H.
Platte.
Washington's Loises Quite Severe.
Washington, Oct 3.—The lieuten
ants of the eight police precincts each
reported yesterday the estimated total
damage in his precinct from Tuesday
night’s storm. Their totals aggregate
$433,600. The unroofing of so many
houses caused a brisk demand for
roofing tin and sent the price up. The
only loss of life in the city was occa
sioned by the falling of the Albert
building on Pennsylvania avenue,
from the ruins of which the body of
James Fitzgerald, employed at the
navy yards, was taken.
Census Work Completed.
Washington, Oct 4.—Carroll D.
Wright, commissioner of labor, who
has had charge of the work of closing
the eleventh census, says in his an
nual report to the Secretary of the
Interior that the clerical work of the
census office is now substantially com
pleted and that the tables are in the
hands of the printers.
Gathering at St. tools
St. Loms, Mo., Oct. 3.—Throngs of
visitors, representing local and out of
town organizations, crowded the
headquarters of the national associ
ation of Democratic clubs at the
Southern hotel to-day, enrolling their
respective clubs. It is expected that
at least 1,600 delegates will be present
at the convention to-morrow.
Veterans In the Alma Houses
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct 3.—For the
first time in many years, the Mil
waukee Soldiers’ home is crowded to
its utmost capacity. The same con
dition exists in the Wisconsin state
home at Waupeca, with the result
that many of the veterans are driven
to the necessity of going to the poor*
house. _
Ho Meetiug for Thurston.
Kansas Crrr, Mo., Oct. 3.—The na
tional Republican committee assigned
Senator John M. Thurston to speak in
this city tonight, but when he arrived
this mornig he found that the local
committee had forgotten all about it
and had not even announced his com
ing or secured a hall. He cancelled
the engagement.
Bryan May Not Go to Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 3.—William J.
Bryan is likely not to visit Kansas
this campaign. Chairman Love of
the Democratic state committee, re
ceived a message from Democratic
national headquarters yesterday
which read: “Go slow on Bryan. He
may not come to Kansas.”
Livery Barn Burned at Carthage.
Carthage, Mo., Oct 2.—Yesterday
afternoon the livery barn of W. E.
Hall was burned. All the horses were
rescued. Over twenty surreys, wag
onettes and buggies were burned.
The loss on building and storage was
$4,U0d to $3,000, with only $1,600 in
surance.
Two Texas Desperadoes Killed.
San Antonio, Texas, Oct 3.—Cap
tain John R. Hughes of Company D,
Texas Rangers, and two of his men
have returned to Fort Davis, bringing
with them the dead bodies of two
desperadoes, whom they killed in the
“Bloody Peninsula,” near the Rio
Grande border.
Harrleon to Slake Two Speeches.
New York, Oct. 8.—Benjamin Har
rison has agreed to make two speeches
under the auspices of the national
comnrttee on his way home to Indian
apolis One will be delivered on next
Monday evening in Richmond, Va..
and the second Tuesday afternoon in
Charleston. W. Va.
Increase or National Bank Notea
Washington, Oct. 3.—The monthly
statement of the comptroller of the
currency shows the amount of na
tional bank notes in circulation Sep
tember 30 was $^33,532,030, an in
crease for the month of $4,025,581 and
for the twelve months S';o.7£9,793.
Babe Bnrned to Death.
Nevada, Mo., Oct. 3.—The 2-vear
old baby boy of Pierce Fonburg, re
siding fifteen miles southwest ot this
city, was burned to death yesterday.
The little fellow’s clothes caught fire
from the kitchen stove, while he was
alone in the room.
Ten Thousand Fever Victims.
Merv, Turgestan, Oct 3 —A ma
lignant fever, similar to that which
appeared in 1893, has ravaged Turges
tan for the past two months. Ten
thousand persons have died from the
fever, most of the victims being chil
dren.
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1 BRYAN’S B06IIS RETURN TO BIMETALLISM. J
in Mr. Bryan’s speech at Milwaukee
he said: “Whenever money goes up
property goes down. You cannot
have a dollar that buys more unless
you have property that sells for less.
Now that is a fair proposition, no sim
ple that anybody who has money and
wants it to go up can understand the
advantage of the gold standard, and
anybody that has property and does
not want it to go down can understand
the advantage of bimetallism.’’
Mr. Bryan in all his speeches claims
to be a bimetallist, and talks about the
"return of bimetallism." In his opin
ion the opening of the mints of the
United States to the unlimited coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would be
a “return to bimetallism,” because the
mints are now open to the coinage
of gold. Why, then, he says, should
they not be open to the coinage of sil
ver? Simply because, at the ratio of
16 to 1, the amount of silver which it
is proposed to have the government call
a dollar is not worth a dollar. It it
were this controversy would be impos
sible. ,J .. ! . '
The government has put its stamp
upon the dollars which It has coined
upon its own account, and for whose
redemption it is morally and legally re
sponsible, Just bb it is responsible for
the redemption of $tie paper dollar.
True, It does not redeem silver and
paper money in the same way. For
the paper dollar It gives a gold dollar
In exchange. It' redeems silver indi
rectly by accepting it in payment for
debts due itself. This has the same ef
fect as >if it paid gold in exchange for
silver, since all the silver in circulation
could be returned to the government in
any one year. But if the government
should coin silver, not on its own ac-.
count but on the account of the owner
of the bullion, it would be under no
such obligation. The nature of its ob
ligation would then be changed, and
it would be under obligation to see
that the man who passed a silver dollar
Is worth one hundred cents shall re
deem it at one hundred cents, upon
demand of the holder, just as It com
pels a national bank to redeem its
notes at a hundred cents on the dol
lar in gold.
The “return” of which Mr. Bryan
speaks exists only in his imagination,
therefore. If the government should
coin silver worth one hundred cents
into silver dollars, then the mints
would be open to gold and silver upon
equal terms. Mr. Bryan’s proposition
is to open the mints to gold and silver
on unequal termB, giving silver twice
the privileges that are granted gold.
The government, under Mr. Bryan’s
scheme, would coin one hundred cents’
worth of gold into a dollar, but It
would coin fifty cents worth of silver
into a dollar. This is so plain that it
would seem as if even a child can un
derstand it.
So long as the government maintains
a parity between gold and silver, coin
ing gold in an unlimited amount, and
silver in a limited amount, we have
bimetallism. It is not full, theoretical
bimetallism, but it is practical bimetal
lsm, since both metals circulate and
perform every function of money at
par with each other. Mr. Bryan’s
scheme would drive gold out of circula
tion, which would result in practical
silver monometallism, since silver coin
alone would perform the functions now
performed by both silver and ,?old.
The Republican party has planted it
self in its platform upon the
doctrine of bimetallism properly
understood, that is, of bimetal
lism in which both metals qlrculate
freely at par with each other. Mr.
Bryan seems to think that we "would
not have the gold standard, if we had
bimetallism. He claims that the gold
standard and bimetallism are contra
dictory expressions, and that they
stand for irreconcilable ideas. On the
contrary, with theoretical bimetallism
in force, the gold and silver standard
would constitute but one standard, and
it would make no difference whether
it was called the gold standard or not ;
it would be the gold standard all the
same. The Republican party beltevi«'
it easier to pass from the single gold
standard to the double standard, so
called, in which the gold and silver
standards are identical, than it would
be to pass to bimetallism from ufe sil
ver standard. It believes that the
method of arriving at a truly bimetallic
monetary system is not by way of the
silver standard, but to pass directly
from the gold standard to the double
standard; at the same time it believes
that it Is impossible to have the double
standard, without the concurrent ac
tion of the leading commercial nations
of the world. It therefore says: We
are in favor of bimetallism, and as a
means of arriving at bimetallism we
propose to retain the gold standard
until we can secure the co-operation
and consent of a sufficient number of
leading commercial nations to enabjp
us to put full, theoretical bimetallism
into practical operation in this coun
try. The idea that this is subserviency
to Great Britain is pure nonsense. We
might as well say that we are slaves
because we are under the law of gravi
tation, as to say that we are a province
of Great Britain because we are under
the operation of the great financial
laws which are, in the world of busi
ness, what the law of gravitation is in
physical life.
The experience of our own country in
the use of silver during the last one
hundred years surely ought to be worth
something. From that experience three
great leseons may be learned:
First, That with the free coinage
of gold and silver it is impossible to
keep both metals in circulation at the
same time. From 1792 to 1834, under
free coinage, gold was under-valued; it
was not worth as much in money as in
bullion. Consequently It was every
where hoarded or kept out of circula
tion. So also from 1834 to 1873, when
free coinage also reigned, silver was
under-valued, and went out of circula
tion for the same reason as gold had
before. Here, then was a period qf
81 years during which Gresham's law
of the departure from circulation of the
legally debased or under-valued coin
was fully demonstrated.
Second, Another equally important
lesson Is that no legislation, especially
under modern conditions, Is able bo to
change the market value of silver as to
keep It on a par with gold. The Bland
bill, and particularly the Sherman act,
was passed for the very purpose of
strengthening our national credit
with regard to silver. Under the lat
ter 168,000,000 ounqes of silver, which
was supposed to be equal to the entire
output of our American mines, were
purchased by the government, and
much of it coined into money. Still
the metal declined continually in mar
ket value, fromfl.17 in 1890 to 78 oents
In 1893, when the Sherman act was
repealed. This proves "Conclusively
that Mr. Bryan’s “firm conviction”
about the rising of silver to fl.29 under
a 16 to l free coinage law, is simply
absurd.
Third, But perhaps the most im
portant of all thp lesson to be derived
from our one hundred years' experience
in the use of silver is the fact that the
: only practical bimetallism ever used
by our United States government, or
the only method by which gold and sti
ver have both been kept in circulation,
is the policy which we have had since
1873, or in a more perfected form, since
—.
oirres to the- laborer constant sad re
munerative employment.
C. It Is a fact that the workingmen
of our country, who were as a class so
cruelly deceived hy tao big free trade
promises made four years ago by the
democratic party, are fully alive to the
injuries and losses they have sustained,
aid they are not going to £e fooled
a train by any democratic or ffpocratlc
promises. On the contrary they are
everywhere In crowds declaring their
Intentions to vote for McKinley and
Hobart.—Valparaiso (Ind.) Vidette.
This Is Indeed an age of prodigies.
The boy’s the thing the populace to
please.
Boy preachers In the pulpit stand,
Boy trumpeters are found in every
band. ■
Boy writers write, . « ..
Boy fighters light,
Boy singers sing,
And Spain rejoices in a boyish King.
The Osar’s a boy, JQ
And Germany is Wilhelm's toy.
And now amongst these boys gal orb
We have an “oratof;”
A great big ptnkrjcheeked gassy hoy,
JuBt bubbling o'er with words and joy
He's set his steady baby stare
Upon the Presidential chair, ,f- ;
Because, like boys of good content, *
He wants to be a "President.”
He makes boy speeches ,4
In which he teaches
Boy lessons, In a boyish way.
He knows It. all, nor hesitates to say
That black Is white, or white Is black.
If he can win a point by sailing on
that tack.
He means well,* as do other boys,
And merely grins to find that he an
noys; ' \
And, like most kids,
He rather likes the things the law for
; bide. '"TKt-f- Kii- .»
His sympathies go out, quite un
abashed, ...,, ■i.’,
To those whom most deservedly the
Not as Large as It Looks—How Bryan Tries to Pool Them. >
1878—namely, a policy which makes
gold the standard of value, and then
with a limited coinage of silver, as well
as with a limited issue of paper money
causes both of these kinds of money
to bo kept up to par value with gold
by virtue of the government's pledge
that all of its money shall be main*
talned on an equality of value “in the
markets and in the payment of debts.”
This system has proved not only in
America, but also in England, Francs
and Germany, and other countries, to
be the most stable, elastic, practical
and serviceable, and therefore the best
system of finance ever used in all
human history. Why, then, should we
change it for some wildcat, red-dog,
balloon system, such as that proposed
■by the popocrats In the Chicago plat
form?—Valparaiso (Ind.) Vidette.
| FACTS FOB WORKINGMEN, f
1. It is a fact that in all silver stand
ard countries workingmen receive muck
less for their labor than in gold stand
ard countries. Wages in Mexico for
common laboringmen is 93 per week;
in China and Japan it is about |1.
2. It is a fact that of all men the
laborer has most Interest In the elec
tion of McKinley and Hobart; for the
success of the silver ticket means the
deprecitlon, or the cutting down to
about half value, of the workingman’s
wages. Besides, the Industrial estab
lishments now closed will not start up
under the general panic and financial
insecurity sure to result from an at
tempt to put our money system on a
silver standard basis.
3. It Is a fact that even now the la
boringman’s wages are higher in pro
portion than are either manufactured
goods or farm product. Moreover, it
is not true that during a period of
twenty-five years past the wages of
laboring men have declined. In 1870
the average yearly pay received by men
working in factories was 9310; in 1890
it war 9489.
4. It is a fact that under the Harri
Eon administration laboringmen, as
well as others engaged In business, en
joyed greater prosperity than they do
now. Not only did they then receive
larger wages, but work was much more
in demand and easier to find.
5. It is a fact that a protective tariff,
while beneficial to the manufacturer
and to owners of capital invested in in
dustry, helps particularly the working
man; because it, more perhaps than
[ any other governmental regulation, in
law hath lashed.
He has a liking, as have other youth.
For romance rather than the truth;
And ’stead of training with the good
and true,
Prefers association with a pirate crew.
Sweet, perfect boy, '
His party’s joy!
Don’t criticise him harshly, for, you
see,
He only alms at puerility,
And in that line
His powers seem almost divine!
—John Kendrick Bangs in Harper’s
Weekly,
Bryan wanted to debate with Mc
Kinley and now Tillman has chal
lenged Harrison to a discussion. The
youthful prodiges are getting sassy. ,
There is no danger that anyone Will
call the two democratic tickets twins.
By the way he is talking, Bryan la
cutting his throat as well as making
It hoarse. 1 <»
Men are judged by their works, not
by their words, and what deed -of
Bryan's contains any promise, of good
for the American people?
The country must have a revenue
equal to its expenditures and none but
boy orators deny it.
No one is buying silver in the mar
I ket. No one is betting on Bryan.
Enterprise Is galling only to those
who have it not.
What do fanners and wage-earners
think about it? Are they getting to*
much of anything for their dollars?
Right.
Colonel B. F. Clayton, of Indianola,
la., the president of the Farmers’ Na
tional Congress of the United States,
which has perhaps exercised a more
potent influence in securing legislation
favorable to the agricultural Interests
& the country than any other farm
ers’ organization, says: “We have had
a four years’ dose of Democratic dis
aster and desolation, and the experi
ence should be enough to preclude any
repetition of the experiment during
the next century. What the people
want for the next four years is the Mc
Kinleyism of 1888-1892, with a good
market for everything, everybody em
ployed at high wages, with spindles
running by day and the heavens light
ed up by night from the chimneys and
furnaces of factories, when the poor
man will be able to feed and clothe
his family, and when capital will And
employment.’’
