CHAPTER V.
HE installation of
the adopted stable
boy was thus hap
pily effected, and
the wheels of life
. continued to run
smoothly in the
Doctor’s house.
Jean-Marie did his
horse and carriage
duty in the mora
ine: sometimes
helped in the housework; sometimes
•walked abroad with the Doctor, to drink
wisdom from the fountain-head; and
'-was introduced at night to the sciences
«nd the dead tongues. He retained his
.singular placidity of mind and man
. ner; he was -rarely in fault; but he
made only a very partial progress in
his studies, and remained much of a
stranger in the family.
The Doctor waa a pattern of regu
larity. All forenoon he worked on his
great book, the “Comparative Pharma
copoeia, or Historical Dictionary of all
Medicines,” which as yet consisted'
principally of allp^-of paper And pins.
When finished, -*C5*Was to fill many
personable volumes and to combine an
tiquarian interest with professional
utility. But the Doctor was studious
of literary graces and the picturesque;
_ an -anecdote, a touch of manners, a
moral qualification, or a sounding epi
thet was supe,, to be preferred before
n pieco of sc tepee; a little more, and
he^ would,'have written the “Compara
tive Pharmacopoeia” in verse! The
Article VMummia,” for instance, was
already complete, tboughthe remain
der of the work had not progressed be
yond the letter A. It was exceedingly
•copious and entertaining, written >with
quaintness and color, exact, erUdits, r ae
literary article; but it would: hardly
have afforded guidance to 'a practicing
physician - of to-day. The feminine
- good sense of his wife had led her to
point this out with uncompromising
sincerity; for the Dictionary was duly
read aloud to her, betwixt sleep and
waking, as it proceeded toward an in
finitely distant completion; and the
Doctor was a little sore on the subject
of mummies, and sometimes resented
an allusion with asperity. ,
After the midday meal and a proper
period of digestion, he walked, some
times alone, sometimes accompanied
by Jean-Marie; for madam would have
preferred any hardship rather than
walk. -
She was, as I have said, a very busy
person, continually occupied about ma
terial comforts, and ready to drop
asleep over a novel tbe instant she was
disengaged. This was the les3 objec
tionable, as she never snored or grew
distempered in complexion when she
slept. On the contrary, she looked the
very picture of luxurious and appetiz
ing ease, and woke without a start to
the perfect possession of her faculties.
I am afraid she was greatly an animal,
"but she was a very nice animal to have
about. In this way she had little to
•do with. Jean-Marie; but the sympathy
which had been established between
them on the first night remained un
broken; they held occasional conver
sations, mostly on household matters;
to the extreme disappointment of the
Doctor, they occasionally sallied off to
gether to that temple of debasing su
perstition; the village church; madam
and he, both in their Sunday’s best,
drove twice a month to Fontainebleau
and returned laden with purchases;
and in short, although the Doctor still
continued to regard them as irrecon
cilably antipathetic, their relation was
ns intimate, friendly, and confidential
as tneir natures sunerea.
I fear, however, that In her heart of
hearts, madam kindly despised and
pitied the hoy. She had no admiration
for his class of virtues; she liked a
smart, polite, forward, roguish sort of
hoy, cap in hand, light of foot, meeting
the eye; she liked volubility, charm, a
little vice—the promise of a second
Doctor Desprez. And it was her inde
feasible belief that Jean-Marie was dull.
“Poor dear boy,” Bhe had said once,
“how sad it is that he should be so
stupid!” She had never repeated that
remark, for the Doctor had raged like
a wild bull, denouncing the brutal
bluntness of her mind, bemoaning his
bwn fate to be so unequally mated with
an ass, and, what touched Anastasie
more nearly, menacing the table china
by the fury of his gesticulations. But
she adhered silently to her opinion;
and when Jean-Marie was sitting,
stolid, blank, but not unhappy, over
his unfinished tasks, she would snatch
her opportunity in the Doctor’s nbsence,
go over to him, put her arms about his
neck, lay her 'cheek to his, and com
municate her sympathy with his dis
tress. ".“Do not mind,” she would say;
“I, too, am not at all clever, and I
■can assure you that it make? no dlffer
•ence in life.” * l 'r . . ’
The Doctor’s view was naturally dif-’’
ferent. That gentleman never wearied:
of the sound of his own voice, which
■was, to say the iruth, agreeable’onough
to hear. He: now had a listener, who
■was not so cynically indifferent as An
astasie, and who sometimes put. him
•on his nettle by the most relevant ob
jections. Besides, was he not educat
ing the boy? And education, philoso
phers are agreed, is the most philosoph
ical of duties. What can be more
heavenly to poor mankind than to have
■one's hobby grow Into a duty to the
State? Then, Indeed, do the ways of
life become ways of pleasantness. Nev
er had the Doctor seen reason to be
more content with his endowments.
Philosophy flowed smoothly from his
.lips. He- was - so agile • a dialectidan
that he could trace his nonsense, when
challenged, back to some root In
sense, and prove It to be a sort of flower
upon his system. He slipped out of an
timonies like a fish, and left hisdisci
ple marveling at the rabbi’s depth.
Moreover, deep down In his heart the
Doctor was disappointed with the ill
success of his more formal education.
A 'boy, chosen by so acute an observer
for his aptitude, and guided along the
path of learning by so philosophic an
Instructor, was bound, by the nature
of the universe, to make a more obvious
and lasting advance. Now Jean-Marie
was slow in all things, impenetrable in
others; and his power of forgetting
-was fully on a level with his power to
learn. Therefore the Doctor cherished
his peripatetic lectures, to which the
boy attended, which he generally ap
peared to enjoy, and by which he often
profited.
Many and many were the talks they
had together; and health and modera
tion proved the subject of the Doctor’s
divagations. To these he lovingly re
turned.
“I lead you,” he would say, "by the
green pastures. My system, my beliefs,
my medicines, are resumed in one
phrase—to avoid excess. Blessed na
ture, healthy, temperate nature, abhors
and exterminates excess. Human law,
in this matter, imitates at a great dis
tance her provisions; and we must
strive to skpplement the efforts of the
•l&w. Yes, boy*, we must be a law to
ourselves and for bur neighbors—lex
armata—armed, emphatic, tyrannous
law. If you see a crapulous human
ruin snuffing, dash him from his box!
The judge, though in a way an admis
' sion of disease, is less offensive to me
than either the doctor or the priest.
Above all the doctor—the doctor and
the purulent trash and garbage of his
pharmacopoeia! Pure air—from the
neighborhood of a pinetum for the
sake of the turpentine—unadulterated
wine, and the reflections of an unso
phisticated spirit in the presence of
the works of nature—these, my boy, are
the best medical appliances and the
best religious comforts. Devote your
self to these. Hark! there are bells of
Bourron (the wind is in the north, it
will be fair). How clear and airy is the
sound! The nerves are harmonized
and quieted; the mind attuned to si
lence; and observe how easily and reg
ularly beats the heart! Your unen
lightened doctor would see nothing in
these sensations; and yet you yourself
perceive they are a part of health.—
Did you remember your cinchona this
morning? Good. Cinchona also is a
work of nature; it is, after all, only
the bark >of a tree which we might
gather for ourselves if we live in the
locality.—What a world is this!
Though a professed atheist, I delight to
bear my testimony to the world. Look
at the gratuitous remedies and pleas
ures* that surround our path! • The river
runs by the garden end, our bath, our
fishpond, our natural system of drain
age. There is a well in the court which
sends up sparkling water from the
earth’s very heart, clean, cool, and,
with a little wine, most wholesome.
The district is notorious for salubrity;
rheumatism is the only prevalent com
plaint, and I myself have never had a
touch of it. I tell you—and my opinion
is based upon the coldest, clearest proc
esses of reason—If I, if you, desired to
leave this home of pleasures, it would
be the duty, it would be the privilege,
of our best friend to prevent us with a
pistol bullet.”
CHAPTER VI.
NE beautiful June
day they sat upon
the hill outside
the village. The
river,blue as heav
en, shone here and
there among
the foliage. The
indefat'gable birds
turned and flick
ered about Gret/.
Church tower. A
healthy wind blew from over the for
est, and the sound of innumerable thou
sands of tree-tops and innumerable mil
lions on millions of green leaves was
abroad in the air, and filled the ear with
something between whispered speech
and singing. It seemed as if every blade
of grass must hide a cigalc; and the
fields rang merrily with their music,
Jingling far and near as with the
sleigh-bells of the fairy queen. From
their station on the slope the eye em
braced a large space of poplared plain
upon the one hand, the waving hilltops
of the forest on the other, and Gretz
itself in the middle, a bhndful of roofs,
tinder the bestriding arch of the blue
heavens, the place seemed dwindled to
a toy. It seemed incredible that people
dwelt, and could find room to turn or
air to breathe, in such a corner of the
world. The thought came home to the
boy, perhaps for the first time, and he
gave it words.
“How small it looks!’’ he sighed.
“Ay,” replied the Doctor, “small
enough now. Yet it was once a walled
city; thriving, full of furred burgesses
and men'in armor, humming with af
fairs—with tall spires, for aught that
I know, and portly towers alone the
battlements. A thousand chimneys
ceased smoking at the curfew-bell.
There were gibbets at the gate aa
thick as scarecrows. In time of war,
the assault swarmed against It with
ladders, the arrows fell like leaves, the
defenders sallied hotly over the draw
bridge, each side uttered Its cry as they
plied their weapons. Do you know that
the walls extended as far as the Com
mand erie? Tradition so reports. Alas,
what a long way off Is all this confu
sion-nothing left of It but my quiet
words spoken in your ear—and the
town itself shrunk to the hamlet un
derneath us? By-and-by came the
English wars—you shall hear more of
the English, a stupid people, who some
times blundered into good—and Grets
was taken, "sacked, and burned. It Is
the history of many towns; but Grets
never rose again; It was never rebuilt;
its ruins were a quarry to serve the'
growth of rivals; and the stones of
Grets are now erect along the streets >
of Nemours. It gratifies me that our
old house was the first to rise after
the calamity; when the town had come
to an end, it inaugurated the hamlet.”
“I, too, am glad of that,” said Jean
Marie.
It should be the temple of humbler
virtues,” responded the Doctor with a
savory gusto. "Perhaps one of the rea
sons why I love my little hamlet as
I do, Is that we have a similar history,
she and I. Have I told you that I was
once rich?”
"I do not think so,” answered Jean
Marie. "I do not think I should have
forgotten. I am sorry you should have
lost your fortune."
“Sorry?” cried the Doctor. “Why, I
And I have Bcarce begun your educa
tion after all. Listen to 'he! Would
you rather live in the old Gretz or in
the new, free from the alarms of war,
with the green country at the door,
without noise, passports, the exactions
of the soldiery, or the jangle of the
curfew-bell to send us off to bed by
sundown?”
“I suppose I should prefer the new/'
replied the boy.
“Precisely,” returned the Doctor; “so
do I. And, in the same way, I prefer
my present moderate fortune to my
former wealth. Golden mediocrity!'1
cried the adorable ancients; and I sub
scribe to their enthusiasm. Have I not
good wine, good food, good air, the
flelds and the forest for my walk, a
house, an admirable wife, a boy whom
I protest I cherish like a son? Now,
if I were still rich, I should indubl
tably make my residence in Paris—you
know Paris—Paris and Paradise are
not convertible terms. This pleasant
noise of the wind streaming among
leaves changed into the grinding Babel
of the street, the stupid glare of plaster
substituted for this quiet pattern of
greens and grays, the nerves shattered,
the digestion falsified—picture the fall!
Already you perceive the consequences;
the mind is stimulated, the heart steps
to a different measure, and the man
is himself no longer. I have passion
ately studied myself—the true business
of philosophy. I know my character
as the musician knows the ventages of
his flute. Should I return to Paris, I
should ruin myself gambling; nay, I
go further—I should break the heart of
my Anastasie with infidelities.”
This was too much for Jean-Marie.
That a place should so transform the
most excellent of men transcended his
belief. Paris, he protested, was even
an agreeable place of residence. “Nor
when I lived in that city did I feel
much difference,” he pleaded.
"What!” cried the Doctor. “Did you
not steal when you were there?”
:to i»s cosrivuan.i
DUTCH JOHN*S QUEER REPORT
Ills Description of the Accident Was
Certainly Unlqnc.
After having his trunk smashed and
some of his men killed by a collision
with a wild train, says the Railroad
Telegrapher, a German section fore
man sent in the following unique report
to the division superintendent:
“Ve bemakin run mit dec thruck
und sum spikes down to Falrvell cross
in und we ask dot man vat make der
nise mit der little clicker up in der
'ouse vere der vires run in vat times
der drain cums, und he says she cums
purty soon, John, but you have time to
get der thruck down to der crossin und
as we t’inks dat he bees talkin der
druth ve makes der thruck gone purty
quick, but up der thrack cumss der
big puffer like der deffull, uud vile ve
talked about vat ve do der thruck goes
up over der head of der puffer und der
spikes und men go plunk in der ditch.
Vone of der ’Talllan men lose his two
legs und he be not sthrong enough ter
valk ve put ’lm in mit der luggage in
der car vere he dies sune. Mike Doole
go up mit de air und comes not down
yet, und ve not And him easy, but dere
bees noding for him to hit up dere ve
dinks he cums down purty sune all
right. Der growbars und nine shovels
cum down so ve vaits here till Mike
Doole cums down too. Yours, John
Schneider.”
Carry Toilet Cases.
Women who ride the bicycle in Eng
land sally forth in the summer time up
on their longer excursions equipped for
the fray with the sun. They do not
carry parasols, but they carry complete
toilet cases, in which there is a variety
of powders and other things that are
calculated to preserve the complexion.
A tiny brush, a eomb that soothes when
it caresses, a puff, a tooth-brush, a
manicure set, a little mirror, in fact,
nearly every feminine appliance, on a
diminutive scale, has its place.
A Doubtful £va«ion<
Old Gent—Walter, I have found a
hair, in my ice cream. Waiter—Im
possible, sir; that ice cream was made
with the best shaved ice.—New York
World. ,
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GOODS POURING IN.
&■ y ■ * ■ w—t°** i/, y' ^ t y, -
THE WILSON TARIFF LAST
DAYS OF SERVICE.' ’ * ‘
■wilk Good* to Supply the Trade for
a Tear—American*. lluVrver. Mead
Mot Purchase foreign Unde Good*—
Good tor farmer*.
If anybody Is in doubt as to the ac
curacy of the reesnt statement of
Chairman Dlhgley that a year’s supply
of foreign goods will probably be in
the warehouses of the country by the
time the new tariff bill can get upon
the statute books, let him examine the
following figures Showing the customs 1
receipts since the election of McKin
ley and a protective congress. They
are as follows: November, 1896, $9,
930,385; December,. $10,779,412; Janu
ary, 1897, $11,276,874; February, $tl,- ■
587.260; March, $22,833,856; April, $24,
454,351. When it, is remembered that
these figures relate only to the duti
able goods and that there has been an
especial rushing in of non-duttable
goods likely to be transferred to the
dutiable list, it will be seen that the
flood of Importations now passing
through the customs house of the
country is something enormous. For
eign manufacturers and Importers con
tinue to rush their goods into the coun
try in the face of the retrospective
clause of the Dlngley bill. The cus
toms receipts in April were $24,454,351,
or two and a half times as much as
those in the month in which McKin
ley and the protective congress were
elected. This gives something of an
Idea of the enormous quantity of for
eign goods being brought Into the
country. When It is remembered
that these figures relate only to the
dutiable goods and that all non-dutl
able goods likely to go on the dutiable
list under the new tariff are also be
ing rushed In and In still greater num
bers, the disadvantages under which
the manufacturers of the country are
now attempting to operate and must
operate for many months, will be real
ized. Importations of foreign wools
: continue at every port of entry and
from every wool producing country.
In April Philadelphia received over
eight million pounds in four'weeks,
New York over twenty-four million
and Boston apparently over sixty-five
million. People who. criticize the pro
position to place a duty' 'on ! hid&f
brought Into the country' will perhaps
be interested in the fact t%t the. value
of hides imported since 1890 Is tn ex
cess of the importations of wool upon :■
which the vast majority of the
peoplo of this country ' "agree
that there should be a' duty.
The Importation of hides from 1890 to
1896 inclusive, amounted in value to
$176,723,107 while the value of the wool
imported in that time was $138,362,
844.
.4f .. The Tariff .
The tariff bill has been completed so
far as relates to the senate finance
committee and is now ready for con
sideration by the senate. How long
it will be before that body cannot of
course be foretold, but the outlook for
a reasonable degree of speed in its
consideration appears to be good, and
there is good reason to believe that
it will be upon the statute books by the
end of the fiscal year. Members of
both parties ore recognising the fact,
that nothing so disturbs the business
conditions of the country, both among
the manufacturers and qthers as the
pendency of a tariff measure of any
sort, because of the fact that business
contracts and undertakings cannot be
entered upon without definite knowl
edge as to what the prices of import
ed articles or the rates of duty will be.
These facts are leading men irrespec
tive of party to a desire for prompt
action since they know that a busi
ness revival cannot be expected by
anybody until the tariff can be put
Into operation and the Immense stock
of foreign goods now coming into the
country disposed of and the market
opened to our own manufacturers.
The Farmer and the Senate.
The farmer ta likely to be well taken
care of by that dignified body, the Unit
ed States .senate. The tariff bill, re
ported from the finance committee of
that body, has added a duty of 1%
cents per pound on hides, increased the
rate on wool of the third class, and
cut out the clause in the house bill
which exempted Hawaiian sugar from
duties, thus reducing that competition
with beet. sugar. The duty put on
hides, tea and other articles which
were formerly on the free list will im
prove the opportunities for advanta
geous reciprccity treaties for which
the senate will provide, and which will
greatly benefit the farmer. It Is be
lieved the house rates on wools of the
first and second class will be restored
by the senate or cOnferecca committee.
Cheering Hears far Fnrmoei.
The Department of Agriculture is re
ceiving very gratifying reports from
the farming community. The contin
uation of higher prices for wheat, the
unusual foreign demand for corn and
the activity among farmers lit prepar
ing to make an earnest experiment in
the production of sugar beets, combine
to make the conditions among that
class of population unusually healthful
and encouraging. “Dollar wheat,” for
which farmers had scarcely'dared to
hope, was coincident with the incom
ing of McKinley, while the extraordi
nary demand for their corn adds to
their general encouragement. Coupled
with this comes the activity and inter
est felt in the experiments which are
to be made in all parts of the country
in the production of our own sugar,
and it is apparent that the farming
community is not only feeling the re
turn of prosperity, but is occupying its
mind with cheerful thoughts and proa*
peers rather than the gloomy ones
which were a constant feature of the
tour years of the Cleveland administra
tion. t i,- W.w ■'.,■■■ ¥ » ■'
Japan'* Monetary Action.
The Japanese commission which has
Studied the conditions In Japan for the
past eighteen months as atTectcil by
the silver standard has fdtnd that the
average cost of eleven leading articles
necessary to life in Japan has Increased
In the period between 1873 and 1894 no
less than 62 per cent; while the wageir’
in the country have increased but 38
per cent. In view of these conditions
the commission recommended the
abandonment of the silver standard,'
which recommendation was promptly
and favorably acted upon' by the gov
ernment. “Mtso” is the name of an ar
ticle of food largely uaed In Japan. It
Is entirely of native production and
therefore not subject to the increased
cost through depredation of silver cur
rency which foreign articles of food
tvould suffer, yet the Japanese commis
sion which has been studying the sli
ver question in Japan for eighteen
months past, found that miso had In
creased 89 per cent In cost from 1873 to
1893, while the wages of the laboring
people who use it had increased only
33 per cent,,thus showing that they
were the greatest sufferers under the
depredated currency.
O. H. WILLIAMS.
No Pledge* Wore Hade.
In his stirring address before the
Harlem Republican Club last night
Senator Foraker sharply reminded the
gold Democrats that the Republicans
made no pledge in the last campaign
to surrender their principles, and that
these principles would be resolutely
maintained by the McKinley adminis
tration. Not only was no such pledge,
either expressed or implied, made at
that time, but everywhere the doctrine
of protection was zealously preached by
Republicans, and nowhere more em
phatically and repeatedly than from the
porch of the McKinley homestead in
Canton.
Gold Dmocrats understand this fully.
During last summer and fall they were
so fully aware of It that their organ*
loudly complained that Major'McKin
ley "talked tariff too much,” although'
those organs were advocating General
Palmer for the Presidency. The truth
Is that hundred* of thousands' pf Dem
ocrats’cast their ballots for Major Mc
KlnWy, rtot^only in spite of his well
known' '• 'protection principles, but ■ on
account df them. They stood in as
much fear'*ef cotitMttattqn of a free
(trade tariff as in' that of an Inaugura
tion- offree MHvfer*cbihage. ' it was in'
order to cftcape r!bOth Svlls tfifct' they1
voted for the Canton statesman,—Com
mercial Advertiser. *’ " ' *
* •, . • htmxJHI* « .V*U
' , i i '
How Can Wo Kxpaot Prosperity Vet?
The pledges of a speedy return 'to'1
good times to glibly made by- the spell
binders were repeatedly deprecated by
the conservative, sober-minded element
in the Republican party. It was well
known that many of these promises
were ridiculously extravagant. They
never had any warrant in any of the
utterances of Major McKinley in hie
"front porch” campaign.
The Republican nominee declared
that we could not hope for a return of
the prosperity of 1892 until we had en
acted legislation that would provide
adequate encouragement to, American
industry, and that would yield enough
revenue to prevent the recurrence of
the treasury deficits. He repeated over
and over again the admonition that ,
we must not expect good times until
the government was put upon a paying
basis. He emphasied this as a prerequi
site to the restoration of that business
confidence which was destroyed by fall
ing revenues and the constant raid on
the gold reserve.
The government has not yet been
placed upon a paying basis. Prosperity
will not come until the new tariff meas
ure has been upon the federal statute
books long enough to inaugurate a re
vival of languishing industries and long
enough to turn a bountiful tide of rev
enue into the government treasury.—
Akron Journal.
Fixing; the Rexponilbltltjr.
It Is announced that the Democrats
and some of the Populists In the Sen
ate propose to delay the enactment of
a tariff bill as long as possible. Doubt
less they will do so because they think
that such a proceeding Is good politics.
They are laboring to create the Impres
sion that business is not Improving un
der the present administration. In so
doing they assume that the people are
so Ignorant that they will attribute
what they may regard as a continua
tion of business depiesslon to the Re
publican administration without any
change in the tariff and other revenue
laws. The Republican victory put an
end to the uncertainty regarding the
money question. As the result mon
ey has been cheap for those who can
furnish good security, and thousands
of industries have started giving
larger employment to labor. This is
true of the iron industry in all Its
branches. But the same tariff exists
now that caused the business depres
sion under the last administration. In
dustries employing thousands of peo
ple prior to the election of 1S92 cannot
be started up because it is Impossible
for them to regain and hold the Ameri
can market. During the past few weeks
the bonded warehouses have , been
crowded . with foreign-made goods,
which come into competition with
those made in^thls country. So long
as th)s cbpdHlqn exists the full return
.of prosperity.cannot be expected.
If the Republicans in the Senate can
have their way a tariff bill will become
a law early in July which, will afford
ample rev4nud and a reasonable pro
tection to American industries, giving
many thousand people the opportunity
to.earn,trace* who are.note Idle. *»
by Obstructive Uctlc* In the Sonata,
the Democrat* olid their allle*. prowl ■
,the passage ot such a bill they trill bo -i :
responsible tor. a continuation of. the •;
Industrial depression which, began
when It became certain that tlte pro*:* (
tectlve policy would bp oyerthrowulf € *
which h»a continued With more or tear
severity since, and, win continue until
a better law siiall taHe its' place.—
dlanapolls Journal. ■
»"'u> ;..«*?»-T—*i~. a t i‘fni fif.l,
t Should Coma with tit/ ^
;■ 1M&‘ ,'ihe ‘; Chicago. raid: >
There is much, talk at tbe present, mo
ment about the future.of the, gbjjrd dor
mocracy and what: action- should ,hero
after be taken by those who.last year ].:M
rejected the Chicago platform becauao
of its falseness to the principles of Jef- ; ,
farson. The question In the air 1st ?
what are right-thinking and patriotic
democrats tp do who last November
joined with their lifelong political hut
honorable foes In saving the nation
from national bankruptcy and dlshon
or? Undoubtedly many democrats aro
perplexed and hesitating, but reflection
must show that but i one course Is open
to them. As long as the Chicago plat*
form exists as a menace to the good ‘?v
order of society and to the national
integrity, and as long, as the framers
of that platform defiantly stand upon
It and Insist on carrying out Its prtncl- ■
pies, so long must every patriot rang* vl
himself to withstand and overthrow it.
In other Words, while the conditions ' ‘
of 1896 continue the duties of 1896 eon- ?
tinue. : • • \ • 1
SO minking and believing, the gold
democrats last fall rallied to the anjK
port of the republican party, as ths
liberal unionists in England rallied ni
an equally momentous time to the sup
port of the conservative party. That
alliance in England still continues and
will continue until the question lit
which it originated Is finally settled.
So with us.- The alliance between ths'
gold democracy and the republican par
ty should be maintained until the con- ;:
junct forces of populism and silver!am
are utterly overthrown. It to needless
to say that the leaders of Bryantont
and Altgeldlam have not yet lost their .
courage, still look, upon their defeat
as transient, and exultantly proclaim'
their expectation of winning in the
contest of 1898 or 1900. While this at
titude to maintained there cpn be but
one choice for sound money men.. it -is .
not too early to speak of these .things,
for the elections of 1898 will soon :bs>r
here and upon their , result the future- '•
may depend. In the event of the prest-'
dential election of 1900 being -throwa
Into the house of representatives, as
were those of 1800 and 1884, the con- :
press elected in 1898 will elect the prm-',
idebt; and a: majority of states decides
the election
. where, ttjp.sfgt grant
battle Will be. fought, la the elections,
for. congress next year.: The import
ance, . therefore, of .carrying a major-'’
lty of- the states for sound money can
not well be exaggerated.
■:it riUHtS
9S* ClevelanS's . Mistakes. '
It was In 1893 that Mr. Cleveland*,
then President, called ft special 'sesnion
of Congress to repeal the Sherman sil
ver act, after he bad won his homina
tion and election upon the tariff ques
tion. He then aeeerted that the Sherr
man silver act was the cause of the
financial ilia that had then overtaken
the country. The Republicans in Con
gress, while not agreeing with that di
agnosis of the case, assisted In the re
peal, in fact made It possible. Yet the
repeal of the Sherman silver net did
not restore confidence or put the busi
ness of the country on a prosperity
footing. The sword of free trade still
hung over the country, and though the
sword when R finally fell was found to
be badly nicked with party perfidy and
dishonor, still the fear of several
months that a keen-edged sword was
to drop upon the industries of Amerl
esvfead served Its purpose. The pro
phecy that the repeal of the 8hermaa
silver act would restore prosperity
done at the dictation of Grover Cleve
land and by means of patronage shame
lessly wielded by him—did not corns
true. This fact gave the free silver
cause a tremendous boost all over tha
country, and made it even possible In
1896 to obtain votea for a free stiver
candidate in every one of the Eastern
states.
Cleveland and the Democrat!.
"The ex-President remains Arm In
the conviction that the currency ques
tion ie one of overshadowing interest
and importance, and he proposes to ral
ly his friends in the support of sound
money principles.” says the Philadel
phia Ledger In discussing Cleveland’s
address to the incense burners In the
Reform Club.
But Cleveland did not tell ns what in
the matter with the currency. Nor can
we get any clear Idea of the trouble
from any of the other quacks.—Com
mercial Advertiser.
if all the cranks in the universe were
to give their undivided attention to
thp “currency question” for % twelve
month they could not help either the
workingmen or the nation. There can
be no prosperity until we have a new
tariff. That is the great and overshad
owing question just now. .
'MT
Mora Terrible.
She (reading the newspaper)—lent
this terrible! Five hundred miHm
birds were slaughtered last year , to
furnish feathers for women’s hats.
He-^-Yea—Yes; most of them were Ip ,
front of me at the theater last night- V*
—New York World.
«»»
Not Entirely Palnleer*
Dentist—Did you give that ,<
laughing gas? Assistant—Yes. Den
tist—How long did the effect last? As
sistant—Until he looked at the hDL-%
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