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THE "POPULAR" FAD.
The "popular dea in the que-
lion of the choice of public officials
,eeems to be attending among the
people. A few year ago it began
to be prominently a JgKi'Hted in the
matter of the choice of United
States senators, and now .t is be-
ginning to assert itself in the
tion of the election of presidents.
When it really extends itself to
these office-holders, if it ever dot.
and they are chosen by the direct
vote of the people, us governors '
and members of the house of rep-'
resentatives are now, we shall luur i
of it perhaps in connection with
members of the cabinet, lit course,
an amendment to tht- constitution
would have to be brought about
r ii. . i II l l
oeiore cue lauer cnunge luiuu uc
affected, as the cabinet officers, as
such, are not directly recognized in
that instrument. Hut tne difficulty
would not be much greater in this
case than in the others, for an al
teration in the constitution would
tip tiecesnnrv before nenntora and
presicents could be chosen on the
proposed plan. However, diffi
culties encourage rather than deter
this class of reformers. The advo
cates of a change ia the methods of
choosing senators will keep right
on in their eudeavort, and they will
probably succeed some time, but
that time will not be this year, and
is not likely to come within half a
dozen years.
Just now the "popular" notion is
showing considerable vitality in
many localities. There is a strong
desire to bring the senate ami the
president "nearer the people." The
impression is felt that somehow or
other the change would secure an
abler or better class of officials and
the people would have greater free
dom of choice. Wealth, under the
proposed conditions, would count
for less than it does now and merit
would have a "greater chance of
being recognized. The fact would
remain, however, that presidents
vVould have to be nominated in the
usual way, and the ncope of choice
would be restricted to two cundi-
l dates, the regular republican and
f the regular democratic, as now.
(Wealth has never ha i the slightest
influence in a presidential nomi
nating convention. Washington
itrnu tlir .f-i!lir vi'll tliritl M'lin
, WlllJT ,C.IIJ' v. lit... ...,w
ever went to the presidency, and his
money did not get him that office
Moreover, the popular-vote plan
would expose the choice of presi
dent to drawbacks and frauds tin
known under the present system
The result would uot be definitely
known until the popular vote in
nearly all the states was fully
ijjjounted, and this would be a week
or two after the election, while
there would be a powerful tempta
tion on the part of the machine in
acl), state to swell the vote of its
party by unjust means ana to lion.
back the figures until the result in
other states was revealed. Nor, so
far as regards senators, is there
much chance of real improvement
in the proposed change. It would
be fully as easy to bribe a nomi
nating convention as a legislature.
Moreover, governors, who are nomi.
nated in conventions, are, oh the
whole, below rather than above the
senators in ability, efficiency and
worth. Globe-Democrat.
A TAX IS A TAX.
Democrat "The tariff is a tax."
Republican "Of course it is."
Democrat (surprised) "I thought
you fellows say it isn't."
Republican "Oh, no; we don't."
Demoerat "But I say you do.
u are always arguing that it is
no tax."
Republican "That's where you
are off. It is a tax, but a tax on the
efforts of every man iu your party
to show wherein it is not the salva
tion of American industries, and
you have never been able to pay
tla tax yet. See?"
aKcalifornia view of bland.
Vo matter what may be the
future o i the metal, the owner of
silver, if Mr. Bland is to have his
i way, is to keep on prospering. It
1 it should go down to 30d the ounce,
or to . cents on the dollar, the
Vy ky speculator is to get 1(X) cents'
wiiTthof anything he wants for it.
K The farmer is to give him 100 cents'
1 worth of wheat for his ."0 cents.
ilie clothier is to sell him cloth
I Artli HHi, cents a vara tor ins ,u
fc7.i4: The modem ! :mil l:ilinror
In In" content with half llieir
,(f f, (finer wages. There is no prob (
ability that this bill will be passed.
It is not certain that a majority can
be found for it in the democratic'
house. There is no reason to sup
pose that, if it is passed in the
house, it will be accepted by the
n senate or meci wim miij i.iwr ui
V'Vie hands of the president.
. ' Mr. Bland, in what lie now pro
i poses to do, is simply going
th'mgh the motions of financier
fffy lie is merely holding up to
y lllC view n mnniiic iai,iuiri:,
s i fiie.li he no doubt considers must
if very taking. Hut he probably
Y ferrate the general intclligen.ee
f which he is appealing. Perhaps
flu his own Missouri very fanciful
notions may be found on the eub-
. ct al)0Ut whkh he proposC9 to
,ejjirtate. put lhe chancc8 nre that
he wiU fiU, it very dimcult to make
thp poop,e o( thid tolultry brlieve
Umt ,iu.ir larpiliess and prosper-
.y cnn rrHllloteil by endowing
the culMoTi) with a ,arKe
qiie8-.ehare of thtir 6llbstance. 1Uund
. -iibliiiiitv of bis
faith r of pomt.lnillK elHe by
1:,UIlchIll;r his lIuil,uc experiment
oncc nmTei n, U)e ycry time W,UM1
Mycr hM MWn Q .lt )owef
1han ,uiatvtr reached pince it
b tQ l)p ujwd fl8 y.
Franci8C0 i,uiU.lin.
IN the city elections just held in
Iowa the republicans made very
large gains. Kven the democratic
stronghold of Council Bluffs went
republican by nearly 300 majority.
England want9 to back down on
the Hehring sea question and
wants to make a new treaty which
will allow her to control the seal
fishery, but the administration will
stand up for American rights.
MR. WILLIAMS' QUERY-
Mr. Williams, of Illinois, appears
to have had a gleam of sense during
the examination of Mr. Leech (by
Mr. Hlatid'o committee, but whether
it will do him any good or not is
doubtful, lie put this fetching
question to the witness:
"If the value of the treasury notes
depends on the confidence of the
people that they will be redeemed
by the nation in gold, why not
is-ue more greenbacks, instead of
buying silver':"
Mr. Leech must have known that
this interrogatory carried the
whole philosophy of the silver
question, lie must have known,
too, that Mr. Williams put it to him
as an economical, and not as a
legal, question. Yet he chose to
answer it as though it were put to
him in the latter aspect only. So
he said, merely, "We buy silver
under a law of congress." Hut Mr.
Williams was not entirely satisfied
with this. So he asked: "Why
would not paper money be just as
good?" And again Mr. Leech
avoided the point of the inquiry
by replying that "the absorption ot
this large amount of silver by the
government has a tendency to
steady the price of silver." As this
was not responsive to the inquiry
of the member from Illinois, we
will supplement Mr. Leech's
answer by saying: O wise Mr.
Williams, paper money would be
just na good, in fact better, since
the national resources would not,
in that case, be squandered in buy
": something whicli the nation
s not want and cannot use.
i;-.i:ied the major promise that
i'; pa-'er outstanding based on
finer is to be redeemed in gold,
then is the silver itself useless, for
if it were not bought by govern
ment, it would enter into our com
merce and balance of trade, 'ike
wheat and corn and cotton."
THE WEST AND FREE SILVER.
Now that some of the timid re
publicans of the east are talking
about the necessity, or imagined
necessity, of making some "ton
cessions to the silver element of
the west," a little plain talk on this
subject from representative west
ern republican papers is in order.
In the first place, the extent and
poteucy of the silver sentiment of
the west are ludicrously overesti
mated by some of the eastern pa
pers, aud in lhe second place, those
journals, and presumably their
readers, are also widely astrayed as
to the feeling even in the silver
producing states regarding the
urgency of silver legislation at this
time. The republicans of the west,
as a whole, are opposed to free coin
age. A few congressmen from
this section are in favor of it, and in
silver conferences other republi
cans of some local influence advo
cate the claims of the white metal.
Out of Colorado, Montana and
Nevada, however, this doctrine
finds no favor iu the party, and
even in those states the leading pa
pers are advising their represen
tatives in congress to display no
undue haste in pressing this mat
ter. There i a disposition on the
part of many of the conspicuous
silver men to do nothing at present
which would hamper the party in
the national comas.-. The crusade
in congress iu favor of free coinage
is altogether democratic. Il has no
hope of success iu the senate un
less a lill with that object in view
is sent up from the house, aud the
chances are that even then the sen
ate would vote it down.
The east's misapprehension in
this matter is due to the fact that
only western republicans who are
doing any talking on free silver are
the friends of that scheme. These
are few. but their clamor and per
sistency serve to conceal their lack
in numbers. They represent only
a small element of the community.
There is no pronounced or urgent
demand for further favors to the
white metal among the masses of
western republicans. If this1
scheme were submitted to the pop
ular vote of the republicans resid
ing west of the Allegahenies, or
even west of the Mississippi, it
would be overwhelmingly defeated.
Sherman, Allison, Cullom, Davis,
Washburn and nearly all the rest
of the well known republican sen
ators from the west, except Wolcott
and Teller, oi Colorado, and Stew
art and Jones, of Nevada, are strong
ly opposed to free coinage, and in
the house the preponderance
against this policy among the re
publicans of this section iH fully
as great. The western republicans
are not asking for any "Concessions"
from the eastern end of the party on
the silver question. Strong and de
cided ground against the openiug
of the mints to silver must be taken
by tne national convention. 1 here
must be truckling or cringing to
the miners and speculators. The
clumsy, tricky and dishonest utter
ances of the platform of 1888 on
silver can not be repeated safely
this year. Western republicans
will stand no such shuffling, hypoc
risy and falsification iu 18W. Globe
Democrat.
FREE TRADERS TAKING THEIR
OWN MEDICINE.
The Journal of Logansport, I ml.,
prints a statement on the authority
of Judge Baldwin of that state, who
is now traveling abroad, that farm
labor in Kirypt commands ten
cents a day and that mechanic re
ceive fifteen cents a day. In iewo
the fact that Egyptian labor i:
largelv engi-ged in the pro I nciion
of cotton anil that the product i
being shipped to the I' nite I Siale
iu rapidly iuereasing quantities il
would be interesting to know
whether Judge Baldwin, who is
something of n "revenue reformer,"
believes this to be a cist' where the
doctrine of free trade should apply.
At any rate the cotton planters of
the south do not. The most radical
free trailers among them are be
ginning to ask whether a tariff on
cotton would not be a good thing, j
That they are getting thoroughly
sick of their own medicine is pretty
well shown by the following state
ment of the Charleston .News ami
Courier:
"Forty thousand bales of Egyp
tian cotton were imported to this
country last year, and millions of
bushels of cheap Chinese rice.
And if you Yankee farmers have a
tariff on Canadian wheat and
against Cuban tobacco, why may
not our farmers have a tariff
against pauper rice and cotton?"
From the time the tariff policy
was inaugurated the cotton
planters of the south have struggled
for free trade, but they find now
that in respect to their chief
product they are having entirely
too much of it. But as they vote
against aud oppose protection they
can hardly expect the people of
the north to force it on them. The
The republican party, always
national and not sectional in its
aims and policies, has been willing
to extend protection to southern
productions, as is evidenced by
the duties so long maintained for
the benefit of the rice growers of
Louisiana and South Carolina, the
sugar planters of Louisiann and
the fruit growers of Florida. In the
face of all this there conies from
the south n persistent, relentless
assault on the protective system
an unceasing war on the labor and
industries of the north. It would
seem that the republican party
ought to be released by this time
from any obligation to defend the
industries of the south from the
free trade agitation so persistently
fomented in that section.
If the free traders of the cotton
states can not be reached by reason
or argument on behalf of protec
tion, they can be left to learn what
they can from the practical applica
tion of the free trade doctrine to
their own products. Experience
keeps a gooil school, although a
dear one. That the southern tree
traders are getting some pretty ef
fective schooling is further shown
by the following from the Charles
ton News aud Courier:
"l-"ort -nine hundred bales of
Egyptian cotton were received at
New York on Thursday It is said
that 'it is considered superior to
Amerii an i otioii and will ini with
it.' We Know nothing as to the
quality o the imported staple, bid
n is sale in inai u is in no
respect 'superior' to A mcricaii cut
ion. it is also lrue that the impor
tation of 4,tHi bales of pauper cot
ton from the banks of the Nib
means that the producers of the
south are deprived by the discrimi
nation of our tariff laws of a home
market for 4.tK) bales of home
grown cotton. Congressman Elliot
will not lose sight of Saturday's
receipts of foreign cotton, and will
make the point when congress re-
assembles that if it is the policy of
the government to protect the
tobacco prowers f Connecticut, it
should likewise be the policy of th
government to protect the cotton
growers of South Carolina. He
will never have a better time to
press the campaign of education
than the preseut.
Johnny's father is a democrat,
but Johnny is beginning to have an
occasional doubt. On the twenty
second the lad became inquisitive.
"Pop." he asked, "was George
Washington n democrat?"
"He was, my son." replied the
father, without a blush,
The boy retlected for a full min
ute.
"Well," he said at last, "I don't
see just how that can be, Pop. He
never told a lie, did he?"
THAT eminent democratic states
man, ex-Governor Curtin, of Penn
sylvama, has this to say about
President Harrison's administra
tion:
"Since Secretary of State, James
G. Blaine, has so positively de
clined the preferred honor, I see no
way for your party but to renoml
nate President Harrison. And why
notf llasn t he given you a most
eminently clean administration?
Hasn't he had less political and
administrative scaudals than any
administration for years? He is
thoroughly clean man: a descend
ent of the purest of pure ancestry
and one in whom no one can fim
the least taint, whether personal,
political, or official."
Watson, of Georgia, waxed elo
quent in t M' house and warmed the
hearts ol the ex-Confederates w hen
he spoKe of '-the one-armed and one
legged veteran who upheld the
honor ol our Hag," alluding, of
cour.-c, to the democratic banner
f stars and bars. Watson and bis
sympathizers ought to know that
there is only one Hag which is to
c upheld and have its honor sus
tained in this country. It is an
abuse of language to talk about
anv citizen of the I'nited States up
holding the honor of any flag ex
cept that of the nation. American
citizens who arc not for the Hag of
Umted States are against it. The
doctrine established in this coun
try, and which will endure while
the nation survives, is the first al
legiance of every man born or
naturalized in this country is to
the stars and stripes, and he can
fight lor the honor of another Hag
in this country only by making
himself a traitor.
WAVEKLAXD.
TALE OF OUR COWING LANDLORDS.
BT IAKAI1 MARIE HIUGUAU.
CopyriijlMd, 138.
"1 hiuk of what a pleasure It wss to w&lt
on hiin, or to scold him If ha did not mind
inw," slie uuswerud Riiily.
One evening Stella cume to me and
poMhiug herself on my knee, said:
"I want you to promise eternal secrecyl"
"What order of secret society are you go
ln to Introduce now?" I oxketl, tuklug
bar hand In mine. "What Is your grip
and puudword!1''
"Ok, now, do be sober If you can," she
wkid, a shade of vextttion crotwing her full
brow.
"There, smooth out thoso wrinkles, pet,
and I will promise anything you wish.
Kven to the half of my kingdom," I said.
"Annie cnuie to my room to-day, and
nestling In my arms she told mo thut she
one thought she loved you! When you
left her to K' to America anil never told
her of your love, she thought she was
broken-hearted. She said that your moth
er and she had often talked about the fut
ure and that she had always thought she
was to lie your wife. Bhe told how she
lost her appetite, and would not read any
thing but love sick stories until she fan
cied that she was dying. She even went
so far as to write you a letter telling you
the cause of her death.
"Hut when you cams home and told her
that you were soon to lie married, she was
ashamed of herself, stopped reading love
stories ami took hur usual exercise on
horne-back and Boon was her own self
again, glad that yon were going to marry
me, and commenced planning what happy
limes we would have together again. Now
she says she knows that she never loved
you: that she would have been your slave
ready to do your slightest bidding with
never a thought of her own fear of ofleud
Ing you.
"She buys that now hhe knows what It is
to love ami yet feel that she ha an indi
vidual existence. Not like llminith Jane,
to la- obliterated through her love, but lobe
slrctigthein' l and made more self-rt liant.
"Then hhe looked up In my face arid
aked if tlui was the way 1 f "It toward
yi. I told her that it was and that It was
always the filing where true hearts were
united in close companionship. I tuld her
1 l.i ljci d true love nnule ea li feel eijual
to the ii her. No servile fear of Iwiric; re
proved of Imvini; thoughts iind ihes of
Your own. or tear of cxiiressmi: 1 1 e:u. 1
taiuK iiio.m in ner sorrow nunc rroni nn
proper reading "
"I do no! doubt il." I said. "I think
great many of ths evils of life come from
improper reading. Itgiresbail impulses.
How careful parents and teachers should
bo in the books placed before the young."
''My father used to say: 'let me choose
the books for a rhild to rend or study, un
til he is fifteen, theu you may do what you
will with the child after thai and he will
not change,' " said Stella.
"Yes, we need food for the mind as well
as for the body. There Is a life within
that is of more value than the outer frame
we call the body. The living, thinkluic
part Is eternal and the culture that we
give to It is never lost:" I said.
"1 have seen so many families where
there seemed no thought of anything but
dress and food, The spiritual life wss
dwarfed and pinched. They go throngh
Our entire
BOOTS and SHOES
Ladies Glove grain butt fl.'JT) shoe
reduces to 84 cents.
Ladiys plain rubbers formerly 3Tc
now i!5c.
Ladies Dongola butt $1.50 shoe $1.20
Sadies good Dongola butt $2 00 shoe
torM.Ui.
Ladies best Dongola butt $2.00 shoe
lor n.w.
Ladies fine Dongola butt $;),00 shoe
-.4U.
Ladies extra fine Domrola hand
We also have a great many other bargains that we have not space
to mention in Bovs. Misses, and Childrena hIw.hu v ;i....,i ..:.'. 4
... . ... - . ...... . . . v iii,viiu kuiiik ,u
Texas and will sell them at a great sacrifice.
LOST
From
22 years
matism of the hip. I
St. Jacobs Oil.
O "AH RIGHTl ST.
lite witnoui mutual love or sympniny.
Junt a hare existence together with anient
gulf of Iiojm's aud fears hid deep williiu
their hearts," said Stella with a thought
ful look in her clear brown eyes
"Our deepest, holiest, purest thoughts
are often hid beneath au indilTerent man
ner. We dure not. utter the longings of
our hearts for fear of being misunderstood,
or giving olTenre, Shall it bo so with us,
my darling' Shall we drill apart or shall
we keep near together and know thesweet
content mid happiness thai comes with
mutual love I would know your every
hope and share It, and your every trial to
help you bear It. We rememlior tho past
wi.h pleasure only because wo were to
gether. Will the companionship of years
bring milled pleasures ns they pass, and
Uud us still happy In each other's love!"
' I lniMi they may come laden with Joy
ous ri'i ollectiou of well sja-nt time," suld
my wife.
Ill APT Kit XXVII. TltR tiNTOW AltD EVENT.
After weeks of close confinement the
Colonel was with us again. I believe he
was sorry when the surgeon declared him
convalescent. He had enjoyed the society
of his new found friend In those days of
close companionship, more than hn had
realized until they were past. Or as Shaks
pejire says:
"For it ho falls out, that what we have
we prize not to the worth, whllu wo enjoy
it."
One day after he had so far recovered
that he could ride aliout, there was a grand
Jubllue. The nationalists, under tho lead
ership of Parnell, had won a great victory
throughout Ireland. The time had come
now for rejoicing. The committee on pro
gramme bad derided that as our county
had given such a handsome majority for
Ird Waverland, that we would have a
grand Jubilee with Mr. Paruell as speaker.
Our county had been the stronghold of
clannish lnsulsirdinntion. The great leader
himself had at llrst been hissed and Insult
ed. Now It would tend to cement the
union of heart and voices by having a day
of general rejoicing.
At an early hour delegations began pour
ing In from all directions, to the great
m'.n space in the park that had la-en pre
pared with seats and a stand for the speak
ers near the beautiful lake Klllarney.
From every town and village for miles
around the peoplo came on horseback, In
carriages and on foot.
It seemed lus though nearly the whole of
the province of Connaught had turned out.
Men, women and children, had gathered
to hear and see the greatest hero of his
age, Charles Stuart I'aruell. The man
who had taught them to "hold the hurv
vest," In times of famine; and to "stanu
together" for their rights when casting
their ballots. He represented to thorn
liberty and plenty. It was a concourse of
thinking, throbbing humanity, with bad
ges and banners, uniting to celebrate the
most wonderful victory of the nineteenth
century. A victory of the ignorant popu
lace over their prejudices. Tho one man
had made them lose sight of their personal
wrongs fur the good of Ireland. Kiwlilerns
of every device and of every trade and oc
cupation were to be seen in the v.'eO pro
cession, while through uud over all Moated
the golden harp of Ireland united with the
stars and stripes of. America.
The pinees-don marched up in order -fore
the siinnl. The band Willi its i-oul-siiiTimt
power' swayed nil heart by pl.i.v
ing "Iind Nive Ireliin I!'' Then came a
g!"UP of little ;tivU die -'-ed ill w Idle, to re
present !'n hUioricnl ei'lit e.wti v.;h
mi appropriate hfif!:;i to indicate the dis
trict she represented. When Mr. Harm 11
came upon I lie s'.nnl this group of little
girls marched in a double ein 1" around 'he
stage, each ihrowing it hniio.net of dowers
and evergreens at his feel us they pa.-sed
him. It was u most beautiful sight; child
ish trust and love was written on each
face, i'aruell seemed oernome, and for a
moment remaitimf silent nftr the children
had passed. Then deafening cheers for a
time made the air echo and re-echo with
the earnest voices of an enthusiastic peo
pie. When the chairman of the committee
introduced Mr. 1'arnell he marie a slight
lsiw of acknowledgement, and said:
"My friends, I thank you for the em
blems of renewed hope your little ones
have given me. This little token," he
said, picking up one of the bompiets si his
feet, "is like a message of hope lo my
hesrt. It comes at s lime when we have s
( Vr. i ',V,"LV W VN 'V :-"" the fiUANllTIUTIIS.tlio Plain Fuels, (ho
..' --5.:rv.:V.',r' 1 1,'- rite I t our wot rlul mile l..u, (,i
Ii-' ' ' . a -i nr..y i in i Ml.s lisn." To
SB B3IB
stock of
ft .(H) shoe, now 1.25.
Mens bull bals and congress $1.50
shoe, reduced to $l.u).
Mens li calf bals aud cong $2.1)0 now
$1.00.
Mens gool calf bals and cong. $2.50
shoe $2.10.
Mens best calf bals and cong. $3.C0
shoe $2.50
Mens dress gondola congress $11.50
shoe $1,00.
Mens best solid $100 boot, $2.0
cz: co.
TIBXE2.
Newton, III.
1863 to 1885 about
I suffered with rheu
was cured by the use of
T. C. DODD.
JACOBS OIL DID IT." e
1111T etirni'Hliinn wftkll mnll ,mn
1 iilun rented mver. "A reluiie rriim llio quacks."
I UIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, N. V.
gleam of a brighter future. We hava
shown Kngland thut we are united and
that wo know what, we want. My main
purpose Is unchanged. Nothing that has
occurred during or since the campaign,
which your little ones have shown us was
a glorious victory, has caused a single
change of my plans or purposes. We shall
demand and be satisfied with nothing les
than the create m of an Irish parliament.
It must bo equipped and empowered tu
legislate for all of Ireland's albiiis aud In
terest. (Applause.)
"You have helped to show any Kngllsh
government whether Whig or Tory, that
may In future attempt to rob Ireland of
her freedom, that the first thing which an
Irishman iu Ireland, Kuglaud or America
wants is Liberty I
"Whatever party attempts to forga
rhalnsfnr Ireland will at the first, oppor
tunity Hud that the vengeance of the Gael,
though slow In sure! They will never
leave the trail of the eoertlouist until they
have run him down. They w ill throttle
hlin as they Just throttled the liberal party
hi parliament! (Applause.)
"In our time of rejoicing we must not
forget the generous aid of our trans-Atlantic
friends. (Cheers for America.) Seldom,
Indeed, have benefactors been more aptly
termed twice blessed, blessed In giving
hope and cheer to the recipients, and glad
satisfaction to the donors' hearts and con
sciences. We feel assured that nothing
will lie left undone by our American
friends, to enable us to sjieedlly and surely
win the legislative right for Ireland. Wo
have uuw forged a mighty weapon for our
selves by returning a body of eighty-nix
representatives of the people, whose power
the future car. only determine. We now
bold the oositlon it has alwara teemed
necessary tor ns to oDiain, in orner to com
mence a Hiieees.sfnl movement for the re
storation of ''Hume Rule" In Ireland, i
cannot doubt that we shall see a speedy
and happy issue to this struggle." (ijreat
applause.)
As w were going home from the meet
ing, Col. Haynns remarked.
"I thought that America could beat the
world for big demonstrations, but the Irish
have won the laurels this time. I never
saw such a sea of humanity before; awl m
full of enthusiasm."
"They are In earnest. This to theiu
means liberty. How beautiful and appro
priate It wns to see those children. I heard
that Ijnly Waverland arranged that part
of the programme," I said, looking at Stel
la, who hud enjoyed the ef.ereiscs exceed
ingly. "Yes, l,oyd, I did that for your sake,"
he said with a smile of satisfaction.
"I can see now," said the Colonel, "that
England may rob, enslave, Imprison aud
even kill the Irish, but the true, the living
sentiment Is beyond her reach. This feel
ing came to the front to-day, rejoicing iu
this victory and demanding fuller liberty."
Sir Wren and Annie Joined us as we en
tered the hull door
"Well, Fred." said Sir Wren, "how do
you like an Irish Jubilee?"
"I was just saying that I thought they
could beat the Americans iu enthusiasm,"
answered the Colonel.
"I sec Kugland is beginning to complain
of America, for sending aid to the Irish,"
I said. loiiUiiig over the evening paper.
"il wuuld bu tlrau;;u Indeed if nhe did
not find fault." said the Colonel. "Hut
Americans will havo no trouble of con
science on t hai score. They renieinlx r but
too well how Kngland assisted the South
during the year-i of our relsdlion. There is
no doubt iu the nveru'e American mind,
but thai Kncdand, n n nation, would have
rejoiced in t he de-drucl ion of our republi
can government. It has been a thorn iu
her side ever since she drank of the bitter
waters of defeat at Yorktowu and New
Orleans. Kngland never makes any com
plaints about the forty million dollars a
yenr that is coming from the Irish Ameri
cans to help to support landlordism iu Ire
land." "Forty millions!" exclaimed Stella.
"How is that"
"I luive the statement given for tho
truth," ssid lb Colonel. "It is established
on reHirts taken from the different bank
ing housed in America, it Is stated that
the New York banks alone forward twen
ty five million dollars a year of Individual
contributions from Irish Americans. We
grumble at our taxes for paying the inter
est on our public debt, but that Is only
forty-eight millions, while these people
Continued on Seventh 1'ugc