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The "sacred rights of property" has
taken the place of "the divine right of
kings," gays W. S. Morgan. That's the
whole thing in a nutshell.
The farmers of Germany are urging the
government to prohibit the private im
portation Of grain. They ask the gov
eminent to be the Hole importer and to
fix selling prices.
The Sugar Trust has issued orders to
jobbers to stop selling foreign sugar. It
don't even provide music, as Nebuchad
nezzar did, when it promulgates a decree
for the American people to grovel.
In Mexico one day in the year, beggars
day, they wash beggars' feet in the prin
cipal churches. In the Protestant coun
try the beggars haven't even one day of
grace. The out-of-works must either
tramp and beg, steal, starve, or suicide,
all days in the year.
The Atlanta Constitution (Dem.) thinks
the almost universal Democratic defeat
in the spring elections showed that the
people were keen and eager to put on
record their protest against Cleveland
ism." Clevelandism it makes synony
mous with goldbugism.
The Committee on the Unemployed, in
England, has just reported that it has
no remedy to suggest. Well, there is no
remedy under the present system if
charity falls short of need; and charity is
but a drop in the bucket. However, so
long as justice is refused charity is all
that there is left.
Three suicides in Omaha in one day.
One of them, Judge Sahler,anoted lobby
ist, left behind him a note saying Q. W.
Holdredge the Burlington general mana
ger, is the man responsible for his act.
He had heretofore at every session of the
Nebraska legislature handled lots of rail
road money to corrupt the lawmakers.
This year he wasSett out and poverty
and debts faced iti.
The supreme wisdom of the forces of
oppression is becoming apparent in the
complete capture of democratic govern
ments, lawmaking bodies, courts, and the
deceived majorities which make them
Our roasters have allured us into placing
them on the throne as our representa
tives, and when we say anything against
them they are ready to call out the mil
itary and Shout that we are anarchists.
We have held out our hands to be pinion
ed and have assisted by senselessly vot
ing against each other to neutralize our
power.
We publish this week the first of a series
of four lectures by Prof. Herron, which
will attract much attention. Tbey were
delivered extempore before his class in
Applied Christianity at Iowa College,
and stenoraphically reported for The
Wealth Makers. Prof. Herron is now
lecturing on the Pacific coast. The San
Francisco meeting of ministers, a few
days ago, and the entire Pacific coast, in
fact, is greatly exercised over his visit. A
certain Dr. Brown in the minister's meet
ing referred to attacked Dr. Herron
uragely, calling him an anarchist and
socialist, and this attack npon him baa
been given the widest publicity.
TEG HOOVE TAX DECI8I0H
OoArrll 8. after nnrly a month of
waiting, the Supreme Court rendered
decision which practically kills the income
tax law. By a divided court it is decided
that the two most important provisions,
respecting the tax on rents and on in
comes drawn from state and municipal
bonds, are unconstitutional. With land'
lords and bond-holders exempt (an un
productive, useless class), the tax will fall
largely on manufacturers aud business
men. and when these unfairly selected
rich classes carry np caws in their inter"
esc no doubt all that is now left of the
law will be swept away. 1
Well, it is another indication that the
rich will not allow laws to take from
them what other laws have permitted
them to take.
We are not surprised at the decision re
garding the income tax law. Great Brit
ain, where wealth is less worshiped, taxes
incomes and has for many years. The
United States taxed incomes from 18G1
to 18C8, and the income tax laws of that
period were decided to be constitutional
by the Supreme Court of that time. If
constitutional then, an income tax is
constitutional now. But the plutocrats
are in power now, which makes the differ
ence. We are not expressing an opinion that
this Supreme Court sustains the consti.
tution and that the formercourtallowed
it to be trampled on, or rice versa. But
that one or the other baa demonstrated
the fallibility of the highest court is plain.
And it should not be very hard to be
lieve that a bench of lawyers, not elected
by the people but appointed in perhaps
every case to pay political debts, would
be controlled by the class that elevated
them to places above the people.
A good many laws now-a-days are
made defective purposely. Some are so
drawn, and some have unconstitutional
features forced upon them by the con
niving and corrupting power of lobbies
with the object to make sure that they
will be thrown out in the courts if they
cannot be defeated in congress or the
legislatures. And, as the conflicting de
cisions show, the constitution itself is
made use of to first support and after
ward defeat a law of the people. What
was accepted as constitutional and right
when the people were in power thirty
years ago, is declared by the same high,
est authority to be unconstitutional and
unlawful now, when the plutocracy is on
top.
I he constitution was honestly framed
to defend the people from whom? them
selves? Is this a government of majori
ties, or is it a government of four or five
gowned lawyers who cannot be dislodged
from their seat of power and who declare
a law constitutional at one time and un
constitutional at another?
The constitution is over a century old
It was framed under wholly different con
ditions. There were no monopolies in
existence heie then. A vast continent of
free land and natural resources awaited
occupancy, and with the constitutional
guaranty of individual liberty oppres
sion was impossible. But now there is
no free land capable of supporting life
within reach of the people. The natural
resources and means of transportation
and exchange are monopolized. The
former liberty, or equal opportunities to
use the land, no longer exist. And if
that part of theconstitution, thatfunda-
mental portion which was expressed in
the first paragraph as the object of the
whole, of the government we have inher
ited, the part which calls for justice and
"the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterity," is to be practically dis
regarded or overridden by the monopoly
rights (so-called) of property, the con
stitution can be made to dpfend the rich
while they increasingly exploit and en.
slave the poor. This is what is being
done at present. The monopolists who
exact tribute from the helpless masses are
being protected by the government, the
military and the courts, this govern
ment which was founded by men who re
belled againlt and overcame on bloody
battlefields the armies of a man who
claimed a divine right to exact tribute
from the werkersl The private taxing
power of monopolists today, by which
wealth and resources and power are be
ing so rapidly concentrated and slavish
dependence extended, is vastly greater
than the power which George III essayed
to exercise upon our fathers.
But it is our opinion that the people
will never regain their lost liberties, op
portunities to labor and independence by
the taxing method, by laws which tax
incomes or inheritances that have been
legally drawn from the people. If there
is to be no interference with the private
property titles and charters which con.
stitute monopoly power, there cannot be
a confiscation of the tribute which such
legalized power commands. One law
cannot take away what another law
gives or secures. If private property
constituting a monopoly, or power to
command tribute, is lawful and right a
law which confiscates purt of that tribute
is wrong. But there are no such things as
monopoly rights.
The point of attack must be where the
unnatural, unequal, oppressive power be
gins. Nationalize and municipalize
monopolies, and there will be no big in
comes to tax, and at the same time there
will be no enforced poverty.
If private property and individual
struggle, leading to the monopolization
of the means of living, are to be reckoned
sacred and fundamental, income and in
heritance laws cannot be built thereupon,
ine decision against tne income tax
inakM very ctenr the nwsnity of bring
ing the People's party into power that
It may carry out its program regarding
monopolies.
ANOTHER OMAHA EUI0IDE
Manfred C. Battey, 54 years old.a civil
war veteran.com mi t ted suicidein Omaha
April 9th. He left several letters ad
dressed to members of bis family, and
one to the coroner which reads as follows:
"I have done all I could and can get no
work. My money is all gone and I have
no home. I have searched the city and
visited lodges, and although I have writ
ten testimonials from all of my old em
ployers they amount to nothing. I can
get no work. I cannot be a beggar. I
:annot become a tramp. I was willing to
oo anytmng nonent and within my
strength, but well, I suppose there are
nundreds and thousands just like me. I
get only promises for the future and
meantime I must starve. You know
bow hard I have tried to tret work aud
you know if I could have borrowed $40
on my pension papers for about two
months this would not have happened,
for I could have been working now. But
no one would let me have it, although
they were perfectly safe, and so it has
come to this, that I must take my own
life. Let the city do what it will with mv
body; it will rest in one place as well as
in another. You will find my body in
the loft of the barn back of these prem
ises. An inquest is not necessary. I did
it by my own act. So pull down the cur
tain the play is done."
This is suicide No. 2 of the three which
occurred in Omaha in one day. Mr.
Battey fought through the war to save
the country whose laws have forced him
to choose between beggary and suicide.
Really, from his standpoint, was such a
oun try worth saving? -How long car
patriotism live in America under snch a
pressure? Will the masses of the people
continue to respect laws which drive them
to choose between beggary, suicide, and
bomb-throwing?
THE QUESTION OP POLICY
l'Just now there is a costly effort being
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maue 10 Rei us to arop tne transporta
tion and land questions. The effort is
being put forth not by the people, but by
a few of the leaders of the Populist party
who argue that it is policy to drop our
Omaha demands and make an American
Bi-metallic platform, to please the anti-
Populist silver men. The American Bi
metallic League says silver is the .issue,
and that the silver men of all parties
cannot unite in the Republican party,
which is true; nor in the Democratio
party, which is also true; nor in the Pop
ulist party, which may also be true. A
few of our leaders hitherto, who bar
been standing on the Omaha platform,
accept this whole statement and are
anxious to get rid of every thine ths
anti-Populist silver men object to in our
uemanas ana principles.
We meet this whole business by saying
Ahat the Omaha platform demands none
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silver alone cannot draw a sufficient
number of men out of the three parties,
Republican, Democratic and Populist, to
feuild up a stronger fourth or new party.
No considerable percentage of the voters
of either of the g. o. ps. would leave their
party to join a mere silver party. And
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Let us consider for a moment the
transportation question. What is. its
magnitude. How many does it affect?
Whom does it attract and repel?
The magnitude of the transportation
question can hardly be over-estimated.
In theTBrst place the railrouds have a
capitalization, including watered stock,
of over $11,000,000,000, which is one
sixth of the estimated value of all the
wealth, including real estate, in the
whole Lnited States. The railroads
stand between all producers and all con
sumers with power to take tribute from
all, and it is always "all the traffic will
bear." The 26 ruilroad systems coming
from the farthest points and running in
to Chicago ftre under one general mana
gers' association. The railroads that
run to and from the Pacific coast do not
compete one with another. The whole
coast region is completely at the mercy
of the consolidated railroad system of
that region and the people are robbed of
all the profits in the enormous crops of
grain and fruits which should make' that
country the richest portion of the world.
The entire anthracite coal business by a
combination of seven railroads which
center in Pennsylvania, forces heavy
monopoly tribute from nearly every
family in the laud. The soft coal busi.
ness, so far as prices are concerned, is al
so no w entirely controlled by the railroads
and every home-maker and user of it
pays monopoly prices for this fuel, a
tribute which in the aggregate makes an
enormous amount. The railroads are
great drains which run off and concen
trate a large part of the surplus wealth
of the producing class of every part of
this great country. There is no chance
for anybody to be independent whose
products must be transported to the
market by rail, or .who must consume
what the railroads bring from other pro
ducers. More than this. The railroads are in
politics. They get what they ask for,
usually, in Congress, and they are ths
chief, the controlling power in the stats
conventions of both the old parties.
Through passes and other favors the rail
roads pack conventions, dictate nomi
nations, and have come to practically
own both the old parties and the courts.
As a consequence we not only are ruled
in the interest of the railroads, but ths
corrupt men they set over us serve other
corporations and trusts, and it is very
rarely that a law in the interest of the
whole people haa any chance to be passed.
Th railroads by a system of robbing
other oil-refiners and paying it In rebates
to the Stundard Oil company, destroyed
almost all competition in theoil business
and so built up that fabulously wealthy
trur, which is now mightier than Con
gress and buys up au entire state legisla
ture with governor thrown in whenever
it has any great end to serve by so doing.
It has just recently bought up the Penn
sylvania legislature to head off a new
pipeline competitor, and by adjusting
the price of oil the people will pay all the
bills.
Another thing. The big capitalists of
this country, bankers, railroad stock
holders, and the rest, are all tied up to
gether. They are after percents, and
their interests are tangled up and insep
arable. . The free coinage of silver alone,
if it could be secured by a one-idea silver
party, would leave the great strongholds
of monopoly (the land, the railroads,
telegraphs, lumber and coal monopolies,
etc,) untouched. And the people, the
common people, can see this. Therefore
they will not be led into a party that
plans to procure no considerable or per
manent relief. The Omaha platform de
mands only what is just, reasonable, ne.
cessary if our independence as American
citizens is to be restored and defended.
And wecanuot,if we would, get the forces
of plutocracy divided and fight one di
vision of our oppressors at a time, by
taking up by itself the small question of
the free coinage of silver. Nor could we
succeed in dividing and conquering them
if we took up the vastly more important
question of .transportation, or that of
government banks, or that of land mo
nopoly. We have got the whole force to
fight anyhow. And it is not, on the
other hand, possible to think of the mo
nopoly questions as separable. They
cannot be settled one at a time success
fully. The common life of each flows
freely into all not outlawed, so that all
must be outlawed or those left in exis
tence will absorb the life, the oppressive
power, of any that may be killed by frag
mentary anti-monopoly legislation. Un
less we decree death to all monopolies
we waste our energies largely by oppos
ing one or two.
THE "BOUND 0UBBEN0Y" 0LUB
This newspaper office acknowledges re
ceipt of No. 6, of the 'Reform Club's"
"Sound Currency" series. It contains "a
discussion," so-called, of the currency
famine of 1893, by Representative John
DeWitt Warner of New York. Pasted to
the outer page of the pamphlet is the
appearance of a type-written letter which
advertises the contents of the pamphlet
and invites editors receiving it to; freely
use its contents "either with or without
credit, as you may prefer." .The pamph
let contains a description of the clearing
house certificates issued as money by the
banks during the time of the panic, and
in the outside letter, signed by the Sonnd
Currency Committee of New York, we find
this noteworthy paragraph:
It is safe to say that few have appreci
ated the extent to which in all parts of
the country, not merely without assist
ance of - law, but in defiance of it, local
currency instantly developed; how great
and nrgent was the local relief afforded;
or how promptly and thoroughly, the
necessity being over, it disappeared."
Warner says, the circumstances which
preceded the currency famine "are yet
too recent to be free from controversy"
too recent to be freely lied about, say,
rather but he gives it out that we had
ten years of prosperity from 1880 to
1890, and that ' beginning with 1890
growing caution" and watchfulness" led
men "to dispose of surplus stock even at
sacrifice." This brought about a
shrinkage of values, he says, and lessened
margins, and increased the apprehension
of creditors; and so, as a result of "cau
tion and watchfulness," taken, the enor
mous loss, ruin and distress of 1893, '94
and '95 were caused.
This is the teaching of this goldbug,
who contradicts himself in a. previous
paragraph, where he says, "ten years of
prosperity had made general throughout
the world that state of mind which
prompts borrowers to new enterprises
and induces lenders freely to extend
credits." .
He charges farther that the Sherman
act had a bad effect:
It was iust at this time, too, that the
agitation for cheap money reached its
highest tide m congress and tne cmerman
act became a law. By this, instead of
coinageat $2,000,000 per month, bullion
certificates at the rate of $4,500,000 per
month were added to our currency, al
ready out of all proportion to the com
mercial wants ot the people; while free
coinage that is, forced coinage of silver
at a par of 16 to 1 ol gold was presaea
on every hand, largely by those who con
fessed their aim to be partial repudiation.
It may be questioned how far this last
factor contributed to tue gravity oi tne
situation here; there can be no doubt
that it increased it."
The italics in the above paragraph are
ours, i nis goiODUg goes on to ten u,
first "how much currency the business of
a country will absorb at any given
moment it is hard to say" but heboldly
affirms, nevertheless, that "it is pretty
generally agreed" (by the bankers, no
doubt) that "the growing dullness of
business had left our currency super
abundant as far back as 1890." And
the increase of silver coined, he says,
forced gold out of the country.
Too much money um ahl Yes? Too
much moneyl Too much moneyl
Dreadful, wasn'tit, that along with what
this goldbug calls the "accumulation ol
raw material and manufactures greatei
than ever before in the world's history"
we should have "too much money" to
exchange our wealth with, and tbatsucb
terrible times should be caused by out
ir'iM money. Kay, you Republican
tuiyneed, make a note of this, that panics
and hard times are caused by having
more money than yon know what to do
with.
What's that you say, Populists, that
poor people nevtr are at a loss to know
how to use money, and that it makes all
the difference in the world who holds the
money of the country? Too much money
in the hands of the rich, more than they
want to use to purchase goods in the
markets, is what makes prices fall and
brings on the collapse of credit, panic
periods and hard times? The rich no
doubt have too much money, you say?
Well, the currency famine for the bank
ers themselves came, came as the result
of breaking banks and a rush for depos
its on the part of the people whose money
the banks were loaning. And to meet
their exigency the banks went to manu
facturing private currency (clearing
house certificates) contrary to the law.
"In defiance" of the law, as Mr. Warner
complacently affirms, they paid their
cash obligations in unlawful paper of
their own printing.
Not abad expedient if all could defy the
law, or change the law to allow it. But
why may banks pay their cash obliga
tions in notes of their own printing and
receive no punishment, when all other
classes are adjudged criminals if they
issue their own paper and force their
creditors to accept it in liquidation of
obligations? And why, when the people
must furnish the security anyway, should
we favor giving over to the bankers the
sole right to issue paper currency and
pay them high rates of interest for it, for
our own credit, when we may just as well
nse our own credit and save the interest?
Warner winds up his "sound (?) money"
document with about fifty kinds of
clearing house certificates and money
substitutes. Facsimiles of all this un
lawful currency (not less than $80,000,
000) are given in the last pages of the
pamphlet. Speaking for the bankers
(they are the people, he thinks) Mr.
Warner say farther relief for the currency
famine came by the House passing the
bill to repeal the Sherman act, (the Sen
ate dead-locked over it for nine weeks
thereafter), and he closes his goldbug
document as follows:
"Such was tho crisis of 1893, a situa
tion brought about by the wanton inter
ference of the government, with business
not its own; aggravated by legislation
which had to be broken before the people
could help themselves; relieved by enter-
ftrise overriding and evading restrictive
aw." "
The Philadelphia Times (Ind.) says:
"The attitude of theDemocratic organiza
tion before the country today is that ot
utter chaos, and the only problem for the
leaders to solve is whether that once
great party can be restored to respect
and usefulness, or whether the sequel of
its chaotic condition shall efface it from
the history of American politics. . Today
the Democratic party has not a eingle
hopeful state north of Mason and
Dixon's line; it has not a single hopeful
state in the west, and the southern states
are all trembling in the throes of threat
ened revolution. If the Democrats were
compelled to face a national contest at
this time they would enter it - without
reasonable expectation of carrying any
state outside of the south, with a loss of
fully half the southern states more than
probable." Yes, with the Democratic
party going to smash, the Populists will
not fail in the next election to displace
and supersede it as one of the two great
parties. , Let the glorious uncompromis
ing standards of Populism be flung to
the breeze. Victory is in sight.
The BaltimoreSun (Dem.) commenting
on the elections, which generally went Re
publican, Wisconsin being the only excep
tion, thinks the free coinage sentiment of
the South and West is "grossly over
estimated," and supports its opinion by
calling attention to the fact that in
Michigan, where the Democratic platform
"unqualifiedly declares in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold with full legal-tender power &at a
ratio of 16 to 1, regardless of the posi
tion of any other nation witfi respect
thereto," the "patriotic citizens" of
Michigan "responded to the appeal by
turning out and giving the party a com
plete and overwhelming defeat." We
should say, rather, that when an old
rotten party has lost the confidence of
the people it cannot fool them with pro
mises by placing one or more new planks
in its platform. New wine must have
new bottles.
The New York Reform Club is standing
evidence that names do not necessarily
fit natures. Since Satan took to. posing
as an angel of light all forms of evil dress
themselves up in attractive appellations.
The aforesaid Club is composed of gold
bugs and is doing general missionary
work for Shylock's descendants. It is
spreading broadcast, in every city, vil
lage and hamlet, a series of pamphlets
entitled "Sound Currency!" And it has
addressed every editor in the nation a
etter, saying he can use its goldbug lies
and sophistical arguments as his own,
not even giving the Club writers credit
therefor.
The supreme court of the United States
says in its April 8th decision that rents,
public salaries and interest on bonds of
every deseription are not subject to the
income tax. The rich, with the help of
the judges of their own selecting, are plac
ing the constitution as a defense around
their thrones of power. We can also see
very clearly that having been success
fully grasped by the rich monopolists as
an instrument of oppreion, the diffi
culty of getting It amended will be insurmountable.
B00K3 AND MAGAZINES
Honest Money, by Arthur L Fonda.
It is easy to see that there is great un
rest and dissatisfaction concerning the
present monetary system of the country.
If nothing else, the number of books
recently published on the financial ques
tion would prove it. The present treatise
is a candid inquiry into the canses of the
trouble and an attempt to present a solu
tion of the difficulty. The book reveals
a considerable sharp and critical analysis
and close logical thinking- Nor is the
author afraid to depart from beaten
paths when he thinks truth points the
way. Many conclusions of his do not
coincide with those of the old political
economy, but the old' political economy
is, in the minds of many, in a somewhat
.shattered condition. Mr. Fonda doea
not limit money,in his definition, to that
nh ifh haa in-f i nuii vo lua 'Pst him tvli a t
ever fulfills the uses of money is money.
So paper money is real money as truly
as are the metals.
The matter of value as a ratio is clearly
discussed, but when it comes to standard
of value the thought is not so clear.
How any thing can be a standard of value
when value, is a ratio is not clearly ex
plained. This is the rock against which
all split in discussing financial and mone
tary questions. Foreign commerce is
well handled as are many other parts of
the book. The main feature of the book,
however, is "A New Monetary System."
The author calls attention to the very
important fact that in the evolution of
money it has lost its character as a
measure of value and now acts, almost
wholly, as medium of exchange. Thus
it happens that 95 per cent of all the
business of the country is done on a
credit or paper basis. Gold and silver,
too. have thus lost their importance as
money because of the loss of the function
of measure of value. The plan here pro
posed is to have the standard of value
based on a large numberof commodities.
and that long time debts should not be
paid in quantities but in values. Then
for medium of exchange he would have a
paper currency issued by the government
to conform to this standard of value.
The money to be loaned by the govern-
uieiib uu nuuruveu securities, me rate oi
interest to be variable, decreasing when
prices fall and increasing when prices
raise. The matter of interest, though, it
seems to us is vital and until that ques
tion is settled no true solution of the
money question can be arrived at.
It is altogether a very suggestive read-
readable book.
Published by Macmillan & Co., 66 Fifth
ave. JN. x. Trice $1.00.
The Aims or Literary Study, by Hiram
Corson.
This beautiful little book is a gem in
thought and exquisite literary expres
sion. Jt Dreatnes pure iotty sentiments
that will do much to invite the young
writer, especially; to higher aspirations.
We wish that the opening section on
"What Does, WhatKnowsand What Is"
could be put into the hands of every
young man and young woman. Prof.
Corson writes of course as an authority
in literary matters, but be has a keen
spiritual insight that all masters in ex
pression even do no possess.
He brings out vividly wnat most of us
overlook, wameiy, how strongly the
spiritual, and not the intellectual, enters
into literature.
It is great spirit, great essential being,
that makes a genius. Behind and con
trolling intellect is spirit. "It is the
spiritual sensitiveness of the few which
has moved the mass of mankind. The
book is handsomely bound and in every
way well gotten up. in fact Macmillan
& Co. are noted for the excellent "get
up" of their books.
Published by Macmillan & to. ,6(5 Fifth
ave., .New lork Uity. f rice 7o cents.
Tales from the Aegean by Demetrios
Bikelas; translated by Leonard E. Op-
dycke.
McCIurgs have been publishing a unique
series of fiction, dealing with lands not
familiarily known to American readers.
The book before us is an excellent ex
ample of the success of this undertaking.
We are accustomed to think that real
Greek life passed away when Ancient
Greece fell from her high estate. But not
so. For some of the most heroic chap
ters in the modern struggle for liberty
have been written in the land of Socrates
and Aeschylus. Demetrios Bikelas is
eminent for his literary work outside of '
his stories which form the minor part of
his writing. He has performed a marked
service with ability in translating Shakes
peare into modern Greek. The tales be
fore us are delightful in tone, natural,
keen in insight, and pervaded in some
cases by a delicate humor. They are in
stinct, also, with real Greek life.
These books are elegant specimens of
fine taste in binding and general make
up. We can heartily recommend these
Published by A. C. McClurg & Co:,
Chicago. Price $1.00.
Macmillan will publish shortly select
passages from ancient writers illustra
tive of the history of Greek sculpture by
Mr. H. Stuart Jones. Also The Students
Edition of Chaucer, by Skeat. The next
volume of Mrs. Garnett's translation of
Turgenieff will be On the Eve. J. M.
Dent in England and Macmillan & Co.; in
America are about to publish au edition
of Balzac's works edited by Mr. George
Saintsbury.
CONTEMPORARY OPINION
The single standard goldbugs have
started a new propaganda, evidently in
tended to offset the effect of the one re
cently begun by the silver men. This
takes the form of offering to furnish free
of charge to newspapers that will circu
late tbem as extras or supplements any
number of papers they may wish. This
does not include just one issue, but the
goldbugs will furnish these supplements
at irregular periods, each number con-'
taining entirely different matter. The
offer comes from the committee on sound
currency of the reform club of New York,
of which such eminent goldbugs as Horace
White, John DeWitt Warner, Chns. S.
Fairchild and Everett P. Wheeler, are
members. Of course, they are entirely
disinterested, and are simply desirous of
spending their money furnishing news
paper supplements for the purpose of see
ing that the people are properly enlight
ened. Being bankers they are very desir
ous that the people be properly enlight
ened. Lincoln (Rep.) News.
The new silver party will accept our
