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ANOTHER CONVERT, GOVERNOR O'FERRALL DECIDES FAVOR OF SOUND MONEY. IN All tho ronm-.rrlal Nations of tl World An on Gold ldul Tho Frrw Coinage - of Ml Tor Would (uw Stagnation oj ' Trail is la Cb Inlti-d Mat, Governor O'Ferrull of Virginia adds mother name to the already lung lit of prominent men who havo changed their position on the silver quest ion uft ir long and careful study. His recent four column ojien letter in the Kiel), niomt Dispatch will give cold comfort to tl.ts "frunds i wlver." We reprint tho following extracts from it: "I am opjsiwd to tlm free coinage of silver iu the United Mat) s except through an international agreement with the great couiuieroiul countries of the world. "I do not believe thin country alone can maintain a purity between gold and silver at uny fixed ratio. " We are fining inn-sources and in all the elements that go to make a na- lion powerful, but we are not strong ! enough to live within ourselves trade : only with onrselves, raise and manufac ture all we need, consume and use all we produce and make, import nothing, ex pjrt nothing and have uncommercial re lations with other countries To deal, then, with other countries- our money must lie measured by their standard j when we are in their markets and the princijial countrlin whose markets we I eck and with which we must deul in soiling and buy ing have a gold standard, i "It may be surprising to some to ! know it, yet it in an incontrovertible I fact that gold standard countries furnish I S7- js-r cent of the international com- nierce of the world, and that about 9-1 ! per cent of the exMirts of the United , States are to countries having a gold utandard, and about HO per cent of our imports are from countries having the ; came Ktundard. I "Shall we cut loose in onr tnonetary ! frysteni from these. cotnitrieH of such j conimercial power and attach ourselves j to the small and weak nationalities to ! which wo 11 scarcely anything, and ; from which our purchases ure absolute- j ry insignificant? "There is 110 country that has a don- j ble monetary Blutidard. Wherever there ' is free silver coinage, silver monometal- ' linn prevailfi. All countries with a gold standard utilize silver as far lis it can lie kept at a parity with gold. That is, gold countries use both metals us mon ey; silver countries only silver. The in- ' dependent free coinage of silver hi the United tutei would plueo her on a sil ver standard and in direct antagonism to the standard of the countries with which she does nearly all of her busi ness. "Will the United States lower h-x crest, withdraw from the strong sister hood of nations which whitens the seas with the mtilN of commerce and unite lux monetary fortunes with the Weak combination whose craft are scarcely ever seen and whose products and fruits constitute so small u percentage in the grand tola 1? "Will she continue to stand with Germany, Austria, France and Kngland, or link her destiny with China, Japan and Mexico? "These uro my views, stated briefly and concisely as possible. "For the roiiwniH given I urn opjxised to tlm doctrine of free and unlimited silver coinage without international agreement with the principal commer cial countries of the world. Wo cannot adopt n monetary system different from these great nationalities mid fi.reo them to recognize it. We cannot float a 60 cent silver dollar as a sound dollar in this country, much less in the markets of Germany, France, Austria or Fng Jund, with whom our interests are close ly identified. There are many things we can do regardless of the opinions or w ishes (jf other lands. We can amend or change our system of government, manage our internal alTairs and enact laws to govern our own people without let or hindrance from uny foreign source, but there is one thing we cannot do. We cannot coerce other peoples and lands to recognize any money we may see proper to engrave or coin as a me dium of exchange lictweeu them and tin. Ah well might wo attempt to change the lawn of gravitation or make water run up hill. "I am for a sonnd dollar, nnd what I mean by a sound dollar is one that will puss for 100 cents and be us gisul an uny other dollar anywhere within the limits of the civilized world. Gold is that dol lar now. Silver may also be if kept on a parity with gold. But this can only be done by international agreement. What I mean by a sound dollar is one I hat the farmer, the mechanic and tho la Isiring man can nse with a purchasing jmwer of 100 cents anil buy us much with it as any other dollar. What I mean by a sound dollar is one that its holder limy lay awuy to buy a home, save for a rainy day or provide for himself in old age with absolute certainty that it will lie, as goml us any other dollar when he wants to use it. Gold is that dollar. Silver cannot Is-unless by inter national agreement it is made equiva lent to a gold dollar. "I am for a sound dollar for tho ioor man us well as for the rich man. I shall never consent to a monetary system which will place it in the power of tho rich man to hoard hid gold and pay his jssir creditor in a depreciated dollar." A MiirirllMK Hwnta4:lo. If yon see ft man dodgo around and dart up an alley as though a brick had iioen hurled at him, yon may know it is a Knight of Labor trying to get away from a national bank note that has been tendered him. Chicago Times Herald. l'oliit For Frso Hllvarltni. Why don't all tlio free silver men .de mand tiioir wages in silver? That would do more to unload the treasury of it and restore it to iu "proper place" than anything elre. Ht LonU Poft-Dispatoh. 1 WH1 prosperity returned. Bonaoao tha Drift of Fablte Opinion If Ipooard to a MWrr IU.it. rWrettry of the Navy Hilary A. Her bert delivered a strong sound cum n y ;eech at Montgomery. Ala., on Oct. 4. lie said in pait : "What our currency shall a nsist of is a question to be decided on hiiiiis principles. There is a sentimental ob jection to Kold indulged in by some that it is the money of the rich but it doe nut seem to me that this shou M have any weight because, iu uiyopinioii, the M.r man is entitled to us good mon ey as the rich. There is a sentimental argument in favor of tho silver dollar because it is said to have Is en 'the dol lar of our fathers. ' It does not seem to mo that this argument should have any We'pht, liecunse it is not founded on fact. "The fair presumption is that neither your father nor mine uor any other man's father who died prior to l ST fi ever handled enough American sil.r d pilars to keep bini out of the po ,r botise. "I know of no more effective way of crippling the south and its industries than for our people to clamor for the payment of debts already contracted and hereafter to lie contracted iu depre ciated silver dollars. "Fortunately for this country the effects of tho panic of 1803 are rapidly passing away. Money has begun to flow ngaiu in us accustomed channels. Wheat has risen in price, cotton has risen in price, iron has risen in price, induMries are reoiiening eveiywheie, wage are in creasing, and all this cornea from tho fact that tho cnpitalists of this country who are shrewd, farsecing and who watch with keen eye the doings of every political convent ion have come to the conclusion that the free silver sentiment in the United States is not strong i nough and not powerful enough to force this conntry to a silver basis. "They understand that there is no freo silver sentiment in tho east, tione in New England, none in New York, none in Maryland, New Jersey, Dela ware or Pennsylvania, "They so that Republicans and D m ocrats iu the state of Ohio have pro nounced against free silver; that Re publicans and Democrats in the statu of Kentucky have pronounced against freo silver; that only part of tho Democrats iu the other states of the west and south are for free silver, and they are confi dent, as I am, that the people of the United States, whatever else may hap pen, will in 1S90 pronounce for tho con tinnanee of sound money, for the parity with gold of every dollar of silver and of paper now afloat or to be flouted in tho United States. " M-urp of Yaliifa, A dollar is not a measure of length, breadth, thickness or weight, but of value. A measure of length, breadth and thickness must have standard length in order to bo a true measure. A meas ure of weight must havo true weight, but when it comes to considering what shall he the requisite quality of a meas ure of value tho free silver people say that value is of no moment, remarks tho Mobile Register; that if it havo a certain name stamped on it and be call ed a true measure of valno it will bo a true measure of value. This is as absurd as would 1 mi attempt to call a yard stick of 80 inches a trno measure of length, or u pound of ten ounces weight a true measure of weight. The only true measure of value is a measure which contains full value. Any other sort of a measure which is offered us a true mens nro is false anil will bo rejected by tho people. Floridian. Tim Free Sllsr Chimera. The ridiculous attempt of tho silver contingent to commit the United States. , to freo coinage to the exchange of SO i cents' worth of silver for a dollar in gold 1 rivals iu its absurdity and enthusiasm tho wildest chimera of romantio fiction. It curries us back to the fond but futile search for the fountain of everlastinj? youth, to the mcdiuval alchemists' theory of the transmutation of metals ' and to the beautiful mythological stoiy of Midas and tho golden touch. Phil adelphia Record. Am! fto. M ca m wi trosK M o unit it VMMtrMff(kl Hlllipltl HilllllD I p to IMt. i -- - f I . A. '(i'.i j -r.U.Mi.. " ' -T. I'lrtcr for I'nlilic M'tney. Fome time ao. says the Youth's Com panion, in speaking of the widening use of electric ears, we pointed out that In the cities tin y have largely supplanted the horse as au auent of transportation. It may be well to say a word now con cerning the state of our country high ways, on which as yet the horse has no rival, except, perhaps, the bicycle. The growth of our railways, steam and elec tric, Is no excuse for the neglect of our common roads. If any one doubts that we have neg lected them most culpably, let him look into the volume of Consular Kcports on Foreign Streets and Highways, issued in lsi'1 by the government at Washing ton. From these reports It appears that no other conn i ry in Christendom, with the possible exception of Russia, has been so negligent. In France, for Instance, t lie highways approach perfection -a fact to which the prosperity of the French peasantry Is generally attributed. The first Na poleon, iu the Intervals of his many wars, laid the foundations of the tys telll. Napoleon III. completed It. The? result Is a network of admirable mads stretching our over the whole country, under tlie constant Inspection aud care of specially trained engineers. (lermaiiy Is not far behind. Great Britain learned her lesson a century ago from the celebrated Mr. Macadam, and has never forgotten It. The countries of Southern Ktirope have profiled richly by their legacy from the Romans, the great road builders of antiquity. Hard ly anywhere on the continent. In fact, would the mud and ruts of our Ameri can roads be tolerated. Our backwardness may be attributed to the newness of the country and the rapidity with which It has been K"tt!eJ; but a more abiding cause Is found in the nature of our constitution, and In the strong instinct of local self-government among our people. Since the abandonment of the famous Cumber land Road Iu 1S.'1H, the national govern ment has done practically nothing. The States have for the most part confined themselves to general and merely per missive legislation on the subject. Ev erywhere the highways have been left to the local authorities. The result has been the widest di versity of plan and methods. Iu some sections the work Is done ma inly by convicts. In others, any citizen is liable to be called out to work on the roads for a certain number of days in the year. Iu certain counties of Virginia, and elsewhere, the toll system is still prevalent. The practical advantages of a more centralized system, like that of France, are manifest. Frequently towns and counties through which Important high ways pass are too poor to maintain them properly. Important questions of routes, topography and materials are constantly arising, which require in vestigation on a wide scale. Sclent illc training Is needed to fit a man for the difficult work of ro.id build ing, ami this Is certainly not common among town and county ollicers. An authority on the subject declares that the present haphazard system has not produced fifty competent highway en gineers throughout the Fulled States. It has been demonstrated by actual tests that the force requited to draw a ton on a muddy earth road Is suffi cient to draw four tons on a hard mac adamized road. When we remember that . nearly all agricultural products, not to speak of other commodities, must be hauled at least two or three miles In wagons before the railroads can touch Ihetn, It Is apparent what an ad vantage the Ktiropeaii has over the American farmer In this respect. Multiply by three or four the cost of hauling to the stations the total of the crops which the railroads handle every year, nnd you have a rough estimate of the annual saving to the farmers alone which would result from a sys tem of properly constructed highways. In the long run, other classes would derive almost an equal benefit from the change. Fven If we concede that the abandon ment of road building by the national government Is final, there seems to be no reason w hy the States should follow the example. Some of the older States have recently awakened to the Impor tance of the subject. Certainly It is hard to find a better Investment for the public money than the betterment of the common roads, A Veteran of lMIV!. A conspicuous figure at. the celebra tion of the Society of the War of 112 In Baltimore recently was ('apt. James Hooper. Captain Hooper was born on July 5, 1S04, nnd when 10 years old wus a powder boy on the Fulled Slates schooner Comet In the Clusupeake bay, on which his father was an ofllcer. He remembers the events of his early years, and no one applauded more en thusiastically than he the allusions to them made by the speakers at the park celebration. The appearance of Cnp tajn Hooper doea not Indicate his ex treme age. He ia of Ull and command ing stature, agile In movement, and looks i- iy years younger than he Is. The captain occupied a seat in the park pavilion, together with members of the society, lrjvited guests and those who took part In the exercises. CHOLERA IN CHINA. OTcr 2,000 Deaths Iiaily in the Capi tul ot the flower jr Kingdom. William E. Curtis, who bas Just re turned from China, says that cholera has attained fearful proportions In that country. The Chinese are dying by thousands. 1 passed, he says, through the sneers of Peking, Shanghai and Tlen-Tsln, and saw cholera victims dead and dying on every band. It is no uncommon sight to see the dead bod ies of cholera victims lying on the street In one block, and In the next a lot of Chinese gorging themselves with raw cucumbers and melons. The cholera is all attributable to the tilihy habits of the Chinese and the weather. In Peking they have a plan of issu ing permits for the removal of bodies outside the city walls. No bodies are Interred within the walls. To secure permission a cash Is dropped Into a box a L'oth of one cent. At night the cash receptacle is full. It contains from 2.IMMI to :i.imki pieces of coin, and when It Is considered that nearly all of these deaths result from cholera the enor mous extent of the disease can readily be judged. The disease Ik as bad at Shanghai and Tlen-Tsin, and Is also mowing down Chinese by the hundreds In other parts of the Infected country. Haver! by (Jolrt. 1 (,'ot the gold up at Kl Paso, Texas, but in some way one of the beggarly crew at the hotel in Oaxaca saw that I was carrying something In the small of my back, and the result of that was I was followed when I set out for Te huantepi'C. They allowed me to go on unmolested until I was within a day of San Carlos, and then one of them seemed to have taken a short cut through the mountains and concealed himself In the brush until I passed. Then he gave It to me with a shotgun loaded with slugs of lead, and I caught it In the small of the back. The force of the blow knocked me down over the pommel of the saddle. When there I had the presence of mind to keep on falling slowly, as if entirely done for. Meantime I got an American navy revolver In my hand arid cocked It. The beggar who had shot me. S'-e-ing me fall, ran from the brush, machete In one hand and gun in the other, while his partner appeared around the moun tain with his horse on the gnllop. They yelled at my horse to stop and my guide to go on, and both obeyed promptly. I was still clinging to my horse's neck, and could see them through Its mane very well. I let thein get within ten feet of me, and then took my turn at shooting. They were so close 1 couldn't miss, but luckily, as I think, one caught his bullet In the knee and the other In the fleshy part of the arm, but their horse was killed outright by a bullet In the head. Seeing them both down and begging for their lives. I had a mind to kill them for their cowardice, but I let thein off with a good kicking apiece, and then called back the guide and bade him carry water to wash and dress the wounds. Then I gave the man with the hurt arm n stiff horn of brandy and sent him back for help, while 1 contin ued my journey. The slugs had hit the gold pieces-three of them. I had a In me back for a week or so, but I was otherwise unhurt. What became of them? I afterward met the one who had caught It In the knee. He was go ing about the market In oaxnea on a ieg leg, peddling rebo.os and telling people lie had lost his leg In a fierce struggle wltli highwaymen. lie said his partner was on a Journey, but I fancy ttiat meant he had been detected In some rascality and sent to prison. Chinese Pirate Pecoyed. A llghtkeeper near Shanghai saw nn exciting Incident not long ago near a well-known pirate's lair. What appear ed to be a bit; sail junk crime sailing slowly along with one man at the helm and two or three sailors loafing on the deck. Two fast boats put off from the lair, with about ten armed men In each. The Junk saw them and yawed about, trying vainly to escape. The boats pulled alongside and made fast one on each side of the Junk. Instantly the junk's decks bristled with soldiers, who poured a volley from their rifles Into the boats, then juni'd down, kill ing all whom the bullets had spared, anil threw the bodies overboard, ,'ii'ier cutting oft tho heads of the two leaders. The apparently harmless salt Junk had been chartered by a mandarin who whs out pirate hunting. Shot by a Horse, A peculiar accident in Hast Mon mouth, Mo., may result seriously. A man by the name of Present t was lead ing n colt, when the animal whirled nnd kicked, striking Prescott In the region of the hip pocket, where he cu rled a loaded revolver. The revolver was discharged, tho bullet lodging in the calf of Mr. Prescott's leg. An Kpilepllcs Keoorrt. An epileptic young woman, whose case Is reported In the Lancet, seems to have broken the record for fits. She had H.'Ju.'i distinct tits In twenty-one days, an average of l."2 n day, nnd In one day had .I.'IO of them. She was cured with chloral hydrate and bro mide of potassium. IOiKloo's Migratory Smoke. The smoke of London In certain stales of the wind Is found condensed on the sea as far awny as Devonshire, black ening the water for miles. They begin so early thitt ns a rule the first opinion a little girl lisps Is her the ory on managing a husband. -r 1. ft. SAMUEL GOMPERS, the labor leader, la home from Europe, and thug speaks of matters on the other 6ide: "There's no question but that the labor movement in Europe Is further advanced than the movement In Amer ica. In Europe, especially In England, there exists a better appreciation on the part of the public as to the purpos es and achievement of labor organiza tions. The fact is that England was au industrial country when the United States was wholly undeveloped Indus trially. There they have men in the labor movement whose grandfathers were agitators and walking delegates. The labor organizations of England have overcome a great deal of the pre judice against them which formerly existed. Our reception by the English worklngnien was very cordial. In Car diff, Manchester, LiveriKiol and Iyon don we received ovations. "My Impression Is that the condition of the American workingman is far su perior to that of the English laborer. The American Is better fed. better cloth ed, has more lllierty and Is thought to be a much bigger man In every way than the Englishman. I would rather live on the seventh floor of an Ameri can tenement than in the first flat of nn English workingmnn's house. So cially nnd economically we are better off. "However, there are more intelligent rich men nnd women In England who are Interesting themselves In the la- THE WORKMEN IV J I II I I -j r 1 If bor movement than anywhere else. They don't do this as a fad, but they are making a life study of the move ment They recognize that the labor movement has an Important bearing on the social and economic life of so ciety. Then the English have a more successful way of dealing with the question of non-employment than we have. In the weaving Industry the un ions re-strict the looms to a certain num ber. Iu Europe (he cnpitalists don't use labor-saving machinery half as much ns they do here. "I observed the movement In France nnd Germany. It isn't up to our stnnd nrd nt all. We use business methods. They don't. They get mixed up in poll ties too much. In Germany the un ions nre swamped by politics. In France they look up to us ns being fnr abend of thein. They consider us ns eminently practical and full of push nnd energy. Of course, the govern ment is ngnlnst them there. In France they forbid coalition. But. the women nre better organized there than hero. They're full of spirit." Con vict-M ude Cijiurs, A writer In the Sioux City Labor Bul letin makes tho following extracts on the subject of convlct-niade cigars: "The tactics adopted and pursued by many who deal In penitentiary mid sweat-shop goods, pui-ticularl.v whole salers, areas pusillanimous as they nre exleiislve. No hum, whether he is op posed to labor organizations or not, lias nny desire to smoke a penitentiary man ufactured cigar. In fact, the average man detests a cigar made In the peni tentiary. There are reasons for this, not altogether because the goods nre made by convict Ialnir which conies Into competition with holiest labor, but be cniiHO of the filthy condition In which the leaf of tobacco Is handled while going through the course of construc tion. We quoted extracts some time since from the pen of prison wardens to substantiate the truthfulness of the statement that the system used In the manufacture of cigars In the peniten tiary Is a very filthy one, and those who use clgnrs should be Informed of It." The writer Inst week happened to be In a store In Sioux City when a gentle man came In and requested the proprie tor to sell him a cigar. The customer asked for a brand familiarly known, which Is made In this city and by com petent union men, too. In answer to the customer's request the portly gen tleman behind the counter said he did Dot hare that brand of a cigar, but he did have something "Just as good." An examination of the cigars In the show case proved that not a union cigar wa there and the "Just us good cigar" waa made In the penitentiary, boxed there, aud, instead of being "Just as good," was made, counted and packed In filthy surroundings. "After this a pretty picture of some duke or knight, or, perhaps, the paint ed face and diamond decked neck of some millionaire's daughter, appeared upon the Inside of the cover and the ci gar was prepared for the shopkeeper'i showcase, there to be seen and sold as clean, 'just as good' cigars. The unsus pecting 'bite,' and when they Ignite the cigar and take a whiff, they that mo ment commence a filthy smoke. "The profits of the retailer are cer tainly much larger than If he were to deal In union cigars, because the whole saler and retailer, by handling peniten tiary cigars, make a magnificent profit, as the penitentiary cigar Is retailed for the same price as that of the union made cigar. It is the dear consumer that is being fleeced. The consumer of cigars have the key to the situation and that key Is a demand for a cigar with the union label upon the box in which It is." Ohject to tli Tnir System. About 500 members of the Milwaukee lodges of riie Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers met Satur day night to consider for the second time the order requiring the use of the OBJECT TO THIS. tag nnd clock system at the Bay View plant of the Illinois Steel Company. Snpt. Reis and a man named Simons, of Chicago, who Is connected with the company, addressed the gathering in an attempt to convince the men that there was nothing obnoxious In being numbered like freight curs and In being compelled to register their goings and comings after the fashion of night watchmen and policemen who are sus pected of sleeping on their beats. Messrs. Reis and Simons discussed the matter at length, occupying more than three hours. Numerous questions were asked by the men. As the hour was late, It wns decided to defer action for two weeks, Stijit. Reis agreeing to postpone action until thnt time. The feeling nmong the employes of the Bay View works Is strongly agnlnst the obnoxious innovation, yet at the same time they will do everything In their power to secure an amicable adjustment of the present difference of opinion, but If It should come to be a case of tags or a strike the belief Is thnt there would be n strike. The tng system will also be Introduced nt the .lollet plant of the Illinois Steel Company, unless the men should strike. General Labor Notes. Chicago has eight machinists unions. The bicycle makers of New York are organizing. Bicycle workers of Cleveland have organized a union. The stonework crafts are active in thirty States of the Union. A labor exchange brunch has been formed nt San Jose, Cal. The A. R. U. Issued charters to five lodges In Ohio Inst week. Tin- labor press of Canada has organ ized a press organization. The .lapaneso In a California prune on-hard struck against long hours. Hebrew printers of New- York won a seven weeks strike agnlnst two papers. The letter carriers at their late con vention Indorsed the clgarinakers' blue label. Portland, Ore., and Beulah, Man, have established labor exchang branches, ' The Metal Polishers' National Union Issued three charters last month and will Issue four this uonth. TUej have a monthly publication which Is Issued In Toled. f of, I ' 1 ' 1 0i fHil W