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T0P1C8 OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
ranlin Citlclnma Based Cpoa
tke H appeal n of tha Ia Hia
tavical aad New 3k o tea.
Insolvent is a long wurd used to de
scribe a abort condition.
Holding np passengers on the Chi
cago trolley cars Is a new thing. Here
tofore they hare had to bang on to
straps.
Richmond man bag Invented a ma
chine which will turn out 300 cigarette
a minute. Fortunately the product of
his Invention will not turn out Idiots
quite that rapidly.
That Michigan minister who ran over
a member of his congregation In the
dark with his bicycle and killed ber
bow sees the bad results of not keeping
his lamp trimmed and burning.
The New York Herald says: "The talk
bout taxing farm lands in the upper
part of the city at the rate of metro
politan improved property Is as sense
less as it is wild." How much of the
site of New Tork city Is covered by
farming lands?
The unspeakable Turk and the heathen
Chinee,
If they don't at once quit their prank
ing, Should both be bent over somebody's
knee
And given a good hard spanking.
The military force Brazil has sent to
Its Island of Trinidad Is another notice
served on England that the Monroe doc
trine is In a perfectly vigorous condi
tion and bristling with bayonets for
European meddlers. Trinidad Is a
lonely, barren rock, but Brazil has the
manhood to fight for It Just the same as
tf It were a pern of the seas.
' Occasionally an American marries a
great English fortune, the most remark
able Instance of which was the union
of W. L. A. Bartlett, of Brooklyn, to
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Mr. Bart
lett la to be made a peer, with the title
of Lord Latimer. His wife Is many
years his senior, but she Is a grand old
woman.
' An advocate of woman suffrage ad
dressed the South Carolina Constitu
tional convention the other day, and
began with the remark that "The his
tory of South Carolina Is a long record
of brilliant statesmanship." South
Carolina undertook to perpetuate slav
ery with firearms and succeeded In
abolishing It The result was unex
pected, but undoubtedly brilliant.
' One of the signs that China Is waking
np la the decision of the government to
build a railway 700 miles long on the
vest coast from a southern city to
Tien-Tsln In the north. The road will
not go within ninety miles of Pekln, as
the authorities think It would te too
bandy In case of Invasion. The old em
pire feels the necessity of modern im
provements yet is afraid to adopt them.
The French have triumphed in Mada
gascar; the dusky Queen is a fugitive
from the palace of Antananarivo, and
the tricolor floats over the picturesque
rock fortress where the rulers of the
island were wont to review their white
robed warriors. The news arrived In
Paris Just in time to prevent the fall of
the ministry, which was clamored for
on account of the supposed non-success
of the expedition.
Tennessee's centennial, to be held
next year, will give the South another
opportunity to reveal to the world the
wealth of Its present advantages and
the vast extent of Its resources waiting
tor development The Southern States
are more disposed than formerly to give
the band of welcome to honest and en
terprising settlers, even if their politics
la of a different shade. The newcom
ers will make excellent citizens be
yond a doubt
The official report of the Yale College
financial Union shows that the receipts
of football last year were $31,581, ex
penses $16,563; of baseball $10,800, ex
penses $8,005; of boating $0,(110, ex
penses $10,506; of track athletics $3,
163, expenses $4,056. The Yale News,
toaimen ting on the figures, calls atten
tion to the fact that boating and track
athletics are not self-supporting, de
clares that athletics at Yale cost too
inch, and says that the managers will
sake every effort to cut down expeuses
daring the coming year.
In New York City there are about 500
renders of sawdust, having a capital of
f30O,00O Invested, and doing a business
of $2,000,000 annually. Forty years ago
aW mills were glad to have sawdnst
aarted away; twenty-five years ago It
BtUd be bought for 50 cents a load ; now
It brings $3.50 a load at the mills. It is
Med at hotels, eating houses, groceries
and other business places. It Is wet
tad spread over floors In order to make
fo sweeping cleaner work. Plumbers
in It a great deal about pipes and
taJtdlnge to deaden tbe walla and
faora. Soda water men and packers of
ass and small articles of every kind
T tt, and dolls are staffed with It
t Jw pin makes tbe best sawdust,
OD-tfbs toast dusty and has a pun-
crxmuajmata. Bat any light wood
Zack walnut sawdnst will act
c 1 cxJ acned. ,
1 pay law mock for
Caesar gas Is waated. This
; cizz toads t too
Tm
yOCJ S baa
existing monopoly to buy out the
company. Gus remains at the same ng
ure or goes a little higher. TWe Is a
general feeling that a new company Is
needed. A new company Is according
ly formed, buys a franchise, rips up the
streets, sells out to the gas trust, and
gas remains the same or goes a little
higher, the result being a conviction
on the part of the public that a new
company is needed, whereupon a new
company is organized, boodies a fran
chise, rips up the streets, sella out to
the trust, etc., etc.
Harvard has discovered that the
English language Is seriously neglected
In that Institution. The Board of Vis
itors at West Point for 1M4 calls at
tention to tbe lack of facility of expres
sion on the part of the cadets and rec
ommends that more than the estab
lished 210 hours in four years at the
Academy be given to the English lan
guage and literature. Prof, (ioodwln,
of Harvard, writes on the subject of
students extremely defective In their
knowledge of English: "There Is no
conceivable justification for using the
revenues of Harvard College or the
time and strength of her Instructors In
the vain attempt to enlighten the Egyp
tian darkness in which no small portion
of our undergraduates are living." The
remedy proposed Is not to admit stu
dents whose knowledge of their own
language is unsatisfactory.
The senior bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, In the order of con
secration. Is known as the Presiding
Bishop, He Is virtually the primate of
the church In this eoun try "primus
inter pares" but he 1 usually superan
nuated. The Bishop of Connecticut
who now holds this office. Is 88; the
Bishop of Hhode Island, who Is next In
order, Is 83, and already broken down.
In the meetings of the House of Bish
ops the Presiding Bishop seldom pre
sides, a chairman being chosen for
that purpose, and matters requiring his
action very commonly have to be at
tended to by somebody else. Of course
this difficulty would not arise If the
primacy were attached to a metropol
itan see, which Is the nsual rule. But
the Episcopalians apparently 81 111 shy
at the Idea of an archbishop, and It Is
proposed that the House of Bishops
shall designate the Presiding Bishop,
who thus might sometimes come to the
office while still able to perform It
duties. It is also suggested to call him
Primus, after the Scottish use, but this
Is a detail. Though the compromise
does not strike one a very brilliant It
Is possible that It may find favor.
Will Carleton has written many things
which have struck a responsive chord
ln the popular heart dnd one of the
most eloquent and touching was "Over
the Hills from the Poor House." It has
been recited by thousands of elocution
ists and many tears have been shed
j over the pathetic story of the "black
I sheep" with the white heart and the
j "white sheep" with the hard hearts,
j But Will Carleton never wrote anything
j quite so eloquent or quite so touching
I as tbe story of an actual event that baa
j Just taken place In Kansas City. A
prosperous farmer away back In the
Buckeye State, years ago, befriended
a wandering young man, perhaps one
of Will Carleton's "black sheep." Then
benefactor and beneficiary were sepa
rated and the years passed on. The
wheels of fortune made many turns and
the prosperous fanner became a oounty
charge. The young man became a pros
perous farmer himself. But In his pros
perity he did not forget the man who
had befriended him, and the other day
the benefactor of bis youth was on his
way to a good home down In Cowley
County, Kan., there to spend the rest
of his life with the wandering young
man of other days. Such incidents de
serve to be chronicled and held up to be
contemplated of all men. They warm
the heart and make amends for some
of the hard-heartedness of the world.
A Fruitful Pear Tree.
Tbe advantage to a fruit tree of liv
ing In a university town, where there
Is at all times an atmosphere of high
culture, Is Illustrated in a story told
of a pear tree growing in a garden on
University avenue in Berkeley, Cal.
According to the story the tree was
planted five years ago. The first year
It bore two crops, tbe second one being
about naif grown at about the time the
first one was ripe. This year It is as
tonishing the natives by starting In on
the third crop, as there are now on the
tree ripe pears from the first crop, half j
ripe pears from the second crop and
blossoms for the third crop. This Is a 1
good record and justifies the belief that i
no matter how long the star of empire
may take on Its westward way, the pear ,
of empire has already arrived. 1
Pestiferous Leeches.
In India and Ceylon certain land
leeches are apt to become perfect pests
to man. Tbey are no bigger than a
knitting needle, are an Inch in length,
and when feeding stretch with great
power. Horses are driven wild by
them, and stamp the ground In fury to
shake them from their fetlocks, to
which they cling like bloody tassels.
The structure Is so flexible they can
make their way throng h the meshes of
the finest goods. The bare legs of tbe
palanquin-bearers and coolies are a fav
orite resort, and It Is asserted that a
battalion of soldiers In India were put
to flight by these small bloodsuckers.
A Large Membership,
One of the largest scientific bodies
la the world Is tbs British Medical As
oetottoo, which recently met la Lon
don. On Its former meeting la the
Has city la 1871 Ita membership was
VOX, wtwreaa K ha aew grown to la
of
great
a stabsri sad holds MODtrt
Mm
Mite
Parmer and Cycllat Should Unite.
It may be a new Idea to a great many
lovers of the wheel to be told that they
and the farmers have a strong Isjud of
sympathy, but when the question U ex
amined Into this will be found to be the
case.
Some years ago the Federal govern
ment examined Into the road question
from an agricultural standpoint and it
collected some facts which form the
basis of a strong argument in a demand
for good roads, no matter whether the
demand comes from farmer or cyclist
According to the discoveries of the gov
ernment the farmers of tbe country
bad uHn their farms draft animals as
follows. These statistics are from of
ficial records:
Average
Number,
riorses ....14.213,8.(7
Mules 2,331,027
Value. Price.
$978,516,562 $60
182,:M,(S 78
50O.G-.!5,137 15
Oxen, etc.. 36,849,024
Totals. 53,31(3,8881.721,535,780 ...
What Bad Koada Coat.
To simplify matters a little, there are
Dearly $2,000,OU),0) Invested in mo
tive power of a perishable, uncertain
and expensive kind. Busy or Idle, these
animals must be fed and cared for
every day. They are boarders that
can't be got rid of when the busy sea
son Is over and to keep them at work Is
part of a farmer's economy. Two thou
sand millions of dollars make a large
sum. Invested at 6 per cent Interest It
would produce nearly 2,0O0,j0 a
week. Then there are more than 16,-
000,000 of horses and mules alone, and
to feed and care for these It costs the
modest sum of $4,000,000 a day. A lit
tle while ago a very clever and Intelli
gent citizen of Indiana estimated that
bad roads cost the farmer $15 a year
for each horse and mule in his service.
This means a loss In the aggregate of
nearly $250,000,000 per year. Add wear
and tear of wagons and harness, $100,-
000,000; depreciated value of farm
lands, $2,000,000,000; total, $250,000,-
000.
Making the utmost allowance In favor
of the farmer and granting the neces
sity for the liberal use of horse power In
the maintenance of agricultural traffic.
It is easily certain that the farmers of
this country are keeping at least 2,000,
000 of horses more than would be nec
essary to do all the hauling between
farm and market if only the principal
roads were brought to a good condition.
Assume that each of these horses is
fed the ordinary army ration of hay
and oats. It requires 14,000 tons of hay
or fodder and 750,000 bushels of oats
per day to feed these unnecessary ani
mals, which themselves have a money
value of $140,000,000. The value of hay
and oats fed to these horses jxt day Is
about $300,000, or something like $114,
000,000 a year.
But coming back to the original ad
vice, let the cyclers and the farmers
put their joint shoulders to the wheel
and keep turning It until good roads are
extracted from tbe lottery of legisla
tion. A Jealous florae.
Jealousy is au exceptional trait In a
horse, although a very common one
among dogs and even cats, a Chicago
physician has a horse which may fair
ly be said to be In love with his mas
ter; and It Is an Infatuation remarkably
human. When the doctor enters the
stable, he receives a most affectionate
greeting from the stall. Mack pricks
up his ears, raises his head, and whin
nies Joyously. When bis master is In
the saddle the horse Is entirely man
ageable and always ready for a long
gallop. The slightest pressure of the
reins suffices to control him. A single
word Is enough to quicken bis pace or
to bring him nnder absolute command,
but tbe physician alone can give the
order.
One stable boy after another has at
tempted to ride tbe horse, and has been
thrown within a hundred yards of the
table. Expert horsemen have made
the venture, and have soon found them
selves on the ground. Mack has Inva
riably given warning of bis Intentions
by a sullen, reproachful and even In
dignant glance, and then has started
down tbe road with a mad rush, only to
torn about suddenly and fling off the
rider whom be disliked.
He la not a vicious horse, but only
one that loves bis master and is de
termined to be loyal to him. He also
Insists upon engrossing the attention
and affection of bla master.
Tbe doctor bought a second bone and
rode ber several times. Poor Mack was
in despair. He lay down In bis stall
and bid bis bead In the darkest corner.
He refused to take bis oats until the
doctor bad gone eat with him for a can
ter. He was apparently overwhelmed
with melancholy, and would not be
comforted until bis rival had been ban
ished from the stable.
The physician bad a little son who
efts west ewt to tbe atabto to see tbe
tuna, Tbe father sometimes carried
tbe Md la kit arms and petted Mm
Bsaataady. Mack did not approve of
da.
Co had a oeoraft! way of tooting at
Da cfetts tkoj aovor tsSed to make fee
d.wtor laugh. He seemed to recognise
in the boy a rival and took no pains to
conceal his d.kllke and contempt One
day the horse was treacherous and re
sentful euuugb to kick In the direction
of the child.
A few mornings afterward the horse
was led from the stable where the doc
tor was standing by with the child in
his arms. The father put tbe boy In
the saddle and beld him there. Mack
1. Hiked around with eye that were
fairly green with jt-alousy. and In an
Instant flung tbe burden from his back,
but fortunately Into the father's arms.
It was a convincing proof of the horse's
Jealousy of rhe child.
The Old "IMne-JackeU."
The average blue-Jacket as I knew
him long ago was always a good fellow,
and be used to manage to get dead
drunk faster than any other class of
men with whom I have been acquaint
ed. He was not steady. Apart from
his oillcvr he seemed almost a reed
shaken with tbe wind, though his per
sonal courage was always lion-like
when roused. He was proud of bis
officer, especially if his officer was bard
on him. He was somewhat of a fatal
ist quick to Imagine that fate was
against him and to give up the struggle
against It He was quarrelsome In his
cups, but almost always distinctly wit
ty out of them. He preserves his hum
or to the present day. A story Is told
of a certain "Bill" standing at the cor
ner of a street In Natal during the Zulu
war, when a certain general Just land
ed, covered with medals and orders, and
equally bung with soldierly knlck
nacks, the whistle, the field glass, the
compass, the note book, etc., passed
near "BUI" and his companion "Jack."
"Who's lm. Jackr aaked Bill.
"Dunno," said Jack; "seems to be one
o' them new generals Jnt come ashore."
"H'rn," returned Bill, preparing to
put his pipe In bis mouth again, "looks
like a bloomln' Christmas tree!" North
American Review.
The Combat feepens.
As told recently, the young men of
Edmeston formed an "anti-bloomer
brigade," pledging themselves not to
SJienclate with any girls who wore the
prevailing cycling costume. This move
ment arouwd the Indignation of the
young women, who now propose to
demonstrate their Independence by re
fusing to associate with young men
who will not pledge themselves to ever
abandon certain practices. Tbey call
their society the "True Reform Club,"
and fifteen have already subscribed to
the following pledge:
"I hereby pledge myself not to as
sociate with any young man who uses
Intoxicating drinks of any kind, tobacco
In any form, attends horse races or en
gages In games of chance, and I fur
thermore promise by all honorable
means In my power to discountenance
such indulgences and practices In the
community where I reside."
Several members of tbe mifel club
are devotees of the wheel and to the
bloomer costume, while others care
nothing for the sport, but are anxious
to show the young men that In their
opinions, true reform should aim at
something more important than tbe
style of one's attire. Ul'' Herald.
I.aboi
It Is a mistake to suppose that labor
Is an unpleasant condition of life. It
Is matter of eJierlence that there Is
more contentment In attending to any
kind of occupation than there Is In
looking for some occupation. Attend,
therefore, to your business, and regard
your business as being worthy of all
your attention. Working men are apt
to consider that their occupations alone
are laborious, but In that matter they
are mistaken. Labor of mind Is gen
erally even more fatiguing than labor
of the body, and H Is quite erroneous to
suppose that others do not work as well
as we do, simply because their work Is
different from ours. Labor Is the earth
ly condition of man, and until tbe na
ture of man is changed, the want of
something to do will produce all the
horrors of ennui. Gambling and other
reprehensible dissipations are all owing
to tbe fact that human nature cannot
support a state of Idleness. To live
without a purpose is to lead a restless
life.
The Dog Was Wearing Her Teeth.
Mrs. James Herring, living a few
miles from Lancaster, Is the
of a fine full set of artificial teeth, and
in some wav lost tbe lower olate. After
a diligent search she came to the con- ;
elusion that tbey could not be found, j
Imagine her consternation when she
fonnd tbe missing teeth In the mouth of
her house dog. Tbe dog had evidently
found them, and, thinking them a food
thing, proceeded to appropriate them
to bla own use. ne bad got them fast
ened In his own mouth, and It was with
much difficulty tbey were removed. He
had lost several natural teeth, and It
loked very much as though he wanted
to replace them with artificial ones.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Irresistible Arguments.
Frederick the Great's father was lu
tbe habit of kicking the sblns of those
who differed from him In argument
One day be aaked a courtier If ho
agreed with him on some discussed
point "Sire," be returned, "It Is Im
possible to bold a different opinion from
a king who baa such strong convictions
and wears such thick boots."
Against HI WIU.
t (la narn heroines Were the deanalr nf
tha lata Robert Louis Stevenson (m
a young lady to said to bars aaked him
why b did not create really ale wom
en, to which ha replied, "I bare tried
my beet, but somehow tbey alt tan to
barmaids oa toy haads."
How
loa ta scope
or Mac
TWOULD BE A PICNIC FOR
Jlv
J21LVE r BArWi&Vf ( ' -
'Twould be a hard grind on Uncle
tiu-mers and wage earners.
CHEAP MONEY DELUSION.
VbIm IuctrlnM ftprwtd Abroad by Item.
UM In Timet of LlapraMloD.
The cheap money delusion only flour
ishes in time of depremion. Tluu-e are
not times of depression, nor is there
that prospect ahesd. In time of depres
sion demagogues can always find a con
stituency for tbe wretched delusion that
to make good times it is only necessary
for the government to set a lot of print
ing presses at work turning out paper
money or to set all the mints st work
coining silver dollars. Somehow or oth
er the idea prevails among the dupes of
the demagogue that when the govern
ment has printed or coined money it if
going to make a present of it to tbe peo
ple. Nobody gets money in that way.
Money has to circulate before It can
get into people's pockets and to make it
circulate there must be business, trad
ing, commercial activity, the invest
ment of capita, tbe opening of new en
terprises, and before there can be such
commercial and financial activity there
must be confidence in the future that
legislation will not destroy the value of
Investments made. There must be an
assurance that when a dollar is let out
for use it will ooms back whole and not
clipped of half its value. In no other
way can people get money in their pock
ets. Mo government has attempted such
a foolish thing as to give tbe people
money, and the mere manufacture of
money at the mints would do nobody
any good. hit Joseph Herald.
Staadtly Voting Oroaad.
The Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Ohio,
who has taken the trouble to inform
himself on the currency feeling in the
wost, recently expressed the following
opinion :
"I ltxik for a short, sharp fight be
tween the forces of cheap money and
sound money and the utter defeat of
the silveritos. Free silver people never
had the strength they boast of. There
is a good deal of noise, it Is true, but
when it comes to counting noses, they
are generally fn tbe minority. Tbe fact
is, each successive congress since tbe
Fifty-first shows a great falling off of
free silver followers. In the Fifty-second
congress there was a tie vote in the pop
ular house on the Bland bill, and this
was the zenith of the silver craze. Its
nadir is in the f nture. Tbe improvement
In business conditions i not calculated
to support the claims of the silverites.
They have based their agitation mainly
on discontent springing largely from
the unemployed class, and now that
these are becoming fewer every day the
silver followers grow beautifully less."
Btlvar Would Baplaae Oold.
Question. Would there be more mon
ey in tbe country with the free coinage
of silver?
Answer. There would at first be very
much less, owing to the withdrawal of
gold. After values bscaiuo adjusted to the
silver basis silver would be coined here
is it is in Mexico. There would be no de
mand for silver on account of its coin
age, nor would it then go up in price,
because silver bullion would be worth
the same after coinage as before, Just
as gold is now. Men would sow sud
reap and buy and sell as they do now.
Whoever got a silver dollar would have
to work for it as he mnst now work.
Our stock of money would be less effi
cient because we would not have tho
standard of the leading civilized na
tions, snd car money would have Ita
price in gold, fluctuating from day to
day, as is now the case with the money
of Mexico, Japan, China .and other
oountries. To understand the result we
have but to study tbe conditions found
among the silver using natlona R.
Weissinger in "What Is Money!"
Mlstafelac Bskst Far Cases.
The fall in tbe price of silver is to be
explained ia the same way as the fell
in tbe price of wheat and oottou by an
enormous Increase of prod action. While
demonetisation may have to some ex
tent influenced the price of stiver, yet
tbe fall ia price was tbe cooes of de
monetisation, and not Its result R.
Weissinger ia "What U Money f"
a Is Wall TfcawM OC
First Cassrsh Member What are too
agtt Deooon Jooesf
On arch Member Hlanderia
Said be was as good as gaki,
THE SILVER BARONS, BUT-
Sam, and it would be at the expense of
CHEAP MONEY CHEATS LABOR.
Eipericnoa of Thl aad Othfir Conotrlaa
With Depreciated Currency.
Undoubtedly thousands of wage earn
ers believe that somehow thry would
be benefited by cheap money. The most
modern form of cheap money, as it ex
ists in their childish minds, Is the CO
cent silver dollar, mads of this value by
coining it at a ratio of 18 to 1 with
gold. Such irsons are cither incapable
of reasoning or they have never really
applied their reasoning powers to this
question. Neither have they learned the
lessons of history in rcgurd to cheap
money and wages. A pamphlet entitled
"Quality of Money and Whkos" has
just been published by the Reform club,
which is intended to twtch the lessons
of history and to facilitate clear think
ing on this important question. Its au
thor, Mr. Frank L. McVey, first demon
strates in the simplest way that a de
preciating currency must injure the
wage earner. Here is the way he begins
his direnssion :
"The iratOTS in our mills and fac
tories, together with those engaged in
day labor of other kinds, constitute a
great creditor class. They are creditors
in the sense that they advance labor. At
the end of a day or a week the amount
due tbem for services performed is
greater than that owing to any other
class. But in the majority of cases the
wage earner is dependent upon his daily
or weekly earnings, so that the vital
question with him is as to their imme
diate purchasing power.
"What a laborer really works for are
the things which he consumes. Every
thing that goes to make goods cheaper
tends to increase the real as compared
with the "nominal wages of tbe work
man, for he is then getting more goods
for tbe same money. On the other hand,
every tendency to make things dearer
tends to decrease in a corresponding de
gree the real wages of the js-ople.
'Wages are high or low according to the
abundance of necessities, comforts or
luxuries obtainable for them.' "
Mr. McVcy proceeds carefully to in
quire Into the relations between money,
prices and wages. Here U another of
bia statements :
"Tbe prices of what wage earners
have to buy respond far more promptly
to changes in the quality of money than
do wages the prices at which labor is
sold. Hence whenever money is getting
better, though nominal wages may tend
to decrease, wage earners are constantly
gettiug more good in exchange for tbe
money they actually get for their labor,
and whenever money is getting poorer,
though nominal wages may teud to in
crease, wage earners are constantly get
ting less of the necessaries and comforts
of life in return for the wages they re
ceive. Appreciation of the dollar In
which wages are paid and consequently
lower prices are therefore constantly and
certainly to the advantage of the wage
earner. Depreciation of the dollar and
consequently higher prices are always
and certainly to his damage."
After reaching conclusions from theo
retical reasoning he studies the expe
rience of most of the leading countries
of the world. He finds that not only are
wages nearly always lower lu liber
than in gold standard countries, but
that there is abundant reasou why snch
should be the case. To cite one instance
be shows by statistics and diagrams
that our wage earners during our civil
war suffered a great loss In wages due
to the depreciation of our currency. In
lfe65 a day's labor purchased only four
fifths as much as it purchased In 1 800.
Wages had risen only about 48, while
prices bsd risen 90 per cent since 161.
This notwithstanding that the with
drawal of one-fourth of our beet work
ere to sane as soldiers greatly lessened
tbe 00m pet It ion among laborers and
that both before and since our greenback
inflation period both nominal and real
wages have been advancing from year
to year.
Mr. McVey closes with the following
Impartial statement :
"Tbe only fair and Just currency to
all parties Is a stable one. Under each
a currency tbe conditions of tbe future
are more easily ascerUlnabls, legitimate
entorprlee mere eomVtoalry entered apoa
and progress mors rare. Wep earners
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