THE SUM COUNTY JOURNAL.
L i. SIMMONS, Pray.
HARRISON,
1TEBBASKA.
Tbe man who keep, hi month shut
le-cr has to eat any crow.
Russell Sage U now au octogenarian,
but bis interest In and from his fellow
man doesn't flag.
One of the obstreperous Indian
chiefs now causing trouble In Arizona
Is called "Green Curtain." Why not
pall hi uj down?
A contemporary asserts that "a mot
quito bit a St. I,ouis negro the other
night and death was the result. Served
the nioaiiuito rig-fit.
Robert Chew ate part of the ear of
his opponent In an Arkansas rough
an? tumble tight, aai yet some insist
that there is nothing Ip names.
An umbrella covered with a transpar
ent material has been indented in Eng
land, enabling the holder to see where
he ' going when he holds it before his
face.
Seventeen robberies in one day "do
not disconcert" Chicago's chief of po
llca In this he enjoys a distinct ad
vantage over the citizens and business
men wh- have been held up.
It the Duke of Veragua really In
sists on lighting we believe he can find
a bue opportunity to display bis mili
tary prowess In Cuba. Why does he
waat to fight tbe I'nited States? There
Is no trouble over here.
ISritisb rifles fetch from 300 to 400
rupees on the Indian frontier, while th
line for the soldier who loses his rifle
is 100 rupees. The trade in rifles Is
consequently brisk acros:- tbe border,
whiit the reputation of the native
th'eves for ingenuity is kept high.
The development of the New Woman
received an Impetus in New York re
cently. A woman b wrded one of the
Broadway open smoking cars, and, pro
ducing a cigar, proceeded to enjoy a
qur-L smoke. The conductor returned
her rlckel and ordered her off the car,
but the next day the superintendent
reprimanded tbe conductor and issued
orders that women be allowed to smoke
on the cars when they wanted to.
The extiertenee of Louisiana negroes
In railroad work in Guatemala is simi
lar to that of others who have made la
bor contracts with Mexico or any of
the central American States. It would
seem as though the knowledge that
workingmen were little better than
laves In any of these Spanish-Amerl-caa
countries would deter Americans
from entering into any contracts, but
the flattering Inducements held out are
believed, and once in the net there is
no escape. Whenever the agents of
these Central American contractors ap
pear in this country they should be
made to move on.
Tht news from Pirta that bicycle
rldlns baa Induced the arbiters of fash
ion to Increase the size of the waist of
women's dresses is welcome. The fash
ion plate woman is an impossible crea
ture, but, nevertheless, those ladles
who are ruled by the orders sent out
from Paris have tried to compress their
waists as the regulations decree. No
otliet result than serious and perma
nent detriment to health could follow.
But the bicycle has changed all thla. It
la Impossible to ride the wheel without
free movement of the lungs; hence tbe
aftol'tion of tbe fashionable decree In
favrr of the slender and unnatural
waist.
A pretty story of Prof. Herkomer :s
told In one of the London , apers. H'.s
aged father, who Uvea witn him In bis
splendid home at Bushey, used to model
in clay In his early life. He baa re
cently taken to It again; but hla fear Is
tha'. soon his bands will lose tbelr skill,
and his work will show the marks of
imperfection. It U his one sorrow. At
night be goes to hla early rest, and
when be has gone, Herkomer, the tal
ented son, goes Into the studio, takes
up hla father's feeble attempts, and
make the work as beautiful as art can
make It. When the old man comes
down In the morning he takes the work
and looks at It, and rubs his banda and
, says: "Hi! I can do as well aa ever I
didr
A talented if rather disreputable play
actor hsa Jost began suit for divorce.
It Is said that fee wishes to be free to
' . marry a youg Married woman, also
" on the stage. Mm, too, mast get rid of
l her husband, from whom she is now
""'; separated. Lightning changes of hus
bands snd wires bare become one of
V the fads of tbe stage, like the absurd
v , accents, the vainglorious nosings and
ail tha other nonsensical f rummer! e
Ifeat toad to make the profession of
flayer not what Its true ornaments
WoaM Kke It to be. Such marriages as
19mm art no different from open Immor
aCty. The complaisance of tbe court
snd tha cupidity of tbe minister caatnot
cStor too tsssstlal central fact la on
: - way tasty art mors oubvsrsivs that
' ca ramswKty. Tbey bring the tart
f t3s of marriage Into disreputs.
- Uhiw aaatod that Spate win ask
..; fzzi ft C A-wrku etttsaas
tsf hi Csjatarltt. K h)
TM3bf t C aot to swnd
TL1 rJBb aurfaOy
-ro 'tl3 H m?Jnn do-
u tnt err MU ustai
tts power to maintain neutrality. Spain
would only add to cur diffhtilrles in
keeping down filibustering by acting
iv.'ly. It might lie a good thing fur the
Spanish Government to evince a dis
position to be grateful for our pat
favors. Officially, the United State ha
no feeling iu this matter; but the ma
jority of individual Americana cordial
ly hope to see Cuba successful. Spain
ought to remener. by tbe way, that
she has herself proved a difficult debtor.
Her statesmen are past masters of toe
art of delay, and only pay when it is
absolutely iniierative.
"A fair exchange Is no roblery." We
ha?e lost William Waldorf Astor from
the galaxy of American citizens who
have shone brlghtiy in our social
flrnament by virtue of Inherited mill
Ions. Or, rather, he bus taken himself
froT. us because lordly grandson of
a Dutch fur-dresser as he is he cannot
endure democratic Institutions and
hoi'es to be counted among the British
aristocracy. But have we not gained
"Lanky Bob" Fltzsimmons? The erst
while champion of Britannia's worhl
encircling prize ring ha become an
American citizen. He offers himself as
a substitute for coast fortifications, and
as the defender of American honor
against the world. We s'.iall miss thi
glldid, if not gifted Astor from the so
cial functions of our "fcur hundred,"
but, gaining Fitzslmmona. we shall fevl
thai our republic Is safe, and we shall
hav fisticuffs galore.
It is estimated that .V) 000,000 Is an
nually spent for bicye'es In Europe, yet
the London Telegraph says the horse
and carriage trade bat not beea serlous
ly affected In England by the competi
tion of the wheel. Inquiries at the
leading establishments where horse
are sold show that there has been no
decline in prices for fine stock, carriage
horses or single steppers, and that the
only competition which Is felt in an ap
preciable degree is from tbe Importa
tion of horses from Canada and the
United States. It Is also stated that
the demand for "utility" horses Is as
great as ever, although It Is admitted
tha: saddle horses are not called for as
frequently now as a few years ago, Iw
for the "bicycle craze" was developed.
Hunting, gays the Baltimore Suu, is
till a favorite jwstlme in England, and
the bicycle hi not yet been invented
which will enable the sportsman to fol
low the hounds across country, Jumping
fences and ditches, and going into
places in which the wheel would be
useless.
Chicago Chronicle: So far as any ef
fect upon local financial conditions Is
concerned. It does not make any par
ticular difference whesher the Institu
tion known as the Chicago Stock Ex
change closes for a day or for a week
or whether It does not resume business
at all. It Is a small potato-gambling
concern which is exceeded in real im
portance by any one of half a dozen La
Salle street bucket shops, and Its ag
gregate bona fide dally transactions do
not equal those of tbe average book
maker at an Indiana race truck. It In
the cheapest game In town. Tbe only
thing that gives it any imiortarice at
all Is Its name, and that Is a false pre
tense. It Is no more a stock exchange
In the true sense of the term than Mr.
Skakel's clock is. It is a mere couilrfna
tlon of "shoestring" gamblers who prey
upon one another when the public de
clines to be fleeced. Like all their tribe,
too. they are Inclined to "welch" when
they lose. Having Inflated a specula
tive balloon, rhey run to cover when It
bursts. Caught loaded up with wild
cat shares, they shut up shop and yell
"panic" when the market goes against
them. The only danger to be ftred
from the midnight ukase of Its directors
closing this stock exchange because of
the troubles of a firm of local specula
tors lies in the fact that the people of
other cities may be deceived into be
lieving that It mealy has some Influence
upon Chicago finances. It lias no such
Influence. It has no Influence of any
kind good, bad or indifferent. Its gov
erning board is the butt of local cor
porations whose stocks are listed on the
exchange. Its rules are defied by the
Issuance of bonds and stocks at tbe will
and pleasure of all the professional
tblmblerlggera In town, and It Is as un
able to protect Itself as It Is to protect
Its patrons against any scheme of stock-
Jobbing that may be devised by specu
lators for tbe robbery of noodles and
nincompoops. The people and tbe news
papers outside of Chicago need feel no
apprehension over tbe suspension tem
porary r permanent of the Chicago
Stock Exchange. It Is an event of no
more financial significance than tbe
raiding of a "levee" crap game would
be.
Mtady of the Crimlaal.
Dr. P. Penta, an Italian criminologist,
has discovered a new feature of crim
inal anthropology, which goes to con
firm still farther tbe views of Prof.
Lombrosso. According to modern med
icine Dr. Penta has studied tbe fingers
snd toes of 4.B00 criminals, and finds
a deficiency In the number, as well as
prehensile toes, marked by a wide space
between the great toe and the second
toe; also a webbed condition of the
toes, an approximation to the toeless
feet of some savages, He found the
little toe rudimentary In many eases.
Showing a tendency toward the four
toed animal foot The most common
of all the abnormalities wss tbe web
bed condition of tbe toes. Theciimina'
la tndf a degenerate type.
Hlht for Baaglag Mirrors.
When hanging a mirror see that it I:
aot so placed that tbe rays of the sun
win aU directly on It, for by so do)h)a
tha glass will be less likely to becorto
Jocded. '
Wo hare noticed that few men caIc;
dying requests, but did you ever aottcc
hat moat woman makt themT
SHOULD BANKERS HANG
BRYAN
SMILES HIS APPROVAL
OF THE IDEA.
The Bar Orator' I'Iao of DuUjIcg the
BaDhers la aa Endeavor to Scare the
Labor Vote The silver l'artjr'i Notifi
cation, The notification meeting at Lincoln, on
tbe 8th hist., in which Mr. Bryan was of
ficially iiifiirnMHl of bis nuiuiuatiou by
the National Silver party at St. Louis,
suggfuts several thiut that are worthy
of note in this campaign.
It was a luwting of the Silver party.
It was not a Democratic meeting, not
Popoorstie uii-eliiig. Dot a Populist uii-et-
HiB. but a silver meetiug ot me rviver
party 1o notify the silver cauiliiinte of ilia
nomination, on a platform that is nothing
but silver.
Mr. Bryan says silver is tbe iwue and
the uuly'iwue." lie calls it the imra
Uinutit intdie. If silver is the paramount
iiwue then the nilver party in the para
mount party anil this silver un-etiug uiay
be julj;ed as (he paramount meeting ami
at this meeting tlie silver cause should
have touched its highest (siint.
Mr. Bryan was met at the It. & M.
deiot by a straggling crowd of shout
people, some of whom followed him in
draggled prKiBioii through the streets
to his home. Not the buHiies men of
Lincoln, not the business men of Oma
ha, not the business men of any city iu
the L'nited States. No part of the busi
ness mind which the nation limks to for
the guiilam-e anil the maintenance of its
iu(!utrml and business energies was rep
resented in that -parade or at the notifi
cation ceremonies which afterwards
took place.
Where are the business forces of this
country in this contest? Are they for
silver? If it is the paramount thing,
then the biininess men ought to have
been so notified, they should have been
represented here, and the idle people
who gathered at the depot and followed
the candidate through the streets would
know that this silver movement has the
confidence of someone who can and will
use it, when it is put into law, as a
means of restoring industry ami giving
employment. If a new yardstick had
Is-en proposed by Mr. Bryan, and if a
new party had been organized on the
sole issue of this new yardstick, and if
this was the oniy issue of iniisirtan'v,
if a revival of business depended solely
upon the adoption of this new yardstick,
then would it not be reasonable to sup
pose that the merchants ami business
men who are expected to use this new
system would manifest their approval
of it in some way, and give (he waiting
people some reason to hoe that this newsy-stem
would le put into use after it
wns put into law? If a new business
plan is proposed and ptit into law, which
the business forces of the country re
jects as unsafe and unpractical, then of
what use is this new plan If the mer
chant cannot and will not tise the new-
yardstick, then why have a new jdrd
stick? Mr. Bryan says we will compel
them to use it. Very well, if you pass a
law declaring that eighteen inches is a
yard when it is not a yard, but i.nly
half a yard, and if you compel the mer
chant to use this new measure, 'hen he
will change bis price to suit the ueiv
measure and he will narrow his busi
ness into as small a scope as possible
and wait nnlil the new experiment 1ms
snent its force and is abolished. You
will simply confuse the merchant in
stead or assisting him.
Mr. Bryan smiled upon the small
crowd who gathered about him as he
moved along the streets of Lincoln, but
his smile took on a pale and painful ex
pression when he glanced at the win
dows and saw McKinley's picture every
where along the business streets. And
not only along the business street, but
out all over the city McKinley looked
from the window of the houses. Not
that Lincoln people felt unfriendly to
ward Mr. Bryan ticca use it was be. or
friendly toward Mr. McKinley because
it was he, but some how- Lincoln eoplc
feel that McKinley and his plan of gov
ernment are safer, are more matured,
and have the confidence of the business
mind all over the nation. After all.
what will this new financial plan avail
if the men who are expected to use it iu
business are afraid of it?
Every man in Lincoln. Omaha, Kansas
City and Ie Moines who are expected
to engineer the labor industries in those
cities during the next four years is afraid
of Mr. Bryan and his new silver dollar.
If the notification had 1m "en in either of
those cities the business men would have
been absent from the parade just the
same as in Lincoln and McKiniev's tiic-
ture would have lieeu in the business
I houses just the same. Mr. Bryan gets
a great deal of sport out of the cam
paign shaking his fists at the bunks and
J the business of the country. Mr. (Jroot,
I who was the chief reireaentative of the
! silver party ami who presented t tie
notification to Mr. Bryan, shook his
fist iu excited anger at the bankers and
( said they ought to be hung to I he tele
graph poles. When Mr. (iroot said this,
ja number of men who Bfood out in front
nf him shook their fists also and said:
("That's right." While all this threaten
ling to hang the bankers and shaking of
fists was going on, Mr. Bryan nodded
his head and smiled his approval. He
j not only nodded and smiled, but when it
came his turn to speak, he shook his
' -1. - 1 .t- ......J
ni aiso aim me orKingiiieii suouieo
kinder than ever at the prowt of hang
ing the bankers as a means of restoring
confidence and bringing back good times.
Mr. Bryan seemed to enjoy himself us
he looked out over tbe crowd and said
as many things as he could think of to
please the people and encourage his fol
lowers all over tne nation.
As I said before, Mr. Bryan had exhib
ited some symptoms of panic in his face
when he saw that the business men had
put McKinley's picture instead of his
picture in the windows. But when he
saw how the crowd cheered the prospect
of hanging a few of these bankers and
business men, it seemed to restore Ins
confidence. And then again, when he
himself stood up to address them and
one man shouted, "(iive it to 'cm, Bil
ly!" and another shouted "You bet:"
be seemed to Interpret this as a sign
that the workiiigmeii were in tbe ma
jority and would elect him just the same
in spite of the business men. And so
be told them be bad no fear of tbe oppo
sition of the business men so long as
he saw so many of the brave and honest
toilers who were resdy to reject the
advice of their employers and follow
him.
Mr. Bryyi knows it will be a good
thing for him to get the labor vote, even
if he paralyse industry in the attempt.
Rome of tbe laboring men seem to think
it will he a good thing fur them also,
hut just why they think so is not very
clear. ' It may be jut the thing for
.Mr. Bryan's onndldicy to bully the
hankers and scare the business mind
of tbe country. It may lie that scar
ing the men who employ lsbor is the way
to get tbe lalsir vote, but Just why such
a course will get tbe labor vote snd
where the lalsirer himself will be benefit
ed is a pnfzle.
Prom the McKinley pictures which
hsng in the windows of Lincoln, from
tbe anti-Bryan and anti-silver sentiment
which is almost universal among the
men of bnsiness affairs st Omaha snd
in sll the commercial centers of the na
tion, it may now be recorded ss s per
manent living fact, that Bryan, with all
his eloquence, with sll the nlsnsihility
with which he has presented the free
coinage plan, has utterly son .ompVtely
failed to gain the confidence of the busi
ness judgment of this country, and if
eleeted his triumph will be a victory of
majorities over judgment.
Those who believe that a country is
better off without hanks than w ith them,
that a section hand on a railroed knows
lietter how to run it than the general
manager, that the clerk iu tiie store is a
Is'tter financier than the owner of it,
that the janitor of a bank is more hon
est than the cashier, that a bricklayer
knows more alsmt law snd has more
conscience than a supreme judge, that
the hired man on the farm has more
sense than the man who ow ns it. that all
men who read and think are f-sils unci
all who don't read and don't think un
wise, that the man who holds nW
is always rorrupt while the man who is
seeking' tbe ollii-e is always honest, that
the farmers of the West sn get a mar
ket for their prisiuc-e while the bilKirilig
men of the Kast are iiiieinpioviHt. that
lnlsir can get employment while the fac
tories are shut down, that idle indus
tries will start against the judgment
of the men who own them, that industry
and commerce are niansg"d by oratory
ami not by business mind, that a Isiy
knows more than a man. those who l
lieve these things will regard the elec
tion of W. 4. Bryan as a victory for the
American people.
But so long as tbe people who read
and think are In the majority, so long as
Ihe majority of American farmers know
that their market is the tabic of the
American workingman, so long u a ma
jority of the workingmen know that they
arc employed only when there is confi
dence iu the mind of the employer, so
long as mind and conscienee has influ
ence at the polls, there will be no bank
ers hung and no boy orator in the jiresi
ill-mini chair.
A SHORT CURRENCY DIALOGUE.
Ijcarner Dr. Socrates. I can get a bet
ter watch today for than I could
twenty-five years ago for 1"I. Is that
not because the old watch was made
by hand, while the new one is made by
machinery?
lr. Sis-rates Silveraiilpe By no means,
most simple youth. The true reason is
Is-cause the value of gold has doubled
since 1S73. and the value of products
has Im-cii halved.
I -earner Well, my mother lsinght a
sewing machine twenty-five years iigo
for Jfl.'i. and yesterday she bought a
much better one for PHI. The seller said
that since the patents had expired and
there was no royalties to pay. sewing
machines had fallen greatly in price.
I suppose that was true.
Ir. Soernte Silversnipe By no
means. The seller had never rend Coin
Harvey's works, or he would know that
the fail iu the price of the product was
caused by the demonetization of silver,
and that the royalty had nothing to do
with the matter.
Learner Well, grandpa bought a pfiir
of nice, new boots yesterday for ?".
He told me that when he was married
his boots cost him f jt). and that he car
ried them in his hands to the bride's
house and then put them on. He said
that the ne of machinery was the cause
of the fall in the price of the product,
boots.
Ir. Socrates Silversniie Your grand
father has not read the works of the
wise men, Bland, Vest and t'oxey snd
Marv Kllcn I-ease. so he is an illiterate
gold bug. It is really shameful that he
does not know that intchinery had no
relation to the boots, but that Ihe fall
in mice was caused by the "Crime of
1ST:!."
I-arner I noticed that Deacon Miles
had closed his distillery and the deacon
told me that on account or over-pro
duction the profit on whisky was so
small that all the distillers had agreed
to make no more for some time. Was
he right in saying that tbe market was
over-stocked :
Dr. Socrates Silversnnie No. Ib-ncon
(!iles is an ass, or he would see clearly
that the trouble is that Jones. Stewart
& Co. are not allowed to dump ail their
ore into the mints.
Help for the Farmer.
Maj. McKinley seems to have struck
a ressmsive chord in the minds nl
hearts of the pinple when, in one of his
speeches, be suggested that tin-re would
lie more sense in oiH-uiiig the mills than
in opening the mints. This is a short,
terse, and common sense presentation of
the difference between the sound-money
people and the free silverites. Maj. Mc
mlcy said iu a recent address to a dele
gation of farmers:
"Fti-e silver will not increase the de
mand for your wheat or make a single
new consumer. You don't get consumers
through the mints. You get them
through the factories. You ill not get
them by increasing the circulation of
money in the I'nited States; you will get
them only by increasing the iiiniiiifaclur
ing establishments in tbe I'nited Slates."
No mutter how free the coinage of
silver be. that or any other coin must
get to the jieople through some natural
channels. The government will not
even under the control of the most r vo
lutionary and anarchistic Populists,
make a free distribution of silver. They
only propose that the government hhall
coin whatever is brought to Ihe mint,
for the individual who owns the oielal.
therefore to get the benefit of free and
unlimited coinage, it will be necessary
for tlie farmers to get bullion, and how
shall they get bullion any more easily
i than coined silver? What they want is
a market for their products. Increased
demand can foUow only increased con
sumption, and increased consumption
will only come afler increased general
business, particularly increased manu
factures. The policy suggested by the
I'osK-rafs, namely, lnileH-nden.-e of
Kurope and repudiation in a measure
of our obligations to I'll rope, is not
likely to increase our foreign commerce.
It is not likely that with the repudia
tion of our foreign indebtedness, our
foreign exsirts of cereals will be vastly
increased. Such a policy on our part
would show such an unfriendliness that
the nations of Kurote would prefer to
import w heat from' South America nnd
meats from Australia, than to have
anything further to do with the Ameri
can people. The farmers of this coun
try will come to see, before next elec
tion day. that we are not independent
of all the world. Tbey will realize that
Kuroe binds u In our obligations In a
system that is at least honest and fair,
if not friendly. The hoe of the fanner
lies in a revival of business, and also
in increased exHirtations of our grain.
The farmer is not. therefore, indeii.-nd-ent
of the old world, but must deal hon
estly with it. St. Joseph (Mo.) News.
Bryan's New Theory.
Since bis advent in the Bluegrass re
gion of Kentucky, Mr. Bryan lias pro
mulgated s new theory Iu regard to gold,
lie told bis audience at MiiiHville that
so 'lunch of the yellow metal was used
in plugging decayed molars, and in the
manufacture of engagement rings, and
for use in the arts, that after consuming
the residue for bi- blorlde of gold solu
tions to counteract the "Jag" habit.' there
whs none of the metal left for money.
This is a remarkable statement from a
msn who is continually preaching the
woe of the gold standard. Itei-eutly
Mr. Bryan declared that all tbe gold
was ts-ing manufactured into crosses
whereon to crucify the workingman, but
now be hss changed his tune. Accord
ing to this Maysville speech, tbe people
are so well-to-do that tbey can use up
the entire product of our mines iu srtl-cb-s
of personal comfort, and are so
prone to marrying and giving la mar
riage that a great poition ol the
annual gold output is nsed in
the manufacture of the tinv cir
clet symlsdieal of plighted troth, snd
also of jfissj limes. Jor peop. no uoi
marry when they sre in the thr-s
crucifixion. Mr. Bryan's little !liug at
the convivial habits of the majors and
the colonels of Kentucky, by suggesting
that a great portion of our annual gold
prisliictiun is used in correcting an sl
noriual apfs-tite for straight and mixed
drinks, will not 1 relished by the high
spirited gi ntleuicii of that hospitable re
gion. When they need their systems
bracts! up a good lot of strictly baud
made sour niai-h is Considered the pros-r
thing, although it is absolutely certain
they would prefer a gold cure to any of
ihe silver remedies prilis-d by Dr. Bry
an. tine thing Mr. Bryan did not explain,
and that is. if a dowii-tnslden and af
flicted M-ople can use the entire gold
supply of a great nation iu making safety
deposit vaults out of hollow- molars, and
iu the free coinage of wedding rings, how
docs it come that we have the neat little
sum of 7SU 'Msi of gold in circula
tion and iu the treasury? He ought to
ssy something alsmt this snd relieve a
natural suspicion that he is trying to dc
eive the toiling masses as to its exist
eui-e. Kansas t'ity Journal.
MOTHER OF TRUSTS.
rree Trade, Kot I'rotrrtlon, is the Parent
of Monopoly.
This example of needless excitement
has just ls--n received:
To the Kdltor of the Press-Sir: I submit
tlist In one Instance Protection Is complete
ly pis veil out: It Is In the one Item i-oul!
A retail .lesler tolil me yeterla that the
reii-iil outrageous mlvmiee In coal are ow
ing In the bunking Arm of lirexel. M.irgnn
It Co.. who positively n-fusi-il In undertake
Ihe rcorgaiilyjitloii of Heading unless and
until the oilier coal companies agreed In
advance the price of coal Just l'"
done! If you will Imik Into this I sin sure
you will, iu Ihe Interest of the people. d-v.s-ate
the adiiill"ii free of duly of all
kinds of coal! And If not. liy not?
PUOTKt'TIO.NlST.
ninomncld. X. J Kept. 4.
There is no duty on anthracite coal,
the only kind of which the prii-e has
been "outrageously advanced," the kind
of which our corressniileut is talking,
the kind which the Coal trust sells.
'I h'-re never has tsi n such a duty. There
never will be such a duty. The protec
tion which this trust enjoys was con
ferred by the Creator of the world when
lie pot anthracite coal ill the Schuylkill
and Wyoming valleys of the state of
Pennsylvania, and in paying quantities
nowhere else, so far as mull has yet dis
covered. The anthracite Coal trust has abused
Ibis mitur.-il protection. It has far ex-ceedi-d
the slight advance which was
due and proper in view of years of ruin
ous war among the separate "coal Imr
ous." But such tibnse cannot Is- reached
by prosecutions under such statutes as
tlie anti-trust law which the Itepublican
party passed when last ill siwcr mid
which a Democratic ndmiliiKtration lias
not sought owe to enforce.
t If bituminous conl there has Is-en no
increase in price, though it is alleged to
have tariff protection. That protection
is such that more than 1.1'SI.IHMI tons,
worth nearly S.'i.rs x t.i s I. were inisirtiil in
eleven months of hist year, while Ihe inii-
tract for supplying the New hnghind
roads, which ai-t conjointly in this mat
ter, came near going to Nova Scotia. The
Wilson bill duty of 4! cents a ton does
not equal the diffcreiii-c in cost of produc
tion here and abroad. There has been no
prolit in the mines, im.l very often no
work for the miners simi that law went
into effect.
But were the duty on bituminous enn!
ltsst x-r cent., no bituminous trust could
oppress the consumer as has tin an
thracite combination. For bituminous
coal is found in every section of the
country, north, cast, south and west. It
is mined in Pennsylvania. It is mined
iu Washington. It is mined in Tennes
see. It is milled in Colorado. Thus it
conies under the operation of tbe prin
ciple of domestic comis-tition, which has
foiled th- schemes of every trust in this
country, not having, like anthracite coal
mid coal oil, It natural protection to sup
Mirl it. A bituminous coal trust would
meet the fate of the great trusts
cordage, whisky, tobacco and rubber
ami the little trusts in umbrellas, win
dow shades and the like, which have
ls-en ruined, or crippled or forced to dis
solve as the result of their attempts to
control the home market. Kvoryono of
the three great successful trusts of today
is n free-trade trust. Coal and oil have
their natural protection, as we have
shown. The sugar trust flourishes sole
ly liecanse the Istunty which had be
gun to foster the American sugar crop
was abolished by the Wilson law. Had
that bounty remained in operation, ihe
cultivation of the sugar Iwt would have
caused the erection of a sugar refinery
in every Western town. To restrict
the production of all these plants would
have lieen found as impossible as it
was found to restrict the production of
the distilleries.
Free trade, not protection, is the moth
er of trusts. New York Press.
TH K KKfllUCItAT'S UlAXUAIIV.
Waal, yes. come to think It over, It Is sorter
hard to say.
In this mlel-up mess o' pollytlcs, where
I do stun' today.
There Is Hrvan an' thsre's Kewalt, an'
there's this here Walsou, too,
Au' a feller with a inorgiige don't know
what Is Imh' to do
Some ihey 'low Ihet KID an' Bewail will
reduce the thing by half:
Others say that this here Hewnll's Jest -
ttllln' us with elm ft;
l-r they 'low thet he's s bunker, an' l
hence a pluiverot
Till a fellow w-lili a niiirgage Jes don't
know where lie Is at.
Yen, I Mjild with Hip Republicans fer
rnore'u twenty year.
An' I never had uo trouble yet to read my
title clear.
Till I got thet cussed mor'goge, sn' the
nelghlsirs did the same.
An' SI Slnqiklns said he reckoned thet the
goldbilgs were to blame.
Course we'd mostly hiilll new houses, au' In
dulged in kerrslgrs.
Hut SI 'lowed he was entitled to whatever
goldbilgs Is;
An' he likewise use" to tell us. In a loon'
convliichi' way.
That the government 'ud fix us wllb a Hat
loan some day.
Ho of course we all turned flat, fer Kl said
' Unit tint drew
About 1 per cent, per milium, with provis
ion to renew
All of which was gratifylu', anil Si 'lowed
't 'ud break Ihe lieHrt
Of that "party" In Ihe nior'gnge that wss
nsmed ss "second part."
Now there's them thet says that Walsiin
was engaged to see it done
Hy running some new rny show thet I hey
call sixteen to one;
Hut n lumen' man gits pur.T.lcd how to
tote, an' sorter 'frsld
Thet he'll make some fatal error, an' his
fnor'giig" woa't be pnhl.
Allsprt Itlgelow Paine In Harper's Weekly.
The Itemcdy,
When "the great crime of 187T' was
enacted, the statistics show that the
I'nited fttiites had just 774.0fSMm in
circulation. In 1 H! ." this same oppressed
and down-trodden H-ople had .'Jl7.lSI,
(M); but owing to free trade, tariff for
revenue and free-silver excitement, it
was piled away. The plain thing to do
is to start that f2.217.tSSl.lMsi on its
rounds. It csn he done by nS'iilng up
the nation's workshops and giving the
millions work; and In no other wsy.
Tbe largest kite ever made In Eng
land was one owned by (leorge Porock of
Bristol (grsndfslher of W. (I. (irsce),
for tbe purpose of drawing s carriage
along the roads. It wss 12 feet ty 15
feet, snd nroved the feasibility of such
a mode of conveyance.
TEMPERANCE TOPICS
HOMES ARE RUINED BY STRONG
DRINK.
Tbon.ani. of Live.. Character. I
Fortune. Ar. Wrecked
Along the Glided Pathway Havia
IU Ma'lns " ha Wi"
Alcohol.
r..,unr anniied. alcohol Is an an
tiseptic and a disinfectant, though It
iu nrtneinflllv used as a bsal irritant.
and by allowing it to cvniHe-ate. as a
cooling lotion to tbe skin. If the va
por Is confined and penetrates to the
flesh underneath, or ir the nieono,
diligently rtiblied Into the flesh. It
hardens it. In this way it is of use in
preventing led -sores ami tbe like.
Spirituous ilnlmctits which contain
essential oils and other stimulant are
sometimes applied with friction to In
crease nutrition at the place which Is
the seat of lons-stnn-ling inflamma
tion, pain and stiffness, such as Is pr.--eut
In chronic rheumatism, stiff joints
and para'ysit;.
Internally the action of nb-obol Is
both local and general. If nilowed to
come directly Into contact with tbe
walls of the stomach It irritates them,
causing them to assume nu Inflamed
appearance. If the quantity of alco
hol Is large, or more or less continu
ously applied, actual inflammation of
the lining of the surface follows.
When alcohol is taken with food, and
mixes with the contents of the stom
ach, it Is partly decomiswed Into sub
stances which In turn decompose the
gastric Juices, rendering them luert
and thus depressing digestion. What
ever may sometimes be mi hi In favor
of the use of stimulants with meals. It
Is very doubtful If the slight tempo
rary effect of sinb drinks Is at all
compensatory for their Interference
with the action of the gastric fluids.
Alcohol enters the blood unchanged,
and Is distributed by It to t.be various
organs mid purls of the body, where it
Ik rapidly absorbed, nnd where Us ac
tion Is nearly th" same as in tbe stom
ach. It first stimulates the orgnu to In
creased activity, but nt the same time
causes the chemical change In the sul
stance of the organ by which the organ
Itself is weakened; so that eventually
depression ensues.
It is this peculiar double action of
nlcobol which Is misleading. So Ions
(is the organs of the ImmIv are In a
iienlthy condition, alcohol Is little short
of a imiIsoii. The organ. In order to do
its work properly, needs food, and uti
lot8 there Is liilerfi-tein-e. the food will
be absorbed and i hiingcd Into proper
forms of nourishment. Alcohol rnl
the organ of the power of doing this.
In these days of prepared foods nnd
general advance In science, there are
many ways of securing the only bene
iiclnl result which alcohol gives, that
Is to say. stimulation, wit hoi'' resort
lug to Its use. Youth's Companion.
pontolic Times.
In a religious conference, when n res
olution culling upon Individual Chris
tians to practice total abstinence from
intoxicating drinks us a duty In view
of the present fearful ravages of Intem
perance, one clergyman stoutly op
posed the passage of the resolution be
cause total abstinence was not preval
ent In apostolic times as the resolution
would have It to prevail now, nnd ho
desired a return to Htolie methods.
Perhaps the brother Is right, Tee
totalism was not as prevalent In apos
tolic times as we would have it to pre
vail now, but we see no proof to the
contrary, so far as tbe true followers
of Jesus were concerned. There Is no
evidence of the nestles and their
brethren In -the faith partaking luxur
iously and ordinarily of any drinks of
an Intoxicating quality. Perhaps not
then, we say. But neither did hospitals,
colleges. Bible societies, missionary In
stitutions. Sabbath schools, mid fifty
other right and lawful things, prevail
then os now. But that the brother's
argument may be of any value, even
were we to admit the accuracy of the
alleged fact on which be grounds It, he
must put the iiiMMttolIi: tlun-s on tbe
sauie platform as tbe present, so far, at
least, as drinks, drinking, and drunken
ness are concerned. There waa then
no whisky, brandy, rln, rum, no port,
sherry, burgundy, champagne, or other
"doctored" wines 111 common us', and
sanctioned and partaken of by tbe good
and respectable In society among tba
Jews.
There were no houses of common re
sort seoliilly net apart for the ys
temntlc drinking of these liquors; no
"saloon" licensed by a paternal (?) gov
ernment for this and no other purpose;
the domestic ami social customs of
Judea were not soaked and saturated
in alcohol; drunkards were not to be
found In every gutter; and drunkenness
was not the special pest and shame of
tbe nation, plunging It Into crime and
poverty and death. Make our respec
tive eras equal as to these things, and
then Institute a fair comparison as to
the needfulness for such means of so
cial reform aa friends of total ab
stinence now advocate.
Stray Shots st th. Saloon.
Total abstinence Is always safe.
Drink Is ssvage and relentless. Sup
press It.
A brewer's horse fares tx-tter than a
drunkard's child.
Tbe drink shop Is the nursery of
crlnis. Suppress It
Many a man puts bis family In the
lark to help the saloon pay lis gas bill.
The man who begins by drinking
some tiros may end by baring to drink
all the time.
No man has a rlgtit io destroy bis rea
son by drink, to become diseased by
drink, to destroy bis moral sense and
i eonoeptton of right and wrong.
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