tbacrteon 3ournaL
. CAXO. UHWHirnr,
tLlMISOX, .
IB.
It takae Kmc folka month to learn
what otter find out tn a da.
It If bard to let go of a lire wire, and
eSejatST great trouble trying
telet go of dead ones.
Tba weakest point about a duel Is
that It aetUea nothing not even one of
tba principal, aa a role.
A great many people now alive will
atart tba new century all right, but
whan will they be at the end of It?
Tba modern duel wouldn't be very
objectionable were It not for the terri
bla word-ahed which always precedes
It
Tboaa frequent bomb explosions will
doubtless cause M. Faure to frown on
that proposition to make him president
tor Ufa.
Iff a peculiarity of man that when
aom hopeful scheme has been knocked
Into a cocked hat, he generally usea the
hat U talk through.
Moat people hare great faith In equi
noctial stoma. The scientific govern
ment weather men say there Is no such
thing aa an equinoctial storm.
farmer In Madison County, Indl-
announces that he baa discovered
a new corn. Well, he'd better look after
It a little before It becomes too trouble
some. A Cleveland correspondent wants to
know "bow you can tell when yon get
bold of a toadstool." Don't try It; let
the coroner worry about such things;
that's what be la paid for.
Prof. Pickering, the astronomer, an
nounces that he has Just discovered
142 new doable stars. Most of them
probably will be with "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" shows before long.
Now It Is reported that Alaska has an
ador which loves to linger In the valleys
and about the snowpeaks that cannot
be mistaken even when disguised In the
foil of an ancient brick of limburger.
A Judge In Brooklyn has ruled that
whenever a matrimonial engagement is
broken off the engagement ring must
be returned. That may be a good de
cision, but It won't take the up-to-date
girl two minutes to overrule It.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox very ably
discusses "Are American Husbands
Henpecked?" in a New York paper.
Before the discussion Is closed, how
aver, a few words from Mr. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox would be In order.
One of the belated volumes of the
census reports of 1890 has just been
distributed. The information It con
tains la very valuable, but considerably
ut of date. When will Congress estab
lish a permnanent census bureau, and
oak It, at the same time, useful?
Charlotte Smith, of the New York
Woman's Rescue League, says If all
the bachelors were compelled to marry
wagea would go up. She does not ex
plain what difference that would make
when a fellow would have to hand over
tba whole amount anyhow every pay
day.
"I can't be bothered with attending
caucuses:" snapped Mr. Swallow.
"But," he added, proudly, "I never neg
lect to vote !' "I wonder why you have
screens at your windows?" Mr. Wright
said, softly. "Why don't you let the
mosquitoes come In, and try to kill
them afterward?"
Somebody who has been to visit Jules
Verne describes that writer of ro
mances as most abstemious for a
Frenchman, drinking cider In prefer
ence to wine. The abstemiousness de
pends. Cider, If of the "bard" variety,
la commonly thought to be much more
conducive to romance than wine.
Steadily, and with very little hurrah,
the South la diversifying her crops and
multiplying her metal and textile ln
Anatrlpa ThMi are the naths that lead
jot only to material prosperity, but to I
tne gradual minimization or the race
friction, which more than anything else
baa been an obstacle to the advance
ment of that section.
Mlsgnlded energy takes many forms.
Evan Demosthenes would have taken
tba pebbles from bis mouth and have
eaaaed to urge action bad be read the
handbill lately sent out to advertise a
church festival: "All the latest negro
melodies, funny gags, Jokea, amusing
dialogues. Twenty ladles In burnt
cork. Music by the beat homo talent"
A company Is being organised In San
Francisco which baa for its object the
construction of a narrow-gauge rail
way from Tidewater, on Prince Will
lam Sound, up the valley of the much
talked of Copper River, and thence
croca the divide to a point on the
Yukon River, near the boundary line.
The road will be about three hundred
and twenty-two miles long.
The isolation which baa been a fea
ture of farm Ufa is gradually passing
way aa tba country district bare be
09m more thickly settled and railroads
tare bean built Farmers' wires sow
tare their mOng eirclae, and alto
Car cewry K eichaaglng Its
,-,.) !act for one of comfort aad
yrrr a jtact wmzymOtm te
t 3 C hay"-! cf turn Efr ty
3dCitii U to eaJJ Cat
already In Kansas a number of ranches
are connected with each other In this
way. Cheap wiring is used, In many
eases the barbed wire fences serving.
When Mr. Wanainaker was Postmas
ter General be put on the market three
sites of postal cards. Under the rule
of succeeding officials, two of those
sizes have become obsolete, and only
the biggest survives. The department,
in ordering a new lot of cards, has con
tracted once more for two slzw, and If
the smaller size proves popular It will
continue to be kept In stock.
A new brand of philanthropist has
appeared in Maine. He Is a gentleman
who believes in the moral and educa
tional influence of the press, and be has
ordered a newspaper sent at hia ex
pense to each family in his town. And
why not? We endow chairs In uni
versities and provide funds for the
maintenance of educational facilities
of every kind, and It will generally be
admitted that the press Is a greater ed
ucator than all of them.
Registry laws ana the secret ballot
have swept away abuses that, had they
not been abolished, might have wreck
ed our great and grandly successful ex
periment In popular government If
those reformers who are so disgruntled
with existing political conditions that
they can see nothing hopeful in the sit
uation, nothing encouraging in the out
look, will compare the elections of very
recent years with those of a quarter of
a century ago they will And no food for
the nurture of pessimism.
A London writer who Is disturbed at
seeing so much money going to the
United States, complains because the
great English colonies do not supply
England with what wheat la required.
It does seem as If Canada, Australia
and India ought to be able to feed the
mother country, but since they do not
It Is difficult to see what the mother
country can do about It except to con
tinue, with what grace It may, to be an
American market. America, It may be
sure, will cheerfully go on furnishing
breadstuffs so long as the. price Is
forthcoming.
Persistent newspaper readers about
this time would Infer that half of crea
tion was bent on disappearing. There
seems to be quite an epidemic In that
line of human Irresponsibility. If a lad
Is displeased with bis home, off he goes
Into space, apparently, and the way
young women vanish off the face of the
earth Is miraculous, until the police dis
cover them. Wives step out, and do not
return; msn and this Is not so singular
disappear by the hundreds, and their
relations and families have to make the
best of it If many reasons for this
were not known, or guessed at one
might suspect that mankind was losing
the gregarious habit and felt the need
of solitude, of Isolation. At all evnts
trammels, whether domestic or social,
have evidently got on the nerves of a
great many people, and to them the one
remedy Is to disappear.
An Interesting discussion Is going on
In some of the leading periodicals con
cerning Machlavellsm In international
affairs. In other words, are fraud, ly
ing, double-dealing, violence and hypoc
risy, although to be condemned In the
Individual, allowable In the dealing of
nations one with another? A lucid
writer In the Chicago Evening Post in
dicates Mr. Frederick Greenwood, the
noted English publicist as the cham
pion of the affirmative of this question.
According to him "To save the state
you may do anything a wild beast may
do never mind God or devil, sentiment
or words." While men In society are
bound to observe certain moral stand
ards. In order to maintain the social
fabric, the various states art, In their
relation to each other, "still In a state
of nature," and It Is absurd to demand
of them any other conduct than that of
beasts and savages struggling toward
the survival of the fittest But It seems
to the pulpit that the gist of this matter
lies In this: That while both nations
and persons are alike under the moral
law, the rewards and punishments of
the former are slower than the Judg
ments upon the latter, and from this
alone the short-sighted find a reason
to think that governments are not re
sponsible. But although the mills of
God grinds nations slow, they grind
them exceedingly small; although pun
ishment may tarry It Is mora striking
when It cornea The past Is strewn
with the wreckage or nations who ae-
splsed or forgot righteousness and were
brought low,
Pl that Likes Fowls.
Harry MagilL a fanner who lives on
Pigeon Swamp road, near Bristol, Is
the owner of one of the most remark
able pigs on record. Piggy is 8 months
old and is a retriever of the most pro
nounced type. He will find birds snot
In a manner equal to the best setter or
pointer dog and do many other things
such aa sportsmen delight to see.
'Piggy, however, will chase, catch and
devour lira chickens with an aridity
never equaled by the most voracious
fox or weasel ever heard of. When be
selects a victim in the shape of a barn
yard fowl for bis meal he starts In hot
pursuit and never gives up the chase
until he has his victim within his Jaws
Mr. MaglU stands ready to match his
pig against any other pig In the coun
try as a retriever, but does not guar
antee mat ute porker will not make a
meal of the game. Philadelphia Rec
ord.
There's a Difference, Ton Kaow.
She It s always to a man's credit
when he Is able to stop drinking.
Ha Not always. Home times It's ts
hie lack of credit
When a woman's bliss lias la bar Ig
norance it la folly for bar to read the
letters she finds in bar fcasbaad'i
IFOE TO PLUTOCRACY.
DIRECT LEGISLATION WOULD
PREVENT CORRUPTION.
The Initiative and Keferenduni i lathe
Only PromUe of Belief for a Nation
of Plundered People Anarchy in
Judicial Bo ben.
Humanity or Tyranny.
Do you believe In government by all
of the people? Are you willing to grant
to others the political rghts and oppor
tunltka you demand for yourself ? Do
you be!! eve in the fundamental princi
ple of law (religious or civil) which
holds that every man Is capable of dis
cerning good from evil, and that he
should Judge for himself and be re
sponsible for his own acts? Do you le
lleve that conditions can be made bet
ter or worse by legislation? Do you
desire some special reform In connec
tion with your neighlors which politi
cal parties will not notice? Is our gov
ernment one In which all people Lav?
equal political opportunity and voice?
Have the people any voice whatever In
the election or control of the Federal
Judiciary? Do the people select men as
candidates for offices? Do they elect
any of the more than 90,000 servants
of the people in the executive branch
of national government except the
President? Have the people any voice
-Denver News.
In dictating national or other execu
tive policies? Do the people, have any
voice in making the laws? If they do,
who are the people, arid which are the
laws? Do you have any voice In mak
ing or executing laws? If you partici
pate In nominating candidates, and in
making and execntlug laws, do you at
the same time respect the rights of
others? If not. why nut? Do you think
the average man too ignorant or too
corrupt to have a voice in law-making?
In your opinion, how do the average
man compare in regard to honesty and
Intelligent morality with the average
member of city councils or State legis
latures? If all the laws were referred to the
people, would sjHM.ial or class legisla
tion be introduced as now? If your
State Legislature had not met for ten
years would the )ple have been
worse or better off? Do you know of
Iny form of governmeat by the people
fn which the Initiative, referendum and
Imperative mandate are not needed?
Can you bring your reform ideas be
fore the people for consideration and
discussion by any other meatus than
the initiative? Can you call for repeal
of obnoxious or class legislation effec
tively without the Initiative?
In your opinion are our legislators
honest and above temptation? If all
acts concerning franchises nnd special
privileges were referred to the jieople
for ratification, do you think Iaw-mak-ers
would be templed as now? In your
opinion would political bossce lose any
of their power If they had no nomina
tions or appointive offices or legisla
tive acts to sell or bestow? If the ref
erendum were In common use would
practical politics be a financial success?
With the referendum now In use
would not the purchaser of legislators
lose all effective power?
Do you believe that the people are
the source of all political power? Do
you know of any way to avert hasty,
ill advised or class leglUation except
by the referendum? Do you know of
any more conservative method of mak
ing laws than by dliect legislation?
Do you think that the people who vote
on all fundamental or constitutional
laws should not be allowed to vote on
Other laws because of Ignore ncrfT'Po
you wish to work with humanity, or
do you care to Ik- enrolled with the
boodle aristocracy that governs Amer
ica? Fred Freeman, lu Chicago Us
press. , ;
Economy In Keform.
In Nebraska the cost of printing tba
session laws, House JorrraaL, Senate
Journal and school laws In 107 under
the reform administration was 13,
132.01. In 18W, under BepuMlcaO
management the cost of the same
work was $12,274.00. Two years ago
the appropriation for printing laws.
Journals, etc., was $2O,tm0. and then
a deficiency Item of $l'J,107.i3 was al
lowed, making a total sum of $3U,
107.!3. The last legislature appro
priated $12,000 for the same work, and
Indications are that it will be amply
sufficient. Dallas Mercury.
Anarchy on the Hench.
Grand Master Sovereign, In his ad
dress before the Knights of Labor at
Louisville, referred to the great
miners' strike, in which he said the
Knights bad a large membership di
rectly involved. Tie said in part: "Th.it
great struggle was a test between under-paid,
half starved labor, and arro
gant, greedy coal barons. It was a
strike born of hunger and necessity,
and appealed to all the higher Impulses
of humanity. On the side of the
strikers stood the charity and philan
thropy of the world, beckoning onward
the slaves of the mines. On the other
hand the shotgun policy of the corpora
tion and the despicable court Injunc
tions. The armed thugs were more
tolerable than the restraining orders of
the courts. The Injunctions sought to
give the air of official sanction and the
color of judicial dignity to the vilest
expressions of anarchy ever uttered in
this country.
"But anarchy In Judicial robes Is no
more respectable than anarchy In rag.
A Judge who will suppress peaceable
FACILIS DESCENUS AVERNI
public assemblages Is no less a traitor
to this country than was Benedict
Arnold, and the citizen who will resist
such an injunction Is no less a patriot
than were the signers of the Ditinra
tlon of Independence or the heroes of
Valley Forge. And if It ever comes to
a contest between constitutional lib
erty and court injunctions I would
prefer to wrap myself in the Dag of my
country and tear down the courts In
defense of the constitution rather than
to dishonor the flag and tear down the
constitution In defense of the courts."
Sovereign's reference to the Hazelton
affair was brevity Itself, he simply say
ing that It was "a cold-blooded murder
of inoffensive Hungarian miners by the
sheriff of llazleton," whom be charac
terized as an agent of employing cor
porations. Pertinent Question.
In 1800 the Republican party prom
ised to promote International bimetal
lism and Mr. McKInley, In his letter
of acceptance, pledged himself to carry
out that promise.
If the gold standard has been a bene
fit "to the United States, why should
the Republican party try to abandon
It and substitute the double standard
by international agreement?
As soon as Mr. McKInley wns elected
ho nsked Congress for authority to ap-1
point a commission to visit kurope and
secure the aid of the leading commer
cial nations of Europe In abandoning
the gold standard.
If the gold standard Is a blessing
why did Mr. McKInley send a commis
sion to Europe to get rid of It?
A Republican Congress, by an almost j
unanimous vote, appropriated $100,000
tn pay the expenses of the monetary
commission.
If the gold standard is the standard
of civilization, why did the Repub
lican party spend $100,000 In trying to
Ret rid of It ?
The French government expressed a
willingness to restore bimetallism by
International agreement and Joined our
commissioners In asking England's co-
If the gold standard has been a
blessing to France why Is France will
ing to abandon Its gold standard and
sulstltute International bimetallism?
Within three years the German
relchstng bas adopted a resolution de
claring In favor of International bi
metallism. If the gold standard bas been a
blessing to Germany why was the pop
ular branch of tba German assembly
willing to abandon tba gold standard
and substitute international bimetallism?
Will the Republicans say that the
producers of wealth do not know what
Is good for them, or should only finan
ciers be consulted In inoueta- legisla
tion? Hugar Truat Profits.
In a recent tqteecb !cfre the floston
Reform Club, Hyron W. Holt present
ed a startling array of figures show
ing the enormous profits of the sugar
trust under the operation of the legis
lation secured at Washington in its
favor. He said that the retail price of
granulated sugar, which constitutes
about nine-tenths of all the sugar con
sumed in this country, is aliout 5V4
cents a pound, or eighteen iounds for
$L When a family Invests $1 In sugar
It pays out about 55 cent for sugar
and 45 cents for tariff. At present out
of this 45 cents the Government Is get
ting about 20 cents, the renu-rs" mo
nopoly 20 cents, and the sugar growers
and wholesalo grocers the remaining
5 cents. Next year, when the refined
Is mnde from the raw sugar on which
the present duties have been paid, the
Government will get about 25 rents
and the refiners about 15 cents. Of
the $18 which the average family will
spend for sugar this year $10 will go
for sugar, $4.50 to the Government, $3
to the sugar trust and 50 cents to tu
gar growers and wholesale grocers. As
our sugar account amounts to alwut
$200,000,000 a year, the sugar tnil
will this year pocket about $30,000,000
of our sugar tax.
It will be seen that the sugar trust
Is getting by far too large a proportion
of the sugar duty. Consumers, know
ing the revenue necessities of the Gov
ernment, would pay the duty with
equanimity if they knew that a proper
proiiortlon of It was going luto the na
tional treasury. It was reported at
the time the tariff bin was pending
that the trust was able to get about
what It wanted nt the hands of Con
gress, and this appears to have proven
true. It accounts In a great measure
for the rise of more than 150 per share
in the sugar trust's common stock.
Mail Pars Train Ripen?.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad pulls
six mall trains dally between Chicago
and St. Louis, for which It receives
$300. This means $410 for each train
trip. The distance is about three hun
dred miles. To operate a train requires
an engineer, fireman, conductor, three
brakemen six men who receive, say,
$4 per day each. This makes $24, leav
ing a balance of $.'lfl for coal and each
train's proportionate share of the office
and track expense. You can plainly
see that the mall charges pay all the
expenses of operating a passenger
train, even If the passengers were car
ried free and Do charge were made for
hauling the express car! And yet some
are so thoughtless that they believe
that the railroads do not pay because
their stock Is purposely manipulated so
that It Is worthless except to gamble
In. Appeal to Reason.
Unreliable News Service.
The utter unreliability of telegraphic
news reports has come to be a serious
question. No man can now tell wltn
any degree of reasonable certainty
whether a newspaper report Is true or
false. Generally It seems to be false
and contradictions occupy nearly as
much space as original reports. The
Associated Press, which has most of
the papers by the throat on ninety-nine
year contracts, seems to have utilized
Its cinch to revel In corrnptlon and un
reliability. After a while national en
lightenment will bring a postal tele
graph, and then II will be Impracticable
to form combinations between tele
graph and news monopolies. Sacra
incuto News.
Postal Havings Bangs In Japan.
Japan has bad a postal savings bank
in operation since Jan. 1, 1805. On
Jnly SI, 1800, there were already 1,223,
080 depositors, with 2X,015,427 yen
($15,062,022) to their credit Tba de
positors on that data Included 544,440
agriculturists, 224,24(1 tnerchanta, !,
402 mechanics, and 08,004 laborers aad
domestic.
Independent Action,
"Who would be free,
TheinKHvc must strike the blow."
A great Issue Is ln-fore the American
people and every effort is being made
to obscure and counteract It. Personal
appeals and personal ambitions, Indi
vidual antagonisms and local preju
dices, avarice, greed, bigotry and pro
scription, and every other sentiment
repugnant to the spirit of true democ
racy is Invoked to deaden real patri
otism and to sacrifice every man who,
In the trying hour, has dared to stand
true to the rights of the American peo
ple. An amazing spectacle Is presented
by what is being done In public af
fairs. Two years ago the President
sent In to Congress a message which
rang like a bugle call, summoning the
represeiitrftlves of the American peo
ple to resist the aggressions of the
British flag, and a few days later was
presented In the House of Representa
tives a bill for the perpetuation of a
British standard that hns destroyed
more values and brought more desti
tution and misery than all the rav-
ages of war.
And yet we were asked to fight the
one and to glorify the other, and to
surrender to national bauks one of the
highest functions of national govern
ment! Now we have passed a bill to
bring about high prices In nil protected
Industries, and to perpetuate low prices
In all Industries not protected.
The American people are tired of be
ing made the puppets of the miserable
policies that are Ixiug pursued, anil
the time Is coming when they will say
so In terms and tones that cannot bu
mistaken. Politicians are inventing
makeshifts, but the people will mar
shal their mighty columns upon the
line of living Issues, and the conflict
that will te fought to a finish Is the
battle of the standards. That la the
mighty question that sooner or later
will tower atove all others, and I feel
that I owe to my country and to my
party to keep before the people
1. That the great Issue now before
the American people Is the battle of
the standards and not simply a ques
tion of circulation.
The question is, Shall we continue
under the single gold standard, fraud
ulently foisted upon us by the Sher
man act of 1873, or shall we return to
the bimetallic standard given us by
the fathers of the republic In 1792?
Blmctalllst.
"Silver Inflation."
All the talk alxmt "silver Inflation"
K absurd. Silver Is a precious metal,
.lust as precious In due proportion as
Is gold. Its value as bullion has been
hammered down by hostile legislation,
but Us value ns money, when given Ita
rights and an equal footing with gold
at the mints, Is Indisputable. It has
retained Its value as compared with
commodities In a marvelous manner.
Tin; reason why silver ns a metal has
cheapened In market value rests In the
fact that the demand for Its use aa
money has been restricted by law. Re
store free coinage and the value of sil
ver will be restored.
In discussing the existing relations
of gold and silver the National Review
says: "The audacious nnd unexampled
attack made upon silver, beginning
twenty-live years :igoihe endeavor to
revolutionize the world's measures of
value lu favor of creditors and against
producers by excluding that metal
from Its old place as the equal col
league of gold, has created a diver
gence Is-tweeli the two luclels unex
ampled In modern history, from which
divergence endless confusion and suf
fering and Injustice has arisen. By
halvlug the supply of money It has
been sought to double Its value, so
halving the value of property and pro
duce, and doubling the weight of
debts."
The truth of this statement cannot
be denied, ami the result of this dla-
trous experiment has been to create
sentiment on the part of France and a'
large and Influential representation in
England to return to the monetary pol
icy of tweuty-llvc years ago. For a
large part of the prct:nt century the
open mints of France and the United
States kept gold and silver at u parity,
with a ratio of 10 to 1. There Is no
reason to lelleve that this could not be
done again. The welfare of the world
requires the re-establishment of the
former par of exchange.
Ratio Iletween the Metals.
It Is an undisputed fact that the
weight of the silver known to be In
the possession of man Is almost ex
actly 15', times that of gold.
Humorous writers of editorials fa
voring gold monometallism frequently
refer to tho "heaven lsnn ratio" of 1I
to 1. Cheap wit cannot affect a scien
tific fact It goes without saying that
the ratio Indwien gold and silver Is
not a bit of mere guess work, but on
the contrary, rests upon the basts of
absolute truth.
It has Is-en demonstrated mat de
pihiiiK on)' metal of Its full monetary
lick! and doubling the service required
of the remaining metal Increases the
value of the favored money material.
Cold has lieen thus favored, silver thus
disinherited.
If gold had been demoiietlred Instead
of silver, the latter would now be ap
preciating In value and the former de
predated. Equal treatment of both
metals Is demanded by the friends of
the people, and the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of '0 to 1
would be equal treatment and restore
the parity.
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