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HE question of human origin, ao
prominent now id scientific and re-
JL ngioos circles, ia discussed in char
acteristic style by Dr. Talma ge in thu
dsacearse, in which be slso advocates the
toaory that all the world's progress has
wane throoeh Christianity; text, 1 Tiiuo-
fky. vi.. 30, "O Timothy, keep that which
Is committed to tby trnat, avoiding opposi
tioas of science falsely, so called!"
There is no content between genuine
Science and revelation. The same God
Who by the hand of prophet wrote on
parchment, by the band of the storm
wrote en tbe rock. The best telescopes
and Microscopes and electric batteries and
philosophical apparatus belong to Chris
tian universities. Who gave u magnetic
telegraphy? Prof. Morse, a Christian.
.Who swung the lightnings under the sea.
cabling the continents together? Cyrus
W. Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetics! properties of chloroform,
doing more for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
hark nine-tenths of the horrors of sur
gery? James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh,
as eminent for piety as for science, on
week days in the university lecturing on
profonndest scientific subjects and on
abltaths preaching the gospel of Jesus
rist to the masses of Edinburgh. 1
saw the universities of that city draped
hi mourning for his death, and I heard
his eulogy pronounced by the destitute
populations of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano of tbe
same tnne. The whole world will yet
acknowledge the complete harmony, but
hetween what my text describes as sei
once, falsely so called, and revelation
there is an uncompromising war, and one
or the other must go under.
At the present time the sir is filled with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolution, aud it is high time that the peo
ple who have not time to make investiga
tion for themselves understand that evolu
tion, in the first place, is up and down,
out and out infidelity; vn the second place,
K is contrary to tbe facts of science and,
hi the third place, that It is brutalizing in
its tendencies. I do not argue that this is
& cnuae booh, ' I ' do not, say .that the
Biie is worthy of nny'kind of credence
rn
those are subjects for oilier Sabt.tiLs
but 1 want you to understand. that Thom
as Fame and Home and Voltaire no more
i.tnoguge.Iy disbelieved the. Holy Scrip-
" -tnrer than do all tbe leading scientist
who believe in evolution. And when I
say scientists of course I do not mean
literary men or theologians w ho in essay
or in sermon. anijw-ithout givin? their life
to scientific investigation look at the sub
ject on this side or that. By scientists I
mean those who have a specialty in that
. .direction and. who through zoological g:ir-
'jtJjrjrTyiaritini and imtrotmmiral ob-
BervaiOTT give toeir me 10 iae siuut in
the fbvsi'al ear-h, its plants and its am-j
ml;! r ;?'. UL",."io far as yP'
tical instruments have explored them.
la the witness staad living and
dead tlie leading evolutwuihts Ertist
2Jefke'T yu SStuart Mill, Huxley, Tynr
HvsSf,. pii;er. Oa tile witnes
-T3iid.-je-iTHn fit science, iKiog aud d ad.
a Cfkiavi'S fe 'j:i' slions: Uo you be!b-ve
J fiulyi fsAifctu-es? Xj. And so they
vsw ? 16 jioa believe the Bible story of
9 !',BtvneV Eve la tbe garden of Eden?
t Ht JA4 i t J '' Tu '-,'!',,e
bstt'r.si ifiii Christ died to save the na-
tafcs?-'' $ o, -1 Ajid so they say aii. Io you
yJkjtA'9 ip the regenerating power o' the
"? Glt7 - No. And so they sny nil.
V 3t 9 ion .i;;ic:v uuk ,iinM ptij 11 ' ' "
a :i" ili,ivwl henvenwnrd ever mskes snv u;f-
kerewe?" No. And so thoy nay till.
v i 4 i Herbert Spencer, in the only address he
r it 5 tbsdi to this country, in his very !'r--t st-fi-
"'? i4ena Siacriljea "hi physical aibneats to;
fate,' and the authorized report of that
vw 'vMsWsswa bgin (lteword fate witli a big
f'rof. Heckel, in the very rir-t psw
sw ttfV Taluose. ihisb .tvU,
lihle t
SW s a so-called revelrttio i. . r;.-i.d:iU
If his famous prayer test defied the whole j change among organised U'isics actually
j Chrisfendom to show that h'unan sup-1 tekirg pl:ne. There is no such thing on
JU!fttn(.tade ntif (UffeMtorn if jinereiMuiti rgeara. It is shifting the ground of ob
it tfc!sj ''Job htusrt"' Miifret4 e,tij er iloti- t;m :m fivld of o'.:;rvat!.n to
1-1 "- ctJ'M'tiun of ti "! .i -
' iVXV'r 4 thJi'-tpHapU- for -hla , UiW.Vie,iibe .domnin of St fence those who will not
1 , ' "lloat Unbsppy. . Hnxle saiff ffint t
i if. ,um am reauing 01 v14" ws
It. .7 convince C! or. me rsct tnat ,teipotogy naa
. i. - ' lis death blow fit rne ti.in(f' of
Mr. Darwin. AU tbr leadifls tH(irtiHt4;
rib believe In evolution,' Wirhont one ex-
H "rit Jiom the world' ovr, ar Infidkl. I tat
' it JB agaihat Inflitellty, Diitid.you. 1
IT"'-' to eVftne tbe beUef and the
' -M- Set?! the Mleetion. , .
HMHss Ii IntdeUty.
I.auL opposite . to each other, to
'at fTofation Is Infidelity, tbe Bible
(aCts (Tie hitman race started
frfttwrtohlet aecuot of how the
r-ae aurted. Bibhr aooiDtL"Uod
J r . ki lps-w-hw fcto owa Unafe.maJa and
II V 3 wMW he tim."' lit brealbed
K hrenth of life, fhe whole
4" ' t m-ag wrw tn toea taai k waa
t trtA luMSMt'ie or t perfect orang
1 i ksi perfect man. That la tbe
I j Meant, The evointioaut account:
i Z7 tsseft ia tM aflea there were four or
1 r yila al ftrasa or amiaal spores from
t i aXth Iriac erratDre haf beea
! Ct tww htxfc. sad there jwm
wtl i n rscMUc staff that aUght ha
earlial'a ataCrnai Thhr awsarooai kf
zr av.
lamK MO aUveiepa tadpota. the ud
e fsLMf Hrm wrrlopw rw,
r ti JS
'"a'ii', f '
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showing that we one floated or were ata
lhibiois. lie snys thp human ear couii
once fc-?e hcn need I y faiee of w ill ju.t
as a itor.te liia in ear at a fruitful ob
ject. He says the human race were orij
inally webfooted. From primal perm to
tadjo'e, from tadpole to fish, from fish to
reptile, from reptile to wolf, from wolf to
chimpanzee and from chimpanzee to man,
Now, if anybody jars that the Bible ac
count of the starting of the human race
and the evolutionist account of the start
ing of the buman race are tbe same ac
counts, he makes an appalling misrepre
sentation. To show yon that evolution is infidel 1
place the Bible account of how tbe brute
creation was started opposite to the evolu
tionist's account of the way the brute cre
ation was started. Bible account: You
know the Bible tells how that the birds
were made at one time, and the cattle
made at another time, and the fish made
at another time, and that each brought
forth after its kind. Evolutionist's ac
count: From four or five primal germs or
seminal spores all the living creatures
evolved. Hundreds of thousands of spe
cies of insects, of reptiles, of beasts, of
fish, from four germs a statement Batly
contradicting not only the Bible, but tbe
very A B C of science. A species never
develops into anything but its own spe
cies. In all the ages and in all the world
there has never been an exception to it
The shark never comes of a whale, nor
the pigeon of a vulture, nor tbe butterfly
of a wasp, t;iecies never cross over. If
there be an attempt at it It is hybrid, and
the hybrid is always sterile and has no
descendants.
These men of science tell ns that l'H),-
000 species came from four when the law
all through the universe is that starting
in one species, it keeps on in that species,
and there would be only four now if there
bad been four at starting. If I should say
to you that tbe world is flat, and that. a
circle and a square are tbe same, and that
twice two make fifteen, I would come just
as near the truth as when these evolution
ists tell you that KsJ.OIX) species came
from four. .Evolution would have been
left out of question with its theory flatly
contradicting ail observation and all sci
ence had not its authors and their disci
ples been so set on ejecting God from the
universe and destroying the Bible that
they will go to any length, though it lead
them into idiotic absurdity. You see what
lLe iule leaches in regard to It I have
kuuMU juu aU.0 what evolution, teaches in
regard to it
Aassix says that be found in a reef of
Florida the remains of insects 30,!K)
years oldnot 3,0l0, but 3U.0W years old
and that they were just like the insects
now. There has beeu no change. All the
facts of ornithology and zoology and ich
thyology and com-hology but an echo of
Genesis first and twenty-first, "Every
winged fowl after his kind." Every crea
ture after its kind. When common obser
vation and science corroborate the B.ble,
1 wiil not stultify myelf by surrendering
to the elaborated guesses of evolutionists.
To show that evolution is Infidel I place
also the Bible account of how worMs were
made opi-osite the evolutionist's account
of how worlds were made. Bible account:
God made two great lights -the one to
rule the day, tbe other to rule the night;
lie made tilt stars also. Evolutionist ac
count: Away back in the ages there was
a tire mist or star dust find this fire mist
cooled off into granite, and tin'ti this gran
ite by esrtbqw.ke nd by storm and by
Hpbt wis sbiiped inlo mountains and val
leys and seas, and so what was onj-'inally
fire mist became what we call tbe earth.
The irst Cunoe.
'Who mode the lire mist? Who set the
mif-t to woriiluiaking? Who cooleij
off the fir- mist into granite? You have
pnsbed God some r)M,W) or 7u,(hhj,(sj
Biihss from the earth, but be is too near
yet for the hcsUjt of evolution.
So these infide! tvoiutiuuixlg so wander
in? -up auJ down-guefsing through the
nnlviTitPi. AcytUng to push away back
Jehovah from his empire and make the
one, book which is his great communica
tion, to he sott of the human race apraf
obso'eie-and delusive.' But I sin glai! to
know tliBt while some of these scientists
have gone into evolution there are m."iiy
that do not beiieve it, among than tue
'. mnn wl;n bv mi Mt is considered tbi- irreiit-
f est .si'ientist we ever brl this side of the
'wt'ie- Agtssiz. a name that makes every
j Intelligent mftn Ihe earth over aneover.
Xn'.r. nay: "The manner jn which
the evolution tLeory in zooiogy is treated
would ; jd tliose wbo urt act siiecial itW
gUi'"c"iini-;ose that observations have
t Un ,uui40 ljr which it can l inferrcj
, t bat there is In nature such a thmr ns
, J,e a,.- iboi s r." r as to exclude frora
be drassff'd into this mire of mere asser
uon then it is time to protest.
w Ittt etiiml vejienience against the ooo-
trtne of evolution Hugh Milier, Farrad.iy,
Brewster, Dsna, Xawson and hundreds
of scientists iu this 'fountr and other
countries- bave Bade-'protest, I know
that ihe few men who bave adopted tbe
theory make more noise than the thou
sands who bave rejected it 1 be Bothnia
of tbe Curisri line took DOO passengers
safely from New York to Liverpool. Not
o'ne of the 500 made any excitement But
after we had been four days out cue
morning, we found oa deck a man's bat
and cost snd vest and boots, implying
that some one had jumped overboard.
Forthwith we all began to talk shout that
one man. There was more talk about
thai 6ne man overboard than all tbe OS)
passengers that rode on la safety. "Why
did he jump overboard?" "I wonder when
he jumped overbtwrd?" "I wonder If
when be jumped overboard be would
liked to have jumped back again?" "1
wonder if a fish caught him or whether he
went clear down to tha bottom of tbe
eat And for three ar foar days after
ward wa talked about that poor man.
There ia oae tenet of evolution which It
la asaaanded we adopt that which Dar-.
wla aaits "natural aHectlon" and that
which Wallace calls the "rurvrval of the
fttaat" By thla they maaa that tbe hn
BMta race and tap bratt creation are all
tha Ubm UBprarlaf because tha weak die
asai tka atroag Ilea, Those waa do not
fa survive bectns they art tha attest
They aar the bread e( aheap and cattle
aM aaji aad aa m all tha
lea. aatareUy liaprovlBf. No aeaw of
Gvd or sny Bible or any rWigiwa, bat just
Batumi progress.
Hot tbe Purrlrsl of the Fittest.
Tou see, tbe race started with "sponta
seous generation," and then it goes right
n until Harwin can take us up with bis
"natural selection" and Wal'ai-e with bis
'survival of tbe fittest" and so we go
rigtit on up forever. Beautiful! But do
the finest survive? OarCe'd dcd iu rep
tember; Guiteau surviving until the lot
lowing Jure. "Survival of the filtest'f
Ah, no! The martyrs, religions and po
litical, dying for their principles, thef
I TT UJ "T,r'f. " . T J .
''.ii'i'Bi fj liiv- uum I i I C uuuuiru
thousand brave Nortbern men marching
out to meet fssLiSsl brsve Southern men
and die oa tbe battlefield for a principle!
Hundreds of thousands of them went
down into the grave trenches. We staid
at home in comfortable quarters. Did
they die because they were not ss fit to
live as we who survived? Ah, no, not tbe
"survival of the fittest!" Ellsworth and
Nathaniel Lyon falling on the Northern
side; Albert Sidney Johnston and Stone
wail Jackson falling on the Southern side.
I'id they fall becatiM1 tbey were not ss fit
to live as the soldiers and the generals
who came back in safety? No! Bitten
with the frosts of tbe second death be
the tongue that dares utter it! It is not
the "survival of the fittest."
How has it been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child phy
sically the strongest, Intellectnally the
brightest, in disposition the kindest? Did
that child die because it was not as fit to
live as those of your family that surviv
ed? Not "tbe survival of the fittest" In
all communities some of the noblest,
grandest men dylug in youth or in midlife,
while some of the meanest and most con
temptible bve on to oid age. Not "the
survival of the fittest."
But to show you that this doctrine is
antagonistic to the Bible and to common
sense I have only to prove to you that
there has been no natural progress. Vast
improvement from another source, but
mind you, no natural progress. Where is
the fine horse In any of our parks whose
picture of eye and mane and nostril and
neck and haunches is worthy of being
compared to Job's picture of a borse as he
thousands of years ago beard it paw and
neigh and champ its bit for tbe battle?
Pigeons ofto-dity not so wise as the car
rier pigeofi of 500 years agopigeons
that carried the mails from army to army
and from city to city, one of them ntttig
into the sky at Home or Venice landing
without ship or rail train in London. Ixxk
at the great animals that walked the
earth in olden times animals compared
with w hich in size onr elephant is s cat
monsters of olden times that swam the
deep, compared with which our wbale is
a minnow.
And as to the buman race, so far ss
mere natural progress is coucerned, once
there were men ten feet high; now the
average is about 5 feet fl inches. It start
ed with men living ?Kt, 40, m, !H)
years, and now 30 years is more than the
average of human life. Mighty progress
we have made, haven't we? I went into
tbe cathedral at York, England, and the
best a rtiMi, hi Eng!nnd htid just teen
painting a window iu that cathedral, jnd
right beside it was a window painted 4K5
years ago, and there is not a man on earth
bnt would sny that the modern psioV'g
of the window by the best artists of I'm
land i. not worthy of being compnrr-d
with the painting of 400 years ago right
beside ft. Vast improvement as I shall
show you In a minute or two. but uo nat
ural evolution. -
Look at China, w here evolution has had
full swing for thousand of years unin
(errtipted by anything except here and
there a mission station with this defunct
Itook, the Bible, but through the most of
the realm not interfered with. What has
evolutii.il done for China? Christian civ
ilization gi.es ia and builds a railro-id: they
tear it up. For l.OOO years the Chinese
naii.iii, where it is not Invaded by t gos
pel, has not made one live-htindreil-mill-ionth
part of an inch of advancement
They worship the same gods of red paint
.Inst as alv.cys iLey drown the female
children as a nuisance. Jut as always
they eat with hopstks. So in India, so
in Arabia, so iu Turkey, so everywhere
where the gospel bas not made an inva
sion. I am not a pessimist, but an optimist
I do not believe everything Is going to de
struction. I believe everything is going
on to redemption. But it will not be
t!n-iigh the infidel doctrine of evolution,
lint through our glorious Christianity
which has effected ol i the good that ha
ever been wrought and which is yet to re
coMsiruet all the nations.
What is (hut in the oiling? A ship gone
on tbe rocks at Cape Hstteras. The bulk
is breakiug up, crew and passengers are
drowning, The storm ' iu full biat aud
the barometer is still sinking. What does
Una siilp want? What that ship wants
is a iifebcat from ,tte shore. Leap into
it, you men of the life station! Full away
to the wreek! Steady there! Bring the
women and children first to the shore!
Now the stout men! Wrap them up la
flunnels, and between their chattering
teeth you can pour restoration.
Well, my fr.euds, our world is on the
rocks. God launched It well enough, but
through mispilotsge and' the storms of
(i.000 yesrs It bas gone iuto the breakers.
What does this old ship of a world want?
My friends, what this old shipwreck of a
world wants is a lifeboat from the shore.
And It is coining. Cheer, my lads, cbeerl
It is coining from the shining snore of
beaven, tak.r.f tbe .crests of ten wavea
With one sweep of tbe shining paddles.
I Christ ia in the lifeboat Many wounds
on hands and feet and side and brow,
showing he has been long engaged in the
work of rescue, but yet mighty to save
to save one, to save all, to save forever.
My Lord and my God, get us into tbe life
boat Away with your rotten, deceptive,
infidel and blasphemous evolution and
give us the Bible, salvation through Jesua
Christ onr Lord !
Copyright
In consequence of a recent confer
ence of representatives of the Socleta
Nationals d'Accllniatatlon de Franca
with King Leopold, sovereign of tha
Congo State, It la likely that energetic
measures will avion be taken to prevent
the extermination of cJcpbanla Id Af
rica. Prof. William Libber, of Prlncatai
University, will load a aclentlflc expe
dition to Hawaii. He bopaa to visit cad
explore tka burial cava of tka Ha
waiian klafa of long ago. So far aa
known no white man has ov M-piirU
them tt gi'iJui f..B a foo4 gmuti
Mw ragAivJng thorn
WMCRt THEY OCT THEM.
as tka Carta aiinni
fcasaalaa.
Tar a lane thue when I I rat want
toto the carlo buaiaeaa I did nothinc
I nearly failed, aud would hare but
that I had another buainesa which waa
doing wU. I thought It out that tbe
reason people dki not buy my sheila
wad becauae 1 knew jtothlug about
tbeia myself. I went to a professor
and studied up the subject 1 always
had a natural turn for It and after two
years I opeiu-d this shop and succeeded
from tbe beginning. It waa because I
waa interested myself, and ao could
make my customers feel an Interest I
have been iu the curio buaiiiesa for
twenty years.
"Where do I get my goods? I pick
theia up here and there. There ia a lady
In South Dakota who trades with the
Indians and procure we every MtUe
odd out-of-tlMi-way thing that she
thinks other dealers might not have.
There Is a New Mexican who also gets
me antique things. My lieat sheila
mostly come from Singapore, Madagas
car and the Islands iu tbe Indian Ocean.
Sorm-lluies wbeu not execting It I
get bold of something very rare., that
was flung In hastily with tbe rest by
some shell gatherer, Ignorant of tbe
value of the specimen. Aud tbe same
way with beetlea and butb-rflka. There
is one specimen In Brazil that sells in
London for 2. It is only onoe In a
thousand rbnucea Uiat you come aoroes
one. The other day I found one In what
I, at first glance, bad deckled wn a
very ordlrairy collection,
"I sometime think," he went on,
"that tbe love of this kind of thing
makes a bond between pcopl that are
otherwise strangers. Men come In to
ward dark, looking around at the
things, and the first thing I know tbey
are telling tue their private business, or
their history, or their trouJdes. A num
ber who frequent tbe shop always
peak to me as though I waa a friend.
One evenlngjHfter the lights were tit
when such a customer was here, a
young woman, rather shabbily dressed,
came In and began sorting over tbe
hells. She made some remark about
a specimen that struck her fancy, and
a gentleman began to talk to her. She
talked to him. Sbe talked so well about
natural history and si-emed so thor
oughly acquainted with It that tbe old
gen tinman waa very niuich pleased. He
wild when sbe went out that be judged
ahe waa an English woman. Once or
twice she ciiuie, after that when be
happened to be In, and then I did Dot
see ber for some tluifi, until one day
she came and asked nie to let her have
some shells to paint for sale, saying
that she was In need, but would pay
for tbeiu as soon ns she could. Of
course, 1 h-t her bave tbeni, and told
her to come to nie if she ever tweUHl
help. Afterward ali brought uie the
Bljell, saying that sh could not sdl
ttK'tu arid was vtiry sorry. They were ',
pretty well dona. The uext time the!
old' gentleman came In I showed them
to him.
"'Why, I will buy them.' he said.
Thc-y are not bad. She seems a nice
young lady, and you send ber the
motiey.'
"I told him that I did not know ber
address, and lie futnd alxnit It, for
limy t siie was In rval need. I kept a
look out for Iht on the stre after that,
and one Sunday, nearly five weeks
later, I aw bT coming out of a cheap
n-staurant She bad on a thick veil
aud tried to avoid me. 1 f-lt a delicacy
about forcing myself upon her, bnt nine
looked so sail aud careworn that I fol
lowed her and made excuse that I
wanted to tell her about the shells.
'Oh! Are tbey sold? she exclaimed;
'bow kind you are.' And tears came to
her eyes.
"The uihot of H was that tbe gen
tleman got her a good posltlou to teach
botany and conchology In n private
school. She had no friends In New
York, was a Southern woman, whtme
relatives were not such that she could
lijiiil to tbeni. . She told me, ku;r,
that tbe mcil isho had that Sunday "
met her coming out of the restaurant
was the first food slw had tUU'-d
for four days. She was well nigh pen
niless," There are Idol, scepters, quaint plixa
and ctirloiiM mimical Instruments from
tbe Et In the lUtla shop. There la
the weird, crooked horn of an African
beast used by savage tribes as a (?bir
lon call In time of war, there are feed
ing troughs from Alaska, made of
wood and tattooed with red and blue
hieroglyphics, and there la a singular
looking Indian Irunk, made of buck
akin and stitched and dyed curiously.
Accidentally Found a Kortnne.
Fortunes have !een found In many
strange places, hut seldom has a more
Ingenious hiding place been found than
Inside a statue. A citizen of Kharkov,
In Russia, some time ago bought a stat
ue of the Apollo Helvedere, of whieb
be waa proud. To his great annoy
ance oue of Ida children npset tbe
statue a few weeks ago and It was
broken beyond hope of repair. On ex
amining Its fragments, however, Ha
owner found, concealed In the hollow
Interior, a roll of Russian batik notes of
the value of S.ixiO rubles, together with
a note, signed by the Chevalier Prok
neroff, to the effect that the money,
which bad been won In gambling, waa
Intended to be used In building a
church. Tbe Dote waa dated IMtt, and
tbe Inference la that tbe chevalier died
before be could giva effect to bl gen
crooa design.
Drawl a ; wlih tha fingernails.
Obineae and Japanese can still
piotursa with their nngernalla, an
art once bead ( blgb repute. The naila
M allowed to grow to a length of
sight laebaa, and dJppof to vwrml
ton or oky-Moa ink.
Aa wTaH poor ptayar eta pia aa
i
8H0RT MONEY SUPPLY
CAUSf OF DISAPPOINTMENT TO
BUSINESS INTERESTS.
Tha War with fpala la Not Followed
by Iba Kssstctaa Revival of Trad
aad a OUaaatioa that Borden oa
Paralyaia Mill Coatlaaco.
Mora Gald-Rtandara Oppression.
The business interests of the country
generally looked for a revival of trade
aa the necessary aud Inevitable out
come of the war with Spulu. To say
that they are disappointed la to mildly
state the fact
Tbe expectation that war would dis
pel the coudltion of business stagna
tion, bordering ou paralysis, that bas
bung like a pall, not alone over this
country, but over all gold standard
countries during the past five years,
did not take iuto account the controlling
factor In the case, namely, that the ex
penses of the war were to be met
through taxing production aud enlarg
ing our Interest-bearing debt without
providing an lucreuse of money supply
to meet the Increased deuiaud.
Remembering the tremendous Impe
tua that business received durlug the
civil war, many reasoned that favor
able trade conditions, better prices, and
better times would Inevitably follow
the vast expenditure of money by the
government that war would necessi
tate. This would be true If the extra
ordinary conditions Inseparable from
war wore accompanied with the In
creased demand for money occasioned
by the war.
The withdrawal of 21'5.0O0 able
bodied men from the field of competi
tive production, to be fed, clothed, and
paid wages from the nation's treasury,
thus being transferred to tbe field of
eotiaituiptlou, would naturally tend to
Improve the market. The equipping,
provisioning, and transportation of an
army calls for a vast expenditure of
money and furnishes employment, and
hence the ability to become consumers,
to thousauds aside from those com
prising the army Itself. All of which
by drawing from the norma) labor sup
ply and creating an enlarged demand
for tbe products of Ulor of all kinds
would, under conditions that would
permit of it cause wnges to advanec,
and advance the prices of all the prod
ucts of labor.
But when It Is remembered that
prices are governed by money supply It
becomes evident that an additional de
mand for money, uhHceoinimuWd by
a corresponding additional supply,
makes a condition under which au ad
vance of prices Is Impossible and a fall
of prices becomes Inevitable.
The present war. presents a case of
this kind and hence bas brought uo
improvement to the general business of
the country. The Increased demaud for
money, uuuccompaulud bya correspond
ing Inc rease In supply, has wade busi
ness conditions harder than before for
all, except those having contracts to
furnish supplies to the government
who bave been exempt frora many of
tbe conditions of the general competi
tive market Under normal business
conditions there would not bave been
II, 250.01 si.OtMl offered to the govern
ment In exchange for bonds bearing
only 8 per cent Interest Sucb an offer
lug on the part of thosa having rnpltal
shows a universal distrust of business
Investments and a disposition to avoid
Investment Iu property, tbe Incomes
from which are affected by the general
prosperity of thp country, and to seek
Investnient In bonds, which are money
futures, the Income from which rests
upon the taxing power of the govern
ment The majority of tbe fiuauce commit
tee of the t'nlted States Senate pro
posed. In addition to levying a war tax,
that the government coin the II2.IKK),.
fssl of silver seigniorage now lying In
the vaults of tbe Treasury, and In ad
dition to (bis to Issue ?1"i,(s.-i,o(o or
so much thereof as might be necessary
of legal-tender non-lntercnt-henrlng
notes of tbe government Hail thin plan
been adopted we would bave bnd an
Increase of tbe supply of money which
would have caused a general revival
of business, with better prior s for prod
ucts; tbe labor of tbe country would
have found employment at fair wages,
and there would have been no necessity
to Increase tbe Interest-bearing debt of
the nation.
Rut the government of h country
Is In the bands of an administration
committed to the gold contractlonlsts.
The administration Is not averse to the
Issuing of Interest-bearing bonds to be
made the basis for the Issuance of hank
notes, because the banks who furnished
the campaign funds In 180fl want an
Investment of this kind that will re
turn them a double Interest Rut It
la opposed to the only policy that can
restore prosperity to tbe labor and bnsl
oesa Interests of tbe country, which Is
an Increase f the legal tender money
necessary to uphold prices and stimu
late production, which alone ran give
to the country general prosperity.
Johnson Tells the Troth.
Torn L. Johnson la a great money -making
man and a man advanced
views an Iron manufacturer and a rad
ical free-trader, die owner of no and
of otrcat car llnea aad city property aad
"unearned Increment" aad a pro
novDead single-tax er. Jokoaoa la a man
who sees thlnga aa tkey ara, aad wfco la
frank to tall bow ha aaoa than. Va
cantly he delivered hfaaaU of tola
statement:
"I dofit U'Ueie la cauxity. It ta
merely another drink to a onaky ss,
What the world needs la Juattea aad
not bttstvoleaco. I ohaH condaao to
dofltiM to giro eboeka to
InatitutJona aad I abail loav aa
to MM ehnreVa aad found
Wr faarfly win aa wof iowdaa tot, for
.too raat of ay tortaao w bo apaalta
trying to teach pavpfa bow to atop sag
from robbing them. Bo loog aa It kf
permitted to any man to take was!
dors not belong to him through tuoiop
H- .. - ..,,,.' rMiinrrHI Bll.t tliM Ufa.
, iriiaiua .. v - .
rate ownership or pu'uic murusa,
plenty of men of mr kind wUl always
be ready to Jump In and do tbe atea
; Ing. My mission Is to show tbe people
' bow It Is done, to take what tbey erf
stupid enouyb to let me take, and M
show tbein how there can I an and
put to the asbtm which eiirlchea ma
and lmpoveiishea thrin."
The frankneas of the Honorable Tom
Is refreshing. When en ordinary mast
j speaks of millionaires "robbing tbo
people" he Is at once asa!led by a largo
part of the prcas as in "anarchist in
cendiary," and so forth, ad nauseam.
These terms are made fashionable by
tbe moneycrata and repeated by tbalr
dupes. For Instance, Mr. Hnnna re
cently remarked that sny man who
cried out against the rich classes ought
to be shot. And a lot of editors who
have to work all day and iart of tbo
night to get enough to wear solemnly
echo Mark s declaration. Yet here
comes Johnson, a man as successful In
money getting as 1 latum, with tha
frank aLntement that ha Is a robber,
that the people make It cfisy for him audi
tbe men like him to rob thctn and that
he prMm-8 to kwp on robbing thetn.
The difference la that the other f.-Ilow
kip what they steal for them solve
and their families, while Johnson do.
votes his gtotillugu to educating the peo
ple to the poiut of protecting them
selves. The Stockton Mall says: "The starts
ment of Tom Johnson Is cold truth, and
we commend It to the peruaal of Lhos
fisollab men who are rallied to the pUo
year after year by appfwls to protect
property and business enterprise and
vested rights against such snare hletto
doctrine, for Instance, a that of tha
free coinage of silver. We are In
clined to think that Tom Johnson's op
portmilfjca would take as niHiiy mllU
Ions from the people and that we would
look upon them as be do.- as being
just plain dainphools for assisting La
their own skinning."
Intrinsic Value.
William Btanley Jevous, M. A., F. R.
8., i'rofussor of Li.glc and 1'olilicai
Economy in the Owens Oollegu, Man
chester, Ktiglaud, Is certainly a higher
authority iLjii any or all of tho col
lege professors of tLe United Stales at
the present tlay, and It would be well
for Cleveland, Harrison, and oilier In
trinsic vsiue lunatics to read what b
says on that subject. We juote a short
chapter from i'roiVsuor J evens, aa fol
lows. "We must now tlx our attention upon
the fact that in every act of i change,
a Ueuiiite (juantlty or one substance is
exchanged for a definite quaullty of
another. 'J be 'things bartered may be
mosl variously measured. We may give
a weight of silver for a length of ropa,
or a. suier tic hi I extent of carpet, or a
number of gallons of wine, or a cer
tain horse-power of force, or convey
ance over a certain distance, Tha
quantities to be m'-asured may be cx-pressi-d
In terms of space, time, mass,
force, energy, heat, or any other phys
ical units. Yet each exchange will con
sist In giving so uimty units of one
thing for so many unlis of another,
each measured in Its appropriate way.
"Every act of exchange thus pre
sents Itself w us In the form of a rn,
tlo between two nuiuoers. Tha word
vulue Is cofuuioiily Usd, aud If, at cur
rent rates, one ton of copper exchanges
for ten tons of Imr Iron, It Is usual to
say that the valileof copper Is ten times
that of Iron, weight for weight for
our purpose, at bast, this use of tho
word value la ouly an Indirect mode of
expressing a ratio. Wbeu we sny that
gold Is more valuable than silver we
mean that, commonly exchanged,
the weight of silver exceeds that of the
gold given for It If the value of gold
rise compared with tbat of silver, then
still more silver Is given for the same
quantity of gold. Rut valu, like utility,
Is no Intrinsic quality of a thing; It is
su extrinsic accident or relation, Wa
should never speak of the value of a
thing at all without having In our
minds the other thing In regsrd to
which It Is valued. The very same sub
s'.mce rosy rise and fall In value st the
same time. If In exf hsnge for a given
weight of gold I can get more sliver,
but less copper, than I used to do, tha
rrl"e fif f 1 bps r'P'n r" r-v-pct
to sliver, but fallea wl,b reaped
to copper. It Is t vi iei ni.it at, lomtiio
property of a thing raunot both In
crease snd decrcaso st the same tlme
therefore value must be a mere relation
or accident of a thing as regards other
inings una me persons needing them.
Co-operative Hanks In t rance.
In a volume on statistic of Co-operative
Roclotfoa In Various Cotmtriea
which baa been published In Franco
statiatlea are given of the rural and
artisans banks In France. Tbe flrat of
these banks was established In March,
1WI3, and tbelr total number In May,
1807, waa Ml. The membership In
181)4 waa 8,B48; tbe total recolpta In tbat
year amounted to 2 10,000, and 2,500
loana were made ta members, tbo
groaa amount aggregating 1110,000.
Pom I hie Under Bimetallism.
ruder bimetallism and proapertty tka
Dlngley 1411 would do only prod oca
sufficient revenue to pay tbo currant ex
penses of Iho government but won Id
produce, In addltlo tkarato, aa annual
surplue largo etotigh to pay too ez
panoaa of war auoh aa wo bavo aad
wits Spain.
Mert'rijta' I Wee.
Tao man wko favor boada aot oaty
mortgagaa tho labor of htmantf aad
faaily, bat their grot, aad tho Uraa of
bia aolgMora aad tool awltdra.
la aUvor7-ClaV9ag lii
A Baaatifal OaasMaatlaa.
Tna Dttojloy Id aad too aM
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