Ik iff '
IN this discourse Dr. Talmage changes
our lifetime from a meaningless gen
erality to practical helpfulness to the
eople now living; text. Acts xiik, 33,
"David, after he had served his own gen
eration by the will of God, fell on sleep."
That is a text which has for & long time
keen running through my mind. Sermons
kave a time to be born as well as a time to
die-- cradle as well as a grave. David,
cowboy and stone slinger and lighter and
dramatist and blank verse writer and
prophet, did his best for the people of his
time, and then went and laid down on the
southern bill of Jerusalem in that sound
lumber which nothing but an archangelic
blast can startle. "David, after he had
erred his own generation by the will of
God. fell on sleep." It was his own gen
eration that he had served that is, the
people living at the time he lived. And
have you ever thought that our responsi
bilities are chiefly with the people now
walking abreast of us? There are about
four generations to a century now, but in
Iden time life was longer, and there was
perhaps only one generation to a century.
Taking these facts into the calculation, I
make a rough guess and say that there
kave been at least 180 generations of the
human family. With reference to them
we have no responsibility. We cannot
teach them, we cannot correct their mis
takes, we cannot soothe their sorrows, we
cannot heal their wounds. Their sepul
cbera are deaf and dumb to anything we
anight ay to them. The last regiment of
that great army has passed out of sight.
We might halloo as loud as we conld; not
one of them would avert his head to see
what we wanted. I admit that I am in
sympathy with the child whose father had
uddenly died, and who in ber little even
ing prayer wanted to continue to pray for
ber father, although he had gone into
heaven, and no more needed her prayers,
and, looking up into her mother's face,
aid: "Oh, mother. I cannot leave him all
nt! Let me say thank God that I had a
food father once, so I can keep him in my
prayers."
; The Coming; Generations.
But the 180 generations have passed off.
Passed up. Passed down. Gone forever.
Then there are generations to come after
ur earthly existence lias ceased. We shall
not we them, we shad not bear any of
their voices, we wjjl take do part IB their
convocations, their elections, their revo-
. Jntions. their catastrophes, their triumphs.
We will in nowise affect the ISO genera
tions gone or the 180 generations to route,
except as from the galleries of heaven the
former generations look down and rejoice
jit onr victories or as we may, by our -iavior,
start influences, good or bad. that
hull roll on through the advan'-iir; age.
But our business is, !.;!e Dav.d, to nerve
our own generation tiie popple now liv
ing, those whose litngii now breathe and
whose, hearts now beat. And. mark yon.
It is not a silent procession, but rmviitar.
It is a "forced march at twenty-four
miles a day, each hour bein:." a mile. Go
ing with that celerity, it hi-. tret to be a
quick service on our part, or no sen ice at
11. We not only cannot teach the l
"fenerations f sst and will not see the 1H)
generations to come, but this generation
now on the stage will soon be olT. and we
ourselves will be off with them. The fnct
is that you Slid I will have io Biart m y
on fyr (' Wl)rk, or it will be ironical
au sarcastic for any one after onr or it
to say of ua. as it was said" of David,
"After be bad served his own generation
by the will of God lie fell on sleep.
What Ten We T ?
W' ", now let us look around p,ir". ",,
prayerfully, in eomuiua sense way and
see what we can do for our own genera
tion. First of all, let us see to it tliuL, as
far as we can. they have enough to eat.
The human body is eo constituted that
three times a di:y the body needs food as
ivich a lamp neds oil, a much as a
locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want
God has girdled the earth wiih appie or
chards, orange groves, wheat fields and
oceans full of fish, and prairies full of cat
tle. And notwithstanding fins, I will un
dertake toHftv that the vast niaioritv of
the Iiumau family are now suffering either
for lack of food or the right hind of fool.
Onr civilization is all akew, and God
only" can set it right. Many of the great-
Mvtrfti n mn ill. iv-un hot i. ru uui'i wji. ml
.. the blood and bones of unrequited toil.
In olden times for the building of forts
. and towers the inhabitants of Ispahan had
to contribute 70,000 skulls, and Bagdad
80,000 human skulls, and that man her of
people were compelled to furnish the
kails. But these two contributions added
together made only 100,0'sl skulls, while
to the tower of the world's wealth and
: pomp hare been wrought the skeletons of
aaeounted numbers of the half fed popu
lations of the earth millions of skulls.
Don't sit down at your table with five
'.'r six courses of abundant supply and
. think nothing of that family in the next
street who would take any one of those
v Ave courses between soup and almond
sats and feel they were in heaven. The
' lack of the right kind of food is the cause
t m.J, rt tha itmnliM.niitl After rirlnb.
It what man of our grocers call coffee,
' sweetened wltk what many call sugar and
aC4 what many of our batchers call
let, IH CMtni wnai many ox our
t -ken call bread, many of the laboring
... "aa fl aa ' ' '- ttur am taanttmt ta
: . pet lata their nasty pipe what the tobac
, ' acvt 'a ralla tnhaeea or as late the drlakln
r'jnts for what the rnmeelters call beer.
' tm.- ,
fjt lTMltMl MOtfc-4
' aafj ar fnanttoa with
- U itasT.4ewa la eav
11 1 ts m hMasteff iMck ta
j tsjth sMkars4 Bf
tt I rs4
lt r7 14 Cut gtSV
Ohoi hy of Kr.kes? to! tt.r fi:
out who in th, dry t. t.eii 1 . i a
griist'e ai'd fr.j ; e i j . i
beefsteak. K-i it oat vu.'e !ui y .
tiirmuh irkmi4 or cei.j'i.u tie;; of t.i.s
f on lines have not enough to est and .Jo
fur them what Christ di.l for t':e Inrr. -y
niultitud s of A-.;a Mis.or. i.i:w'tir uj; t e
loaves and the ft-ie . Let us iju'.t t'-e so--feitiug
of otii'selv "a until we cnieiut h
down another eniiub of etike am! it. (jin lite
supply of others' m-censitics. !o f; r iie;n
helping appease the world's liuiu' T lire
those whom Isaiah describes as giipd;:i,;
the faces of the poor. You have seen a
farmer or a mechanic put a s-ytbe or n
ax on a grindttione while t-oii.e one was
turning it round and round and t; e man
holding the ax here nn it hurt'- r u'.J hard
er, while the water drooped fr on the
grindstone, and the ed;:e of the at from
being round and dull got keener t:. ! keen
er. So I have seen men v. lio were put
against the grindstone of hardship, atid
while one turned the eriak, another would
press the unfortunate hnnl r dc-.vn aid
harder down until he was -r it:; l aw.iy,
thinner and thinner his comforts thin
ner, his prospwts thinner and .H fnee
thinner. And Isaiah shrieks out. "What
mean ye that ye grind the faces of the
poor?" '
The Battle for Bread.
It is an awful thirg to be hungry. It
Is an eaxy thing for us to be in ?j-d hu
mor with all the world when ve Lte no
lack. Bat let hunger take full poscs'sion
of us, and we wouid all turn into barba
rians aud cannibals and fiends. Suppose
that some of the energy we are expending
in useless and unavailing talk u'woit the
bread question should be expended in
merciful alleviations. I have rend that
the battlefield on which more troops met
than on any other in the world's history
was the battlefield of Ieipsio IbO.Ois)
men under Napoleon, 2.V1.000 men under
Schwarzeberg. No, no' The greatest and
most terrific battle is now being fought
all the world over. It Is the battle for
bread. The ground tone of the finest pas
sage in one of the great musical master
pieces, the artist Kays, was suggested to
him by the cry of the hungry populace of
Vienna as the king rode through and they
shouted; "Bread! Give us bread!" And
all through the great harmonies of mu
sical academy and cathedral I hear the
pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy, of
uncounted multitude, who with stream
ing eyes and wan check trA br-n
hearts in behalf of themselves end their
families are pleading for trend.
A Look Around Cs.
Let us take another look around to see
how we may serve our generation. Let
us see, as far as powiKe, that they have
enough to wear. God looks upon the hu
man race aad knows just how many in
habitants the world has. The statistics
of the world's population are car"rul!y
taken in civilized lands, and every few
years officers of government go through
the land and cotiQt how many people there
are in the United State or England, a'ud
great accuracy is reached, f isl when
people teil us how many inhabitants there
are in Ata or Africa t bent it must I
a wild guefg. l'et God knows the exact
number of people on onr planet, and lie
has nif.de enough aj.-ps. rel for r.,i-U, and if
there be lift huiidn -1 luiiiei:), fifteen
thousand, fifteen hutifln i! aJ f'o-.-n p.- a
pie, thi n there is enough fl-.;.irel f.,r fif-,
ten hundred m''!i'ti, fifteen thors-xl,
fifteen hundred and fifli-.-n. Not 'oul!y!
apparel, not ragged apparel, not ii.cntii- '
cicnt apparel, hut appropriate apparel. At j
least two suds for ctery tf'.ug on earth,
a suniiie-r ioi;t and a winter suit. A g-.i.i i ;
p;tir of dlioo f.- every, llrir.g :::-..rti I. A
good coat, a g'.d hat or a trood bonnet and
a good 'hand r.nd a complete ir.as- iiline or
feminine outfit of apparel. A wararobe
for nil n;H: jus, adapted to all climes, and
not a string or a button or a pin or u hook
or au eye wanting.
Kill, alas! where are the good clothe
for three-fourths of the hutr.sn rice? The
other otie-'onrth have apprpr:8ted thorn.
The fact Is 'here needs to be and will be a
red 'stribuiion. Not by an.irciii.st.ie vio
lence. If outlawry had its way. it wouid
icj -d mid tear and dlmi.ii, nntil instead
of thre-fourth of the world not propony
ut'iif., foiir-foitrtha woeld l iu r;t..H.
I vili let. you know how ti e reeli-tr ont:or
wit! iii pluce, l'.y generosity on the p;irt
of th-i-e who have a surplus, and iiic-i'.t-ed
industry on the part of those FttlTerin?
from di'hi.it. Not all, but the large ma
jority of cases of poverty in this country
are a r:su!t of idleness or drunkemu ,
either on the part of the present suCY-rcnt
or their ancestor. In most cases the nun
jug is the ma"'itrora that has 11 ,i
down the livelihood of those who are in
n?-s. But things will change, and by
generosity on the part of the crowded
wardrobes, and industry and sobriety 03
the part of the empty wardrobes, there
will be enough for a'l to nur.
. or ii i I i, i
God has done h.s part toward the dress
ing of the human race. He grows a sur
plus of wool on the sheep's ba' k and flocks
roam the mountains nni valleys with a
burden of warmth Intended for transfer
ence to human comfort when the shut
tles of the factories, reaching all the way
from Chattahoochee to the Merrimae,
shall have spun and woven it. In white
letters of snowy fleece God has been writ
ing for 1.01XJ years his wish that there
might be warmth for all nations. While
others are disenssing the effect of high
or low tariff or no tariff at all on wool you
and I had better we if in our wardrobes
we have nothing that we can spare for
th suffering or pick out some poor lad
of the street and take him down U a
clothing store and fit him oat for the sea
son. Gospel of shoes! Gospel of bats I
Gospel of clothes for the naked!
Again, let us look aronnd and see bow
many serve our generation. What short
sighted mortals we would be If we were
anxious to clothe and feed only the most
insignificant part of a man namely, bis
body while we put forth no effort to
clothe and feed snd save bis soul. Time
Is a little piece broken off a great eternity.
What are we doing for the soul of this
present generation T Let me say It ia a
feneration worth Mvlng. Most magnifi
cent w:u uud women t.r in it, W ir i e
treat ado about the improvements in
navigation and in loccmotlon and In art
and machinery. We remark what won
der of telegraph and telephone tad tb
stethoscope. What Improvement la elec
tric light over a tallow candle! But all
these Imnroreaietibi are InilcaiAeaat oosjs-
ptsred with the buprovsmeut In tht bo-
saaa rr Iu olo tiata OMt ta wbil
i
i
a great "d gond man or woman weald
to;ne up. and the world has made a great
fui-s about it eer since, but now they re
so tiiunen .i we scarcely peuk ahi Jt
' i e,;i. e pet a lulo about the people of
; t' f ssf, tut 1 think, if the times dei.iand
I ed tueui, it would be found we have now
living in uu year fifty Jiartiu La
j Uitrs, hfty Gwirge U asliingioiis, lilt)
i I. soie Hiiiit:tig'.oiis, tiny L.iMil'eih 1 rj .
1 o; lit eor I v.ir n iiv spietui.d wsr
r'o s .ii N'or'h are! South were deel.,ped
ii r y-.'ri w !'? wor;d de-
v. i..;.. d iu the ).;'" eijs tunny yeui. 1
, i hiU.ei.ge the 4. '..! j fs before Christ
n!:o t-ie eii.;'i;tei.ii centuries after
1' . s; to Me sv ii c she cittsl of charity on
a 1 r.e f "h- of George leahody. This
i ; i M.!ti.,B of men and women is mere
. vonh 'avlng t';an any one of liie JS gen
eraiioi.s timt have passed oil. Ik is
s...iil ie b"'in? Wiih ourselves. That
. 1 the p.i.er iroin wiiKti we iuut aurt.
i he t ividii Line,
r'reseolt, the llitid historian, tell us
bo.v i'l,-::no s-aved his army for Ce rig'.t
v l en t!u-y were about desertirg hint.
With his sword be made a long mark on
the ground. He ea.d: "ily men, ou t'n
teirih s.deure desertion and di-ath; ou the
south hide is tictory; on the north side
I'annma a'.d povr-r:y; on the south aide
Pcmi with all its riches. Choose for your
Selves. For my part. I go to the south."
Stepping across the line one by one his
troops followed, and finally his whole
army.
The sword of God's truth draws the di
viding line to-day. On one side of it are
sin and ruin and death; on the other side
of it are pardon and usefulness and happi
rs'n and heaven. You cross from the
wrong sidi to the right side, and your
f.imiy will cross with you. and your
fr.iods aud your uviates. The way you
go they will .'0. If we are not saved, we
will never ae any one else.
Uow to get saved; Be willing to accept
Christ and then accept him instantaneous
ly and forever. Get on the rock first, and
then you win at,;e to help others upon
the came rock. Men and women have
lw?en saved quicker than I have been talk
ing nlxrnt it. What! Without a prayer?
Yes. What! Without time to deliberate
ly think it over? Yes. What! Without
a tear? Yes. Believe; that Is all. Be
lieve what? That Jesus died to save you
from sin and death aud hell. Will you?
Do you? You have. Something makes
me think you have. New light has con
into your countenances. Welcome! Wel
come! Hail! Hail! Paved yourselves,
how are you to save others? By testi
mony. Tell it to your family. Tell it to
your business associates. Tell it t-very-where.
We will successfully preach no
more religion and will successfully tak
no more religion than we ournelves bare.
The most of that which you do to benefit
toe souls of this generation you will effe t
Uaouh your own behavior. Go wroi.g
and that wlil induce others to go wrong.
Go right and that will induce others to go
right. When the great Centennial exhi
bition was being held in Philadelphia, the
question came up among the directors as
to whether they should keep the exposi
tion open on Knndsys, when a director,
who was a man of the world from Nevada,
arose and said, his voice trembling with
emotion and tears running down his
checks: "I feel like a returned prodigal.
Twenty years ago I went west and into
a. region where we had no Kubbath, but
to-day old memories come back to me, and
I remember what my glorified mother
tnnght we about keeping Snndag. nod i
se.'iii to bc.-.r her voice again and 'eel a
I did when every evening I knelt by her
ti.ijo in pr.-yer. Gentlemen. I vote for
the observance of the Christian Snbhatj."
And he curried everything by storm, and
vbeii the ijiiiti,iii wnt.put, "Shall we
o;e a the exhibition on 'the KabSathr it
was almost n.iat.iim.os. "No." "No."
Wh?t one t.ian can do if he doc right,
boldly right, emnhatiially right!
For 'Jliirf Ccueration.
I eiii;'.'a to you thiit my otic wish is to
serve tii.s i,euerst;on. no! to auiagoiiiiie it,
not to dnt;-.:!gc it. iiot to rule it, bet to
serve it. I would like to do som-thing
t ,wiird helping tir.strap ii ka,d, to stop
its tears, t t.aiani it wounds and to Su
rf nee it to ,;:t loot on the upward road
that has at its terminus steely mat ion rap
turous snd g.-ttt s peiiriiiie and garland
a;imr.tr.:h;n.' und fountains rainbowed
ard dornirdon e;it'..-oiied and corotieted,
for I cannot forget that lullaby in the
closing words if n.y text. "David, after
he had f-rvd his own geui-rniini by the
will of God. f'dl on s eep." U out a lovely
sleep it was! Lti.'ili.'tl Absalom did not
tr-.eiHo it. Ambitious Adonijah did not
worry it. r.-iaevuting Saul did not harrow-
it. r.','c d.d Kilt till it with night
mere. Since a redtie.id"d boy, amid his
father's fio I n at nieht, he had not had
su"h a good sleep. At 70 years of age be
laid down to it. He bad had many a
troubled sleep, as in the caverns of Adul
lm or in the pMs'e nt the tine his en
emies w re attempting his rapf re, but
this was a peace! ui l -p, a calM !ecp, a
restful sleep, a glorio,, sieej. "After he
hud grrved his peneratiou by the will of
God, he fell on sleep."
A:r with Gioomy Talk.
A ...;. ;.'. ail Vur ,:u uij talk about
j - " -. --..m ie Viiiit! If we have
y rv.u o..! . 'o or pat
ting out Iti'o ti! Ireaker. It will not be
the "fight with the kit g of terrors. It will
lie going to sleep. Why will yon keep ns
all so nervous talking about that which i
only a dormitory aud a pillowed slumber,
canopied by angels' wings? Sleep! Trans
porting sleep! And what a glorious
awakening! Why, there Is father, ther
is mother, there are the children! All
well agsin, all young again, all of us to
gether sgain, and as we embrace each
other with the cry: "Never more to parti
Never more to part!" the arches, the al
coves, the hallways, echo and re-ech
the words: "Never more to part! Nevei
more to port!" Then our glorified friend
say, Come out with n and see heaven."
And, some of them bounding ahead of u
and ome of them sklping beside os, w
start down the Ivory stairway. And w
meet, coming up, one of the king of an
cient Israel, omewht small of stature,
but hsvlng a countenance radiant with
thousand victories. And s all are mak
ing obeisance to tbl grest one of heaven
I cry out, "Who is he?" And tht answer
comes: "This I the greatest of all th
kings. It is David, who, after b had
served his generation by the will of (Jod,
fell on sleep."
Copjrtg'rf, J1 '
Noru? " litUe enjoy theoiselrea and
re HUcu butdetts to theinsdv M UlOM
who have nothing to do. Only Um
It hav UM tro) rallsb of lUfc-Jaf.
Good Intention art Try aortal ui
perhrtubl thing; like Terr nviDwW u4
choice frolt they ait difficult to Mifw
Blmsmon.
FALLING OF PRICES'
RUIN
WROUGHT TO ESTABLISH
COLD STANDARD.
Contraction of the Currency Is Brlng
luB About Widespread fliriukageof
Vuluea-Nefurious l'lan of the Cred
itor Combination- Apply t be UcnieUy
i
An Industrial Despotism.
Wholesale grocers from uearly every
great city iu the Lulled States rt-eeutly
met iu the city of New York for tho
puno; of loruiiui; an organization
Ihroitgh which to dictate to the retail
grocers of the country the prices at
w hich groceries way be sold to custom
erg.
I rk-ca that wholesale grocers may
eLMe are already iiied for them by
gnat trusts iu many articles such as
s::gnr, march, canned goods, and erack
ti a. it Is an old adae that self preser
vation is the lirst law of nture. It Is
In response to this law that the great
trusts are being formed. The world
bus embarked upon a protracted and
Indefinite period of falling prices. The
goal sought Is a gold standard. Just
what compensation a gold standard can
offer for the ruin of the world it Is dif
ficult to understand, autf as yet no one
has attempted to explain. If a gold
standard Is ever ati&Lucd It can be ap
propriately written on that standard:
"The happiness and prosperity of the
human race have been sacrificed in or
der that I might exist."
If the wholesale grocers, the retail
grocers and the consumers of groceries
understood the meaning of a gold
standard, that It meant a contraction of
the world' money supply and a conse
quent fall of prices to a point probably
not more than oue-fifth the present gen
eral level, they would understand that
Industrial competition could not sur
vive the stralu, and that eveu the form
ation of a trust could only afford tem
porary relief to the member of the
combination.
Such a shrinkage of value and fall
of prices as must take place before a
gold standard Is a reality will not only
confiscate the property of all who are
bow In debt, but In the end must o
concentrate the property of the world
Into the hands of the Tew that the
masses will lie reduced to a dependent
tenantry from whom rents and taxes
can only be colliK-ted by means of a sol
diery such as LI Hung Chang and the
oiher Chinese viceroy have employed
for centuries In the celestial empire.
Twenty-five years ago a prosperous
and progressive world, In which the
sum of human happiness was yearly In
creasing, was Interrupted by an at
tempt on the part of a combination of
the worhl'8 creditors t restrict the
world's money supply to gold alone for
the purpose of giving to money u great
er couiniaud over other things. In other
words, to give it a greater purchasing
power in order to compel debtors to pay
policy of greater value than they re
ceived, thus enriching creditors unjust
ly at the expense of their debtors.
It would doubtless be giving too
much credit to the Intelligence of the
creditor combination to believe that
they comprehended or anticipated the
disaster that wonM befall the world
an h( result of the demonetization of
silver. We think It more near the truth
to say that they understand that enor
mous and unjnt gain would accrue to
themselves and that they were not
prompted by any desire to destroy man
kind but were actuated and Impelled
solely by an Inordinate arid uncontroll
fibie !esire for gain.
Thf amount that the world suffers
thronph debtors having to pay creditors
hi larger, fatter, and more valuable dol
lar than they agreed to, constitute- a
s'oall part of the evil of a gob! stand
ard. A far greater evil ii to be found
Pi the fact (hat falling prices make en
terprise the unerring road to bankrupt
cy, and do not permit the enterpris
Ing, thrifty, and indtifttrious to pay
debts nut of Hie proceeds of enrrent
production. This condition compels the
sacrifice of capital Invested In produc
tion to meet unt il obligations ns would
not be considered Imprudent a would
of nv business man to Incur, mid
which crii'H be easily met and still
lire enterprise a legitimate profit un
der normal market condition.
The experience of the past twenty
year ban clearly demonstrated that
busincAH cannot be KtiecosfuTly pmse
eu:,.! under the law of free compo
"bn 'vhllc the general level of prices
Is sinking. This knowledge has driven
Individuals and corporations having
large capital Invested In business to
Join with all other having large capi
tal invested In competition with them
to form gigantic copartnership or
trusts with siilliclcnt power to dictate,
unconditionally, term, and price to
their customer. By this proces In
dustrial competition I displaced by
Industrial despotism.
The trusts being outside of economic
lawIndustrial despotism no longer
subject to the law of competition, can
dictate term to the trade In their par
ticular line and by Increasing lha bur
dens of the people secure to tbetnselve
for the time being Immunity from loss
on account of the fall of general prices.
Thus the law of sclf-prescrvatlon has
driven the manufacturer and trader
of the country having large capital In
their business Into trust to men an
extent that the profit of the Industry
of the whole country now flows Into (be
pocket of a comparatively small num
ber of men.
In the formation of a trust only the
great and powerful competitor join
tog :br. After these haro combined
they use the power of thafcr nnltad
capltM to cniau and drive aoc of busi
ness all small operator nntfj Um f I4
become exclusively tbsir owm. Ia ths
mailer Industries not rsejotrlaf Urgs
eepltal In few hand where trusts havs
sot been formed and coiciMxJi't ho
teJd swsr. bankruptcy tad ntta is ths
Inevitable fate of Isrr sud Increasing
numbers us time progresses
The tnut Is able U secure for ltsWf
Immunity from tie condition only
for a short time. The 1atfal effect
of falling prlcea bn long contiuued
falls with crushing fori upon the
laboring population. Those who em
ploy labor in production realize that In
order to avoid loss t'm-y must cut down
wages and thus cbuin production !n
anticipation of the inevitable lowi
prices they must wnt In the market.
Thus the power to pachase and hence
the consuming pot.r of the people Is
reduced until the hbor of a small por
tion will suffice to produce the goods
that con be sold, wkeio the trunts will
flud theanselves conp-ijled to continue
to reduce ihe pri of their product
time goes on. Uence the capital
rVpreswitlng a miA has to be scaled
down year by year. On the road to
the gold standard (be individual com
petitor fa.Ua first by tfle wayside to
toske room for the trua'' but It Is only
a matter of time whet the mist Itself
wuU be forced to sa-rifice Its capital
through loss of profits The only scU
vntlon for the people 1 to understand
(he forces that are at "ork. and apply
the remedy by restoring bimetallism
and providing for an aiequate Increase
Of legal tender money to kep pace
tvith Increasing popuU-lon and busl
res and give atnbl.Uy td general
prices. Sliver Knight Watchman.
PcRiidal of thaCantnry.
Shame! Shame! Thrfe shame! upon
those responsible for ibe brutal mis
treatment of Anieirlean soldier. Kv
fry day that pa Wngs to light a
raore appalling condition of affairs In
sumps and hospitals. need no long
er wonder at the suffer.ug of the nx-n
In the tranche at Sawougo and In the
hospitals at Halqulrt We need no
longer wonder at the allure of the
quartern) asters', comrtjVsary and hos
pital departments 1 Ojba. The sys
tem and the men unable to care for
soldier on Amerlcai soil must have
been a complete failure when called
upon to cope with the campaign in
Cuba.
Itngimcnta which never left the
camps on American anil are returning
to their home wirt the men mere
poor, pathetic skcletsa of the robust
fighters who answer! the call. The
Maine regiment which did not progress
beyond Chlckamauga ha retujtiwi to
ita slate looking as thofh It had en
countered all the horrors f war. The
flovernor of New Tort, rushes 10
Washington to demand tt the troojwi
fom that state be ry Roger allowed
to rot la the hospital su.1 camps unfit
for human be!iig.
The treatment of soldiers ! the
mot dreadful acaudSJ of the century.
I has brought to the wy department
a storm of condemnat oi such as has
nt been visited upon ao depart,inent
of the govertMiient sine the tuition
came Into existence. "Stupidity, avar
ice and heuril's Ind lTst-em to the
condition of the eulified Hen are She
charg In the Unlietnif'iM, aud the.
evidence to snstaJu thcsii Is so strong
that the country Is abiae with J.ist
wrath.
If tlvae things had happened In the
lemote lAtei-Jor of Africa, here traas
jortat.'o!i Is ImjNiswible, they would
deserve condemnation, bit that they
should occiir iu the liea't of ft land
travewed by railroads. aUmmllng In
food and supplies of all r.lnds and 1111-l-d
with TS.Cm.OOi' of geuerous people
Is shocking to every ins itct of d'-t-cticy
and humanity.
There inut be an invcsM-rtrJon
which vflll drag Into tho light every
cowering wretch uou whose hetid la
the weight of guilt
We repeat, too, that tjie blame for
tb treatment of the troops cannot be
placed wholly upon Alger. Porno of It
Is his, but It inunt be refiiombercd that
the I "resident weakly gave way before
the clauior of senators, congTeurwn
and polltktil lxis-s and (lied the staff
d:q arUii'rtitH w ith lncxpeili-nced and
lintini.mtent men. Tha course of
the administration was the more rep
rebenttible becatis" there were hun
Ure.ls of experienced and eonipicnt
men available among the. lower ranks
of commissioned ofllcera. among the
non commissioned oflicers, among the
re-died ottk-era and amoiig the civilian
einjjloye of the war department.
While tht mec who knew bow to take
car of an anuy wi"x- paaed over, ilia
men who knew nofiUIng vbout It were
placed la ponlUoiw wht th -lr era.-,
Ignorance or tupldl:y, or worse, wero
an embarrasiiuieiit to the oIIb-luLs who
knew their duty and tr1d to do It.
The exploitation of Uie people for the
benefit of favored clauses was the pre
dominant Idea of the Republican na
tional convention In Kt IymW In IHiid
and the mismanagement of the war
d"xmrtroeut Is only one of the noxious
fruits naturally and Inevitably spring
ing from It Denver News.
Parlnc I Ureal to Knrone.
"I It true," I asked tie great think
er, "that England aloue holds $2..XX),
000.000 of United Ktatea aecurttjiw,
bearing In'eruHt, Incfbdlng exchange,
of 6 per cent, payable bn gold?"
"Yes, according to one public aiate
ments of Ixiudon BtatlMicians. The ec
reiary of the treuaury say there I
no public record In thl country show
Ing the amount of foreign Investments.
We tuuaf, theriifore, go to Europe to
learn not only how much we are In
deist to Great Britain, but that at I com
K00,000,000 additional ef United
Rtatea Investment are bekl la France
and Germany. This make a total In
tftrea ceuatrlea of S,000,000,000, lmpos
lsg aa lotenset caarge, Indudlng ex
changes, of IIHO.000,000 per annum. A
toe auta of serfdom, Isn't It?"
ahans on lb Party.
Alger la getting a large share of the
Mania for the condition of affairs at
Moatauk Point It looks a though
this Inootnpetent aAd whlinierlBsjr Al-
( -. r 9uld not receive wi nint h blame,
I tat Chert fvtU sakl rkspoaaibUUj la
srfll BtgheT pises. Preelrfeiit Me Kin
ley sppulbtcd Alger to the position of
Secretary of W ar. President McKln
Icy I responsible for Alger. Tint this
Is twt all. Prea'd-ut MeKinley set hla
aulvm)inate. Algr, the exainpl of -pduting
In co in patent, ineipes-U;iw,l
civillaLS to mllii:.ry pc".!""!'. Th
scandal wa noted and cornuittned om
w h -u it occurred. Th r.- d are
shown in starved ajld.eri -ud pt:il
eutlaJ army ca.:iiis.
It will not do for PreHiir:t McKIn
ley to make a apt-goat of Alger. The
crime committed against humani:y
nifjit be chargwl to the admiriiwtratlon.
The KepuUlcan party is guilty througn
idacltig polltloiaas and mA a abMim-a
In ixjit ens of authority. Au.l the
Iter-ulJicau party, which has endeav
oored to arrogate uko itw-if ail tL
glory of the victory over Kpaln, most
, now ax- i the ebam which cover ths
i conduit of the wax tleiiiirununt. Chi.
cajjo Despatch.
itzU Ic!iar.
Goldbugs fretjuently speak of money
as though its only function was a a
medium of exchange to effect trausac-
j tlons, In presciitl. Almost any form of
money whether gold w ciam snnt:
would answer that purpose, The im
portant thing In money, however, I t
have It remain stable for period of
time, so that contract wUl be paid with
the same value as at the time of their
inception. The chief end to be sought
Is to maintain the parity betweea
money and property.
The foregoing Illustrations make It
clear that there I only one possible
definition of honest money. That l, aa
honest dollar would be one that main
tained the same average purcnaalnff
power yesterday, to day and forever,
as measured, not by the price of any
particular article at any , particular
time, but by the general average of
prices. Such a dollar would do Justice
to every one. The creditor would get
all lhat he bargained for; be has uo
right to tnslst on being paid in a dol
lar that Is not worth more property
than the one he lent
The debtor, too, would pay a dollar
representing the same amonnt of prop
erty a that he borrowed. But If a
choice must be had between a slightly
rising dollar and a slightly falling dollar-In
other words, between falling;
prlc-s and rising prices- It Is clear that
rising price are more- beneficial to the
community, a a whole, than falling;
price.
flnld ns a Mandnrd.
Current production of silver, like
wheat and cotton, Is absorbed by cur
rent demands. The world' "liver prod
uct ! sixteen pounds to one pound of
gold.- Why refute the natural, logical
ratio of 10 to 17 Cold Is constantly
diminishing In otttp'tt compared whh
d"innnd. Tho price barometer Is pnof
of tliR The Index numbers of price
show tl.p cause and cure of thli finan
cial depression. If milled to the maHt
of the press Pun and lbadnreet would
be pmverlei to "fool Kui of the peo
ple I! of the time."
The authorities teach ffiat independ
ent bimetallism a 'id p:irllf ae ft sim
ple nndcrtiiklng for this country, be
cause price level mid money Iovel are
bdet -national. Our present prices re
quire onr pr-sept niom-y volume of
about ?1,7."ifi.fKKi.o00. To lose our gold
without a primary STibt!ttite means to
lower our prices and rn!n In "the sntne
proportion" the prices In countries re
ceiving It Yankee trailing and tho
"greed for gain" prevents; this. Ilfnce
It is axiomatic (hat our srold cannot
have us until a substitute fills the
void.
SevTpfnry AWr b !'re hnt he can
stave off an Invintlgat'on with his bar-rel.-SaU
I-ake Herald.
The a Itnln's' ration Fho--.11 devise
ways and in cans of los'ng Alger aa
8'jon as p -sdM". PI Isburg Post
Tblntrs are now coming General Al
ger' way such things a brick-bats,
clubs, rock, etc. Kanans City World.
Doubtless Secretary Altfor ha heard
of the French saying thRt be who ex.
etises himself accuse himself. Boston
Herald.
Rocrrtary Alger's d' fei pub
lished in administration organ. Is a
string of evasion.'. .St Ix)uls Po-st.
Diiiath.
The evacuation of the war depart
meat I of more Importance than ths
evacuation of Cuba an1 Porto Klco.
Memphis Commercial-A ppeaL
Chauneey M. Depow 1 about Uie only
man left In the country who would per
mit Secretary Alger to address him a
"dear." Salt Lake Herald.
The letter of HccreUry Alger to
Chauneey M. Dcpcv doe ntrt exjilaln
away one of the serious chuxge that
have been made against him. i'corla
Herald.
Our soldier have been murdered la
multitude by avoidable ramp condi
tion. Who are the murderer? It la
(or congress to find out, and there art
fearless men enough In congress to ds
this duty. New York World.
Camp In unhealthy localities, poi
sonous water, scanty and Imd food, a
posure to the element for want of
tents, cots snd blankets these hav
killed bu nil reds of men, uu wounded
men, who entered the f rmy to flV'.'. fofl
their country. Now Vo, Journal.
Tbe whole power of th gniuiisti fleet
and HpanlSb forces has been unable M
Inflict upon Uie armies of the Dnited
Htatea a Vm of life ta any decree as
proachlac that resulting from the a
parafleied MunATlng of fcse war 4m
garaax-pyisdspt,a Beoard,