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THE obtaining of foo4 frieds,
which moat look upoa as matter
ef happy accident, Ur. Talmage in
thia aeraaoa show to be a matter ef intel
tjgeat selection; text, Proverb xviii., 24,
"A ataa that hath friend uiut show
hJasaelf friendly."
About the sacred and divine art of mah
lac and kecpiag friend I speak a sub
ject an which I never heard at an; one
aeeachiag end yet God thought it of
eaoogh importance to put it ia the middle
af tha Bible, these writings of Solomoa,
aenneea on one aide by the popular psalm
f David, and on the ether by the writ
hits af Isaiah, the greatest of tbe pro
pheta. It seems all a matter of hspbas
rd haw many friends we hnve or whether
we have any friends at all, but there is
Bothing accidental about it. There is a
law which governa the accretion and dis
persion of friendships. They did not "just
happen so" say mora than tbe tides just
happen to rise or fall or the sun just hap
pens to rise or set It is a science, an
it, a Clod-givea regulation.
Tell me how friendly you are to others,
nd I will tell you how friendly others
re to you. I do not say you will not have
enemies. Indeed the best way to get ar
deat friends is to hare ardent enemies, if
Had a mote In it, the extraction of which
would keep you so busy you would not
have icuch time to shoulder your broidaa
and go forth to split up tha beam ia your
neighbor' a eye. Ia a Christian spirit keep
a exploring the ehsrscters af those yea
meet, and I am sura you will find some
thing is them it for a fuundstioa of
friendliness. ,
Yob invite me to come to your country
aeat and spend a few days. Thank you!
I arrive about noon ef a beautiful sum
mer day. What do you do? As son a as I
arrive you take me out under the siiJow
of the great eima. You take me down ta
the artificial lake, the spotted trout float-
a mated the & kg
which he eoaeie.w
badly at, ha would have Mid soatothiag
boat it" We are ail, rraottaily teas af
aervoue teniparaaseut, rasrapibie ta
kind wards aad diaeouraaing warda. feral
eanspiracy against us, ssd let tea saea
meet us at oertaia paints en our way ever
to baseness, and let each ne say, Iiow
sick Jim lokr thoueu we should start
, aut wall, after meeting the Srt and Lear
' liig his dcpreait,g sslctr we wu.iid hegia
to txanise our symptoms. After meet
ing the seeoad gloomy accosting we would)
eaauua we did aot feel quit as well aa
' usual. After meeting the third our sen
sations would be dreadful, and after meet
! Ing the fourth, unices we suspected a con
i (piracy, w e would go haie and ga to bed,
. and the other six peas. mists would be
j useless surplus of discouragement
Jjy dear sir, my dear madam, what do
you mean by going about this world with
ajsheariemiieuts? Is net the supply of
gioom sud trouble snd mixfortuae enough
to meet the demand without your run-
SSSSi1""8 6000 i.,sts!
ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF MONEY
DOES IT.
Tfce Moner Power Work in Concert
Abwook the Nations to Contract tbe
Currency and Prodnce Bra of
ailing Price.
be
.7 , .... 1 S Dg l" n'" pil:ars r ' ninS ttorj P'M aad sikes? W hy
the pond lilies. You tske me to the stalls j shou!d you plant black aad blue ia the
ana senneis wnere you teen ysur fine
stock, and here are tbe Durham cattie and
the Gordon setters, and the high stepping
steeds, by pawing and neighing, the only
language they can speak, asking for har
ness or saddle and a short turn down the
road. Than we go back to the bouse, and
you get me in the right light, and show
me the Kensett aad the Bierstadts on the
wall, and take me into the music room
and show me the bird cages, the canaries
in the bay window answering the robina
in the tree tops. Thank you! I never en
joyed myself more in the same length of
time. Now, why do we Bot do so with the
characters of others, and show the bloom
and tbe music and the bright fountains?
Ao. Ye say: "Come along and let me
show you that man's character. Here is
a green scummed frog pond, and there's a
filthy cellar, and I guess under that hedce
there must be a black snake. Come snd
let us for an hour or two regale ourselves
with the nuisances."
Covor Up the Fault.
ua, my friends, better cover up the
faults aud extol the virtues, and this habit
ence established of universal friendliness
will become aa ea.y as it is for a Hjringa
to flood the air with sweetness, as easy as
it will be further on in the season fnr
you get their enmity in doing the right to a:I!e P f. When
thing. Good men and women will always! wf "r e"e bad about somebody
have enemies, because their goodness is a j?0"1 we lw' 0PPsed to be good,
perpetual rebuke to evil, but this antago- ,ake on,t J0"r lettd t""' "J W- "Let
ism of foes will make more intense the I Bt 8ee! . Betore 1 rt that baleful
love ef your adherents. Your friends will j "V7 finst that nun s character I will
gather closer around you because of tb ! t"ke " tTom " 2j T tor the bablt
artaeaa or your assailants. 1 he more your
enemies abuse you the better your coad
jutor will think of you.
Oar Beat Friends.
The beat frieads we have ever hud ap
peared at some juncture When we were
especially bombarded. There have been
time ia my life when unjust assault mul
tiplied my friends, as near as I could cal
culate, about fifty a minute. You are
bound to some people by many cords that
either time nor eternity can break, and
I will warrant that many of those cords
were twisted by hands malevolent. Hu
man nature was shipwrecked about fifty
nine centuries ago, the captain of that
craft, one Adam, and his first mate run-'
ninar the famous caro aground ou a snag
In the river fliddekel. But there was at
least eue good trait of human nature that
waded safely ashore from that shipwreck,
and that ia the disposition to take the part
of those unfairly dealt with. When it is
thoroughly demonstrated that some one is
being persecuted, although at the start
laiiderous tongues were lm.y enough, de
fender finally gather around as thick as
boneybees en trellis of bruiaed hoasy
oc kies.
If when set upon by the furies you can
have grace enough to keep your trout
shut and preerre yor.r equipoise and let
others fight your battles, you will find
yonrself after awhile with a whole cordon
of allies. Had cot the world given ta
Cbrjst on bis arrival at Palestine a very
' ""laerauon wnica oeiongs to toe oia
who first told the story; thea I wiil take
off 25 per cent for tie additions which the
spirit of gossip in every comujudity has
put upon the original story; then I wiil
take off 25 per cent from the fct that the
uinn nisy cave necn put into circum
stances of overpowering tempiatitn. He
I have taken off 75 per cent. But I have
not heard his side of the story at all, and
for that reaMon I take off the remaining 25
per cent Excuse me, sir, I doa't believe
a word ef it"
But here comes in a defective maxim,
so often quoted, "Where there is o mu. h
smoke there must be some Sre." Look at
all the smoke for years around Jeauer,
tbe introducer of vaccination; aad the
atnoke around Columbus, the discoverer;
and the snrnke around Martin Luther and
Savonarola and Galilee and Paul and
John and tell me where was the fire! That
is one of the aatanic arts, to nmke smoke
without fire. Siasder, like the worid, may
le made out of nothing. If the Christian,
fair minded, common nensica! spirit ia re
gard to others predominated iu the worid,
we shouJd have the miileauiuin in about
six weeks, for would not that be lamb aud
lion, cow and feopard, lying down togeth
er? Nothing but the grace of God csn
ever put us into such a habit of mind and
heart as that Tbe tendency is in tbe op
posite direction. This is the way the
world talks: I put my name on tbe back
of a man's note. and I had to pay it, and
i win n-rcr
worid when Gsd so seldom plants them?
rienly of scarlet colors, plenty of yellow,
plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very
seldom a plant black or bine. I never saw
a black flower, and there's only here and
there a bluebsU or a vioirt but the bine
is for the most part reserved far tbe aky,
and we have te look up to see that and
when we look up no caior can do us harm.
Why not plant along the paths of others
the brightnesses instead of the glooms?
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you must
be a prophet at all, be an Kzekiel and ant
a Jeremiah. A father atked his little
daughter, "Mary, why is it that every
body lovea you:" She answered, "I
don't know, unless it is because I love
everybody." "A man that hath frieudf
must show himself frientiiy."
cold shoulder there would not have been T I ' . l"e
u. , back or any man s note. I eave a berar
one-half a many angeia chanting glory
out of the hyaiubookg of the sky, bound
In black lids of midnight Had it not
been for the heavy anil jugged and tortu
ous cress Christ wouid not have been the
admired and ioved of more people than
try being who eTer touched foot on either
tbe eastern or western hemisphere. 1n
tead therefore of giving up in deapnir be
cause you have enemies rejoice in-the fact
that they rally for you the most helpful
nd enthusiastic admirers. ' In orber
wards, there i no virulence that can hin
der my text from coming true, "A man
that hs'h friend must show himself
friendly."
It is my ambition to project, especially
npon the young, n thought wliich may be-
igniy shape their destiny for the here
. and the hereafter. Before you how your
aelf friendly rou must be frieud.'v. I in
pt reiommend dramatized genialiy.
There ia such a thins as pretending to be
en rapport with others When we are their
dire dctructanta and talk against them
,.,nd, wish them calamity. Juda covered
Op his treachery by a resounding kins, and
wresrf may be demoniacal. Better the
fnyliioiosiral Cerberus, the three beaded
4og of bell, barking at us, than the wolf
ta aheep's clothing, it brindled hide cot
reJ up by deceptive wool and its deathful
bowl cadenced into an innocent bleating.
tMaraell writes of Lord Manfred, who,
fter coalmining many on t rages upon tbe
eople, aeemcd suddenly to become friend
, If and Invited them to a banquet. After
yaoat of tbe eourse of food had been.aerr
M be blew a horn, which wa in those
: Vmr aignal for the servants to bring
the deoeert. bat la this case it wa the
- Btgtial for assassins to enter and alay tbe
:; CtsMtal Bis pretended friendliness was a
t 1 fraud, and there are low people
- arbm aaa He ia falsehood. - j
Cfort ? brgin to nhow yoam.fi
, Cw.wt.di7 joa at b iVoJ!. Get four
,. aawt riKaaifa w .(.aa tw aaai aaa at ia. .uaj iai iai :
f- wlH become eaay. Yen may by
i'jnr reaoldtlo got year natara lato
l-wAStaoet at tbi. Tirtae, bat tW grac
vCi esa MMiaMly lift yon lata It
:T m the rler Tbaaeetwa vessels
- r -A. Tba owners ef one gat 100
s U pxSai m tb (ToaaaVd tla
X.fZzM ft to alecaa. Tbe ewmors of
H t r ' veaai waited till tba
r " to Mat swtir aWated tbe ablp
TtitOA wa asa aJl M4
,Jr F"w knasa aataro aad
'f t tt tola bettec aaadHlaa, bat
Zj Kka oaaaaie ttdea af
It vbaa aaar
Ciaat, wt aaa aar
ii J dxaata Mi
rZ. ".: Zxf- Mi aot
- i t Xtdfwat awa
' " .V JTM wad
1(J ccnta, and five minutes after I saw him
entering a liquor store to spead it; I will
never again give a cent to a beggar. I
helped that young man start in buniness,
and, lo, after awhile he came and opened
a store almost next door to me snd stole
my customers! I will never again help a
young man to start in business. I trusted
in what any neighbor prnained to do, and
he1 broke his word, aad the paiui,t was
right before he corrected himxelf, for "all
men are liars." So men become suspi
cious and saturnine and el8sb, and at ev
ery additional -wrong dee tleru they put
another layer on thu wall of their exviu
slveness and another bolt to the door taut
shuts them out from sympathy with tne
w orld. They get cheated out of tl.tiCtO or
misinterpreted or disappointed or betray
ed, and higher goes the wall snd faster
goes another bolt, not realizing that w hile
they lo-k other out they Irv k tbempeJre
in. and some day they wake up to find
themselves imprisoned in a datardy babit.
No friends to others, others are no frieada
lo them.
Tbe Poi of the Bead.
Now, supposing that you have by a di
vine regeneration got right toward God
and humanity, and yeu start out to prac
tice my text "A maa that hath friends
must show himself friendly." Fulail tnis
by all forms of appropriate salutation.
Have you noticed that the bead is so pois
ed that the easiest thing on earth is to
give a nod of recognition? To awing the
head from side to side, aa when it is wag
ged In derision, is unnatural and unpleas
ant; to throw it back invitee vertigo, but
to drop tbe chin In greeting Is accompan
ied with so little exertion that all day
long and every day you might practice it
without the least semblance ef fatigue.
So, also, tbe structure of the hand indi
cates hand shaking; tbe knuckles not
made so that the lagers can turn out, but
so made that tbe Aggers can turn in, as
ia clasping hands, and the thumb divided
from and set aloof from the fingers, se
that while tba finger take your neigh
bor's band oa one side the thumb take it
on the ether, and, pressed together, all tha
faculties of the band give emphasia to the
alutatloa. Fire sermons ia every health
baad urge oa to hand shaking.
Beside thia every day whea you start
out load yourself up with kiad thoughts,
klad word, kind expression and kind
greetisga, Whea a maa or womaa doe
wall, tail kin so, tell her so. If you meet
mm aaa who ia Improved ia health, and
K ia aamoastrated la girth aad caior, y,
"Hew wall you ioonl" But If, oa tha
other band, aader tha wear aad tear of
Ufa be appear pole aad exhausted, ia
aat introdac sa aita ry eabjorta or aa
aytaiaa at an aaaat ptyitcal eoadlttoa.
a the eaaa af iaapreved health rou have
ay roar ward, greaa aaotbor iasaalaa to
ward tbe rawaat aod tba Jaruad, walla to
tha aaa af tea) aaeltog aasJU aa Mra
The Spirit of Sacrifice.
We want something like that spirit ef
acrifiVe for others which was seen in the
Knglish channel, where in the storm a
boat containing three men wai upet, and
all three were ia the water rtrugjling for
their lives. A boat caBie to their relief,
and a rope was thrown to one f them.
and he refused to take it, saying: "First
fling it to Tom. He is just ready to go
down. I can last some time longer." A
man like that he he sailor or landnman,
be he in upper ranks of society or lower
ranks, will always have plenty of friends.
What is true manward 1 true Godward.
We must be the friends of God if we want
him to be our friend. We cannot treat
Chrwt badly all enr lives aad expect him
to treat us loTingly. I was reading of a
sea fight in which Lord Nelson captured a
trench omcer, and when the French 081-
cer oftxred Iord Nelson his hand. Nelson
replied, "First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand." piurrender f
our resistance to God must precede God's
proffer of psrdon to us. Bepen'.ance be
fore forgiveness. You must give up your
rebellious sword before you can get a
greip of the divine hand.
Oh. what a glorious state of things to
have the friendship of God! Why, we
could afford to hare all tbe world against
us and all other worlds against us if we
had God for us. He could in a minute
blot out this universe, aud in another
minute make a better universe. I have
ao idea that 'od tried bard when he made
all things. The most brilliant thing known
to us is tisht, and for the creatioa of that
he only used a word of command. As ont
of a flint a frontiersman strikes a spark,"
to out of one word God struck the noon
dsy sua. For the making of the present
utiifeise I do not read that God lifted so
much as a finger. Tbe Hibie frequently
l-eaks of God's hand and God's am? and
God's shoulder and God's foot; then sup
Ie he should put baud and arm and
shoulder aud foot to utmost tension, what
could he not make? Tnat God of such de
munstrated and undeuionstrated strength
you may have for your present and evcr-lst-ting
friend, not a stately and retuent
friend, hard to get at, bat ss spproscha-'
ble asa country mansion on a summer day
w hen all the door snd windows are wide
open. Christ said, "I am the door." And
te is a wide door, a high door, a pais. -a
d.Kir, an aiwajs open door. If God ia
your friend, you cannot go out of tha ;
world too quickly or suddenly, so far aa
your own happiness is concerned.
Copyright. WA.
titiort Hermona.
Tower. God help you women to wo
your power and to use it for bltn. and.
yours will be the bonor not only of
makicg home life sacred, lut of mukj
Inpr politfc-il life pure. Rev. F. Good
child. Baptist, New York City.
The World to Come. It uow looks as
If to the leading Christian nations were
to be consigned, the guardlau&hlp If not
the pist.-fcioii of the world that Is ta
be. Rev. A. V. G. Allen, Episcopalian,
CuUi'utiufei.', llasiiii htisctta.
'llie Comjuerora. The promlm to tha
post leu m iMl thai they ahould to
conqueror or possessors of the worki,
but witness to It for hlai who made it
aod ruled It Eiabop lluntitigioa, Epis
copalian, Central New York.
Expression of Nature. Act arc tha
language of nature. When let alono
they are true to nature. A word ex
press the Inner, unseen exercise of
thought, so 1 he acts a the language of
nature are tba expressions, the visible
linage of tbe heartIt exercise and
tates. Dr. J. H. Hall, Newniaa, Oa.
Tbe Universal Religion. The partial
tn religion la giving way to the univer
sal in religion, aad the universal reli
gion la to have It. Increasing number
of teacher and ia to build lis church'.,
ta which no man will be a strangi,
nd the ft tec thereof will not be closed
by day. Kev, J. Lloyd Jonea, Chicago,
111.
Consecration, Wa consecrata a
church; and wa think that God, la
some peculiar and apecial way, la
there. We do aot consecrate oar home,
our office. In auch way as ta ablaut
that God juat aa really la tbara, asvd
that la our bualnea life wa ara la aa
tual contact with Ulm.-Ilev. 11. J.
garage, Unitarian, New York Oky.
Dangoroua Kxperlment. It la a daa-g-erona
experiment for men to reject
Christ la th world with tba boa of
harlaf a aooond ohaaca after death,
Tha way af aalraeioa baa kaaa saaaa
plala aadl alaapW, aad) Ood la oalHagj ta
ataa aa rapaat af thatr alaa aadl aaaayi
Joaaa CMat aa tkair aatiarz-Bar. P.
a OriaalBk, Matfcaaiat,
ttttb . '.
Throughout all the 8g". It will
nosed by the student of history, the
progress of the world has been cotem
porary with a large yield of the pre
cious metal from tn mines of the
enrth and that progress wa suspended
nd clTiliratlon either la?ged or posi
tively retrogided at all periods when
the production of gold and ilrer mate
rially declined.
J Tbe Influence of an dejuate money
; supply seems to have been understood
j by the ancient Kpartn rulers, who
! made their domestic money of Iron dur-
Ing several centures. reserving g ud
ami stiver tor use in loreigu iraie aiuuc.
In more modern time the object lea
sons dcmoustratliig the effect of money
supply hare been so marked as to Im
press themselves upon the minds of
leading thinkers, who have bequeathed
to the world rich legacy In tbe form
of able treatises upon the subject Fol
lowing the discovery of America the
Impetus that the world received
through tbe gold and silver brought to
Europe by the Spaniards from Mexico
aud Fern !s now generally regarded as
the principal cause and to mark tbe be
ginning of the renaissance In Europe,
and to usher In that period known as
tbe grand march of clvlliza-I on. j
It has also been noted thflt when on
account of wars nations have been'com- j
pellcd to suspend specie payment andi
create paper money, endowing th' same!
by law with the debt-paying power, ac
cepting It for taxes and forcing the
same up'm government creditors, tint!
the increased supply of such motipy has!
lways stimulated production and bttsl-j
neds and brought on an era of general
prosperity. It has also been noted thnt
periods succceeding wars In which the
pape" money that came Into us- during
euc h war was being retired aud the vol
ume of money in circulation reduced,
tbnt an era of falilus prices ensued,
causing great diKtre-s, limiting produc
tion and making it difficult or impossi
ble for t.hne In debt to discharge their j
obligations and save their equities.
Pi:ch object bisons us these bare
caused thouphiftil people to InveHtljrale
and diju-over the liifi ienee exerted by
an Increas'ng or de reus ng volume of
money upon production and exchange.
Investigation Roon revealed tbe l;iw
controlling prices, showing that they
advance or recede as the volume of
money la Increased or diminished. In
view of the fact that production Is
s'lmulated Bnd the wealth of tb wr'd
largely tncrcas'-d, and the sum of hu
man happiness mult'plied a thi- result I
of an locreas'ng money supply, and
i that an opposite result Is produced
wlien the monev nmmlv ta hetnir d'm'n.
. -v ..rl..j , ... ... "
ishiHl, the question naturally arises,
why should not all intelligent men and
go'wi ci Uteris put forth a common effort
to secure regular, uniform and ade
quate money supply, to the end that
progress and prosperity may go on uninterrupted.
iThe further question sitgire! Itself
w ith great force, why la thia marvelous
ase of expansion and development
should thpre be found a powerful body
of citizens representing the various na
tl ns in combination for the purpose of
ou'lawing one of the metals that has
been the source of money suddIv
throughout the aees?
The answer to tills question Is that
if the nations and stat-s of the world,
and the Individuals and corporations
transacting the- world's business, had
not contracted large and enormous
d"bts to be paid In money, it would not
be to the interest of any class lo seek
to restrict the money supply and
through falling tr!fps give money a
larger purchasing power. And It may
lx' said that the only class In this na
tion or any other that profits by a di
minishing money volume are thoe
hox& ItivegTmcRls ate In money fu
tures In the shape of bonds and mort
gage, who are nnjustly enriched at the
expense of taxpayers and debtors
whose property Is being gradually con
fiscated through the falling of prices.!
This revet to it tha mon v lower.
tin' world' treat bondholders ami cred
itor, aud caib:Mi us to uudiTSinnd the
motives tiy which tney are Impelled.
Those who advoa!e the gold stand
ard eik to produi confus'on in the
minds of the average citizen regarding
wh.'t I meant when th term mony
power is used. They accuse thoe who
opjKise them of seeking to array the
poor aga'nst tbe rich. Nothing can lie
further from the fact. Among the rank.
or tne Diiuetall.sts are nmuy who noe-
sess enormous fortunes, while the large
oouy ot intelligent uitnctaUlsts are men
engaged In business, together with pro-
n-KHiunai meu, artuais, and laborers
who either own home or arc struggling
to acquire nomc. ta tbe other hand
the active advocate, of the gold stand
ard are the bondholdlng and creditor
cIkos, together with the bank, under
their control, outslda of which their
principal follower, ura tbelr employe.
nd the weak nd dependent whom
they can control, Uetbr with the ve
nal politician rlhom they reward
handsomely for tlwlr aerrlcea la far
thering tha selflsJi enda of tha creditor
combination. Tbe money power I.
world-wide comb" nation working 'n
concert upon the v.rlou. nntlona of thj
earth. It bus sought la tbJ country
from tba beglualng to prevent the
rroney question eecominf an laaua Id
politics. To nvo thia the Bought to
control tbe convention, of back of tba
frcat pnlitiraf rrrtl and dictate to
tbein tbe end Id. tea they abooid pat ta
vmlnatlaa. Thia they ware (ocoastfol
ia dolii uatU thatr ajant. Omtt Uara-
party and the country In auen coare
nd brutal manner that It caused
revolution which resulted In the Dem
ocratic party In convention In 1896 free
ing Itself from the domination of this
creditor octopus. The gold combina
tion well knew that If the lines could
le drawn In politics In such a way thit
the people could vote for or aga nst
them by making an Intelligent choice
in national election, that their doom
j was sealed. Tney played their game
with great skill and prudence for many
years. Emerson ha said that " the
devil Is always an aa." Tbe money
power In using Cleveland to do their
work and encouraging him to adopt
such v'gorous and unrefined methods
proves the truth of l-.merson s spy
ing. Silver Kn'ght Watchman.
The Fight I on Agmin.
With tbe approach of the fall elec
tions the discussion of the financial is
sue has stared up again with as much
heat and fur? as though It bad not been S Hence the gold standard
interrupted by the ar. The e litorlnl fr lir. R-cond, that to force up the
pages of tbe great goldbug epithet-ling-j value of the rupee above the level of
ers again
two, and from tWQ to 11,000.000 by
two and a half, while above 11.000.000
It 1. tripled. New Time.
H'ver Abroad.
How .trange It Is that "ho neat
. . . t, . V- Ml &
money, sound money, ine
money in the w rld." cannot be Intro
duced Into India without ruining thai
country and even threatening d're In
Jury to fin at IWitaln, whose prosperity
and wealth we have been told are tbe
conclusive evidences of the supreme
excellence of the gold standard.
More remarkable still Is tbe clrcnim
stam e that the great cause of bimetal
lism Is now being argued with consum
mate ability by the heretofore strong
est champ'ons of the gold standard ta
England, In tru'b, there Is not aa ar
gument to be used or that U ned
against tbe gold standard for India
that Is not an essential part of the W
met:il!lsts' creed.
The two principal argiimen'i beating
d'rectly upon India arc, first, that she
is a poor country and heavily In deM.
Is not good
reverberate with thuuler
against the forty-four cent dollar, re-j
pudlatlon and anarchy. In one of them
we notice no less than four lengthy
editorials on a single d ly all devoted j
to phases of the money issue. It is to;
be suspected that tbe administration'
forces have suddenly realized tint the ,
streugib of the movement to restore,
free coinage Is greater than It was In ,
lSiMl and the p f-ple. Instead of having;
their atiention diverted by foreign af- j t8:n the gold standard In India would
fairs, remained determined to cure the; involve a vast drain of gold from Ion-
:lver bullion nlaces India at a disad
vantage In competing with other ailrer
ustng countries.
With blmetnlllsts, these are a, h. c
prop sitlons, but some of the ablest
gold m n in England seem to have Just
been struck by a strong white light
similar to that which converted Taul
of Tarsus.
Hearing upon England their principal
argument is that to establish and maln-
llla from which they suffer nt home
as well ss the Ills of nelgliborlnj vic
tims of monarchical tyranny. The sit
uation Is as though a man engaged In
building a bouse had stopped work to
put out a fire In a neighboring bouse.
The fire being extinguished. h returns
to his own occupation. The war Is!
over aud wh le the new Confess will
deal with questions growing out of It,
the question, which it w.l! have to con
sider In regard to the adjustment of
the nation's financial policy are much
more Important than those having to do
with Cuba, Torto Itlco and the Philip
pines. The conventions thus far hell reiter
ate In their p'atforms the platforms of
lVfS, and pluce npon them additional
emplias s. Th' Republican at first
showed Inclination to le a little more
outspoken In favor of an outright gold
standard, but as the strength of silver
sentiment has become apparent they
have again reverted to sugge-tlon of
the p is!bii!ty of an International arfe
incnt. Upon territorial expaus'on and
s m lnr new questions there Is little or
no differ. n-e between the pia forms
approved by tbe eoavi nilons of the dif
ferent parties. The Issues remain as
they were In lSHS. because the evils
tb' n complained of have not b -en rem
edied. The collapse of tbe temporarily
high prices of wheat and sorn
doi. Here we have a distinct reeognl
tb n of the quantitative theory of
money at which so many quidnunc. In
this country are pleased to sneer.
If the quantity of money makes no
difference, what harm will a drain of
gold from England do?
Why Is not JIOO.O'iO.ihx) In gild Just
as good for her as $.-'. rfi.OOo?
Why can .he not us ibe "credit" of
wh! h we hear so much to niiike up the
deficiency J
Simply becanse credit, to be safe,
must rest upon a sufllcient base of ac
tual money. National Blinetalllst
I'oor Financiering;.
In boasting of tbe amount of gold In
the United States treasury. Republic
ans are exploiting a bit of very bad
financiering on the part ef the adminis
tration. As a matter of fact, the
law Kbit of gold Is a source of weak
ness ra'her than of strengih. It Is an
evid nee of blundering father than of
shrewdness on tbe part of the treasury
department. The money Is absolutely
u less where It Is. aud the taking of
nearly J.'SOO OXi.ft O from circulation Is
a positive and gigantic evil. I.a'est re
por;s show that the to'al In the treas
ury, ineltiilliia silver and currency ns
well ns gold. Is How to
g t rid of this money and res ore It to
other! the channel of trade aud business Is
cereals b-a desnon-t at d ta ' co-r-. t
ness of the price of silver a a barome
ter for Die g 'ix-r.1 lev.-J of prices Tli
formation of trusts has proceeded tin
diet ked the very latst now being In
proces-a of organization to control the
oyster bods along the coast of the
Unfed States and Canada.
We predict thit before November 1
of this year the financial light will b
raging as fiercely a.s It was two years
ago. No one need imagine that there
Is any weakening amon? the men who
voted for Hryrtn In Hint year. They
are standing solidly in line and there
have come to their support thousand
of those who vo'ed against them In
that year. And It is because of tbe be
lief that they win make gains In the
East that the administration is putting
forth prod'g ous effors In the West. It
is for us of the West to stand (Irmly
together, to make a clean sweep of the
enemy and to help our friends of the
East and South to give the next Con
gress a majority In both bodies pledged
to the cause of ths people. Rocky
Mountain News.
lnl
fba
In Conervati--e Maryland.
Municipal ownership of electric light
plants Is one of tbe phases of proxre.
ive city government that have xbown
marked development In Maryland dur
ing tne past few years. It is now being
agitated in Ilaji rstown, where the mu
nicipal authorities have declined to re
new a ten-year contract with a private
t-1 ctric light company, and tbe people
are cons during the feasibility of pur
chasing a municipal plant. The sue
cess and e o.tomy of municipal electric
light plants for small cities has Imp
amply demonstrated In Frederick,
where such a plant ha been In opera
tion nearly ten years, to the great sat
isfaction of the people In every way.
Th'-y have tbe satisfaction of knowing
that their city I. well lighted at a cost
much below the average charge of th
private corporations, the expense of th"
plant being kept down to the lowctrt
possible figure. Recently Cumberland
adopted the municipal ownership sys.
tern, and success has also followed
there. It will be in order for Hagers
town to follow suit, ami thus keep pc
with her rival cities In this Important
phase of municipal management Bal
llme New.
now the all Imp irtaut question. As
mm way the treasury has announced it
will prepay with a r -din tlor ef one-half
of one per cent, the fourteen million
of currency bonds tnatu .dr. at the end
of the year.
P.ut that Is only a drop out of the
o-ean. The borrow Ing of f 2if),00 (h-Q
on the bonds Issued to carry on the war
wl;U Spain wis a sttip ndons error. In
this Hep. blica! s were g lide 1 by 'Vml
rent fin.im b ra"' inter" e! in banks
ami bonds, and the b 11 authorizing the
l-stiing of fPiO.tKio.OMt in 3 per cent,
bonds was pal d. As a result the peo
ple will have f'iO.tMUVtO of Interest to
pay on the f2o0.HJ0,'.0n worth of bonds
Issued and tbe Immense principal is
locked tip and made useless for tbe pur
poses of business.
Federal laherltaaro Tax.
The war revenue bill contain, a pro
vision for an Inheritance tag. It af
fect, only legacies where tbe amount
of personal property from which they
arise exceed. $10,000. Where tbe
whole value of tbe estate exceed, f in,.
000, and I. not more than 12.1.000, legs
clea ta lineal descendant of (be testator
are taxed three-quarter of 1 per eetjL;
.a the rI tionshlp of the decedent, re
cdi the rate of t.iatlon Increase un
til the maximum of 5 per cent. Is reich
ed. AH i gaelc to non-relntlres, cor
potation and Institutions pay 5 per
cent tat. Where tba value of an eatate
1. more than 125,000, and doea not ex
ceed 1100,000, the rate af tba Ui ! mn.
tlplled by oaa and a half; from 1100,000
ta 300,ooO tba tmta la naaltMte by
I'nrity of the Metnls.
In order to show what great Influ
ence a powerful nation can exert In es
tablishing the equal value of the met
als, nn lmpirtant f;ict to be borne in
inlnd is that there Is now and always
been a shortage In the precious
metals.
This Is demonstrated by tbe fact that
goveriitm na, either through their
treasury department, or tbelr banking
Institutions, have been compela-d. by
reason of the lack of gold an! silver
currency and consequently of 'ull-cor-ered
paper money, to Issue a substitute
therefor In the form of uncovtred pa
per currency, called credit tnorey.
No nation would undertake Pip Issu
ing of money baaed upon the general
cred!t of tbe government or permit
banking Institutions to Issue such
money If there were not an Imperative
necessity for a greater circulating med
ium. Consequently the total amount of
such uncovered or credit money In the
world Indicates the existing shoriage
of metallic money.
We know that there la In existence la
the world at the present time, accord
ing to tbe report of the secretary of
the treasury, $2,5(15 MiO.OOO of suen on
covered or credit money.
With such an enormous .hnrtsRe In
the precious metals, you can rad',ly see
that a powerful nation would hive
much greater influence In erabllshlna;
tbeir parity of value than If there wa.
an abundance or an over supply of tbe
same. Democratic Magaxln.
Oone to the He rap Heap. '
The Pennsylvania railroad monopoly
has Juat discharged 183 men fifty year,
of age or over at Altoona, Pa. TJiey
have been thrown upon the acrap-beap
like ao much worn out old Iron. They
voted to uphold the lyatem that make,
.tjch bearUeaaneaa polble.-Loof
Leader.
What Public "waershlp Weald Do.
.The employe of tbe electric light and
telephone co nip nb have .truck In St
I-onla, They want mare prosperity. U
tba city owned tbcie plant. It could
pay tbe n-n $4 per day-they .k
iar ea aaa caarge tbelr
toot half tha pmait twit
