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FROM a passage of Scripture that
probably do other clergyman ever
preached from Rev. Dr. Talmage in
"this discourse aeta forth a truth very ap
propriate for those who have unhealthy
Ambition for great wealth or fame. The
text is 1 Chronicles n, 6, 7:
"A man of great atature, whose fingers
aad toes were four and twenty, six on
each band and aiz on each foot, and he
also waa the son of a giant. But, when
he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of
Chimes, David's brother, slew him."
Malformation photographed, and for
rhat reason? Did not this passage slip
by mistake into the sacred Scriptures, as
aomettmes a paragraph utterly obnoxious
to the editor gets into hie' newspaper dur
ing his absence? Is not this Scriptural
errata? No, no; there is nothing haphaz
ard about the Bible. This passage of
Scripture was as certainly intended to be
pat ia the Bible as the Terse, "In the be
ginning God created the heavens and the
earth," or "God so loved the world that he
(are his only begotten Son."
And I select it for my text to-day be
' cause it ia charged with practical and
tremendous meaning. By the people of
Cod the Philistines had been conquered,
with the exception of a few giants. The
aace of giants is mostly extinct, I am glad
to aay. There is no use for giants now
except to enlarge the income of museums.
.But there were many of them in olden
times. Goliath was, according to the
'Bible, 11 feet 4 inches high, or, if you
'doubt this, the famous Plrny declares that
;t Crete by an earthquake a monument
'WW broken open, discovering the remains
af a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high.
whether you take sacred or profane
history, yon must come to the conclusion
that there were in those times cases of
koman. ajtitude monstrous and appalling.
The Use of Every Day.
Behold how superfluities are a hin
dranee rather than a help! In all the bat
rgle at Gatb that day there was not a man
with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and
"Ordinary atature that was not better off
" than this physical curiosity of my text. A
dwarf on the right side is tsronger than
i a giant on the wrong side, and all the body
and mind and estate and opportunity that '
you cannot use for God and the better-
Steal of the world are a sixth finger and a
mixta toe and a terrible hindrance. The
, aaost of the good done in the world and
i the most of those who win the battles for
' the right are ordinary people. Count the
pagers of their right hand, and they have
. Just fire no more and no less. One Dr. '
Dos? among missionaries, but 3,000 mis- i
'-atoaaries that would tell you they have
'only common endowment One Florence
afightingale to nurse the sick in conspic
uous places, but 10,000 women who are
JSat as good nurses, though never heard
of. The "Swamp Angel" was a big gun
that during the civil war made a big noise,
feat muskets of ordinary caliber and sheila
af ordinary heft did the execution. Presi
dent Tyier and his cabinet go down the
Potomac one day to experiment with the
Peacemaker," a great iron gun that was
rto affright with its thunder foreign na
wles. The gunner touches it off, and it
explodes and leaves cabinet ministers
dead on the deck, while at that time, all
up and down our coasts, were cannon of
ordinary bore, able to be the defense of
.the nation and ready at the first touch to
waken to duty. The curse of the world
.is if guns. After the politicians, who
faave made all the noise, go home hoarse
from angry discussion on the evening of
the first Monday in November, the next
day the people, with the silent ballots,
Will settle everything and settle it right,
million of the white slips of paper they
drop making about as much noise as the
gall of an apple blossom,
Clear back in the country to-day there
re mothers in plain apron and shoes fash
ioned on a rough last by a shoemaker at
: the end of the lane, rocking babies tliat I
are to -be the Martin Lnthers and the
Faradays and the Edisons and the Bis-
tnarcks and the Gladstones and the Wash
ington and the George Whitefields of the
future. The longer I live the more I like
common folks. Tbey do the world's
work, bearing the world's burdens, weep
ing the world's sympathies, carrying the
world's consolation. Among lawyers we
see rise np a Rufus Choate or a William
Wirt or a Samuel L. Southard, but so
ciety would go to pieces to-morrow If
there were not thousands of common law
yers to ate that men and women get their
rights. A Valentine Mott or a Willard
Parker rises up eminent in the medical
. avofesatoa. but what an unlimited sweep
would pacaaonia and diphtheria and scar
let fever have In the world if it were not
far 10,000 common doctors!
Caeteae Addenda.
Yet what do we see In all departments?
feople not satisfied with ordinary spheres
at war and ordinary duties. Instead of
triad to tee what tbey can do with a
sUad ef are angers, they want six. In
atoad of aaaal aaaowsaent of twenty man-
; r i aa aaaal addenda, tbey want twenty-
A aartoJa aawuat of taoaey for livt
, al far the supply of those whom
i .i.; fcMai aa after we have depart
t UL!r m taoertaat, for we have the
VlsCjr far raying, "He that pro
." Ur ala owa, and especially
If ',n hianbill. la worst than
U ' .V tat t awaw and fabulous
s V tlUi away gtraggW, If etoaia
lta laiwwn rather thaa aa
"Set! i-toiaasas af tbaat
l Ly Iwtrm gtotharts eaa
'vA I tL f rta,
t saa awa
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out in business successes until in almost '
every direction you have investments. The
fire bell rings at night; you nisi up stairs '
to look out of the window to see if it is
any of your mills. Epidemic of crime
comes, and thee are embezzlements and .
absf'onding in all directions, and you won- I
der whether any of your bookkeepers will
prove recreant. A panic strikes the finan- !
cial-world, and you are like a hen under a
sky full of hawks and trying with anxious
cluck to get your overgrown chickens safe
ly under wing. After a certain stage of
success has been reached you have to trust
so many important things to others that
you are apt to become the prey of others,
and you are swindled and defrauded, and
the anxiety you had on your brow when
you were earning your first $ 1,000 is not
equal to the anxiety on your brow now
that you have won your $300,000.
Monetary Plethora.
The trouble wrth such a one is, he is
spread out like the unfortunate one in
my text. You h$e more fingers and toes
than you know what to do with. Twenty
were useful; twenty-four are a hindering
superfluity.
"Well," says somebody, "such over
loaded persons ought to be pftied, for their
worriments are real, and their insomnia
and their nervous prostration are genu
ine." I reply that they could get rid of
the bothersome surplus by giving it away.
If a man has more houses than he can
carry without vexation, let him drop a
few of them. If his estate ia so great he
cannot manage, it without getting nervous
dyspepsia from having too much, let bim
divide with those who have nervous dys
pepsia because they cannot get enough.
No, they guard their sixth finger with
more care than they did the original five.
They go limping with what they call gout
and know not that, like the giant of my
text, they are lamed by a superfluous toe.
A few of them by charities bleed them
selves of this financial obesity and mo
mentary plethora, but many of tiiem habg
on to the hindering superfluity till death,
and theu, as they are compelled to give
the money up anyhow, In their last will
and testament they generously give some
of it to the Lord, expecting, no doubt,
that he will feel very much obliged to
them. Thank God that once in awhile
we have a Peter Cooper, who, owning an
interest in the iron works at Trenton, said
to Mr. Lester: "I do not feel quite easy
about the amount we are making. Work
ing under one of our patents, we have a
monopoly which seems to me something
wrong. Everybody has to come to us for
it, and we are making money too fast"
8o tbey reduced the price, and this while
our philanthropuit was budding Cooper
Institute, which mothers a hundred in
stitutes of kindness and mercy all over
the land. But the world had to wait 5,800
years for Peter Cooper!
The Miser and Misery.
I am glad for the benevolent institu
tions that get a legacy from men wbo
during their life were as stingy aa death,
but who in their last will and testament
beatowed money on hospitals and mission
ary societies, but for such testators I have
no respect They would have taken ev
ery cent of it with them if they could and
bought np half of heaven and let it out
at ruinous rent or loaned the money to
celestial citizens at 2 per cent a momh
and got a "corner" on harps and trumpets.
They Hved in this world fifty or sixty
years in the presence of appalling suffer
ing and want and made no efforts for
their relief. The charities of such people
are in the "Paulo-post future" tense. They
are going to do them. The probeblity is
that if such a one in his last will by a
donation to benevolent societies tries to
atone for his lifetime close-fisted ness the
heirs at law will try to break the will by
proving that the old man was senile or
crazy, and the expense of the litigation
will about leave in the lawyer's hands
what was meant for the Bible society. O
ye overweighted successful business men,
whether this sermon reach your ear or
your eyes, let me say that if you are pros
trated with anxieties about keeping or in
vesting these tremendous fortunes I cajj
tell you how you can do more to get your
health back and your spirits raised than
by drinking gallons of bad tasting water
at Karatog, Homburg or Carlsbad give
to God, humanity and the Bible 10 per
cent of all your income, and it will make
a new man bf you, and from restless walk
ing of the floor at night you shall have
eight hours' sleep without the help of
bromide of potassium, and from no appe
tite you will hardly be able to wait for
your regular meals, and your wan che?k
will fill op, and when you die the blessings
of those who but for you would have per
ihed will bloom all over your grave.
Perhaps some of you will take this ad
vice, bur the most of yon will not. And
you will try to cure your swollen baud by
getting on It more fihgers, and your rheu
matic foot by getting on It more toes, and
there will be a sigh of relief when you are
gone out of the world, and when over
your remains the minister recites the
words, "Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord," persons who have keen appre
ciation of the ludicrous will hardly be
able to keep1 their fsces straight But
whether in that direction my words do
good or not I am anxious that all who
have only ordinary equipment be thankful
for what they have and rightly employ it.
I think you nil have, figuratively as well
as literally, fingers enough. Do not long
for hindering superfluities. Standing in
the presence of this fallen giant of my
text and in this post mortem examination
of him, let ua learn how much better off
we are with just the usual band, the usual
foot You have thanked Ood for a thou
sand things, but I warrant you never
thanked bim for those two implements of
work sod ksfotnotion that no one but the
infinite and omnipotent God could have
ever planned or made the band and the
foot Only tliat soldier or that mechanic
who la a battle or through machinery has
loot them knows anything adequately
about their vaine, and only the Christian
scientist can hare any appreciation of
what divine masterpieces they are.
The Hassaa ftaad,
Mr Charles Bell was so impressed with
she woaaroaa construction of the human
baud tbaCwbea the Karl of Bridfewaier
tata $40,000 for essays aa tat wlaaaaa
aad goodness ef God, and tight books
ware written, Mr Charles Bell wrote kit
entire book aa (he wtsdosa aad goodaana
ef Oed as olaqsaytd la taw aaaasa nana.
Taa twenty -aavaa baato ha to aaad aad
ri tO ami tpnaaato gxi
phalanges of the flogera an made just
ready to knit to sew, to bui' I up, to pull
down, to weave, to writs, to plow, to
pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friend
ly ialutation. The tips of its fingers are
so many telegraph erh'-es by reason of
their sensttiveibss of ton h. The bridges,
the tunnels, the cities t the whole earth
are the victories of i'ne band. The hands
are not dumb, but often speak a distinct
ly as the lips. With our bauds we Invite,
we repel, we invoke, we eu treat, je wring
them in grief or clap them iff joy, or
spread them abroad In benediction. The
malformation of the giant's hand in the
text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned
of God more exquisitely and wondronsly
than any human mechanism that was
ever contrived, I charge you to use it for
God awl the lifting of the world oat of its
moral predicament Employ it in the sub
lime work of gospel handshaking. Yoa
can see the hand is just made for that
pour fingers just set right to touch your
neighbor's hand on one side, and your
thumb set so as to clinch it on the other
side. By all its bones and joints and
muscles and cartilages and ligaments the
voice of nature joins with the voice of God
commanding you to shake hands. The
custom is as old as the Bible, anyhow,
Jehu said to Jehonadab: "Is thine heart
right as my heart is with thine heart? If
it be, give me thine hand." When hands
join in Christian salutation, a gospel elec
tricity thrills across the palm from heart
to heart, and from the shoulder of one to
the shoulder of the other.
With the timid and for their encourage
ment shake hands. With the troubled in
warm hearted sympathy, shake hands.
With the young man just entering busi
ness and discouraged at the small sales and
the large expenses, shake hands. With
the child who is new from God and start
ed ou unending journey, for which be
needs to gather great supply of strength,
and who can hardly reach up to you now
because you are so much taller, shake
hands. Across cradles and dying beds
and graves, shake hands. With your ene
mies who have done all to defame and
hurt you, but whom you can afford to for
give, shake hands. At the door of the
churches w here people come in, and at the
door of churches where people go out
shake hands. Let pulpit shake hands with
pew aud Sabbath day shake hands with
week day, and earth shake bands with
heaven. Oh, the strange, the mighty,
the undefined, the mysterious, the eternal
power of an honest handshaking! The
difference between these times and the
millennial times is that now me shake
hands, but then all will shake bands,,
throne and fooUtool, across seas, nation
with nation, God and man, church mili
tant and church triumphant
The Krrant Foot.
Yea, the malformation of this fallen
giant's foot glorifies the ordinary foot,
for which I fear you have never once
thanked God. The twenty-six bones of
the foot are the admiration of the anato
mist. The arch of the foot, fashioned
with a grace and a poise that Trajan's
arch or Constantine's arch or any other
arch could not equal. Those arches stand
where they were planted, but this arch of
the foot is an adjustable arch, a yielding
arch, a flying arch, and ready for move
ments innumerable. The human foot, so
fashioned as to enable a man to stand up
right as no other creature, and leave the
hand that would otherwise have to help
in balancing the body free for anything
it chooses. The foot of the camel fash
ioned for the sand, the foot of the bird
fashiooed for the tree branch, the foot of
the hind fashioned for the slippery rock,
the foot of the lion fashioned to rend its
prey, the foot of uhe horse fashioned for
the solid earth, but the foot of man made
to cross the desert, or climb the tree, or
scale the cliff, or walk the earth, or go
anywhere be needs to go.
With that divine triumph of anatomy in
your possession where do you walk? In
what path of righteousness or what path
of sin have you set it down? Where have
you left the mark of your footsteps?
Amid the petrifactions in the rocks have
been found the marks of the feet of birds
and beast of thousands of years ago. And
God can trace out all the footsteps of your
lifetime, and those you made fifty years
ago are as plain as those made in the last
soft weather, all of them petrified for the
judgment day. Ob, the foot! Give me
the autobiography of your foot from the
time you slipped out of the cradle until
to-day, and I will tell your exact charac
ter now and what are your prospects for
the world to come.
That there might be no doubt about the
fact that both these pieces of divine me
chanism, hand and foot. In-long to Christ's
service both hands of Christ and both
feet of Christ were spiked on the cross.
Uight through the arch of both bis feet
to the boljow of his instep went the iron
of torture, and from the palm of bis band
to the back of it and there is not a muscle
or nerve or bone among the twenty-seven
bones of hand and wrist or among the
tweuty-six bones of the foot but it be
longs to him now and forever. That is
the most beautiful foot that goes about
paths of greatest usefulness, and that
the most beautiful hand that does tit
most to help others.
Copyright, IJftS.
SHORT SERMONS.
God and Mechanism. It U God who
sweeps the plains and tunneto the
mountains with our flying train, as
really aa though tbey were carried by
harnessed angela God working for us
In every direction. Rer. M. J. Savage,
Unitarian, New York City.
Don't Worry Let ua not climb ttie
high wall till we get to It, or light the
battle till It opens, or shed tears oyer
sorrows that may nerer'come, or lose
the Joya and blessings that we bare by
the sinful fear that God will take them
from ua. Dr. Cuyter, Presbyterian,
Brooklyn, N. T.
SodetyLlfe Is possible In a society
like oura only on condition that every
elaaa loxs out for the Interest of every
other Aaas as well aa Its own. This la
the Christian law, and It 1a the only
rnnniiatfaft on which society can real
Rer. W. Gladden, Congregational let.
Coiamboa, Ohio.
Progress of II a man Bleating. Be
hind all tbe strugglea of humanity for
bettor things, behind the world'!
dree ma of a golden age to coma, baa
been ooa raprana Inapiratloa of food
mm walca eompabi MMBlnj trll to
ork owt tka agraaa af taun Mean-
Gaorga A. TMjrar, uaita-
ADDRESS ON SILVER
BY CHAS. A. TOWNE AT OMAHA
EXPOSITION.
takility of Value Is the Teat of the
Gsodness of Mone-FalUaa Prices
Arc an Industrial, Economic, Politi
cal and Social KviU
An address on 'The Coinage and Use
of Silver as Standard Money Co-Ordln-ately
with Gold" was delivered at foe
Omaha Exposition by Hon. Charles
A. Towne, ex -Congressman from Min
nesota. Mr. Towne said. In part:
"Whatever else money may be de
fined to be, It is purchasing power. Re
ferred to a partlcklnr commodity this
purchasing power etpresses Itself as
the price of that commodity. But the
purchasing power of n.otiey extends
to all commodities. It can, therefore,
be truly expressed only In reference to
all commodities. Ia other words, the
purchasing power of money la indefin
able except In terms of average prices.
Money In Its origin and on principle Is
a mere convenience in connection with'
things, bttt those interested In adding
to Its value as measured by things have
succeeded In making It more Import
ant and Influential than all tbe produc
tive functions of society combined.
Monometallisis take the bank-counter
view, the mere physical simplicity
view, while bimetalllstg take the other
that of the essential meaning of
money as measuring other things, with
its ultimate and Intimate ethical and
social significance.
"Stability of value, or the nearest
practicable approach to It. Is the test
of goodness In money. Tbe physical
simplicity school assumes roUI In ad
vance as the perfect standard, as
changeless and Invariable, and then
gauges the stability or Instability of
everything else, Including other forms
of money, by comparison with gold.
By tbe other view, however, stability
of value means constancy of exchange
relations to other things. Invariability
of purchoslng power. It Is submitted
that the latter meaning Is tbe only one
that commends Itself to common sense.
Since value Is exchange relation, sta
bility of value means stability of ex
change relations, of, as applied to
money, of purchasing power.
"Falling prices are an Industrial,
economic, political, and social evil of
almost unparalleled proportions. Tbey
discourage Industries, drive money
from activity Into Idleinna, from the
channels of trade Into tbe bank vaults,
reduce wages and throw laborers out
of employment, make property unpro
ductive and therefore worthless, de
stroy equities, Increase the burden of
taxes and all fixed charges, ruin debt
ors, pile up wealth In the hands of the
few, and encourage the formation of
trusts, monopolies, and combines.
"At present the experiment of tbe
gold standard Is In a state of Incom
pleteness. To go on with It to the log
ical conclusion of the gold valuation
system Is a practical Impossibility,
while It Is equally out of tbe question
for the world to remain In Its present
monetary condition. Tbe gold stand
ard In Jts simplicity contemplates the
abolition of every other kind of money
of full debt-paying power except gold
alone, and the use of various forms of
credit based on gold In the ordinary
transactions of business. We may see
an Indication of this Intended consum
mation In the various schemes of
'monetary reform" recently proposed
and now pending In Congress, the ho
called Gage plan, that of the Indianap
olis Sound Money Convention, and that
embodied In the McCleary bill, all of
which share tbe aim so distinctly an
nounced by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, to commit the country more thor
oughly to the gold standard,' and agree
In their essential provisions. They
contemplate the retirement of all
forms of Government paper money, or
greenbacks and Treasury notes, ami
the reduction of our standard silver I
dollar Into a mere promise to pay In
gold. The Inevitable result of such a .
course would soon be the absolute dis
use of silver for money, except as
small change, tbe melting and sale for
use In the arts of about half a billion
of sliver dollars, and the contraction
of our circulation to such a quantity as
should be furnished by our distributive
share of the world's gold, plus such a
paper circulation as the banks could
keep actually redeemable In gold.
"The par of exchange among nations
can be restored In only one or two ways
either by the universal adoption of tbe
gold standard, so that all nations shall
use a common measure of one metal,
or by the restoration of gen nine bimet
allism, so that all nations may possess
a common measure composed of the
joint volume of both gold and sliver.
But the universal adoption of the gold
standard Is Impossible. To say nothing
of the folly of attempting Its extension
to India, Its establishment Id all Its
rigor, even In Europe, would produce
such a cataclysm and misery, due to the
enforced annihilation of hundred of
millions of dollars of silver and silver
supported paper, with their super-Imposed
credit that a social chaos would
supervene compared to which tbe Dark
Ages would seem like an Arcadian era.
"We, therefore, reach the conclusion
that the only way to bring back a par
of exchange between gold and sliver la
by restoring to silver the full money op
portunities of which It baa been de
prived by law, by again authorising tbe
coinage and use of silver as standard
money co-ordinate with gold.' We con
tend that by opening the mints of the
United Rtatee to the free coinage of sil
ver, as well as of grid, at 16 to 1, tbo
fall of prices would a stopped.
"Bat we are told Host all the gold la
tbe country, estimated at over frjorv
000,000, won Id bo drlTaa out of tbe
try if tae aalata wars Ofaaad to a
rer.- It Is as If tbe first few silver dol
lars that should percolate through the
mint were instantly to seek out tbe
frightened and uurealstlug $ti0,tK0.(0
of gold, seize ft by the collar and physi
cally eject It from the country. The
process Is not that The gold could not
go any faster than It was displaced.
Why has not our gold gone already In
fear of the $500,000,000 of silver we
now have? The answer ia, because
there Is a demand for gold here in addi
tion to the use of silver, and our scale
of prices Is so adjusted to the Interna
tional range of law prices as to enable
us to hold it As prices began gradual-
to rise under the operations of our
free coinage law, the first effect would
be to make this country, according to
the familiar Illcardian formula, 'a poor
place to buy in and a gnod place to sell
In.' Our Imports would tend to Increase
and our exports to decrease. By and
by there would be more demand In New
York for foreign exchange In payment
of our purchase abroad than could be
offset by bills drawn against our ex
port Exchange would rise to the 'spe
cie point,' and, unable longer to pay In
goods, we should nettle the balance In
gold. This process would continue un
til the International level of prices were
restored and our money volume and
prices were In equilibrium."
Goldbna Promise.
Confound dose goldbng editors
Who brint the Golden Sun,
They tell such awful false hoods
Shust like a horse can run.
I took dot baper every week
For more as three years straight
L'nd I remember all the promises
Vich they made shust for a bait
They said, "Vait till 'lection day,
L'nd efry money wick
Vill come oudt from its billing
Yen confidence cooms pack."
Und ven 'lection day vns ofcr
The next thing they did say
Vas, "Ve gif you some brosberity
On inauguration day."
I told my vife, ve valt now
Till the fourth of March is gone
Und see vat story vill come next
From dot confoundt Golden Sun.
Und sure enough they h.if one
Vich they said would be the last;
They said, "You get some confidence
Veu de Dingley bill gets past."
Veil, the Dingley bill went jmst;
Now they hint, but don't just say,
"Vait while ve bnrn de greem.icks,"
Or, "Vait rill Judgment day."
Silver Knight-Watchman.
IMrect LeKllatl" 'n Switzerland.
In part of the little republic of Switz
erland the principle of direct legisla
tion by the people existed more than
300 years ago; bit was not until the
beginning of the present century that
It became general. The present, con
federation of cantons, under which
most of her most Important laws were
en- d, was formed as late as 1K48,
ami ven at this day a very few can
tons submit to having their laws made
by representatives, chosen, as with us,
for this purpose. But the Initiative and
referend-.im principle has grown rap
Idly aim 1848, so that while In lKtiO
only 34 per cent, of the cauUius pos
sessed It, In 1870. 71 per cent, had
adopted the principle, and In 1WH) more
than 00 per cent, were acting under
either an obligatory or optloual form
of direct legislation. The opUonal form,
which requires the people to petition
for the privilege of voting on any law
proposed or enacted. Is fast giving way
to the obligatory which requires that
all laws of general character Iks refer
red to the people. Under this latter
form of the Initiative and referendum
all laws are either made by, or refer
red for adoption to the people, who
meet for the purpose twice a yi-nr.
As might be supposed, the result of
this kind of legislation Is seen first in a
marked reduction of taxation; but at
tbe same time what might not have
been expected has come true, namely.
a great Improvement In public affairs
and In the happiness and welfare of
the people. Their schools are more nu
merous and better conducted; their
highways are among the finest In the
world, alihuugh In a rugged, mountaln
eus country; tbelr railroads are man
aged In the interest of the people and
rates are among the lowest In all Eu
rope; there Is uo Jobbery In public Im
provements and no extravagance in
public expenditures; there are but few
unemployed among the people and
none aro destitute. The system of pro
gressive taxation adopted In some of
tbe cantons tends to reduce the pro
portion of the Inordinately rich among
the people and to prevent the Increase
of pauperism.
Free miJI delivery Is much more gen
eral In Switzerland than with us, and
yet postal rates are surprisingly low.
The statement Is made that with low
er postage than any other country, the
net earnings of the Swiss postal sys
tem In last were $."00,00. This Is due
to the more favorable contracts made
with railroads and other carrying com
panies than Is the case In most coun
tries, In other words the contracts are
made by the people for their own bene
fit, Instead of by the companies for tbe
benefit of Individual corporations.
This Is but a mere hint of the ad
vantages of tbe system of legislation
put In practice by this newest of the
Republics, within less than twenty
years. Our older and larger republic
ought not to feel above learning the
lesson so plainly taught by ber young
er sister. Indiana Farmer.
Pro pacta for Posterity,
Ton are a married man and bring
ing np a child. Do yon know what you
are bringing up the child to do? You
can or at least abould look ahead and
tea the gigantic monopolies crushing
out the lives of the people. If tbe
child hi a dangbter, she will bare to
truggto far a living. To gat taettgn
for today h) all that 70a eaa aa. t&
to morrow tbe daughter mutt loot asjf
for. I'erhiiiw she marries a niaa, a
worklngiuan who gels out of waft.
You know tbe re. If your child m a
son, he grows up to manhood to .id
every avenue of trade closed to hlnu
He baa not got the means and the la
fluence to get a foothold in (lie world.
What Is next? Crime. And yet how
niauv fathers there are who are OghV
Ing those who would change tbe condi
tions and give their boy and girl aa
equal chance with every other boy and
girl In the nation. Critic
la the GUnt Ho MTesk f
Uncle Sam Is now recognized as tbo
young giant, of the Western World, and
as Senator Teller says, his front door
Is likely to be the Pacific Ores a. A
German paper has an article on tae
vast resurces of this country, and pre
dicts the speedy construction of the
Nicaragua Canal: "Tbe United States
has taken an important step toward the
exclusive control of the Aner!ean con
tinent and will reach across tbe Pa
cific to the Asiatic coast"
And yet the moment we claim that
this country can maintain silver on a
parity with gold the giant Is dwarfed
to a pigmy. Then England looms up
again as the great creditor country of
tbe world, and we must continue to
pay our debu to ber In her borrowed
gold. Our people begin to see this
cry is raised by tbe agents and attor
neys of the banks w ho plot to control
the volume of tbe" currency. Tbe money
monopolist showed their cloven feet
at the Otuaba convention. Mr. Moses
Khrieh, a plutocrat of the Newport of
the West, Colorado Springs, was lu
favor of "gold evolutlon-from ' the
greater to tbe less from expansion to
contraction-from man la monkey
from the Hon to the golden calf."
The people cannot all be fooled all
the time. They know what the appre
ciation of gob) and falling prices mean;
they know that the crime of '73 Is like
a cancerous growth, sapping slowly
but surely the energies of the Ameri
can penile. They look at the prices of
cotton, corn and pork. If not wheat
They see that while, we can lick all cre
ation, all our values are measured by
that old Fa gin of Shoredltch, sitting
on his little pot of gold. When will the
farce euU?-SIIver Knight-Watchman.
Kverydar Political Kcnnomy.
Why does every housekeeper who
markets for a family know more about
the principles of political economy
tlmu the most learned gold tnouometal
list now living? Because no house
wife who does marketing and no lady
who rtw-e shopping is Ignorant of the
law of supply and demand as regulat
ing value. The housewife knows that
when chickens, egg, and vegetables
are scarce they will tie dearer than
when tbey are plenty. The goldlte de
nies that when money is scarce money
has a greater purchasing power or Is
dearer than when It Is plenty. The
housewife knows that It Is not the in
trinsic value of eggs that makes ibetn
dearer In December than they are In
April, but Itecause eggs In April art
pleutler than they are In Decemlier.
Kvery goldlte pretends to believe that
the quantity of money In circulation
has nothing to do with Its value or
purchasing power. The difference,
however, iK'twecn the real knowledge
of thelMiusewife who markets ami tbe
gold gambler who speculates does not
arlw so much from the difference of
knowledge as from a difference In hon
esty. Tul? housewife Is perfectly hon
est In her belief that when things that
are necessary for family use. are scarce,
they will lie dear. On the other hand,
the goblite Is utterly dishonest In his
pretensions, for he knows very well
that the value of each dollar lu circu
lation depends upon the numlier of dol
lars and not upon the quality of the
material from which the dollar Is
made.
The Judge la King.
The government by Injunction Is the
most absolute desiMitism and the most
flagrant usurpation known to organ.
Izcd society. The power of the federal
Judges, as constructed by themselves.
Is greater than the constitution or the
fundamental rights of men. It sus
pends the freedom of speech and of
the press. It destroys Individual lib
erty. It exceeds In pretension and In
performance the exploded doctrine of
the divine right of kings. No greater
menace to our liberties could be de
vised tbnn the federal Judgu's arbitrary
assumption of omnipotence and lufalli-billty.-Ohlo
News.
The Country tinatalncd on Credit
Th present revenue policy of our
government Is to Issue Interest bearing
bonds to meet current expenses. Cleve
land Issued 1'02 millions simply for this
purpose. Four hundred million have
been provided for under McKlnley.
The war tax will also tie continued
long after tbe war expenses have been
met. Uncle Ham Is now being sus
tained on a credit basts and oir peo
ple are steadily becoming slave of tha
F.uropcan money power. Chicago Ex
press. John Wanasnaher's Ownlon.
. lion. John Wanarnsker, ex postmas
ter general, says: "I heartily approve
of the Idea of giving the people a vota
on corrupt legislation. The movement
to secure for the pwpl" direct and Im
mediate control over legislation shall
hare my support 1 trust such a move
ment will receive the thoughtful atten
tion of all who would Improve onr po
litical and industrial conditions, I am
willing to trust public questions to the
Intelligence and conscience of tha peo
ple." The Caaee of Prosperity.
During alUages the progress of aha
world has bean contemporary with aa
abundant yield of tha preclons metals
from tha mines af tha earth. No ported
of human progreas can be pointed to at
a time when money aupptj wag teh