SUPPLEMENT TOTH E 10UP CITY NORTHWESTERS. Friday, September 11,1896. J It is Heard in New YorY on the Vital Issues of the Great Campaign. PERILS OF POPOCRAT SUCCESS. A Stirring Address in Which All Questions Are Handled in a Masterly Way. ^ New York, Auk. 28.—At Carnegie hall, Thursday night, an immense and enthu siastic audience gathered to hear the Issues of the campaign discussed hy • x IVcsident IScnjrnnin Harrison. lion. Chauticcy M. Depew presided over the Meeting. Until Mr. Harrison and Mr. l>epcw were the recipient* of ovations when they entered the hall. I'pon call ing the gathering to order, Mr. Depew delivered an address on campaign issues, at the close of which lie Introduced cx I’residcnt Harrison, who at once entered Into a discussion of the Issues. He spoke at conaidcralde length, heing very fre quently interrupted Iiy nppinuMe. Re ferring to bis appearance as a campaign speaker he said it Was due to ids sense ol the duty he owed to the country to combat the fallacies sought to be foisted upon the pcojdc by tin1 Democratic party aud its allies, lb1 acknowledged bis re atMM't for the feelings which act tinted the gold Democrats in occupying the po sition they do, but said they must not expect the Republican party to reorgan ire liMt'ii m'niitxi1 tIn* I h/iuornitIt* puffy fcad disorganized itxelf. The iiemo «ratk party had once more exhibited it* capacity to be ruptured and n party that cannot lie split was a public menace. When the leaders of a party assembled In convention depart from its traditional principles und advocate doctrines that threaten the integrity of the government, the soda! order of our communities and the security and soundness of our finance, it ought to be split, nnd it digni fies itself when it does split. A Isilt from any party is now nnd then a most reassuring incident and was never more reassuring and never had better cause than now. The Republican party fronts (be destruetlonists nnd trumpets its de fiance to tbe enemies of ‘‘sound money.” It will tight, however, without covering •ny of the glorious mottoes and inscrip tious that are upon it* banner. Con tin jfiing, Mr. Ilairitron'raid: CsJ.-Jl}111! I* X leading issue of a cam paign which most agitate* (lie people. In my opinion there is no issue present ed by the Chicago convention more itn Crtaut or vital tliun the question they ve raised of prostituting the power nnd duty of the national courts and na tional executive. The defense of the constitution, of the Supreme court of the ^Jnlted States and of the President’s Bower and duty to enforce all of the laws of the United States without await ing the call or consent of the governor of any state is an important and living Issue in this campaign. TurilT nnd coin age will lie of little moment if our con stitutional government is overthrown. {When we have n President who believes (bat it is neither his right nor his duty to see that Ihe mail trains are not ob structed and that interstate commerce nas its free way, irrespective of state lines and state court*, who fear* to use our ancient nnd familiar power to re strain and punish lawbreakers, free trade and free silver will be appropriate accompaniments of such an administra tion and cannot add appreciably to the national distress or the national dis honor. (Applause.) . “The atmosphere .of the Chicago con vention was surcharged with the spirit of revolution. Its platform was car ried nnd its nominations made with ac companying incidents of frenzy tiiat star tled the onlooker* und amazed the coun try. The courts and the President were arraigned for enforcing the laws, and government by the mob was given pref erence over government by law enforced by the court decrees and by executive orders. There was no calm deliberation; (here was frenzy. There was no thought ful searching for the man who from ex perience was must able to direct public affairs. There was an impulsive re •pouse to an impassioned speech that se lected the nominee. Not amid such •nrroundings ns that, not under such in fluences. are these calm, discreet things done that will commend themselves to the jndgineut of tbe American people. {Applause. I “They denounce in their nlntfnrm in terference by federal authorities in local affairs ns n violation of the constitution of the United States and n crime uguinst free institutions. Mr. Tillman iu his apeeeh approved this declaration. It area intended to be in words a direct condemnation of Mr. Cleveland a* Presi dent of tbe I 'tilted States fur using the - .. # ii... .... t. .. I . a the way every ol<*taile to the free pnaa mgr of the mall train* of the United mate* nml the Interatnte eoniineree, and, any frlenda, whenever our people np ftrove the cbok* of a I'reaident who believe* he muat a»k tlor, Allgeld or ■ay other atate i.riiiiaaliui to *uforce the taw a of the I oiled Stale*, we bar# ■arreodered the vlelory the buy* won «a I MU. I Applause I "My frlenda. tbi* ■-.•uatitutbinal qnea «|oo, tbi* diviaiott between the general ■ad local autbortllr* la a plain and raty •a*. A dlaturbnuer which la purely be ral la a atate la a atate affair. The fSaaldrnt cannot tend tn«.|» or lend any ■14. on 1*** the lomalatur* valla up..u to at for http, or the governor, If the acalalaliirr la not in •.-••ton. Hut when • MW of the rmtevl State* I* Invaded ■n4 broken. It i* the awurn duty of the ■Neotdent to eiecut* it. and this r.u.t.n tiaa arraign* the l*r« .. bui for dutua arbal bu oath oopilol bint to do fcjD•a»r•4e* for tbe great war for lb* •Jabot. *uHa of Iboae who went out to Ilk that the Hag »i>gbt not to** it* •t*r, mil «>• *•>«»»• at after the** year* ! 4*fka of *.\«*!*» I bat live do. It in* w bo b agg« abut ta .hath In the great war *t-t end there flap supreme trt «.l lb* I wit. I Miaiet and tbe fedota) kmr wm* are ar twlawe.1 bv-.aua* they warn! the fttoliUr at til of lwjan»tb»w la »>n.p.» »v «kb.ee, to teal .a in wow ll> ot !>«■ .blag tbe U» nod tbit pb*lt « I'itioi* »t. >••» I wdi abag 104 that It ta t* umkvatoml in g be « ant iv. 'hat it*. I1 gang that when lb. ** U'l. Mt t• ■ 11 . ter gtaiug it* cvoattloti mi l"»«f ami doty, lev an littery > tatkn U a *»* nf tho Batted St*'** that wag e l tdcaaing to CvM«.*a *b«y ta .4bl iactaato tha i«« I HIS CURIOUS WAY OF SHOWING IT /•ami If *Jr-:;*"-'lvA. J/r, 1 trynn amaortm that ho Ih opposed to foreign domination In our nffalrm. her of Judge* and park the court to get a decision to please them. (Applause.) "My friends, our fathers who framed this government divided It* great pow er* I,ctween three great departments— the legislative, executive and the judicial. It sought to make these independent, the one of the other, so that neither might overabudow or destroy the other. The Supreme court, the most dignified judicial body In the world, was appointed to interpret the laws and the constitu tion, and when that court pronounced a decree as to the power* of Congress or us to any other constitutional ques tion, there is but one right method if we disagree, and that is the method pointed out by the constitution—to amend it to conform with our views. 'J'hut is the po sition today. "You uro to answer, then, my fellow citizens, in all the gravity of a great crisis, whether you will sustain a party w ho pro; ose to d< rtioy the balance which our fathers instituted in our system of government, and whenever a tumultuous Congress disagree* with the Huprcinc court and a subservient President is in the white house, that the judgment of the court shall he reconsidered and re versed by increasing the number of Judges nml packing the court with men who will decide as Congress wants them to. (Applause.) I cannot exaggerate the gravity and the importance ami the dan ger of this assault upon our constitution al form of government. "I do not intend to spend any time in the discussion of the tariff question. That debate bus been won, and need not be protracted, it might run on eternally upon theoretical lines. We had had some experiences, hut they were historical and remote, and not very instructive to this generation. We needed an experience of our own, and we have had it. It has been a bar I lesson, but a very convinc ing one, and everybody was in the school II'MIIM.- V* II* II II (.1 II Mini. * * 1'“*'*'- 1“ 1803 of most extraordinary character has hecn succeeded by a gradual drying up, less and less, until universal business dis traction and anxiety prevails over all of our community. I do not believe there has been a time, except, perhaps, in the very heat of some active panic, when universal fear and anxiety and watchful ness, even to the point of desperation, has characterized this great metropolis as it does today. (Applause.) Men have been afraid to go away for a vacation. They have felt that they must every day in this burning heat come to the city and watch their business. That is the situa tion. “What has brought it about? Gentle men. who is there to defend the Wilson tariff hill? Who says it is a good tariff measure? (A voice: "Nobody.”) I dou’t believe a candidate can be found to say that it is. Mr. Cleveland repudiated it. It was so had that he could not attach his official signature to it, aud it became a law without it. He said it was full of incongruities and inequali ties. What has been the result of that measure? It has failed to produce rev enue enough, supplemented by our inter nal tuxes, to maintain the government. There bus been an annual debcit ap proaching $50.000,(KX) every year, and the national treasury has been contin ually in a state of embarrassment. Our manufacturers, left without adequate protection, have been successively and gradually closing up and putting out their tires. Hut not only lias this pro duced such an effect, but it has nructi caily contributed to the buauciul depres sion that we are in. The inuiiitcuaiicc of tlie gold reserve up to $100.U(X).OUU by tlie government for the redemption of our notes was essential to confidence ill the stability of our finances. When the government reserve runs down |k*o ple begin at once to say: 'IV* may come to u silver basis if gold is going out.’ list... ..A.*... iu aitiu.vollv Jauih AI..I fear la greully Increased, but bow eun you keep a gold reserve of 91tm.INI0.IMa) when you bare not got $1U),UUU,(IU0 lu the treaaury all told'/ How can you maintnin lbi» gold reaerve for redcmp tiou of note* when you have an annual and contluuoua deliclt and your Income not equaling your deficit> Mo that, uiy frieuda, Ihla tariff bill haa not ouly con tributed, by Increasing iinoorlattoua, by taking away the ueedful aupix.rt fur our own manufacturer*, but It ha* contrib uted lu the way of Increasing the silver ■.are to bring na Into the present condi tion of dlatrual ami diamay which now prevalla. tApplauar.l “Hul I d» not Inland to follow that quralton further. I am quite a* touch opt»» >1 lu • hra|H-ulug the Amen.au workingman and working woman a* I am lo cheapening our dollar*. iA|> piauaet 1 am quite a* strongly la favor of keeping day a _ work *i home aa I am gold dollar*. I Applause). * My (rood*, a* a If publican. I am l«r»u kti»| Ike lodit of ike country to a silver banal All k* haa to do la * * let Ike gold reserve go, l« pay »ut atlvar wkeu men o»k m g..td. md w# am there already It la only kniaat the pr««»t> *i« of the . j mivd Plaiea that w* kave had. and Ike , one We have new. have regoidd It ' nedar the law a* ku public duty t« j aaa<«■«■» the (eld ban*, ntamie.mgg I that parity between our (diver and gold coin* whirl) the law declares is the trolley of the government, ntid because lie has the courage to execute the pow ers given to him by the resumption act to carry out that declaration of public law. I undertake, therefore, to say that if Mr, Bryan, or a man holding his views, were ill the presidential chair, without any legislation by Congress, we should lie on a silver busia in a week's time. (Applause). "The silver question—what 1* It? Do you want silver because you want more money, a larger circulating medium? 1 have not beard anybody say so. Mr. Bryan is not urging it upon tliut basis. If anybody were to seek to give tliut as a reason for wanting free silver he would be very soon confounded by the state ment that free silver would put more gold out of circulation than mints of the I'nitcd States could possibly bring in in years of silver, and that instead of hav ing more money we would have less. (Ap plause.) With our six hundred mid odd million of gold driven out of circulation we will reduce our i>er capita money of this country between eight and nine dol lars. So it is not for more money. We have an abundant supply of circulating medium- gold, silver, national hank greenbacks, treasury notes, fractional sil ver. We have something like |ht capita of our population. What is it, then, that creates this demand for silver? It lx openly avowed. It is not more dol lars, but cheaper dollars that are wanted. It is a lower stundard of value tliut they are demanding. They say gold bux gone up until it has ceased to lie a proper standard of value, und they want silver. But how do they want ft. ‘'.Vow, my friends, there is a great deal of talk about bimetallism and the double standard and n great deal of con fusion in the use of those terms. Bi metallism is the use of the two metals HH inline V w lie re thev n re Imtli iimixI Hy n double standard they mean that we shall have a gold dollar nud a silver dollar which will be a unit of value, by which nil property and all wages and everything is to hi- measured. Now, our fathers thought that when they used these two metals in coinage they must determine the intrinsic relative value of the two, so that a comparison of the markets of the world would show just what relation one ounce of silver hore to one ounce of gold; how many ounces of silver it took to lie equal to one ounce of gold in the markets of the world where gold and silver were used, and they carefully went about ascertaining that. Thomas Jefferson nud Alexander Hamilton gave their great powers to the determination of that question, and they collected the market reports and they studied with all their power that question, and when they found what appeared to be the general and uvernge relative value of these two metals they fixed upon n rutio between them. Now, what was the object of all that? Why did they lump it all? Hecuiise they fully understood that unless these dollars were of the same intrinsic value that both of them could not be standards of vulue, and both could not circulate. (Ap plause.) “As things are now the silver dollars that we have are supported by the gov ernment. and the government that sup ports this silver bullion lias issued these dollars on its own account—not for the mine owner—and it has pledged its su ored honor it would make every one of these dollars as good ns a gold dollar, (tireut applause.) And that is a power ful support. Our l’optilistic friends pro mise that the man who digs silver out of the mine tuny bring it to the mint and have it stamped and handed back to him as a dollar, the government having no responsibility nliout it. Those men would reject with contempt the nroiMisi turn tiiut free coinage waa to route with a pledge on behalf of the government to mniutnin the parity of the two dollara. (Applauae.) Hut thia feeling ia well adapted to touch the prevailing American buuintiounncaa and welt adapted to touch that prejudice agaiuat England which many have, hut eau we do thia thiug ouraclveaf la it a queation wheth er we will do it, or aak any body'a eon at-lit whether we may, ur aak the .. erntiou of ■oiuclMHly? Not at all, I tell you what thia government ran do alone It can In ita uioui-y uuit. It can declare hy law what ahall be the relative value of au ouure of gold and an ounce of ailvrr, hut It .annul make that Inal declaration good. tApplauac.l It ia uiMiwcatlouabiy fully within the power of thia government tu bring thia country to a ailvrr haaia by ruining ailver dollara ami making them lege! tender. They can do that. •'Tbte government might »ay you ahall take one of iheae .MU re, l ot It cannot aay and rwfotv* ita ilmv* If you ahuttid call out the naular army or navy ami muaier our grot n itu • hip* and Ibe miiitia, ami nut William J. Hryan In couimaml of lb» it »annul enfurie the ,lr* «ee that one »*nae of gl ia Inc •ouivaienl of aivlvcn alMMM of ettvar, • lltval (M-lauae and > hevio Sol only ibal. not run* ami KngUmt and ller mahy can d» lhal unb •» ike Mntikvle i* m -ml i ki i lM.cc i We van of «»*■ aeivea, of aat *•# w iadom, dwetaie the null of value We cea now alivvt five |», but we .annul make atvlveu »wu< • a of a.l.vr ««|oal to one owm* of guM uu baa it U. «A|-idwwael And If la n»| ui.t.aa the meivhanl* lake if af ikal ■ 1 “W bat ia |b« nett •uggealk.a, It l*. my friewdai, tu ike mm* wl free ailver, wkal ia tie inan ini and mviel a>|«iva lent of n declaration that BO-cent pieces ure dollars. Tliey might just ns well piiKs u law that 50 cents is a dollar. That would not make it so, would it? It would lie n legal dollar; Imt it would not buy a dollar'* worth of anything. What is the effect of that? The mer chant would tuko cure of himself. “A man keeps n store down here on Broadway, anil that law is going into operation tonight, lie summons all hi* clerks and buys 115 cents’ worth of pen cils, and before he opens hi* store in the morning he has marked up his goods to tin1 new scale, lie can do all that, lint there are great numbers of people, num berless people, who enlist our interest, and some of them enkindle our sympa thies, who cannot use the pencil. Take tlie work of man. He cannot go to the ■pay roll with a pencil and mark it up. lie has got to consult somebody. He lias to enter into art argument, lie lias got to get some other man's consent be fore he can mark up hi* wage*. Then there is the pensioner, those that are re ceiving pensions from this government for gallant deeds done in the war, and other* for the loss of beloved ones. He cannot take his pension certificates, and when it reads eight dollars make it read sixteen dollars. He must wait for ail uppcul to Congress, and a Congress that is populistic in character would bo un sympathetic. (Applause). Take the men who have life insurance. Cun they, where tho policy reads $5000, mike it $10,000? No. Can the munugcr* of these institutions make it right with them? No. This policy coerces integ rity. (Applause). “My friends, the men surely do not contemplate the irretrievable and exten sive character of the disaster and dis turbance and disruption which they sve proposing for all of us in all our biisinei.s affairs, great nnd simple. Take the la boring man; bow full of sympathy they are for him. My countrymen, I never spoke a false word to the laboring man in my life. (Great applause). I have never sought to reach his vote or influ ence by appeal* to that part of hi* na ture that will pollute the intellect and the . • _ ... T 1_ 1_ft.. -_1_I f * lleve today that any system that main tain! the prices of labor in this country, thut brings hope into the life of the la boring man, that enables him to nut by, thut gives him a stake in the good order, the prosperity of the country, is the pol icy thut should he our American policy. (Applause.) 1 have resisted iu many campaigns this idea that a debased cur rency could help the workingman. The first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does is to cheat the workingmen. (Appluuse.) “My friends, a cold statistical inquiry, non-partisan in its character, was made by a committee of the Senate in 18!M) and some following years. The commit tee wus composed of Democrats and of Republicans, and they set out to study us statisticians the relative prices of com modities and wages at different periods in the history of our country. This in vestigation covered the years of the war. It showed how prices of goods went up and in what proportion labor advanced, (foods went up rapidly because the pen cil process is a quick process. Wages went up haltingly and slowly, ticca use the employer lias to he persuuded and the pencil wou’t serve. “Now, I have here a memorandum of some of those facts resulting from that investigation. Labor in one period ad vanced 3 per cent.; goods, the things the men had to buy out of their wages for their families and their living, ad vanced 18 per cent. Through another period the laborers’ wattes advunccd 10% per cent., and the price of goods ad vanced 40 per cent. Iu another period the wages of the laborer went up .3 per cent, uud the prices of merchandise ad vanced 00 per cent. In another perl nl the laborers’ wages went ttp 4.'i_pcr cent., and the price of good* 117 per rent. Now. these statistics are the result of a solid scientific inquiry made liy men of both (larties to deter mine what the truth was, nod the truth they found that the enormous disparity between the advance of the cost of liv iug and tlie advance in wages falls in ex actly with what we would conclude in advance. Laborers, men who work, whether with head or hand in salaried positions, would do well to take these facts to heart and settle the question after that broad, deep inquiry to which Mr. Bryan invites you, as to whether you want to enter Into another experi ence such as you had during the war. when wages advanced so slowly and tediously und the cost of your liviug moved on so swiftly. “I have sketched very hastily some of the evils that will result from this change to n debased dollar—ft contrac tion of our currency by the exporting of our gold ami a readjustment of every thing. Now, who will get nny benefit? Well, the man who owes a dent that he contracted upon a gold basis and is able to pay it with a fiO-cent dollar, lie and the mine owner who gets an exaggerated price for the product* of his mine arc the only two people, or classes of people, that 1 can see that would have any bene fit out of it. They make it strong ap peal to the farmer. They say it will put up prices. Well, in it sense, yes, mnm.'i m.v , *• . goes from BO cents to $1.20 tho |>n< e ha* la-on increased. you will sny. Imt if tin- price of everything else has gone up in the sh me proportion, it Imshel of wheat won't buy for the farmer any more sugar or coffee or farming imple ment*. or uiiything else that he has to purchase. "It invoke* the Idea that till* govern ment of our* shall pay not only It* debt of honor but that they pay the Interest on its bond* and the ‘circulating note* in a debased currency. My country men. this country of ours, during the troublous times of the war may have had severe trial*, but these financial questions ore scarcely loss troublous than those. Doe* not every instinct of pride, dm'* not every Instinct of self interest, doe* not every thoughtful, af fectionate interest in others, does not our sense of justice and honor rise tip to rebuke the infamous proposition that till* government and it* people shall be come a people of reimdiator* ?” ll’ro longed applause and cnecr*,) CAMPAIGN NOTES. One of the anomalies of this cnin patgu is tliut the business man whose wisdom iiml experience is sought for by farmers uud laboring men in their private matters, is considered by many of them ns an unsafe adviser in political matter*. The Issues of this national election are business issues. The question is, how can the industries of the nation be re vived? It would seem ns if the judgment of the men who niunugu the industries should be consulted. It is an odd spectacle to see a free sil ver orator who never did a duy’s work in liis life, who lias hud no experience in managing business affuirs, who has never organized or managed a labor em ploying Industry, who has never paid n laboring man a dollar for work, nnd who never evolved a practical plan which resulted in giving employment to unem ployed people, delivering an oration over the “fallen ruin* of u dead industry,” telling how it can be revived. It took liryun nnd the other Democrat ic orator* two and a quarter year* to pass the Wilson bill, although they hud been telling the American people for thirty years that they knew the tariff ti in-kt inn nil liv rt tint! W4U,4t ntfrsxwl ns to wlmt they were going to do. How long will it take these same Democratic free silver orators to pass u free coinage bill? And what will huppcu to the coun try in the meantime? The Democratic orator* talked tariff reform thirty year* before they got the consent of the American people to put their plans into effect. When at lust the people consented to let them try their tariff reform, it took those orutors two und a quarter yeurs to agree upon the exact wording of their tariff law. In the meantime, while they held the coun try in suspense, the industries of the na tion became paralyzed from doubt and uncertainty. If it took these tariff re form orators two and one-half years to make a law after thirty years of study, j how long will it take these free silver orators to make a low after only five I yeurs of study? And if these two and one-half years of dispute and uncertainty on the tariff paralyzed the industries, what will become of these industries if another series of free silver speeches is hurled against them, seeing that these j industries are more afraid of free coin- I age than they were of free trade? The crop now in the fields of Nebraska would under ordinary condition* be worth $100,000,000. If the laboring men of the country were at work there would lie a demand in the Kust for this crop. In every town of Nebraska the process of loading this crop into curs would be going on all over the state. As fust as the cars were loaded sight drafts would lie drawn on Chicugo, New York, liultimore and other market centers and by means of these sight drafts the bal ance of credit would be transferred from the Kust to the West. Every bank in every Nebrasku town would be easy, money would lie plenty and we would cull thut good times. Hood times will come to the Western farmer when the Knstern luborer goes to work, nud not till then. What would it avail the Western furiuer to see trniuloads of sil ver bullion passing through the country on its way to the Knstern mint to be coined, if the factories in the Kust were still idle, and the people out of employ ment. Would the mere coining of these Western silver dollars make a demaud | for hr end nrd moat? The demand for '''•■«»ern fond must originate in the Hast. If the West unites with the Mouth In forcing n)imi this country a policy which frightens the Knst, how will Knstoru !« Iror he employed and liow cau it bay Western food? 'It is heranse it is,” says Bryan. " hoover heard a statesman use such Words? Ihnt was n very adroit rnmpnign wall ' inirmnn Jones issued for funds. The s'lvcr kings will see to it that Jones has •'ll the money he needs, hut he eonslders it strategy to make “a poor mouth” alt tile same. ltev. I>r. McArthur of New Tork sweetly says that the free silver move ment consists solely of ‘‘lungs, lunacy and larceny.” \\ hen Bryan had a chance to help (ho farmer he did what lie could to down him. He voted in Congress for free wool. That alone hit over 2,000,000 of American sheep raisers. I* is, nn insult to the poor man to say that silver is the poor man's money. A mail is entitled to us good money os the rich man. 'I he old soldiers will rally once more. It will lie on November D, and McKinley " ilj im* tlii' color lu-nror. ....... , i'"iiiriii oi inr i niTPd nrniriv lia« Im-cu either u lawyer or a soldier, or both. I lie people nre swarming to lionr Mc Kinley. Itrynn travels about the country to,find audiences. I lie duty of every man is to mnkc his Income eipini t<> his expenditures and it Is llie siiinc with a nation. And the Democrats are now complain ing thin t|„, Itepubllenu plan of campaign educates too mueh. The IIiiinoriitis Hide. In storming the citadel It begins to look as if Tom Watson was to be left “outside the breast works." • • * Bryan ha* been fishing too. Tt bents all what an inborn penchant Democrats und l'upocruti have for fishing. * • * It Is safe to say that what Mrs. Lease and Helen Hangar advocate, the rest of the country better »t«ee .dear of, * • • The managers don't seem to know where to place Bryan so ns to do tho moat good. lie might take a sea voyage, • * • Bryan is quite a talker. He rati wind up liia vocal organs and go off and lenvo them and no stoppage will lie noticed. Bourhc t'oekriui is nlso something of a talker himself, Dixon Star. The Badge of Free Trndr. ■ Oh, times they are hard, and money Is scares, We're viewing the future askance; ' . And thniinuud* of work men, all Idle and poor. Wear n patch on the scat of their panto, pants, pants, Wear a patch on the seat of their panta. Abandon protection and hard thnea will stay, Onr troubles will only enhance; And ndllloiis of people will wear the new badge, A puiih mi the seat of their punts, pants, punts, A puteh on the seat of their pauta. There's many n man w ho wanted a change; You i nii spot lilin the very Nrsl glance. There's a look that Implies when you gaze In his eyes Kick the patch ou the seat of my puutfc pants, pants. Kick the patch ou the sent of my pants. Bcrauton (Pa.) Tribune. A i'opullMt Belief. A resident of Poughkeepsie a few day* npi received u letter from n friend in Nebraska in which it is shown what tin* mental cnlilici' is of sonic of the be. Hovers in free silver. Tlie Nebraskan who wrote the letter heard u Populist explain the meaning of l(i to 1 to u. group of attentive listeners. He said that if Hrynn should tie elect ed be would sell ids grain this full and demand puyrneut in gold. Then he would go to the mint and receive $1(100 in sil ver for each $100 in gold, and with that silver he would pay off the mortgage on bis farm. He admitted tliat some of bis neighbors did not explain the mean ing of 10 to 1 in the same way, but be wax quite sure he hud the right under standing of it. Such a story seems almost too absurd to lie true, hut It may be assumed, log ically, that ii man who thoroughly rnd honestly believes tliut the carrying out of the financial policy laid out at Chi cago will believe anything else that would reveal itself to uorninl minds at once us nonsense.—Albany Express. _ Not in a Hundred. Bill Bryan fooled the voters In elghtecn-nluety-two; The promises be made us Brought xoup to me and you; , Again he would enchant us lty xluglug hopeful tunes; lie fed ux xoup too often— He cannot feed us prunes. Another. The original and picturesque reason given by a Hopper to Popocratic silver ism, rexiding in this county, is that "the price of steers went down while John M. Stull was a state seuntor.”—Warren (O.), Chronicle. Hanger In the Other Foot. Syracuse Standard: Bryan ia trusting to the left hind foot of a rabbit. I.et him look out for the right fore foot of an ele* phuut. Tho Heal Thing. If It is true, os reported, that your Uncle Benjamin llarrixon Is going to make a Pullman tour, the country will siMiii In' treated to nu exhibition of reax platform work from a real artist. S' **>*€, i IIE CANT OET AROUND IT