TALM AGE'S SERMON
FORGIVENESS BEFORE SUN
DOWN SUNDAY’S SUBJECT.
From Kplitilani, Chapter Four, Verae
Twrnfy-ali, aa Follow*: "Let Not the
Hun (la Down L'pon Your Wrath”—
Flea to Man's Nobleat lnatlncta.
(Copyright IS99 by I.ouls Klopsch.)
What a pillow, embroidered of all
colors, hath tho dying day! The cra
dle of clouds from which the sun rises
is beautiful enough, but It is surpassed
by the many-colored mausoleum In
which, at evening, it is buried.
Sunset among the mountains! It
almost takes one's breath away to re
call the scene. The long shadows
stretching over the plain make the
glory of the departing light, on the tip
top crags, and struck aslant, through
the foliage the more conspicuous. Saf
fron and gold, purple and crimson
commingled. All the castles of cloud
In contlugratlon. Burning Moscows on
the sky. Hanging garden of roses at
their deepest blush. Banners of va
por, red as if from carnuge, in the bat
tle of the elements. The hunter
among the Adirondacks. and the Swiss
villager among the Alps, know what is
a sunset among the mountains. After
a storm at sea, the rolling grandeur
into which the sun goes down to bathe
at nightfall, Is something to make
weird and splendid dreams out of for
a lifetime. Alexander Smith, in his
poem, compares the sunset to “the
baren beach of hell,” but this wonder
ful spectacle of nature makes me
think of the burnished wull of heaven.
Paul, In prison, writing my text, re
members some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor,
and how he had often seen the towers
of Damascus blaze In the close of the
oriental days, and he flashes out that
memory In the text when he says, *'I^L
not the sun go down upon your
wrath."
Sublime all-sugestlve duty for peo
ple then and people now! Forgiveness
before sundown! He who never feels
the throb of indignation is Imbecile.
He who cau walk among the injus
tices of the world inflicted upon him
self and otherB, without flush of
cheek, or flash of eye, or agitation of
nature, is either in sympathy with
wrong or serai-idiotic. When Ananias,
the high priest, ordered the constables
of the court room to smite Paul on the
mouth, Paul fired up and said: "God
shall smite thee, thou whited wall."
In the sentence immediately before my
text, Paul commands the Ephesians:
"Be ye angry and sin not.” It all de
pends on what you are mad at and how
long the feeling lasts, whether anger Is
right or wrong. Life is full of exas
perations. Saul after David, Succoth
after Gideon, Koruh after Moses, the
Pasqulns after Augustus, the Pharisees
after Christ, and every one has had his
pursuers, and wre are swindled, or be
lied, or misrepresented, or persecuted,
or in some way wronged, and the
danger is that healthful indignation
shall become baleful spite, and that
our feelingB settle down into a pro
longed outpouring of temper displeas
ing to God and ruinous to ourselves,
and hence the Important injunction of
the text: “I^et not the sun go down
upon your wrath.”
Why that limitation to one s anger?
What that period of flaming vapor set
to punctuate a flaming disposition?
What has the sunset got to do with
one's resentful emotions? Was it a
haphazard sentiment written by Paul
without special significance? No, no;
1 think of five reasons why wo should
not let the sunset before our temper.
First: Because twelve hours is long
enough to be cross about any wrong
inflicted upon us. Nothing is so ex
hausting to physical health or mental
faculty as a protracted Indulgence of
Ill-humor. It racks the nervous system.
It hurts the digestion. It heats the
blood In brain and heart until the
whole body is first overheated and
then depressed. Beside that, it sours
the disposition, turns one aside from
his legitimate work, expends energies
that ought to be better employed, and
does us more harm than it does our
antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wido
allowance of time for legitimate de
nunciation, from »! o'clock to 6»o'clock.
but says: "Stop there!” Watch the
descending orb of day, and when It
leaches the horizon, take a reef in
your disposition. Pnloose your collar
and cool off. Change the subject to
something delightfully pleasant. Un
roll your tight list and shake hands
with some one. Hank up the fires at
the curfew bell. Drive the growling
dog of enmity bark to its kennel. The
hours of this morning will pass by,
and the afternoon will arrive, and tho
sun will begin to art, and, I beg you,
on its biasing hearth throw all your
feuds, Invectives and satires.
Other thiuga being equal, the man
who preserves good temper will come
out ahead. An old writer says that tbs
relebrated John Itrndcrsou of tlrlatol,
England, was si s dinner party where
political excitement ran high and the
debate got sngry, and while llender
sou was speaking, bis opponent, un
able to answer his argument, dashed a
glass of a Inc In h>« furs, when, the
speaker deliberately wiped the liquid
from his fare and said Thin, sir, Is
a digression, now. If you please, for
the main argument.” While worldly
philosophy could help but very few to
such equipoise of spirit, the grace of
Ood could help any man to such s tri
umph. "Impossible, • you say, "I
Would have either left the table In
anger or have hmated the man
down ” Hut I have come to helteve
that nothing Is Impossible If tlod help
Aye, you silt not postpone till ms
down forgiveness of enemies If you css
rerftne list their behavior towards
you may be put Into the catalogue of
the "all things" that "work together
for good to those that love God.” I
have had multitudes of friends, but I
have found in my own experience that
God so arranged it that the greatest
opportunities of usefulness that have
been opened before me were opened by
enemies. So you may harness your
antagonists to your best interests and
compel them to draw you on to better
work and higher character. Suppose,
instead of waiting until thirty-two
minutes after four this evening, when
the sun will set, you transact this glo
rious work of forgiveness at meridian.
Again: We ought not to let the sun
go down on our wrath, because we will
Bleep better if we are at peace with
everybody. Insomnia Is getting to be
one of the most prevalent of disorders.
How few people retire at 10 o'clock at
night and sleep clear through to 6 in
the morning! To relieve this disorder
all narcotics, and sedatives, and mor
phine, and chloral, and bromide of
potassium, and cocaine, nnd intoxi
cants are used, but nothing is more
important than a quiet spirit if we
would win somnolence. How Is a man
going to sleep when he Is In tnind pur
suing an enemy? With what nervous
twitch he wilt start out of a dream!
That new plan of cornering his foe will
keep him wide awake while the clock
strikes 11, 12, 1, 2. I give you an un
failing prescription for wakefulness:
spend the evening hours rehearsing
your wrongs and the best way of
avenging them. Hold a convention of
friends on this subject In your parlor
or office at 8 or 9 o'clock. Close the
evening by writing a bitter letter ex
pressing your sentiments. Take from
the desk or pigeon hole the papers in
the case to refresh your mind with
your enemy's meanness. Then lie
down and wait for the coming of the
day, and it will come before Bleep
comes, or your sleep will be worried
quiescence, and, if you take the pre
caution to lie flat on your back, a
frightful nightmare.
wny not put a bound to your ani
mosity? Why lot your foes come Into
the sanctities of your dormitory? Why
let those slanderers who have already
torn your reputation to pieces or in
jured your business, bend over your
midnight pillow and drive from you
one of the greatest blessings that God
can offer—sweet, refreshing, all-invig
orating sleep? Why not fence out
your enemies by the golden bars of
the sunset? Why not stand behind
the barricade of evening cloud, and
say to them: “Thus far and no
farther." Many n man and many a
woman is having the health of body as
well as the health of soul eaten away
by a malevolent spirit. I have in time
of religious awakening had persons,
night after night, come Into the In
quiry room and get no peace of soul.
After a while I have bluntly asked
them: “Is there not some one against
whom you have a hatred that you are
not willing to give up?” After a little
confusion they have slightly whis
pered, “Yes." Then I have said: "You
will never find peace with God as long
as you retain that virulence."
A boy In Sparta, having stolen a fox,
kept him under his coat and, though
the fox was gnawing his vitals, he
submitted to It rather than expose his
misdeed. Many a man with a smiling
face has under his Jacket an animosity
that Is gnawing away the strength of
his body and the integrity of his soul.
Better get rid of that hidden fox as
soon as possible. There are hundreds
of domestic circles where that which
most Is needed is the spirit of forgive
ness. Brothers, apart, and sisters
apart, and parents and children apart.
Solomon Bays u brother offended Is
harder to be won than a strong city.
Are there not enough sacred memories
of your childhood to bring you to
gether? The rabbins recount how that
Nebuchadnezzar’s son had such a spite
against his father that after he was
dead he had his father burned to
ashes and then put the ashes into four
sacks and tied them to four eagle’s
necks, which flew away in opposite di
rections. And there are now domestic
antipathies that seem forever to have
scattered all parental memories to the
four winds of heaven. How far the
eagles fly with those sacred ashes!
The hour of sundown makes to that
family no practical suggestion.
Thomas Carlyle. In his biography of
Frederick the Great, says the old king
! was told by the confessor he must be
at peace with his enemies If he wanted
to enter heaven. Then he said to his
wife, the queen: “Write to your
t brother after I um dead that 1 forgive
I him." Itoloff, the confessor, said:
“Her majesty had better write him
j immediately." "No.'’ said the king.
“after 1 am dead; that will lie safer.”
| Ho he let the sun of hta earthly eg*
| Interne go down upon his wrath.
Again: We ought not to allow the
I sun to set before forgiveness takes
place, because we might not live to
see another day. Aad what If we
should tie ushered Into the preaeU'e
of our Maker with a Kludge upon our
soul? The majority of |ie«>pte depart
this life la the night. Iletween II
o'cliM k p in and 3 o'clock a m there
Is something in the atmosphere whhh
relates the grip which the body has oa
the soul, and moat of people enter the
j nest world through the aha>tow» of
tbla world is i Haps God may have
arranged It in that way, so as to make
> the coatraat the none glorious I have
seen sunshiny days In thia world that
must have been almost like the radi*
' aloe of heavea tlul as moel people
leave the earth between euadown and
aunrMe. they null this world at Ita
j ilarheat, aad heavea always bright
will be the brighter for that voatras!
Out of darhneas lam Irradiation
Mabono t said "The sword is tb*
hey of heaven and hell * Hal, my
hearer*. In the Iasi Iter we will tad
just the t|H»«lit of that to l»e true aad
that the Bword never unlocks heaven,
and that he who heals wounds is g~eat
er than he who makes them, and that
on the same ring are two keys—God b
forgiveness of us and our forgiveness
of enemiea- a*d these two keys unlock
Paradise.
And now. I wish for all of you a
beautiful sunset to your earthly exist
ence. With some of you it has been
a long day of trouble, and with others
of you It Will be far from calm. When
the sun rose at six o’clock It was the
morning of youth, and a fair day was
prophesied, but by the time the noon
day or middle-life had come, and the
clock of your earthly existence had
struck twelve, cloud-racks gathered,
und tempest bellowed in the track
of tempest. But as the evening of old
age approaches, I pray God the skies
may brighten and the clouds be plied
up Into pillars as of celestial temples
to which you go, or move as with
mounted cohorts come to take you
home. And as you sink out of sight
below the horizon, may there be a
radiance of Christian example linger
ing long after you are gone, and on
the heavens be written In letters of
sapphire, and on the waters In letters
of opal, and on the hills In letters of
emerald, “Thy sun shall no more go
down, neither shall thy moon with
draw Itself, for the Lord shall he thine
everlasting light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.” So shall
the sunset of earth become the sunrise
of heaven.
BELL RUNG ON THE PREACHER
A Nrrluim Duty linpawil on Church
Member* In a Michigan Church.
"You remember the chestnut bell, ot
course?” said the man who had got out
of Chicago with only the loss of one of
his shoe heels. "Well, I was greatly
tasen with It at the time, and when 1
set out to visit my old home In Michi
gan I bought a dozen bells to take
along. Nobody In the town had heard
of them, but I hadn't worn one over a
day when the people caught on and l
was fairly besieged. When Sunday
came I prepared to attend church like
a dutiful son, anti at the proper time
mother and I were seated In the pew.
Just what the text was I can’t remem
ber, but the minister had scarcely an
nounced It when six of my chestnut
bells sounded among the congrega
tion. The good man didn’t mind
them In the least, but went ahead
with his work. lie was rung up on
his hymn, and he was rung up every
minute or two on Ills sermon, and
though there was something amusing
about it I was also half-seared out of
my boots. As I had brought the bells
to town I didn't know but what he’d
hold me responsible, and open out on
me. About the middle of hla sermon
he said something about Jonah, and
eleven of those bells went ‘t-l-n-g!’ on
him In succession. He stopped, and
looked around, and then calmly said:
‘Will those people who are jingling
keys kindly jingle a little softer?’ I
was thankful to get out of that church
without a calamity,” continued the bell
man, "and I didn’t do any laughing
till the next day. Then It was because
I learned that every blessed man who
had rung up the minister was serious
ly In earnest about it and felt it a sort
of duty, and because that minister
himself called at the house and ac
cepted my own bell and rung It up
on mother within five minutes.”
Nepalese I.etter*.
The author of "In Northern India"
tells of his experience at Bhagwanpur,
where he wished to post four letters.
They were addressed to friends In
England, who are stamp-collectors,
and only contained a few lines to say
I had sent them in order to secure
Nepalese stamp. The postmaster re
fused to accept them. Foreigners, he
said, were not permitted to post let
ters In Nepal, the postal service being
oniy for use by the Nepalese. We sat
on our elephant and reasoned, but he
was firm, and the police and other offi
cials all supported him. After long
discussion we at lust persuaded tlm to
let us post the letters and leave It to
the government at Katmandu to de
cide whether they might be forwarded.
Then we went Into his office, a mud
hut, und sat on low stools, nearly the
whole population watching In a crowd
in front of the large open space. Tho
postmaster redirected each letter in
Nepalese characters,and taking a largo
sheet of paper, prepared a full report
for his government, tho police In
spector reading our description, und so
forth, from the "permit." We were
particularly required to declare that
the letters did uot contain any politi
cal matter. Then tame the very seri
ous business of stamping them He
had to get out a large wooden box for
ti.e stamps, and another for the dato
stamp. There are stamps of three
values, equal to one penuy, twopence
and sixpence, lie assured us we could
not pay beyoud Nepal, so we decided
to put a one penny stamp on each, and
leave the exceaa to lie collected on
delivery If they ever reached England.
Fortunately they arrived after some
delay, aud strungenough, no excess
was charged, ami thus I had the pleas
ure of anticipating the penny post,
which Is not likely to be extended to
Nepal for many year* to tome.
>»• Ike Hues'.
U an Instance of the sort of things
one might wish to have expressed dif
ferently, a prumlnenl physician reports
a remark made to him by a patient.
The dcMtor had written a note to the
lady, aad on his next visit she asked
him to tell her what two word# in H
were, as she had leex unable to tie
< ipher them It has hewn said of me
| that my writing ta the worst thing
ahont me. said the pbrantan, laugh
ingly. as he enrveyed his own scrawl
with doubt Oh. hot I am aor* that
I la not so* waa the haaty disclaimer
•' Fir from it. doctor. Nr from tt!"
AS TO RECiriiUtlTi.
NEW FRENCH TREATY CAU3INQ
UNEASINESS.
-- 40L
Amtrleac Frodnter* Want Information
A* to tbc< Mannar In Wlilt-h Th«lr
In v*ra»n Are AITrcted by the Ue
crruaeU Untie*.
What nro the provisions of the reci
procity treaty arranged between the
Lnlted States and France? The Amer
ican Economist Is unable to answer
this question, owing to the failure of
its efforts to obtain a copy of the
treaty. An application for a trans
cript of the treaty was refused. Com
inlssloner Hasson, who has represented
the United States In the negotiations,
stems to be determined that the people
of this country shall be kept in abso
lute ignorance of the provisions of the
treaty until that instrument shall have
been submitted to congress for its ap
proval. So the treaty remains under
the seal of secrecy, In spite of the fact
that publicity is indispensable to a
correct understanding of its operations
and effects upon a number of impor
tant industries.
It is not the fault of Commissioner
Kasson if some facts regarding the
proposed reciprocity arrangement with
France have become known in this
country. The French government has
not been so secretive as to deny to its
people all knowledge of a treaty so
profoundly affecting their interests.
Through foreign sources Information
comes which is calculated to excite
much apprehension and alarm among
the American Industries which, relying
upon the guarantees of the Dlngley
tariff law, find themselves in danger of
being compelled to go out of business
and go out of the home market to for
eign competitors, because of the pecul
iar advantages which the latter will
enjoy under the reciprocity treaty. The
following letter will be found interest
ing and instructive in this connection:
Established ocnoeimopi «“■
line &. ChPtnlcai Co., Buffalo, N. Y.,
Nov. 17, 1899.—American Protective
Turlff league, New York.—Gentlemen:
Herewith I hand you an extract from
a German trade paper, showing the
proviHlona of the draft of the new
reciprocity treaty between France and
the United States. To say that the
provision relating to coal tar colors is
discouraging is putting it mildly. At
every tariff revision Htnce 1883 our in
dustry has been discriminated against.
Even the present Dinglejr law makes
it difficult to compete against the older
and highly developed European in
dustry, for it taxes a large proportion
of our ruw material from 30 to 50 per
cent, against only 30 per cent for the
coal tar colors. Nevertheless, taking
for granted that this rate would not
be disturbed for a number of years at
least,, we have gone right ahead and
invested large sums of money In en
larging our plant, and in the face of
the fiercest kind of foreign competi
tion we have steadily been gaining
ground. If, however, the rute is now
going to be reduced again even below
the Wilson bill rate, we are about
ready to throw up the sponge.
We earnestly hope you will succeed
in averting this great wrong, for it
is certainly most unjust to permit us
to spend large sums in improving our
plant, and then by a stroke of the pen
make all these movements valueless.
Sincerely yours,
Schoellkopf Aniline & Chemical Co.,
lly J. F. Seh., Jr.
Ej tract from “Chemische Zeitung,”
\'o. 77, Gotha, Germany, Sept. 27,
1899.
Regarding the reciprocity treaty
between the United States and France,
w». learn the following:
The treaty must he ratified inside of
et'.'ht months from date of the signing
of the draft. It is to run for five years,
aid is to renew itself unless notice to
to'minate it is given one year before
It expires. France agrees to apply the
tu nimum tariff to all articles im
puted from the United States, with
tbe following exceptions: Cheese, but
ter, lucerne and clover-seed, sugar,
ct icory-roots, cast iron, porcelain,
piste board, prepared hides, electric
dynamo machines.
In return the United States agrees to
giant France the privileges of the most
favored natiou clause, and in addition
the following reduction in duties: Per- I
turnery, manufactured with or without
alcohol, 10 per cent: coal tar colors,
20 per cent; glue, 10 per cent; glycer- |
Ine, 10 per cent; olive oil, 15 per cent;
paiuts and varnishes, 10 per cent;
potash. 10 per cent; mmlicluul prep
arations. 10 per cent; soaps, 10 per
tent, soda and products of audit, 10
per cent; slated, enameled, decorated
(lies unit roofing tiles, 10 per cent; ce
ment. lU per cent, bottles 15 per cent;
glass vessels, 6 per cent; window and
uther glass, 10 per tent; plants and
seeds 20 per cent; fruits, preserved
with sugar or alcohol, lo per cent,
roasted and ground chicory, 4 per rent,
oordials. 10 per cent, mineral waters.
10 per cent.
I w
The extent to which the Industrie* j
i of the l lilted Htalee would be effected
by tits swe-ping feint lions run- j
templsted la tbe »e< iprut tty treaty la
a matter who h should receive the meet
veieftal consideration and most thot
; ough investigation t ong-ess would
fall In performing Its duties should It
j fall iu obtain full Information on this
point
Ths it'isetion of government r**«
auaa la seriously involved m tg* test
prosily treaty Front statistical ye
ports tn th* moathb summary of
mar-*- and Ansar* of the United ituta*
fur th* Naral r*wr ending Jane Jg lagg
wr tad the total turns of importetiams
Ir. the United States of the below men
tioned items given as follows:
Perfumery . |514.860
Coal tar colors and dyes. 3 799,353
Glue .. 479,450
Paints and colors, dutiable.. 1,207,440
Glycerine . 1.034,131
Soda products, dutiable (about)
. 1,000,000
Dottles . 371,394
TIN PLATE PRICES.
Always l,nnrr I'ndrr Proleetlon Than
Cutler Free Trade.
The following diagram reproduced
from a recent issue of the Iron Age,
a standard American authority on met
als, will be found useful In tracing tin
plate prices from 1890 to the present
time:
It will be remembered that ia 1890,
the first year covered by the diagram,
there was no tin plate production in
the United States. Starting at $4.75
per box, the price of foreign plate
dropped to about $4.37^, and from
that point the price rose rapidly until
In 1893 it had reached $5.50, the top
figure. Hy this time American tin
plate production, called into active ex
istence by the McKinley protective
tariff of 1890, began to be heard from,
and with the result invariably attend
ing the stable establishment of a new
industry under the stimulus of pro
tection namely, a swift decline in the
price of the imported plate. Welsh
plate fell from $5.50 a box in 1893 to
$3.75 a box at the close of 1895.
At this point domestic tin plate be
came the controlling factor, and our
diagram, beginning with 1890, Bhows
the prices of the domestic article, ldd
the price rise when the domestic pro
ducers, guarded by a protective tariff,
became masters of the situation? On
the contrary, prices of American tin
plate steadily declined until the latter
part of 1898, when the low point, $2.75
per box, was reached. At this time,
mark you, American consumers, under
protection, were paying precisely one
half what they had paid for Welsh tin
plate in the absence of protection.
Beginning with 1899, in response to
the largely increased cost of materials
and wages, tin plate prices took an
upward turn, reaching $4.75 per box
early in the fall of this year. The
present price is $4.65. But it will be
observed that the rise of the current
year has not carried prices back to the
free trade level of 1891 to 1894. The
home consumer of tin plate is today
paying 85 cents per box less than he
paid In 1891, when the foreign pro
ducer was master of the situation and
American competition had not yet
come to the front as a result of the
protective tariff.
One more fact remains to be consid
ered. A glance at the high range of
prices for tin plate paid by American
consumers prior to the establishment
of the industry In our own country
reveals an impressive contrast with
the low range of prices that have pre
vailed since the time when American
tin-plate producers were able to con
trol the situation. Taken as a whole,
and counting in the present advanced
price, resulting, as before stuted. from
heavy advuneea in costs of materials
and heavy advances In the wages of
tin-plate workers, it Is found that
many millions of dollars have been
saved through protection to the con
sumers of tin plate from IMl to date,
to say nothing of the many millions
of dollars kept at home and paid out
to American labor In the shape of
wages. Precisely such a diagram as
that for which we «tand indebted to
the Iron Age was needed In order lo
make the tin-plate question as clear
as daylight.
I mSMImi »«mI 1 heavy.
The Job hunts the man now, not
the man the Job, and where this con
dttbin estate labor Is always better re
warded ’ said President McKinley
This Is the condition The lietao* rnlie
theory la that labor la being ground
down by the octopus, and needs relief
by the Ires coinage uf stiver.- Tacoma
I Wash l l-edger
Sees I»a4# •»«* the heath.
A Mb-pound bale of cotton la Wurth
|l« more lo-uy than It a ye#r ag«
If the south stlcbt to free trade mush
longer we mlaa am guesn I lee Muinsn
i Iowa 1 Hegtelet,
THORNS ON THE BROW OP
LABOR.
Sir. Itryann hniom Figure mt Speech
lltindcred Ridiculous bj Prosperity.
The army of the unemployed la
work. The soldier who marched under
the command of Gen. Coxey or Carl
Brown has a Job If he wants it.
Evidences of the fact that these are
laboring men's times loom up before
one by the time he can get a block
from the depot. There Is more work
than workers. The toller Is in de
mand; he has It his way; there Is
competition for his services; wages
are advancing. That is what makes
times good. The country cannot have
hard times when the wage earner has
steady employment at good pay, and
when the farmer lias a good price for
his produce.
It seems that ull these good times
had been brought about as though by
magic. It was not magic. Before he
was elected president, Mr. McKinley
told us what was needed. When he
suld It seemed to him that it would be
better to open our mills to the labor
of America than our mints to the sil
ver of the world, his words were good,
hard-headed protective sense.
But Bryan in smooth metaphor told
the Republicans that they must not
press the crown of thorns on the brow
of labor; that they must not crucify
mankind on a cross of gold.
McKinley opened the mills by put
ting a protective tariff duty on foreign
goods. These times of steady work
and advancing wages are what Mr.
McKinley said would come, and what
Mr. Bryan said would not come.
The states of the west are beginning
to call on each other for help in these
t'mes of long demand and short supply
of lubor.
Here are a few sample thorns that
ere pressing down on the brow of
labor right here in Kansas City. I
plucked them off an advertising board
on Union avenue;
Laborers wanted dally for Memphis;
transportation free.
We want coal miners for Colorado
and New Mexico. The Colorado Fuel
and Iron Co.
I
100 rock men wanted.
We want carpenters at 27V6 cents an
hour.
Wanted, men for a fence gang at
$1.75 a day.
laborers wanted dally for Wyom
ing; no office fee charged, and railroad
fare furnished free.
These few little pierring "thorns”
tell of a wreath of prosperity that
reaches from Tennessee to the Pacific
coast.
The 1899 army of the unemployed
that was to march across the continent
under the leadership of Carl Hrown
started at Wichita and ended at W>hl
ta. Signs like these In Kansas City
stand out like picket posts of prosper
ity to Intercept him. It is impossible
to march through the linos of jobs
awaiting workers; Impossible to dodge
employment. These are protection
times ngain. The free silver cry
proved a false alarm, and the laborers
will not be fooled by the same man
flying anti-trust, anti-expansion colors.
— E. G. Pipp, In American Economist.
llljf FiKiirn of Froipfrlty.
The manner In which the restored
prosperity of "McKinley and protec
tion" has touched the finances of the
American people Is Indicated hy a re
port Just issued by Comptroller of the
Currency Dawes. In collecting the
data entering into his report nearly '
10,000 reports from banks have been
examined and compiled. The results
of the investigation Indicate a magni
tude of banking resources and a rate
of growth in number of deposit ac
counts which is unparalleled in the
financial history of the world. It is
shown that In the past ten years de
posit accounts have Increased In num
ber from 6,708,971 in 1889 to 13,153,871
in 1899; that tlie increase in the num
ber of borrowers is much less than the
Increase in the number of depositors;
that the average deposit of the indi
vidual or corporation has greatly in
creased; that the rate of interest on
loans has decreased; that the aggre
gate of individual deposits has in
creased from 13,776,410,402 In 1889 to
$7,513,954,361 in 1899, and that in ten
years the aggregate of loans has In
creased from $3,475,272,262 to $5,751,
467,610.
These are big figures, but It takes
big figures to express the kind of pros
perity now being enjoyed by the people
of the I’nlted States.
Tli« til f otaltl ll«» No Worn1.
Tbe Youngstown lOhio) Vindicator
quotes approvingly from the Kansas
City Star, which it designates as "a
leading He publican organ of the wast,”
an article which beglus by saying that
"the moat demoralising factor In the
life of this nation has »e«n the protect
ive tariff.” One of the first things fur
the Ynuttgetoan Vindicator to do Is
to vindicate itself from the a»perslai\
of being either foolish or untruthful.
An editor who does not know that the
Kansas City Mar Is sad always has
been one of the most rabid and uncom
promising Iwmocrstlc free trade news
papers In the country ought to abdl
rate the shears and pasts pig sad turn
theta over to the office rat.
M«4 X»e Se Imm
The tariff la not now as issue hut
nobody ran tell what the Ikstnu. rata
will do before seat election. There are
at pr sweat slroag ladt.stbrns of an at
tsmpt to force the tariff to the front
hy taking down the trust Issue on the
lir.ee laid dona by lirysn. sad If that
la done, the tsatiatony of Mr Ur are as
la the heaeffrtal effects of prutastton
will he Internet tag nadtay lOhtad
Jeffers. >a tan