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Ialmu* f.'dar and *£* is com* to a*atn*«- tfc* g*.*- bet at credit to tfcos* a to ma» # muttagr oe d** fc Vise* 1 **-* prufetMid Chi'istiam* in ip « partM-it if day Ctufl.cg fault with th*- atnptKref it makes me think of a fortress irrrdbmli} bombarded ana the Wr-X. un the rampart* instead of »•*!>!»:X.S out and landing the guns, and he.ping fetch Up the i.jmumtlon from u. it agaric* are trying with cr wtar* u» pry war from the wall cer tain t » u dt i'dee heranae they did not cm** from the right quarry Oh. au« a it th* ramparts better light tart, and Aghx test the manat enemy, thateaa t ■ ryiag to suk* breaches in the wail kt.» 1 *jpgHaae t! - expurgation of the a»-T|pt..‘jres 1 nia.t give you my re as amt tut s-'h opp.jsitioh "What"1 aa; as* of the theological evolution ists at'-ate brains hare been addled by tan k«g brooding over them by itarwia *t*d spencer, “you don t cow re* tp ^ iieve all the story of the Gar de*. of Ej*x do pgaT* Ye*, as much as I t»'*r* th*t» were roae* in my gar ,m laal summer * But,*' may they • j « doe t rea y believe that the sun and coot stood adir* Y«. and if I had nurmgib enough to create a • ’T. and snot* 1 could make them stand st. m caaoe the refraction of the i c * ray* so at a .jtcic appear to siana *t. L “But. they say. “you don't be et* that the whale swallowed Jonah*” Ye*, and If I were strong enough to make a whale 1 could have mad* »*ry *aiy Ingress for the re fractory prophet, leaving to evolution t - him if he were an unworthy tetstf “But” aay they, “you don l really believe that the water was turned into mme*“ Yea. just as easily as water now a often turned into win* a:t)t an admixture of strychnine and pjcwood* * But." they say. “you don t really be.leve that Stmaon slew a thou sand with the jaw-bone of an ass?*' Y* * and I 'tick that the mac who in this day assaults the Bible Is wiei^-ng the same weapon* 1 am apposed to the expurgation of lb* scripture* la the first place, be cause the Bible la Its preseat shape saa bees ao miraculously preserved Fifteen hundred years after Herodotus wn *e fits history, there was only one manuscript copy at it. Twelve hun dred yesars after Plato wrote his book, j there was only one manuscript copy j of it God was ao rarefy] to have us hat* 'he Bible :n just the right shape - that we have fifty manuscript copies, of the X«-w lesummt a thousand years ol * and some of them fifteen h-ii*.red years old. This Look handed down from the * me at Christ. or just after tt* urn* of Christ by the hand of sum men m Ongm in the witnl century. 4 sud Tertuillak in the third century, at,,,* by men of different ages who died ^ for their principle*. The three best uf the New Testament in manu s r : it the possession of the three great - hutches— the Protestant church f fVbgrsburg, and the Romish church uf Italy. It is a plain matter at history that T.*> hendorf went to a convent in the pseutsula at huiat and was by ropes ,<%*r the wall into the convent that 1M.ng the only mode of admission, and that he saw there in the waste basket for kindling the fires, a man’' - i script uf the Ho.'y Scriptures.. That nigh: L* tp.'id many of the passages at that !..b.» tut it wss not until fif teen yean had pa*.- d of earnest en treaty and prayer and coaxing and pur cfcase on bis part that that copy uf the tiotf fie-riptares was put in the hand of the emperor of Russia- that ett copy m.> marvelously prude*ted. On yon not know mat the catalogue * f the *jooks of the Old and New Testaments as we have it is the same catalogue that has been coming on down through the ages? Thirty-nine books of the Old Testament thousands uf year* ago Thirty-nine now Twen ty-seven books of the New Testament 1 wt jean ago Twenty-seven books at the New Testament now. Marc ion f - vwke'.tewt w*» : yrnerj of the rbcrcb in the second century, and in bia aas*>« on the BiMe and Christian try h# wn identally gives a catalogue of tb hooka of the Bible—that cata logue corresponding exactly with ours —tswtlnxmy given by the enemy of the tkhle and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue now just like the emta ly. then. Assaulted and spit on and torn to pines and burned, yet ad hering. The book today, in 300 lan guage*. confronting four-lifths cf the human race in their own tengue. Four hundred million of it in ex istence. Dots act that look as if this U*c4 had been divinely protected, as j t. m! haa guarded it all through the [ centuries? Nearly all the other old books are , mumlfied and arc lying in the tombs j cf old libraries, and perhaps once in twenty yeans some man comes along ; and picks up one of them and blows j the dust oft. and opens it and finds It the bo* k he does not want. But this old book, much of it forty centuries o.d stands today mure dis» ussed than any other book, and it challenges the admiration of all the good and the spile and venom and the animosity at-l the hyper-criticism of earth and l • 1 appeal to your common sense, i' a b jok so divinely guarded and pre ’*• red m Its present shape, must not be in jus? the way that God wants it to come to us and if it pleases God, ought it not to please us? Not only have all the attempts to de tract fr a the book failed, but all the 1 attempts to add to it. Many attempts mere made to add the apochryphal books to the Old Testament. The j * < -n il of Trent, the synod of Jeru the bishops of Hippo, all de ck:* d that the apochryphal books must be added to the Old Testament. “They m st stay jn said those learned men; hut they stayed out. There is not an it'* ligent Christian man today that •ill put the Book of Maccabees or the L •• of Judith b*-s:de the Book of Uaiab or Romans. Then a great many sa:- "We must have books added to :be New Testament." and there were epistles and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testa m* nt. but they have all fallen out. : ’ a : . anything. You can not suttract anything to the divinely pr tected book m the present shape. Let no a an dare tc lay his hands on it w k tk- intention of detracting from the Lock or casting out any of these holy pages. 1 ana also opposed to this proposed *»r rgation of the scriptures for the tact that in proportion as people be n •• se'f-sacrificing and good and bu y and consecrated, they like the bo a as It is 1 have yet to find a man ' woman distinguished for self-sac e. for consecration to God. for hoil of .ife. who wants the Bible changed. Many of us have inherited ! late ly Bible*. Those Bibles were in *•* twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hun zted years in the generations. Today ta»- down these family Bibles, and tni out if there are any chapters wfc, b have been erased by lead pencil or pen. and if in any margins you can find the w >rds "This chapter is not tit to read." There has been plenty of opr- r unity during the last half cen tur> pmately to expurgate the Bible. i> you know any case of such expur- 1 gallon? ldd not you.- grandfather give it to your father, and did not your father give it to you? B side that. 1 am opposed to the ex purgation of the scriptures because the so-ca.ied indelicacies and cruelties of the Biufe have demonstrated no evil re mi it. A cruel book will always pro duce rruelty— an unclean book will prod - am leanness Fetch me a vic t.m Out of all Christendom and out of all the ages, fetch me a victim whose heart has been hardened to cruelty, or whose life has been made impure by this book. Show me one. One of the best families 1 ever knew, for thirty or forty years morning and evening, had ail the members gathered together, and the servants of the h us» hoid. and the strangers that hap P* ned to be within the gates—twice a day. without leaving out a chapter or a verse, tb>y read this holy book.morn :ug by mormDg. night by night. Not only the elder children, but the little child who could just spell her way through the verse while her mother helped her. The father beginning and reading one verse, then all the mem ber* of the family in turn reading a verse. The father maintained his in tegrity. the mother maintained her in r* gr.ty. the sons grew up and entered profe-iion* and commercial life.adorn ing every sphere in the life in which th* y lived, and the daughters went into fan.,lies where Christ was honored.and t:.. t was gt»od and pure and right eous reigned perpetually. For thirty i years that family enduring the Scrip i turer. Not one of them ruined by , them. Now. if rs*i will tell me of a family where the Bible has been read twice a day for thirty years, and the children have been brought up in that habit, and the father went to ruin, and the mother went to ruin, and the sons and daughters were destroyed by it—if you will tell me of one such incident. I will ’ throw away my Bible, or I will doubt vour veracity. I tell you. if a man is * ked with what he calls the indell -mcies of the Word of God. he is pruri ent in bis taste and imagination. If a man cannot read Solomon's Song ^ without impure suggestion, he is either n his heart or in his life, a libertine. The jld Testament description of wickedness, uneleaniiness of all sorts, s purposely and righteously a disgust ng account, instead of the Byronic and he Parisian vernacular which makes » n attractive instead of appalling, tv:ien those old prophets point you to * lazaretto, you understand it is a zaretto. When a man having begun ?o do right falls back into wickedness and gives up his integrity, the Bible does not say he wap overcome by the ’asemations of the festive board, or hat he surrendered to convivialities, >r that be became a little fast in his labits. I will tell you what the Bible ;aysi "The dog is turned to his own omit again, and the sow that was • ashed to her wallowing In the mire.” <o gilding of iniquity. No garlands on y death's-head. No pounding away with t silver mallet at iniquity when it teed* an iron sledge hammer. I can easily understand how people, •rooding over the description of un •leanness in the Bible, may get morbid i mind until they are as full of it as &e wings and beak and the nostril and be claw of a buzzard is full of the vdor* of a crrcaas, but what Is wanted •s not that the Bible be disinfected, but that you. the critic, have your mind and heart washed with carbolic acid! I tell you at this point in my dis course that a man who does not lika this book, and who la critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and out raged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted. The laying on of the hands of Presbytery or Epis copacy does not always change a man s heart, and men sometimes get into the pulpit as well as into the pew .never having been changed radically by the sovereign grace of God. Get your heart right and the Bible wiil be right. I The trouble is men’s natures are not brought into harmony wTith the Word of God. Ah! my friends, expurga tion of the heart is what is wanted. You cannot make me believe that the Scriptures, which this moment lie on the table of the purest and best men and women of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred pass ed into the skies, have in them a taint which the strongest microscope of hon est criticism could make visible. If men are uncontrollable in their indignation when the integrity of wife or child is assailed, and judges and jurors as far as possible excuse violence under such provocation, what ought to be tb** overwhelming and long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well beloved daugh ter of ^od? Expurgate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden and in Venice and in Rome and expurgate the old paintings. Per haps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo's “Last Judgment” that might be improved. Perhaps you could throw more expression into Raphael's “Ma donna.” Perhaps you could put more pathos into Reubens’ “Descent from the Cross.” Perhaps you could change the crests of the waves in Turner s "Slave Ship.” Perhaps you might go into the old galleries of sculpture and change the forms and the posture of the statues of Phidias and Praxiteles. Such an iconoclast would very soon find himself in the penitentiary. But it is worse vandalism, when a man pro poses to refashion these masterpieces of inspiration and to remodel the moral giants of this gallery of God. A MENACING ASSURANCE. lim.1 It Was Not Meaut in the Way the Professor Understood It. "I had a peculiar case in court the ot1 er day," said a lawyer. "An old Irishman named Callahan had got iDto a row with his landlord about some repairs and refused to pay his rent. The landlord was a fussy little ex-col lege professor, totally unversed in the ways of the world, and he was impru dent enough to send word that he would have the family evicted, and then called to discuss it personally. He emerged yelling ‘Murder!’ and said that he had first met Mrs Callahan, who told him her husband would do him no harm, upon the strength of which he had waited for his return. When Callahan came in he promptly gave the visitor a beating. The old Irish man and his wife were both arrested, and 1 appeared for the defense. The ugly feature of the case was the al leged effort of the woman to lure her caller into a trap, but when put on the stand she denied the landlord's story in toto and swore point blank she had warned him that her husband proposed to punc h his head. Both parties seemed perfectly sincere in their statements, and I was somewhat puzzled. 1 finally decided to cross-examine the ex-pro fessor. ‘Now, repeat to us,' I said, ‘ex actly what Mrs. Callahan told you in regard to her husband.’ ‘She assured me positively,’ answered the landlord, ‘that he had no intention whatever of molesting me.’ ‘But she didn't say it in those words,’ I insisted. ‘What I want is her exact language.’ ‘Well, sir,’ said the witness, beginning to get flustered, ‘she gave me to understand -’ ‘Oh. never mind that,’ in ter rupted the judge, ‘give us her own words.’ ‘Very well, sir; very well, sir!' exclaimed the little landlord, desper ately. ‘She said. ‘‘When Mike comes home he won't do a thing to you!”’ When the judge got through laughing he let the prisoners off with a repri mand.”—New Orleans Times-Demo crat. Not the War He Thought. “Speaking of the Transvaal reminds me of a funny thing that occurred re | eently at my home,” said a visitor from Milwaukee. “I was sitting in my office the day before Oom Paul's ultimatum wh°n a telegram was handed me from a friend who lives at Mineral Point, a town in the southwest corner of the state. It read: ‘What is the latest news from the Boer war?’ I was greatly surprised, but on reflection re membered that my friend's wife was an English lady, and concluded that she must be anxious about some rela tive in the army. I wired back: ‘War regarded as absolutely certain.’ Next week I was surprised to meet my friend on the street. He looked black as thunder. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘your tip was no good. The war hasn’t come off.’ ‘The dickens it hasn't.' I replied. 'They are fighting right now.’ ‘Where?’ he asked incredulously. 'In Africa,’ said I. ‘Africa!’ he exclaimed. 'Who the mischief asked you anything about Africa?’ ‘You did,’ I retorted. ‘Didn't you telegraph. “What’s the latest news i from the Boer war?”’ ‘No.” he roared. ‘I telegraphed, “"What's the latest news from the beer war?” ’ You i see he had some brewery stock, from which he had received an offer, and wanted to ascertain whether a pros pective price-cutting row was apt to occur. He sold on the strength of my message.”—New Orleans Times-Demo craL - Scare* Them to Death. An ingenious gentleman has devised an instrument which he thinks will be of great assistance to white soldiers in their combats with native tribes. It is a big wooden tube, with a piece of perforated raw hide stretched over the opening; when blown it makes a noise which can be compared with nothing on earth, and is calculated to make the savage anxious to depart for the happy hunting ground, or whatever may be his idea of a future existence, without further delay. One Worse Th Ins Dolly—Could any one be worse than a man who will be spooney in spite of all you can do? Polly—Yes—on* who won’t.—Life. LI OF THE NATION New Year’3 Commencement a Convenient Time for Taking Stock. — ADDITIONS TO OIR ORIGINAL AREA Cutler What Party the Great Bulk of Our j Possessions Come — Fac.l on Which Anti-expansionists Rely for Yindica- : Uou—The Spanish Aequisions Discussed The first day of the yera is a con venient time to "take stock.” It would be impossible for this nation to make an inventory of all its wealth, real and personal, for the latest data of that kind are now nine years old. The gain since 1890 is known to be immense, despite the crash of 1893 and the weary years that ensued. We cannot even set down the approximate value of the real estate in the United States and their outlying possessions; and per haps it will never be practicable to get within many millions of the stupend ous total. But we can ascertain how many square miles have been added to the comparatively small area of the original thirteen states since expan sion began about a century ago. With out taking the trouble to verify the figures by examination of official docu ments. The Post reproduces from the Chicago Times-Herald the following table showing the various additions that have been made to the original area of 809.378 square miles in the thirteen colonies: Sq. miles. In 1798. Mississippi tract. 99.000 In 1803, Louisiana tract.1.235.450 In ls21. Florida tract. 58.6M) In 1845. Texas tract. 2*i5.780 In lMv Califoria. l'tah. Nevada. Arizona and New Mexico tracts. 589.(T, In 1853, Gadsden purchase. 45,535 In 18<*7, Alaska tract. 531.41' In 1899. Hawaii Territory. *'.,74" Ir. 1899, Porto Rico. 3.RU In 1899, Philippines. 143,uv in 1899. Sulus and Guam. 5u Total expansion .2.9...S7* The Phi.adelphia Record, an anti silver democratic paper, copies those interesting data in a recent issue, and comments thereon in this way: “Of this accretion to our territory 2. 292.9.0 square miles were ad.led by Demo cratic administrations, in spite of the active protests of oposition parties. The remaining t>73,9^0 square miles were ac quired without the active dissent of the Democratic party, though under Repub lican auspices. It is rather late in the day for the Democracy, under the lead of Bryan, to run counter to a policy es tablished by Jeffers >n and so acted upon by his democratic successors as to have trebled the original area of the republic before the purchase of Alaska in The Record ignores the great fact on which anti-expansionists rely for vindication. They contend that is a new departure to go beyond seas and hoist our flag over provinces in the old world. They declare, as all Americans did a few years ago. that our repubV | has no business with lands inhabited by peoples who are not capable oi self government: that we cannot consis I tently exercise sovereignty over prov inces that cannot ultimately be erect ed into states of our Union. If that argument were addressed to a future contingency, it would have seri ous weight. Brought to bear against the accomplishment of a feat already accomplished, against the doing of a thing already done, it is utterly fu tile. Whether for good or evil, for better i or worse, this nation is as indissolubly bound to each and all of the posses sions transferred by Spain to our sov ereignty as it is to any other part oT the expansion recorded in the above table. Whether we are glad or sorry, exultant or despondent, over the ac quisition of the Philippines, the Sulus. and Guam, they aie ours, and all talk of anti-expansion is as idle as the chatter of magpies. Sovereignty is not a thing that can be taken on and laid off like hat. ccat, or trousers. It in volves responsibilities and duties. All | the plans submitted by the opponents I of expansion—by the men who are fighting against the doing of that which was irrevocably done by the adoption of the Paris treaty—only to illustrate the pitiful weakness of their cause. Had Mr. Bryan stood with Senators Hoar and Hale in opposition to the treaty, and advised his friends in the senate to vote against it. he might have been defeated, but he would not now be fighting his own work—a position in which, so far as we can remember the story ot Jef ferson’s life and times, the ideal of Mr. Bryan never found himself.— Washington Post (Ind.) Share in Chinese Trade. One of the most important factors in the coming era of prosperity will be the guarantee of the open door in China, made possible through the ef forts of the United States. It is ex pected that a special message from the president to congress will convey full information of the effect of the agreement which the administration will secure with the powers to main tain commercial freedom in China. The supporters in congress of the admin istration's Philippine policy point to this case as an argument for retain ing control of the archipelago. It was urged at the outset of the negotia tions for the Philippines that their supreme commercial value to the Unit ed States would be as a base in the far east for the expansion of American commerce in all the orient. Farseeing statesmen foretold the coming division of Chinese commerce among the pow ers of the earth, and were insistent that the United States should have its share._ “Crtsilnc Down the Crown.” As a New dear's present the woolen mills 6f New England granted their 40.000 hands an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The yard mills took similar action. Alexander C' negie gave his em ploye* n raise or* 7.14 per cent on Jan ury 1st. It affected 10.000 men. and made a total of 25 per cent increase 3ince the advent of republican pros perity. And still Mr. Carnegie is able to give away immense sums for the building of libraries. Business “expan sion” under republican rule has been a great thing for him as well as for the country at large. Business Failures Decreasing. In 1837 the number of failures of manufacturers and traders in the Unit ed States was 4.932. with liabilities amounting to $292,000,000. This was in “good old democratic times.” In 1867 the liabilities aggregated $97,900. 000: in 1877 they were $191,000,000: in 1887 the were $168,000,000; in 1897 they were $154,000,000, and in 1899 only $89,000,000, being the lowest of any year since 1881. Mrs. Russell Sage believes she has a right to one boast, and that is her 1 housekeeping. A i*lca for Patriotism Patriotic, as usually estimated Is one of the .ardinal virtues. Some of the most stirring strains of poetry have been written in exemplification of it. The most unselfish heart beats that ever animated mankind have been caused by the appreciation of its dis interested character. If there is any thing that the young people of Amer ica should be taught, it is the culti vation of this imperial virtue. And yet the length to which devotion to party politics will drag people has been demonstrated several times in the his tory of our nation by fierce attacks up on the constituted authorities, hr un just criticism, and far fetched surmises as to dire results to happen in the future, simply for the purpose of se curing party advantage. At the time of the Civil war, this was partly excusable for the reason that the lifelong habits and education of the people, founded upon what they called their property rights, were strongly antagonistic, but it is a mar vel that in this day when the admin istration has been forced into a war by the clamor of the same individuals who have since been severely criticis ing it, in this day who there are no diverse interests among the people to be considered except the question as to who shall hold the offices, in this day when the administration has been so wise and so prudent in its actions and not even in a skirmish have we been defeated in the war with Spain, it is surprising that men for the sake of party advantage shall array them selves against all the plain interests of the government, with really at the bottom no excuse except that thev wish to create a sentiment against the party in power for the purpose of en deavoroing to build up the success of their own party. Some, it may be. who are encrusted with the old fogy ism of the past, cannot realize that the United States in making its grand giowth and material prosperity, and in the development of intelligence of its citizens has responsibilities to as sume, but are so fixed in their rever ence for the ages that are past that they deliberately turn their backs upon progress and all that it means, but to the ordinary American citizen there should be nothing but rejoicing tnat the sphere of the United States has been so immeasurably enlarged. He should be glad tnat the flag floats ev erywhere and is received with respect; shoum be proud that the inventive genius of America is sending forth products % hich control the commerce of the world; should be glad tnat a divinely appointed opportunity came to our land to place itself in the position of wielding more influence in the world's affairs, the position to which it is entitled by the development of , its ideas. God forgive the little Americans. God bless the patriots and inspire larg er patriotism in America. They Tell the Story. A great truth was spoken when the Kansas City Journal exclaimed: “Ne braska is as prosperous as Iowa, but her people are too much blinded by Bryanism to admit the fact at the polls. ’ The records of mortgages filed : and released each year in Nebraska during the past seven years ought to be sufficient in itself to demonstrate to the people of that state that it is un der republicanism that they prosper. The record is as follows: Filed. Released. 1592 .*3'.si7.«3 131.912.276 1593 . 34.Wl.31f. 23.ITS.745 1594 . 31.69c',tf54 26,438,090 1>95 . 25.753,364 22.64h.91T 1896 . 16.474.606 1S.213.3S2 1M*7 . 15.630.721 22.215.759 1595 .2l.3tS.s53 27.498.07d The Nebraska business man. farmer or professional man who could look upon such a record and then vote for Bryan is indeed blind. The figures speak for themselves, and it is very plain that the return of prosperity has struck the people of Nebraska. It has enabled them to materially reduce their indebtedness during the past few ; years, and it is putting them on their feet again for a fresh start. Before 1896 the record shows that the aggre gate amount of the mortgages filed each year was much greater than the aggregate releases, clearly demonstrat ing that in those days of hard times the people of Nebraska were slipping deeper and deeper into the s'Kimp of ! debt, w hile beginning with McKinley's election the tide turned. With the coming of McKinley the people of Ne braska began to not only make a good living for themselves, but they com menced to lay something by and soon I they began paying off their debts. America Supplies Australia The United States is fast encroaching on European trade so far as Australia ' is concerned, and the increase in busi ness is more rapid since the occupation of the Philippines. The figures show ing where New South Wales gets her boots and shoes are interesting; Country. 1897. 1898. United Kingdom .1856.435 $926.%; United States . 219.220 346.2.“ I Germany . 107,330 82.360 Prance . 9.169 S.8S2 ! Austria . 6.471 12.56c These figures show the energetic manner in which American manufac I turers are pushing their goods in the Australian market. The American sup plies of machinery show a slight in : crease, chiefly in agricultural imple ments. In printing paper, the imports, from America are increasing and * hose from Great Britin are decreasing, the figures being: Couotrv. 1897. 1898. | United kingdom .$385,436 $316,412 i United State* . 290.427 377.931 Germany . 46,479 26.614 With the retention of the Philippines and the early building of the Nicaragua canal, who can foresee the vast oppor , tunities for American commerce in eastern waters? Demand an Explanation. The school apportionment of Ne braska. which under 25 years of re publican control, even counting the disastrous years of the Bartley-Hci comb regime, averaged $1.01 per pupil The fusionists have allowed ih? amount to drop down to 78 cents. The peopl6 should demand an immediate explana tion from the great "money savers.” Caban Bu»*»nrs«. The total receipts of the Island of Cuba for the ten months ending with the month of November make a re markable showing. The receipts from all sources were $12,108,665 30, the average per month being $1,210,866.53. They were made up from the following items: Customs, $11,239,853.69; inter nal revenue, $637,205.51: postal. $58, 000; miscellaneous, $173,601.10. It in dicates a great expansion of business. It is not his past that worries the average lite ary maa. It is generally his repast I A TREMENDOUS TOTAL ♦ TWO BILLIONS OF MONEY NOW IN CIRCULATION. Pncrea*® of Five Hundred Million* to the I*a«t Two Vcara of the Amount of $oand Currency iu the Hands of the Teople. There has been a gain of about $500,000,000 in the amount of money in circulation in the United States in the past two years of restored protection and prosperity. The figures of this gigantic increase of material wealth and of money in the hands of the peo ple have a suggestiveness that is start ling. They show what the country escaped when in 1896 it chose between William McKinley and William J. Bryan. They are also peculiarly sug gestive in connection with the presi dential contest next year. One more financial month like No- j vember will bring the total of money in circulation in the United States past the two billion dollar line. On Nov. 1 the total money in circulation was 11.963.716.148, and on Dec. 1. S1.9S5, 930.964. an increase of I22.214.S16 in the month. A gain of even two-thirds this amount in the present montb would bring the total money in circu lation in the United States past the two billion dollar line for the first time in our history. The steady and rapid growth in the circulation of money in the United States, both gold and total of all kinds of money, is indicated in a compila tion made by the treasury bureau of statistics from data supplied in the an nual and monthly statements of the bureau of loans and currency of the treasury department, showing the amount of gold and total money in cir culation in the United States at an nual periods during the past twenty years. It shows an increase in that length of time from $13S.641.410 of gold and gold certificates to $77$.3S5.303, and of total circulation from $$16,266. 721 to $1,985,930,964. with the prospect, as already indicated, that the two billion dollar line will shortly be crossed. While the general growth in that time has been remarkable, that of the past three years is especially marked. On July 1. 1896. the total money in circulation in the United States was $1,509,725,200. and on Dec. 1. 1899, $1,985,930,964. an increase dur ing three and a half years of $476,205.- i 764, or 31U per cent; while the gold coin and certificates increased from $498,449,242 to $778,388,303. an increase of $279,939,061. or 56 per cent. The following table shows the total gold coin and certificates, and the 1 total money of all kinds, in circulation on Jan. 1 of each year from 1S79 to 1899: Gold coin and Total Jan. 1— certificates. money. 1879 .*138.641.410 *816.266.721 1880 . 201,942.207 942.452.459 1881 . 292.515.754 1.083,552.382 1882 . 359.5S5.540 1.193.205.955 1SS3 . 432.195.814 1.237,3SS.P40 1884 . 474.263.726 1.262.769.127 18S5 . 527.717.488 1.291.265.205 1886 . 469.989.147 1.287.818,483 1887 . 469.505.864 1.314.386.297 1888 . 496.095.200 1.3S3.842.809 | 1889 . 500.722.960 1,406.248.107 1S90 . 498.891.811 1.430.270.909 I 1891 . 555.127.876 1,528.736.263 1892 . 556.105.299 1.588.781,729 1893 . 530.064.099 1.610.6S3.S74 1894 . 5S6.014.990 1.729.01S.266 1895 . 53S.863.276 1.626.568.622 ! 1896 . 534.664,986 1,579.206,724 1897 . 555.630.668 1.650.223.400 1898 . 5S4.126.049 1.721.100.640 1899 . 702.996.838 1,897.301.412 1899 (Dec. 1). 778.388,303 1.985.930.964 _ DO NOT ABANDON PROTECTION — A Bride* That Ha* Served So Well Is a Good Bridge to Swear Bjr. Notwithstanding all the object les sons that have been administered by | the protective tariff, there are those who still preach free trade, for which ' there is no justification beyond the philanthropic idea of helping the for eign laborer. It is every man’s duty to help his brother, but in order to accomplish this it does not occur to the average \ mind that it is incumbent to lower oneself to the level of the brother. Level up, and not down, is the true principle upon which humanity should act. When the foreign laborer makes an attempt to better his own condition : it will be time enough for the Ameri can laborer to lend him a helping hand. Under free trade labor in this coun try played second fiddle to that of Europe; under protection it has al ways manipulated the first violin. Is there any reason why it should now voluntarily relegate itself once more to second place? The argument of the free trader is that inasmuch as America can under sell Europe in her own markets it is time to eliminate protection. If this argument is good, then the American manufacturer should discard his improved machinery, reduce * the pay of skilled labor to the level of that allowed the roustabout, and gen erally impress upon his employes that their sole duty is to put in so many hours a day. The fact of the matter is that pro tection afforded American manufactur ers the opportunity to advance their own interests, while at the same time enabling them to better the condition of their employes. That they did this is infinitely to their credit. Protection is the bridge that enables American industries to reach their present high efficiency, and it would be a crime to abandon it so long as there is the shadow of danger of any other nation successfully invading our home markets.—St. Louis Star. The Real Lace Stage. A trade paper says; “It is remark able what a large amount of real lace is being taken for the holidays. Scarfs, j handkerchiefs and yard goods are sell ing briskly.” It is facts such as this which enable us to keep track of our national prosperity. The first effects of the Dingley law were seen in the larger buying of what we commonly call the necessities of life and in the ; disappearance of free soup kitchens ' and other such products of tariff re form. The next step in prosperity was evidenced by the more active buying , i of th~ sa-called comforts of life Then came the paying off of debts and the satisfaction of mortgages. After that came the tune when the trade in those things which properly come under the head of luxuries showed large gains. J h\ purchasc of the raore common and • nerpensne luxuries naturally came first, but. as the Dirqley law grows c.der, the people proceed step by step to the purchase of more and more expensive luxuries. It appears from the trade movement noted in the report above quoted an* *e have now reached the real late stage, and a? every one who has ever paid for a piece of real lace knows, that .s a prrtty advanced stare, a? repre sented by the amount of money which changes hands. People supply tbem se.ves with almost everything else wished for before they buy real iace. The remarkable activity along this line is me. el> the trade method of saying that these are unprecedentedly pros perous times. THEY TELL THE STORY. Kec.ru Mort^cw In Ncbra«U» st.cn 4 i.rrpUimul Tio-peri*y. A great tram was spoken when the Kansas t icy Jou.nal . xclaimedi "N* • braska as prosperous as Iowa, but her people are too much blinded bv Bryanism to admit the fact at tue polls." The records of mortgages hied and released each year in Nebraska during the past seven years ought l be sufficient in itself to demonstrate t • the people of that state that it is under Republicanism that they prosper, la. record is as follows: Filed. Released. 1892 .J38.84T,633 J31.912.276 1893 . 34.601,318 26,178.745 1894 . 31,690,054 26.438.050 1895 . 25 753.364 22,648,917 1896 . 16.474,606 18,213,382 1S97. 15.630,721 22.215.7;.9 1898. 21.303,855 27.498.070 The Nebraska business man. farmer or professional man who cuuid look upon such a record and then vote for Bryan is indeed blind. Th' ‘igures speak for themselves, and it very plain that the return of prospe ty hat struck the people of Nebraska It has enabled them to materially recline their indebtedness during the ] .st tew years, and it is putting them a their feet again for a fresh start. Before 18% the record shows that th- aggre gate amount of the mortgages tiled each year was much greater than the aggregate of releases, clearly demon strating that in those days »T hard times the people of Nebraska were slipping deeper and deeper ir.'o the swamp of debt, while beginning with McKinley's election the tide turned. With the coming of McKinley the j*et ple of Nebraska began to not only make a good living for themselves, but they commenced to lay something by and soon they began paying off their debts. The people of Nebraska have, indeed, had their eyes closed by Bryan when they will permit him to make them believe that the paying off of their debts and the burning up of their mortgages has been an injury to them! —Des Moines (Iowa) State Regis'er. PROTECTION AND CURRENCY. The Tariff Being Right the »louf> yne* tion Will Take Care of lt»elf. The great blunder made by Cleve land and the Democratic party in 185)3 was in trying to maintain the gold standard while throwing wide open the trade doors of the American Union to foreigners. The consequences as serted themselves almost instantane ously. As the foreign goods poured ! into the country gold flowed out. and in a short time we were suffering all the ills which manifest themselves ' whenever apprehension concerning the sufficiency of the supply of basic money 1 exists. This state of affairs continued until after the election of McKinley gave the country assurance tnat the tariff would be so adjusted that the wants of the country would be satisfied with the products of American workshops. The t easing up was at once noticeable, but the full effect of the benefit was not ex perienced until exports largely exceed ed imports. Then a sense of security took the place of distrust, and the peo ple ceased to concern themselves about the gold question. This state of mind will continue so long as the Repub lican party is true to its traditions and adheres steadfastly to protection, the great trade regulator. As long as we impose our tariffs judiciously we need not fear an adverse trade balance, and while it is in our favor there will al ways be plenty of gold in the country to meet all currency requirements. The lesson of the situation ought to im press itseif on our legislators. It is a very simple one. It is: Stick to pro tection and favorable trade balances and the money question will take care of itself —San Francisco Chronicle. _„ / Her Happy Brood. Children Settled Divorce Ca*e. The divorce suit of William Killer, a prominent oil producer of Toledo, Ohio, came to an unexpected ending in court. Miller had filed sensational charges against his wife. Alimony had been arranged and the two children, a little boy and little girl, were left to choose with which parent each would go. The little ones pleaded so earnest ly for both that the parents became reconciled and the case was dropped. Two fiJndu or MU rule. Land in the little island of Guam, that was worth only $15 an acre under Spanish rule, is now selling for $100 an acre. There is a striking similarity between Spanish rule and Democratic rule.—Springfield (Mo.) Republican.