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ton* of mm-mas of tfc* word of God.
to t? it sum* ta* tfcsat. of a ship in
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a its tfc- roaring of *<artfc and fc*ii
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ac« bat i fcar* fcoUeri that not on*
if tfc* t^stu-r* Lt» start«d and tfc*
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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
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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
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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.
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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.