f f " i .i i i nun i ma H ft rri l . ry ' .1. yTTTfTHT W fflHWMI rl MwfflWWBIi
f i | | Er ' MORE USEFUL THAN OUR YACHTS.
RECEIPTS ARE GOOD.
THE NEW LAW IS DOING GOOD
WORK.
• Treasury Kxperts Claim Little If Anj
JUclklt for September , IVativlth-tantl-
lns tlm Vast Amount of Foreign
Ciooils Yet in the Country.
( Washington Letter. )
The second month of the operation of
the new tariff law is likely to relieve
. Democratic statesmen and orators of
much of the surplus anxiety with which
they have favored the country in re-
gard to receipts under that measure.
I It is now apparent that the revenues of
the second month of the operation of
the Dingley law will reach twenty mil
lions of dollars , which is more than
that of the second month of the "Wil
son law , and that there will be little ,
if any , deficit for the month. The
revenues in the first twenty-two days
in the month amounted to $15,692,455 ,
and it is estimated by treasury experts
that the total for the month will be
120,000,000 in round numbers , while the
expenditures will probably be little if
any in excess of that sum.
This is in marked contrast with the
operations of the second month of the
Wilson lavThe act went into effect ,
as did the Dingley law , within a few
days of the close of the calendar month
and its operations were thus calculated
from the first day of the month follow-
'ing its enactment , as in the case in the
statements which are being made with
• reference to the Dingley law. The Wil
son law in its second month produced
a deficit of § 13,573,800 , while it now
seems probable that there will be Ut
ile if any deficit in the second month
of the Dingley law. That the Dingley
law should have been able in its first
two months of operation to have pro
duced as much or anything like as
much revenue as did the Wilson law in
the two corresponding months of its
operation is remarkable , and is of it
self an evidence that the Dingley law
when the business of the country
reaches its normal condition , will be an
l ample revenue producer. During the
months prior to the final enactment of
the Wilson law all dutiable goods up
on which the rates of duty were re
duced or removed were held back by
importers in order that they might
come in under the operations of that
law. The result was an enormous in
crease in the customs revenues under
that law the minute it went into oper
ation. Indeed , the customs receipts in
its first month , September , 1894 , were
larger than in any September during its
entire history and were only exceeded
in total amount on two or three occa
sions prior to the inrush of foreign
goods which pieceded its final repeal.
On the other hand , foreign goods were
rushed into the country as everybody
knows , at an almost unheard of rate
during the five months preceding the
enactment of the Dingley law , the ef-
_ feet being to almost paralyze the im-
I portations during the first * few weeks
Ja after its final enactment. The increase
| in importations of foreign goods in the
i five months between the inauguration
of President McKinley and the enact
ment of the Dingley law was $105,347 , -
032 in excess of that for the corresponding
spending months of the preceding year ,
an increase of nearly 40 per cent over
the normal importations of the corresponding
spending period of the preceding year.
The occasion for surprise then , is , not
that the receipts under the Dingley law
• have been light , but on the contrary ,
that they have been as heavy as they
are , up to this time , and that this act ,
laboring as it did under especially ad
verse circumstances , should have been
able to outrun the Wilson law , which
came in under such especially favorable
circumstances as regards the customs
• end of its business. The following ta
bles compare the importations during
the five months preceding the enact
ment of the Wilson and Dingley laws
respectively and the customs receipts
in those months , and show clearly the
advantages under which the Wilson
law operated in the first months of its
existence and the disadvantages under
which the Dingley law now labors in
the first months of its operations.
Table showing imports and customs
receipts inHhe five months preceding
/the / enactment of the Wilson law :
s
Customs
Importations. Receipts.
"
April , 1894 . . . " ? 60,090,037 ? 10,176,691
May 56,812,727 9,798,067
June 51,783,712 8,858,876
July 65,302,065 8,427,338
August 51,697,072 11,804,914
$285,685,614 49,065,886
Table showing importations and cus
toms receipts during five months pre
ceding the enactment of the Dingley
law :
Customs
Importations Receipts
March , 1S97 . . $ 76,351,444 $ 22,833,856
April 101,322,406 24,454,351
May 79,358,147 16,885,011
June 83,183,021 21,560,152
July 53,790,407 16,966,801
$396,005,425 $102,700,171
It will be seen from the above tables
that the importations of foreign goods
in the five months preceding the enact
ment of the Dingley law were $396 , -
005,425 , against only $285,685,614 in the
corresponding five months prior to the
enactment of the Wilson law. They
also exceed the corresponding five
months of the year 1896 by $105,347,032 ,
showing that the importations of the
months between the inauguration of
President McKinley and the signing of
the Dingley bill were more than $100 , -
000,000 in excess of the normal. It will
also be seen that the customs receipts
in these five months of abnormal im
portation prior to the enactment of the
Dingley law were more than double
those of the five months prior to the
enactment of the Wilson law , and that
fully $50,000,000 which under ordinary
circumstances would have been col
lected during the months of August ,
September , October , November , and De
cember of the present year was collect
ed during the months of March , April ,
May , June and July , and that the Ding
ley law was thus robbed of an average
of $10,000,000 per month for the first
five months of its operations. That
the Dingley law would be ample in its
revenue producing qualities under nor
mal conditions is not doubted by the
treasury officials.
"We have been watching it very
closely , " said Assistant Secretary How
ell , "and I have no doubt whatever that
the new law will give us an ample
revenue after the treasury business re
turns to its normal condition. I have
been studying these customs matters
for many years in my long service in
this department , and it is my deliberate
judgment after a careful study of the
workings of the new law during the
two months that it has been in opera
tion , comparing its work with that of
other laws , for I have seen the work of
many of them , that the new measure
will give to the treasury all the revenue
which it needs as soon as normal busi
ness conditions return. Indeed it is
surprising to me that it has accom
plished as much as it has during the
past two months in view of the adverse
conditions under which it went into op
eration , and nobody , whatever his pol
itics or political views or ambitions
may be , who will study "its workings
thus far carefully in the light of all
conditions , it seems to me , can have
any doubt upon this subject. "
GEO. H. WILLIAMS.
Money In Their rockets.
The new Republican monster not
only pulls money out of the pockets of
all consumers who remain at home , but
it puts its paw into the trunks of all
returning travelers Wilmington , N.
C , "Messenger. "
Under the Democratic policy of Free- '
Trade it was impossible "to pull money
out of the pockets" of Americans be
cause there was no money in thpir
pockets. Now they are getting well
lined again with American dollars and
all "patriots" are pleased to contribute
, their little mites to Uncle Sam's treas
ure chest. •
The End of It.
It seems only to be a question of time
when Great Britain must cease to ex
port any tin plates to the United States ,
and that time may probably be here
very soon. Iron and Coal Trades' Re
view , England.
We hope so. This was the intent
and purport of the McKinley tariff of
1890 , and it is gratifying to learn , from
an authoritative foreign source , that
such a favorable result is being so
quickly achieved.
\
KEPUBLICAN OPINION.
Reports from the manufacturing
districts , North and South , continue to
show increased activity. Three large
cordage mills at Isaia , Ohio , whicli
have been out of operation for several
years , are being re-opened with a full
force of men. The Wead paper mills
at Malone , N. Y „ which have been idle
for two years , have been re-opened ;
the Bridgeton , Pa. , woolen mills , which
have been closed nearly three years ,
have resumed operations ; two of the
Ohio valley railroads have giveu or
ders for one thousand new box care
each , for use in the business which is
being offered them , and which they are
now unable to handle ; the Cleveland
rolling mills report a large order for
bar steel from Birmingham , England ,
and an Ohio paper mill reports a con
tract of several thousand tons of print
paper for the Japanese trade.
No better evidence of the actual re
turn of business activity could be
found than the official reports of bank
clearances for the week ending Sep
tember 18. They show the clearances
to be fully fifty per cent greater than
at this time a year ago , and seventy-
five per cent , in excess of those of the
corresponding week two years ago.
They are greater than at any time
since January , 1893.
Is it that terrible "money power"
that is destroying the crops all over the
world for the purpose of giving Amer
ican farmers higher prices and thus
showing them the falsity of the wheat-1
and-silver theory ? There is just as
much sense in assuming that the mon
ey power could control the wind andj
weather and grasshoppers and other
causes of foreign grain shortages as it |
was to assume last fall that a handful
of financiers located in some myste
rious secret chamber in London or
elsewhere could control the legislation
of the greatest and most intelligent na
tions of the world in behalf of the
gold standard , as was asserted
day to day and week to week during
the entire campaign of 1896.
Is it the Dingley law or the fall oj
silver which is the cause of advance
of all farm products in the last sixty
days ? There has been no occasion in
which silver has fallen more rapidly
than during the month of August , and
' no time in which all farm products
have advanced more rapidly than dur
ing August and September. Since the
Dingley law went into operation about
the time that this advance came , it
might be well to call upon Mr. Bryan
for another paid syndicate article ex
plaining the cause of this general ad
vance.
The treasury department has over
$145,000,000 of gold in hand , and has
had since the McKinley administration
came in a larger gold surplus than at
any time for a long period of years.
This is in marked contrast with the
conditions during the Democratic ad
ministration , when President Cleve
land was compelled to sell bonds every
now and then to keep up the hundred-
million reserve.
Those people who are satisfied with
Mr. Bryan's explanation of the cause
in the advance in the price of wheat
might do well to inquire of him about
the advance of wool. He says the ad
vance in wheat was due to a shortage
abroad. There is no record of any
considerable shortage abroad in wool ,
yet prices of wool have advanced sixty
per cent , since the beginning of Sep
tember , 1896 , while silver has fallen
twenty per cent , in the .same time.
The visit of Senators Mantle and Pet-
tigrew to the Mikado of Japan to in
quire why silver has been demonetized
seems to have been a great loss of time
and labor. Had they taken the trou
ble to examine the report of the di
rector of the mint , which covers the
value of Japan's silver coins during the
past few years , they would have found
it entirely unnecessary to take their
trip across the Pacific , though that
might be a very convenient trip for al
most anybody to take providing the
silver trust saw fit to pay expenses.
The report of the director of the mint
shows that the Japanese silver yen ,
which was worth 83 1-10 cents in 1891 ,
was only worth 47 8-10 cents in 1897 ,
all of which should have been sufficient
information for anybody who wanted
cold facts without a foreign junket as
an accompaniment. Senators Petti- ,
grew and Mantle having omitted to fav
or the people of this country with the
result of their interview with the Mi
kado , the public may be able , to work
along with the information given in the
following table , until the silver states
men are heard fiom :
Value of Value of
Year. Silver Yen. Gold Yen.
1888 75.3 99.7
1889 . 73.4 99.7
1890 75.2 99.7
1891 83.1 99.7
1892 74.5 _ 99.7
1893 66.1 99.7
1894 55.6 99.7
1895 49.1 99.7
1896 52.9 99.7
1897 ( July ) 47.8 99.7
Last week's report covering the busi
ness failures in the United States is
more encouraging than any which has
been presented since the upward ten
dency of business which came with the
inauguration of President McKinley.
The entire number of business failures
reported last week was only 169 , which
was less than half the number in the
corresponding week of September , 1893 ,
the first year of Cleveland's second
term , and vastly less than any corresponding
spending week during the entire four
years of his occupancy of the presi
dential chair.
POLITICAL SENSATION
ACTING - GOVERNOR RANSo/
CHARGES FRAUD /
In Ohcmi Court at Oiiuili ; . j. . ( /"tend *
that Fraud Wu Committed by/overnor
Ilolcomb When lie Approve/Hiirt.oy' .s
j Straw IIouil Often * to Sho/that Hol-
eumh Know of Ilartlny'/ Shortage
Meflcrve'H Itnnd Wnrthle" Stn-ernl of
III * Largest Sureties/HiiT" Left the
State. /
Mcservft'n Kecord h * l.cd Willow County.
The condition/Of the state treasury
was the one particular thing most
talked about .Ay Governor Holcomb m
his eampaig/for governor three years
ago. He Wf/uld reform the business of
the state/reasury. That's what he
would. He canvassed the state and at
tl/e farmer picnics he was ; i bold re
former./He taught the people that the
treasury had not been properly pro
tected/that its funds were not proper/ !
managed , and that he was the one par
ticular man who would attend to that
particular business if elected. So per
sistent was he in his discussion of the
state treasury and so prodigal was he
of brave promises that the public
learned in that campaign to look upon
him and to style him an "the watch
dog of the public money. " Whatever
grievances had b-en iu the past , Hol
comb would reform the treasury when
he got into power. Enough of the people
ple believed in this proud boaster to
elect him , and the farme.s said among
themselves , "Now the i reasury is safe ,
for Holcomb is in the chair. " The
farmers understood then , a- they do
uow , that the business of securing the
public money by a sound treasurer's
bond was the governor's business , and
they knew that if that business was
properly attended to there could be no
loss to the tax-payers whether the
state treasurer was honest or not. The
people had elected the treasurer believ
ing him to be an honest man , but they
did not depend upon his honesty , they
depended upon the bond , and they had
elected a governor whose duty it waste
to require a bond , and they believed
that he would perform that duty. He
was commanded to do it by the law ,
and he would surely obey the law , but
he was bound to perform this duty ,
and it rested upon his conscience with
tenfold force by reason of his promises
at the country picnics , and because he
yvas no ordinary governor but a reform
jovernor , the leader of a reform party ,
and its only representative in the state
house. The treasury was the one par
ticular thing which he had discussed
in his campaign was the one particu
lar thing above all others that needed
reform and now , as he entered upon
the duties of his first term the first
thing presented to him for his official
action- was an opportunity to reform
the treasury. If any part of the public
funds had been misappropriated , here
was the opportunity for him to make
the discovery by counting the money ,
a3 the law directs , and if the treasury
had not been properly secured in the
past , as he had charged in his speeches ,
hero was an opportunity for him to
commence his reform and to make the
treasury safe in the future. It now
transpires that Bartley's half million
default had commenced then , and that
the governor knew it. Not only had
the default commenced , but the gov
ernor , knowing it , permitted Bartley
on entering his second term to file a
spurious bond , from which not a dollar
can be collected , and he permitted this
defaulting treasurer to continue in
office two years , himself remaining
3ilent , refusing to count the money as
the law directed , holding out to the
people by his certificate on the bond
that it was genuine. A few days ago ,
at Omaha.Hon. Frank , T. Ransom , pop
ulist senator from Omaha , president
pro tem. of the populist senate , chair
man of the so-called free-silver re
publican state committee , while acting
governor , charged in open court that
Governor Holcomb had committed this
fraud , and gave that as a reason to
the court why the innocent sureties
who had signed the bond should be ex
cused. "A fraud has been commit
ted , " said Ransom. "That fraud was
committed by the governor cf the state
of Nebraska and by Joseph S. Bartley. "
John H. Ames , one of the sureties ,
stated to the court that he had signed
the Bartley bond relying upon the gov
ernor , that he was a lawyer and knew
his duty , that he was an honest man
who would keep his oath , that he had
counted the money as the law directs ,
and that the condition of the treasury
was then sound. Here we have Act
ing-Governor Ransom charging a
fraud upon Acting-Governor Holcomb
which calls for his impeachment and
removal from office.
The last republican state convention
denounced Bartley and Moore who
had betrayed the republican party. The
republican press of the state has been
unsparing in its criticism of these re
publican betrayers , and no republican
voter has offered to excuse or palliate
one iota of their guilt. In this the re
publican party shows its honesty of-
conscience. "We will now see whether
the reform press and the voters of the
reform party -will longer stultify their
reform cause by covering up and apol
ogizing for the governor's rascality ,
as they have covered up and apolo
gized for this shameless administra
tion from the very hour which it took
charge of the state government the
first of this year.
But this is not the only bond fraud
which Governor Holcomb has perpe
trated upon the Nebraska people.
Meserve's bond is as rotten and
worthless as Bartley's second bond.
The governor knew it when he ap
proved it and when he certified to the
people the falsehood that it was a gen
uine bond. Not only was it worthless
when it was presented by Meserve and
approved by the governor , but nearly
ail of the larger signers have since dis
posed of their property , and several of
them have abandoned the state leaving - I
ing no available assets behind. Not '
only this , but Meserve's career prior
' " ' his taking charge of the state treas
ury is such as to arouse suspicion auu
call for the closest scrutiny of his sure
ties His induction into the county
trcasuryship at McCook was brought
about by his creditors there , to whom
he was heavily indebted , and the rec
ords of Red Willow county show that
within the space of a little more than
a year while he was county treasurer
he paid off $24,000 of indebtedness ,
although his salary was but $2,000 per
annum. Who is carrying this indebt-
cd-fess jdw ? He paid sis privnte cred
itors ; that much appears from the
J/coupcy records. Where did he get the
money ? What would have been his
relation to Red Willow county had ho
not been elected state treasurer ? What
would bo hlB relation to the state to
day if the governor should require of
him an accounting now ? Will the
governor require this accounting ?
'Will he require a new bond in lieu of
the worthless bond under which the
state treasurer now holds office ?
There must bo somewhere some con
science among the rank and file of
populist voters. If this election passes"
without a manifestation of this higher
conscience in the populist party it can
never again lift up its head and ask
for the respect or the votes of Ne
braska people.
Several times In the history of Ne
braska the republican press has united
in scourging republican offenders and
making their actions odious be
fore the public. There never has been
at any time in the history of the state
what could be justly styled a subservi
ent republican press. At no time when
the republican party was In power has
it been dominated by a state house
ring so powerful that not a single re
publican paper dared to lift its voice
in protest. A year ago now the re
publican press was outspoken against
Bartley's influence in the republican
party. The republican newspapers
voiced the demand of republican voters
all over the state that Bartley should
not be a controlling factor in shaping
the party politics. All this Is fresh in
the mind of the people to-day. When
Bartley's shortage was first hinted at
but not fully established , not a single
republican attempted to shield or ex
cuse him. Republicans with one nui-
versal voice said : "Let no guilty man
escape. " In all this the republican
party shows its conscience and its
natural instinct for square politics and
honest administration.
What has the populist press said or
done to purge the reform party from
the actions of the rotten ring at the
state house ? Look at the disgraceful
spectacle presented by the last reform
legislature. Look at the infamous re
count fraud , and the governor's con
nection with it. To carry out this bold
plot they ousted four republican mem
bers from Omaha and one senator ,
making no pretense that there was
any reason except that they needed
that many votes to pass the recount
measure with the emergency clause.
Did any populist newspaper utter a
word of protest against this infamous
thing while it was being carried on ?
It would be difficult to find in history
an instance where there was such uni
versal and general consent by a polit
ical party and all its officials and its
press to a plot that was revolutionary
and lawless in every feature. That
recount matter will always remain a
dark spot in Nebraska's history. It is
all the darker for the reason that the
populist press was silent and littered
no protest against it. Take the ? 10 , -
000 investigating committee. Here are
five members of the legislature draw
ing pay for two years at the rate of
§ 1,500 per annum , and for this they
render no equivalent to the public , and
make no pretense to usefulness except
as they trump up political capital for
the reform movement. The members
of this committee make no pretense
that they are qualified for the business
of examining records or accounts.
What a spectacle this man Mutz has
made of himself as chairman of this
investigating committee. And yet no
populist newspaper has offered to crit
icise him.
Look out over the state and you will
see a trail of defalcations wherever
populists have been in county offices ,
but you will read no criticism against
these defalcations in the populist press.
In Lancaster county the populist clerk
of the district court robbed the county ,
but no populist newspaper nor no pop
ulist convention has condemned him.
In Custer county , the home of Governor
Holcomb , a populist plundered the
county treasury , but because this treas
urer was Holcomb's friend , no word of
censure has ever been uttered against
him by any populist newspaper or any
populist convention. Another county
official in Custer county defaulted. The
default was published by the commis
sioners , the public knew it , but the re
form party in Custer county carries the
name of that official to-day as its can
didate for county judge. The reform
county committee out there have de
manded his withdrawal from the
ticket , but because he is Holcomb's
friend , he remains on the ticket and
the populist voters there are whipped
into line by the bosses demanding his
support. In Merrick count } * , the home
of Secretary cf State Porter , the treas
urer plundered the county to the
amount of § 30,000. but neither Secre
tary Porter , the populist press , or the
populist conventions of that county
have dared to criticise it. In Platte
county , the home of Judge Sullivan ,
the treasurer stole $30,000 but neither
Judge Sullivan or the other democratic
officials of the county have lifted s
'
much as a little fineer to nrocpru4- * '
offender. Not only does this Platte
county defaulter go scot free from
prosecution and free from criticism ,
but his brother , who was intimately
associated with him when the default
was committed , has been promoted tea
a public office at the state house under
Land Commissioner Wolfe , because he
is the son-in-law of United States Sen
ator Allen. A populist treasurer
robbed Hamilton county and his son
was indicted for burning the court
house there , but through the influence
of Congressman Stark and others the
prosecution was nollied and the
guilty man allewed to escape ; not only
to escape punishment , but to escape
criticism from the populist press and
the populist conventions of that
county. In Gosper county a populist
plundered the treasury and burned the
court house and the records , escaping
without punishment and without criti
cism. There is not space here to re
count the long list of populist defalca
tions which have occurred in the last
four or five years. In York county four
township treasurers defaulted , but you
do not read of these defalcations in the
populist press , and you do not hear of
them in the resolutions passed by the
populist conventions there.
Where is the conscience of the re
form party ? Where is its honesty ? t
Wherein does it show the reform that
| t promised the people ? Where is the
reform that was promised us as to
'
pass-grabbing and junketing ? No political -
litical party , no set of politicians in
any state , have made so disgraceful a
spectacle as the populists have made
In this state in the last few months
along this line , and yet no mention of
this is made in any populist paper erIn
In the resolutions of any populist con-
veiitiou. Theao state ofllcfal * liavo I 1
junketed in all directions. Look at the j $
disgraceful conduct of the state autl'h
Hot. What reform paper 1ms criticised JF
him ? What reform convention 1ms M
denounced him ? Where- are the fraudulent - * $ L
ulent tally-sheeta of the fraudulent * a b
recount which Hcdlund exposed , and fE
tor which ho was removed by the , A
governor from the recount commls- % '
slon ? Where is the Investigating committee - W
mitteo with its ? 10,000 appropriation. * J
that it has not investigated thl3 fraud ,
brought out so conspicuously before f
the public , pointed out bo explicitly by \
Hcdlund , and attaching Its wicked con- ' • I
splracy to the very person of the gov- n I
ernor ? All these things are in line y I
with the governor's conduct as to - I
Bartley's spurious bond and the other I
spurious bond of Meserve. What set I
of party leaders have before shown I
such utter disregard for the rank and
file of the party ? Thcso reform otll-
clals treat their followers as It they
were dumb cattle ; as If they had no
self-respect ; as if they would follow
blindly any set of politicnl shysters It
only they posed as reformers.
They promised to raise the valuation (
of railroad property. They taught the
people for six years that railroad property - B
erty was assessed too low. They made H
the people believe it. It was a lie , but H
they made the people believe it. There /
has never been a year since Nebraska- H
had railroads that the railroad property - * H
erty was not assessed at a higher valuation - H
ation in proportion than otjicr prop- H
ert3\ and yet these reformers pretended -
tended that the people had been. H
wronged in this matter , and that they H
would right the wrong as soon as they H
got into power. Did they do it ? No ! / H
When the opportunity came they pettifogged - / '
tifogged and caucused and pretended ,
for a whole week that they were H
gravely considering how to carry out H
the pledges they had made , and then M
ended their Tarce by leaving the railroad - M
road assessment as it had been bo- H
fore. They pretended that they would M
control the corporations as to rates. M
They would regulate telephone and H
telegraph companies. They would reduce - M
duce telephone rates for the benefit of |
the down-trodden farmer , who never M
uses a telephone. But have they done . jH
it ? They passed a law authorizing the H
state board of transportation to regulate - M
late these things , but they have not H
enforced the law , and they make no M
pretense of enforcing it. They cannot H
enforce It. It was unconstitutional M
when they passed it and they knew it. M
Their law provides a fee to the at- |
torney general for every case which he M
brings against the railroad , and this M
thing alone makes it unconstitutional , M
because the constitution says that no M
state officer can have his salary raised |
while he is in office. They knew that V
this railroad law would be heid uneon- B
stitutional , and the railroads winked
the other eye when it was passed. I
These boasting reformers think that
they can fool the people year after a
year by advertising what they are
going to do. and by pretending to do
something which they know will be I
unconstitutional , and then they appeal I
to the people and say that they were 1
hindered by republican courts and by 1
injunctions. ,
And now the question of Meserve's
straw bond is knocking at the door.
What will the governor ' ) about it ?
What will he do about the ugly charge
which Acting-Governor Ransom has J
made against him in open court ? Will J
he go on counting his annual passes J
and his Pullman passes , arranging for I
another junket to the "red apple I
country ? " And will he attempt to - H
sooth Nebraska people with another V sWJ
chapter from Mutz , the investigator ? * m1
How much of this Mutz will populist 1
voters endure without protest ? How 1
long will they endure the humiliation I
which the state house gang is heaping : I
upon them without making some demonstration - I
onstration of their disauoroval ? '
TOOK A MEAN ADVANTAGE. j
.Engaged Man Insisted on KN-ilng nu j
I'lancce In a Street Car.
Aj-oung-man and a young-woman
changed from a Belt Una to a Four
teenth street car at the aven ' ne ,
Washing-ton , and sat in one of the
seats in the first car. He was carrying
ingan overcoat and a satchel and was
evidently goingaway. . She wore a
shirt waist and dark skirt , as if start-
inr out on a shoppingexpedition. . J M
Just before they reached Sixth street 1
he leaned over her an'i said quietly. I
so quietly that only the reporter baelc I
of them could hear " I
: "I am going-to-
"
kiss you good-by when I leave the I
car. " I
• Oh , please don 't , " she said appealingly - I
ingly ; "not before all these people. " I
But he decided I
was and said persistently -
sistently : "Yes I shall ; so raise yonr I
veil. If you try to resist people wilL I
see it and wonder ahout you , and I
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they will look at yon all the way uptown - I
town after I get off. " M
She glanced up shyly and then I
slowly raised her veil. lie bent over I
her and kissed her an I no one in the fl
car looked up. A few people won- fl
dered why she was so anxious to show |
the diamond ringon the left hand , |
butn body but the reporter appre - |
ciated.the fact that she was trying to |
justify the kissing by meano of anTeri- |
gagement rinsr. H
TrouI > Ie. .ome Cracked -Silver- Coir * . H
The stamping machines at the gov- |
eminent mints , embodying as they do |
all the bast inventions obtainable , yet |
do not do their work with absolute perfection - M
fection in every instance. Occasionally |
a. silver dollar is turned out with a a |
trifling- defect , and then the coin causes 1
more trouble , many times over than it S
is worth. This imperfection is a slight H
crack in the edge of the coin , which is S
Likely to escaoe the notice of any ordi- H
tiary scrutiny , but like the rift in the
Into of which the poet sings , it makes JM
-he dollar s music mute. ; j H
The commonest way to test a silver * H
: oin to find out whether it is a counter- H
eit or not is to drop on a table or 1
: ounter. If it has a clear rinit i 1
.upposed to be good. As a matter of B
act some counterfeit coins , now cur H
-ent. which are ma e of antimony and ' B
in haye a sound almost identical with
hat of a real silver dollar. What H
nakes this test more uncertain is th 1
act that a real silver *
dollar with the fr
iropped. The opening H
destroys
it
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ingle just as t crack dcstrbVs i JL
wtWiS
nelodiousneas ot a bell. * * H
