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BEAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
The audacity of tlie Republican par
ty verges on insolence The osition
-of the parly is substantially that of the
lishwomnn at Billingsgate who was
skinning an eel and made tremendous
outcry attracting the attention of the
entire neighborhood The Kepublieau
party engaged at present in the fabri
cation of a measure of rapine and plun
der unexampled in the history of the
republic demands that the entire
American people shall lie still while it
skins them with its tariff law
How atrocious the present measure
is may be gathered from daily routine
reports of the Senates discussion in
which it is not thought worth while on
the part of Republican Senators so no
torious is the fact to disclaim that
they are serving not Hie country gener
ally but some particular interest in
their immediate neighborhood Re
cause those robbers prostituting the
power of Congress to legislate for the
general welfare are legislating for a
parti ular class and assert that they
propose to restore prosperity they de
mand that they shall have the active
upport in their piracy of gold Demo
l crats
The claim is preposterous in its in
solence Not only do Republicans de
mand that gold Democrats hall
support them in the scheme of
spoliation in which they are now en-
gaged in special session of Conirress
but that they shall also support then
policies and their partisans anywhere
at all times and in all places Demo
crats must not in the opinion o these
insolent pifty managers support a
Democrat in Iowa because it is the
purpose of the Republican party to
perpetuate in that State the adminis
tration of Drake notoriously a servant
not of the people of Iowa but of the
railroads in that commonwealth whose
administration has been extravagant
to the verge of criminality and dis
grace They demand that gold
on the pain of being confronted
with allegation of inconsistency or the
peril of meeting the Republican bogy
man brought out on all occasions shall
indorse in Ohio the scandalous political
maneuvering by which Sherman was
placed in the State department in or
der to make room in the Senate for the
manager of the McKinley campaign
Democrats may be in danger of los
ing their share of that prosperity which
Mr Hanna promised them if they do
not subscribe in toto to his program
lii t they will endeavor to get along
-without the Hanna kind of prosperity
as best they may
There are differences of opinion in
the Democratic party concerning the
currency question but these are
Siilicant compared with the question
now confronting the people of the Uni
ted States whether the Republican
party the unblushing champion of
Trusts made in restraint of competition
the proprietors of that brand of pros
perity which is to be had only as the
result of placing tremendous burdens
for the benelit of protected classes up
on the people of the Tinted States
shall be continued indefinitely in the
power with which they were intrusted
not for the purpose of such abus as is
daily seen but for that of making a
stable currency a duty they have
shirked
Democracy ought to get together
Democracy ought to welcome any en
emy any possible enemy of the Re
publican party Avhich is to day
through its championship of commer
cial slavery the most insidious foe of
The republic Chicago Chronicle
A Rule or lium Policy
This country was plunged into a
financial panic in 1S93 by a conspiracy
of gold monometallists a conspiracy
which forced a general withdrawal of
credits and exacted an immediate set
tlement of accounts
What was the object of this out
rageous and extraordinary attack on
the Irnsiness interests of the United
States It was to create a stringency
in the markets a decline of business
and a decadence of industry which
facts should be used as arguments
against the purchase by the govern
ment of silver bullion under the false
-assumption that these evils were the
result of such purchase
For fourteen years the advocates of
a single gold standard had striven to
destroy a system which had given a
good degree of prosperity to the peo
ple All their efforts having proved of
no avail the conspiracy of gold was
formed tfnd the plot of ruin planned
The withdrawal of credits brought
the panic and many a banker was
crushed in the ruin he had helped to
cause but the heartless conspirators
not for that Cleveland called a
special session of Congress in the
month of August and by threats ca
jolery and the magic of money the re
peal of the Sherman purchasing act
was brought about
These facts have passed into history
Why recall them now Because his
tory repeats itself because the gold
conspirators are plotting a repetition
of the disastrous object lesson of 93
because wisdom to meet tiie future is
gained by studying the experiences of
the past
The sentiment in favor of silver is
Stronger to day than it was in 93 The
enemies of silver recognize this fact
hence the delay in putting their propo
sition to force this country upon a gold
basis to a vote They know that days
of deepening business depression lie
tbetween now and next December
when Congress meets again and they
are preparing to urge upon the people
the acceptance of a monometallic gold
currency as the remedy Will their
plot succeed
Actinjr nsa Fence for Trusts
In the robbers parlance a fence is
a man who accepts dishonestly acquir
ed property asking no questions and
proliting through the transaction The
assertions of a man known to be a
fence to the effect that his most ear
nest desire was to destroy robbery and
to bring robbers to justice would have
little credence on the part of those who
listened to his talk
The Republican party as represented
by its national committee during the
last Presidential campaign is a fence
Trusts are known to be robbers of the
people and the results of their robber
ies were poured into the money bags
of the Republican committee without
stint and accepted without protest
A fence never betrays his custo
mer It would not be good business to
do so lie may indulge in a lot of
moralizing about the sin of being i
sinner and the dishonesty of being
dishonest but he will never do any
thing to convert the sinner or to bring
punishment upon the dishonest
Viewing the situation in this light the
people will know just how much con
lidence they can place in the moraliz
ing of Republican leaders on the evils
of trusts Actions speak louder than
words and as every anti trust measure
that has been brought before the Sen
ate during the present session has been
killed by the Republicans there can t e
no doubt as to their real sentiments mi
regard to this matter
Secretary Sherman has placed him
self on record as opposed to the trusts
and as in favor of Hanna As Hanna
received untold thousands of dollars
from the trusts in the way of coinnbu
tions to his campaign fund and as he
placed ihis money where he thought it
would do the most good he represents
the trusts Secretary Sherman is a
lightning change artist but he cannot
perform rhe feat of being for and
against the same thing at the same
time
Tlie Campaign in Iowa
The Republicans of Iowa are slow in
accepting the challenge of the Demo
crats to enter the campaign of 1S07
They are in no hurry to meet ih
charges of the Demociaiic platform
and to offer their defense
The Iowa Republican convention
will not be held until Aug IS Their
State committee met at Des Moines
and lixed that date the convention
at which candidates will be nominated
and the vigorous arraignment of the
administration in the Democratic plat
form will be answered if an answer is
possible
The Iowa Democrat i platform
charges that the Republican adminis
tration has looted the State treasury
that an army of unnecessary and over
paid employes lias been created tlM a
public debt of 1000000 has ben las
tened on the State that xrraciginee
and prolligacy have characterized th
management of tinanciai affairs Mid
that taxes have been increased wbiie
j the ability of the people to pay them
has been impaired To this iiidicimeit
the Republicans must answer
It is nor surprising that they seek de
lay If a criminal in a court of justice
feels that he is certain of conviction
he asks his lawyer to get the trial put
off He hopes that the accidents of
time may befriend him while an im
mediate hearing would end in convic
tion Tiie action of the Iowa Repub
licans is inspired by a similar kind of
rascally prudence
The Iowa Democratic platform says
We go before the people of this State
with the conviction that the interests
of the whole people demand a change
in the policy and management of our
State affairs and we invite the co-operation
of every patriotic citizen so
believing
This is an offer of political co-operation
that all good citizens will accept
The Headsman Hard at Work
Let our brethren of the Republican
press turn back to their files of four
years ago and peruse their indignant
remarks about the activity of the
headsman of the postotiice department
under the Cleveland administration
With less than four months of the ad
ministration gone now there hac been
about 8000 removals of fourth class
postmasters an average of 2000 a
month 500 a week and about twenty
for each working day of four hours or
five removals an hour There is activ
ity for you Milwaukee Journal
No Compensation for Coimmrr
According to Senator Allison the high
tariff duties on cheap carpets and
cheap mattings are not for protection
nor for revenue but a compensation
of the manufacturers for the increased
duties on raw wool Where doVs the
consumer come in What compensa
tion does he get for the higher prices
lie will have to pay The consumers
will have another object lesson to im
press upon them the important fact
stated by Grant that the consumer
pays the tax Helena Mont Inde
pendent
First Thitur After Prayer
Open the doors of well requited toil
to the unemployed and bring the long
expected prosperity to every home
prayed the chaplain of the Senate Tues
day morning When tlie Senate got
down to work after this inspiring pray
er it linished the consideration of the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill con
ferring on the sugar trust the largest
measure of favor ever granted it by
law St Louis Republic
Promises of Prosperity
Promises of prosperity have proved
such a boomerang to the Republicans
that now on tlie eve of tlie adoption
of their great patent prosperity pro
ducer the Dingley tariff bill the coun
try hears very little of boasting as to
the splendid results which are to fol
low
The Washington Star a strong advo
cate of tlie tariff sings a low and ten
derly modified rapture as follows
And now for the future No man need
expect an wonder working ly the
bill All Irnsiness distress will not dis
appear in the single night after the bill
is signed Business has been very ill
and very ill for a long time It cannot
be set vigorously on its feet again as
by magic It must conform to tlie con
dition of a human patient and be satis
tied to recover strength gradually
In tlie expressive language of rue
sporting gentlemen our esteemed con
temporary may be said to be hedging
Too much light has lieen thrown upon
Hie tariff question to justify any intel
ligent person in promising a sunburst
of prosperity But the Republican
currency reform will serve as a good
subject for prosperity prophets and the
country is already receiving some ex
cellent samples of Republican elo
quence on the glorious tilings that will
result from its inauguration Chicago
Dispatch
Speech and Action Inharmonious
111 an interview John Sherman vig
orously whacks the trusts This is a
safe and popular pastime Yet we
must not forget that Sherman has been
for foijgj years a leading and influen
tial statesman of a party whicli far
from curbing the trusts has favored
and fattened these corporations in a
hundred ways Rochester X Yj Her
ald
Stilt Another Small Brick
In behalf of the masses who import
pleasure yachts the Republican Sena
tors put such vessels on the free list
This is moderation The poor man
will have to pay more for his clothing
but the millionaire gets his palatial
yachts in free Kansas Ciiy Times
Ad Valorem Duties Now Favored
And it is a Republican Senate which
rejects a specific and levies an ad va
lorem duty on hides What becomes
of all those eloquent Republican de
nunciations of the Democratic abomi
nation ad valorem duties Louisville
Courier Journal
Hannas Horn Out of Tune
While Hanna was explaining to the
delegates at Toledo the matchless mer
its of the wool schedule as agreed upon
by the Republican caucus the Republi
can Senators were engaged in changing
tlie schedule to make it worth adopting
Detroit Free Press
Fattening the Bloated Trust
Republican Senators definitely com
mitted themselves to legislation in be
half of trusts by voting solidly for the
new sugar schedule submitted by the
Finance Committee -St Louis Repub
lie
If the Republicans in Congress go too
far in the piling up of duties the party
might just as well prepare to lose the
next Congress The danger of any ex
cess is in the reaction This is True
not only in politics but in business
Baltimore American
Mr McKinley s new treaty with Eng
land might appropriately lie an offen
sive and defensive land grabbing alli
ance To talk arbitration and at the
same time begin a policy of conquest
that must result in wars is the height
of absurdity Kansas City Times
Bound to Succeed
A strong will a patient temper and
sound common sense when united in
the same individual are as good as a
fortune to their possessor Barring un
toward accidents the man endowed
with these qualities who starts on his
career with a determination to reach
a desirable position does reach it Our
admiration is sometimes bespoken for
successful people who are said to have
triumphed over every obstacle Bi
ographers of eminent men are partic
ularly fond of making their heroes ar
rive at the goal of their hopes by this
steeple chase process But the truth is
that impetuous spirits who charge at
every impediment in their path on the
plan
unless favored with extraordinary
luck are more apt to sink than to
swim to perish than to survive It is
advisable to go round obstacles that
you might break your neck in attempt
ing to take it a Hying leap Policy is
as necessary to success in most cases
as energy When a young man has
made up his mind that he will ge on in
life let him take due time to reflect on
the best means of accomplishing his ob
ject and having laid down such rules
for his future conduct as his reason
and his conscience approve let him
-tick to them inflexibly He must fore
go sell -indulgence where ir would be
likely to interfere with his interests
select as his friends men who have the
ability and the will to further his main
design and this requires judgment
and learn to work perseveriugly to
ward his object without being
aged by The rude josrlings that he is
quite sure to meet with on the road
Whoever pursues this course is sure to
be ser down by rhe world as a man
bound to succeed and the world sel
dom makes a mistake in thee matters
Persons who are recognized by society
as rising men have only themselves to
blame if they do not rise Unless they
kik over their own dish by some act of
imprudence their upward movemeut
is assured
ALTGELFS HOT TALK
SPEAKS IN BROOKLYN ON LIVE
ISSUES
Uanjers and Hopes of a Great Repub
lic Are Presented True Democracy
Advised as a Cure for the Ills of the
Country
No Middle Ground
Ex Gov Altgeld of Illinois addressed
nn audience of nearly 2500 persons in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music Monday
Mr Altgeld began his speech by saying
that the Fourth of July had become a day
for retrospection as well as rejoicing He
continued
To dny the most wonderful nation on earth
is In distress Its children are sutYorinj and
Its foundation stones are slipping away May
e not ask the reason whyV In the affairs of
cian as in nature there is no fixed status
livery where there Is either growth or mure
is disintegration
Mr Altgeld then reviewed the political
history of the country at great length to
show there was an irrepressible conflict
between the rich and the poor between
the principles of Alexander Hamilton
and those of Thomas Jefferson In speak
ing of the revolution he said
When the agitation in In half of independ
ence began in the colonies the otlicial classes
the elergy the moneyed classes and what
was then called fashionable society as a
rule were lories and adhered to English in
teicsts The men who advocated independ
c iee were denouncd as irresponsible agita
tors Tlie men who were clearing the forests
mk1 building a State were ready to die for
liberty and favored independence but the
inllueiitial classes were oppood to it
Mr Altgeld asserted that the count re
started with two political parties whose
principles have been arrayed against each
other down to the present day lie
charged that the Federalists led by Ham
ilton sought to control the country for
the benefit of the rich and by implication
he asserted the Republican party of to
day was the legitimate successor of the
Federalists He said the Republicans led
by Jefferson strove to legislate for the
masses to keep the powers of government
in the hands of the people and he said the
Democrats of to day were striving to car
ry out Jeffersonianism
Triumphs of the Peonle
Mr Altgeld holding that the hope of
the country was in the common people
spoke of four triumphs which he said they
had won The first was in winning inde
pendence The second was in electing
Jefferson President The third was in
sustaining Andrew Jackson in smashing
the national bank The fourth was in
electing Lincoln President and wiping out
slavery
Mr Altgeld then turned his attention to
the money power He charged that
the public debt had been doubled by mak
ing it payable in gold lie charged that
after the war the currency was contracted
until the dollar became worth 200 cents
while debts interest taxes and all fixed
barges lenmined unchanged To these
jauses he attributed the panic of 1 873
But Mr Altgeld did not reach his hap
piest vein until he began to discuss trusts
He made indictment against corporations
charging them with oppressing the peo
ple crushing out competition by the pow
er of might and corrupting the legisla
tures f the people In this connection he
said
It rarely happens that a private individual
has enough interest hi anv matter either to
corrupt a legislature or to obtain control of
ill branches of the government The uni
versal corruption that is to day destroying
cur country comes from the concentration of
capital and the alarming aspect is that it is
practiced by men who talk patriotism and
who stand high in the estimation of the pub
lic It is Idle to talk about purifvlng the
government so long as men of influence and
iosition offer vast sums to corrupt it Cut
eff the liana that offers a bribe and vou will
cud corruption
We must devise some wav of removing
ever whelming temptations oh the one hand
and of distributing among all men the bene
1 ts and advantages llowing from the process
if concentration As power never limits it
tclf we must Unci a method of curbing it
Let It be understood the American people
re broad and generous They envv no man
the fruits of superior effort or good fortune
They heartily applaud the achievement of
genius and in this broad land to day there
nowhere a oice raised against tlie man
who has honestly acquired a competence
tl ere is no voice raised against the corpora
tions that conlinc themselves to legitimate
business and legitimate methods
The complaint is against monopoly against
fortunes that have been corruptlv made and
i re now used to further plunder the public
nd to destroy free institutions The protest
s against laws which enrich some at the ex
I ease of others The indictment runs not
against capital but the criminal u e of it
It is not wealth but tlie abuse of it that is
working our destruction
Look at tlie situation Lobbyists and cor
riiptionists sit in high places and are count-
d the great men of the land Instead of the
government controlling the corporations the
corporations run the government Greed
i akes the laws and labor carries the burden
We bear of assessors being bribed city
councils being owned legislatures being
bought while Congress registers the will of
the millionaires Men reach tlie White House
through the portals of the hanks and the
higher Judgeships on a certificate from the
uirporations
In no country and in no age have the high
er courts been on the side of the people or of
Iberty They are everywhere the exponents
end defenders of that force which for the
i me being dominates tlie land Since the war
the higher courts have as a rule occupied
i lie same position toward the corporations
iuid money power that they formerly did to
ward slavery and for thirty years they hae
lieen regarded as cities of refuge by the cor
porations In some repects they liave done
more to bring about the present unhappv
onditions than has Congress Hut these
things should not discourage our people for
the courts have never yet permanently stop
ped human progress
In discussing the remedies for these
evils Mr Altgeld first dealt in generali
ties and went so far as to say he would
not undertake to point to the remedy
Then he abruptly declared the country
must be saved by the Democratic party
Kcforms Siigjrsted
Under this head he said
You ask What shall we do My friends
no mortal can tell you long in advance The
exigencies must be met as they arise The
croat purpose Is to restore the basic princi
ples of the fathers and to reverse the present
destructive policies to meet the new needs
of the times to end the corrupt reign of the
ollar and substitute the voice of the citizen
to have the Government control the corpora
tions Instead of having the corporations run
the Government to restore a financial sys
tem under which the world had prospered
rnd whidi will not paralyze America for tne
enelit of T Iugland to prevent the Federal
courts from becoming mere convenieii es for
concentrated wealth to do justice to the
1 and that toils to end monopolies whether
of money land products or privilege In
short the purpose is to maintain free gov
ernment among men and make farther prog
tess possible
The lirt thin necessary is to assert our
manhood to hav conviction ami dare to
nfiinrain them Double headed platforms and
colorless men are tin instruments by which
the abuses of tlie time are made possible
I do not care to discuss remedies to dav
Tlie American people will lind a remedy or
n hundred remedies when once aroused ami
no remedy has any merir until the people get
i i earnest You near men ay in light speech
that we must have reform or revolution My
friends in tills land revolution can offer no
lope to the toiler It simply means more
cruelty more police and more military It
means a brutal despotism with mere
I iam find acobbery t the top and more mlrerj
af tne bottom
Let n move along the line of erolution
Let the idnnt of justice break through the
crust by natura processes We have peace
ably remedies in our hands all we need ii
the- courage to apply them The countrj
mast be readied by the great patriotic
masses of the people by the democrat of
America by the men who adhere to Repub
lican Institutions no matter what they call
themselves From no other source can relief
come
Democrats as Rescuers
I say our country must be rescued by the
Democrats Rut be not deceived Lobbyists
ind eorruptlonlstH who debauch legislatures
or pollute the stream of Justice are not
Democrats So called leaders who use their
Iosltion In their party to assist corporations
ir getting an unfair advantage over the pub
lic are not Democrats Men who are ready
to soil their fingers and selj the birthright of
tleir children for the sake of personal gal
are not Democrats
The word democrat is one of the most
inspiring In the language It Is as broad aa
Immunity and no man is worthy of it who
lias no higher purpose than to get a personal
advantage Offices must be filled and it is
better to have them tilled by men of convic
tion and character than by men who havo
neither Let me repeat that compromisers
traders and neutral men never correct
abuses never found or save free Institutions
and never tight for human rights
Infortunately we have been slowly and
unconsciously losing our personal independ
ence Through the scramble for the dollar
the longing for position political or social
the fear of the press and the dread of criti
cism we are all becoming cowardly coward
y in conscience in thought in speech and in
action -and are losing our birthright Cow
the nobler Instincts of man and he becomes
lrst a slave and then a brute Independence
is the mother of all progress Kestore the in
Cipendence of the American cltien and this
K public will again leap forward on a career
f happiness and splendor that will eclipse
all the ages of the past We have
fallen into tlie hands of the depolIer and
tiie poison of political leprosy is entering our
blood If we submit all i lost if we rise in
cur manhood and the enemy it will
give a new Inspiration to mankind It will
be a new declaration of independence broad
er and deeper than that of our forefathers
You ask is there lupeV Without enter
ing too far on the Held of partisan discussion
we may glance at what are now matters of
history Look back eight months anil gaze
upon a spectacle that marked the high water
point of corruption There were arrayed
against the people nearly all the hunk the
corporations tlie trusts the railroads most
of the grea papers and every lulluence that
money could control Manufacturers and
small merchants were coerced debtors were
forced ami laborers were driven by the lash
of hinr r All of the corruption funds that
could be raised on two continents were used
lo debauch the people the lobbyiits the
trading politicians and the time servers were
on that side The men who owed their
wealth and position to tlie fact that they
had helped to corrupt legislation and to pol
lute tlie streams of justice were on that side
The clubs and the fashionable puliits wen
on that side False promises of every kind
were held out every method of defeating tlie
w ill of the people at the polls was practiced
Says the People Were Deceived
On the face of the returns it appeared as
if the enemy had won According to these
returns 0000 more votes properly distrib
uted would have changed the result Only
eight months have elapsed and tue people
havo already discovered that tl r were
made the victims of deception Oi y eight
iionths have elapsed but the liarvett is al
ready being reaped
In Illinois we have just had a carnival of
rflicial debauchery such as the world has
rarely seen The living have been robbed
the unborn have been defrauded of their
rglits and saddled with unjust burdens
public property privileges and franchises
worth untold millions have been given to
monopolies numerous acts striking down lib
erty have been passed and the people are
helpless
Had corruption bnrned fifty cities a free
people would have rebuilt them in ten years
but the destruction of republican institutions
blasts the hopes of man and must Increase
the sorrows of the world Look wiiere you
will the conditions are the same They are
the legitimate harvest of that poisonous seed
that was sown broadcast last fall The peo
ple see that they were mlsledand 1 do not
believe that even a special jrcvUenee could
soon again unite all of the forces that work
ed together in the last campaign Disinte
gration is already at work in the ranks of
the enemy
Now look on the other side Over six mill
ion of intelligent patriotic and substantial
citizens fought for the rights of man They
were men who had convictions and dared to
act on them They were men who could not
be bought who could not be cajoled who
i ould not be frightened they were the men
who do most of the countrys work and bear
its burdens They had no boodle but they
Lad manhood They refused to be Europeau
ized but fought for American institutions
Look at these men to day They stand in
solid phalanx eager determined confident
Isone have deserted none have laid dovvn
their arms Their line of battle stretches
cross a continent their banners are wav
ing their drums are beating and they ir
moving on the enemy They see the gilded
palaces of injustice they listen to the cry of
libor they hear the wail of free institutions
and withan appeal to the Omnipotent they
lesolve that England shall not devour this
land
I every State the people are aroused they
see tlielrconditlon growing worse they see
the hope of their children disappearing they
see poverty hanging over the future thev
see the black Hag of hunger floating oer
some of the richest sections of tods earth
i nd they are crying for justice My friends
that cry will free the American people
Even if we should be borne down again and
again the voice of humanity will arise from
the dust and drive the money changers out
of the tempi and the traitors out of the
bnd The Benedict Arnold of 17S0 sleeps on
F ngiish soil Let the Benedict Arnolds of
this age make their graves beside him
The Artless Irish
The simple artlessness of the Irish
bull appears in these anecdotes which
Cardinal Manning used to tell An
Irish waiter on being asked at what
oclock the first train left in the morn
ing answered You see sir th 7
oclock train now goes at S oclock so
there isnt no lirst train at all at all
I got up at 7 said another Irish
man and thought it Avas S but on
looking at my watch I found it was
9
An Irish valet seeing his master fill
the waste paper basket with torn uj
letters exclaimed ruefully Oh why
did you go for to tear them up They
might have come in so useful for me
who am always so bothered when I
have to write a letter
That valet must have been nearly re
lated to the Irishman who having only
one match to light his candle in cl s
morning struck it overnight -to make
sure it was a good one
Though he told these stories the car
dinal loved the Irish and was always
finding excuses even for their defects
One day a lady annoyed by a false
hood of an Irish servant said in the
cardinals presence All the Irish tell
lies
Wo will not call it a Gfty one his
favorite euphemism for a lie answer
ed Manning -They are an imagina
tive people and this often leads to a
want of correspondence between ther
words and their meaning
Easily Pleased
Dependence on superfluities is one
kind of helplessness In one of his
neighborly chats with a lady who lived
near him ac Sunnyside Washington
Irving gently reproved her complaint
about the demands her children mice
upon her
I have to teach them so many
tilings she said
Too many perhaps replied Irv
ing Eegin with one thing Teach
them to be easily pleased
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Fountain Sealer has just appeared fn
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The Appletous have published an
American edition of Mrs F A Steels
book of Indian fiction From the Fivo
Kivers
Roberts Bros are about to publish
The Life and Work of Frederic Thom
as Greenhalge written by James Kr
nest Nesmith
Electrical Engineering offers prize
aggregating 100 for the best essays on
The Economic Generation of Steam
for Electric Light Kail way and Tow
er Plants
The Engineering News Company is
about to publish a book of 400 jiages
entitled Railway Track and Track
Work It is by E E Kussell Tmt
maii associate editor of Engineering
News
Dr Nansen is litt if any the worse
for his labors as a lecturer The lec
ture platform is trying but after all
it could hardly prevail against a msiit
who has successfully set the rigors of
an arctic winter at defiance
F Ilopkinson Smith has just finish
ed a novel entitled Caleb West Mas
ter Diver It will appear serially fiv
the Atlantic The Bookman compares
the new story to Tom Grogan and
says it goes with an irresistible vervo
and swing
The Bookman ventures the opinion
that Richard le Galliennes new ver
sion of Omar Khayyams famous Ru
baiyat which appears in the Cosmo
politan Avill rank above Fitzgeralds
Mr Le Galliennes poem will shortly
appear in book form
Publication of the English version oft
the Polychrome Bible edited by
Prof Paul llaupt of Johns Ilopkiusr
University which has been so long an
nounced is to 1k begun in October next
Iiy the issue of three books Judges
Isaiah and Psalms
Maynard Merrill Co have in pres
for immediate publication The Young
American by Dr Harry Pratt Judson
Professor of Political Science in the
University of Chicago The book pre
sents a clear and satisfactory outlina
of the origin nature and functions oC
civil government
Ferdinand Brunetiere the French
critic delivered his recent course oC
nine lectures at Johns Hopkins merely
from notes Since his return to Parisv
he has undertaken to write out their
substance for publication in serial and
book form Before this volume apixjars
however there will be published from
his pen a work on French literature
extending to some 400 pages the great
er part of which is already in It
will appear early in the autumn and
will le published simultaneously iru
French and English
Dr G Birkheek Hill the high priestj
of Dr Johnson has put in shape at
hist his two volumes of Johnsonian
Miscellanies and they will soon be
published In the first volume theret
will be gathered together JohnsouTsj
prayers and meditations his aecountr
of his childhood Mine Piozzis anec i
dotes and Murphys essays on the life
and genius of Johnson The second
volume will contain letters from John
son to various persons extracts froini
the Life by Hawkins many
dotes drawn from different sources
and finally a concordance of John
sons sayings
Our War Expenses
Our country is universally known asj
a land of peace the indisposition of tin
American people to enter into a mili i
tary conflict Avith anybody save under
the strongest provocation having be--come
historic In view of our peaceful
attitude toward other nations it is aj
singular fact that our expenditures
rect and consequential for -war far ex i
ceed all other expenses for other ob f
jects of the Government Since 1789f
the expenditures of the Government for
tlie various objects have been
7M31 for civil and miscellaneous for
war S50nCi041S0 navy 1354555 1
521 Indians S321J592D pensions 2 t
oyN704 interest on publLs dubt 2 j
S2t2L745 total 14470070950 Iti
will thus lie seen that the expenditure
for war is double that of any other ob
ject while if the interest on the public
debt the disbursements for peusiomi
and tlie cost of tlie navy be added to
the outlay our war expenses by far ex 1
ceed all other expenditures of the Gov
ernment The greater portion tvu ofj
course on account of tlie civil war but
since that straggle our outlay for army
and navy hrs been very considerable
Since 1SG5 the highest expenditure for
the army in any one year was in 1860
amounting to S284440702 and the low
est in lSSn being S3 l32415 The
highest expenditures for the navy in
any one year since 1C5 was 43324
110 in 1850 an dthe lowesr 13530985
in 1J S0 the annual average for the
army being 159330927 and for tho
mi vy S2S430552
The Virons Man
I told Binks yesterday that he was
a liar
Did you make an impression
In a way I produced one
Howy
He bruised my head London
Tudv
Cans for Tlianksvhijr
Critic Where did you get the ideas
for that picture
Painter Out of my head
Critic You must be glad that it is
out Sketch
We would rather net have people
give us things than be as grateful as
they expect