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REMEDY FOR THE MONEY POWER
There is no wrong but bath a right
mo ill without its good India is crushed
under the heavy hand of power China
Is struggling in the throes of dlssolu
tlon ruined bj the Power Throughout
Europe the people are cowed by armies
of hired mercenaries paid by the Pow
er In France there is a latent re
bellion anarchy is hiding like rats in
-sewers and breaking out In spots like
the plague Spain is crushed under a
burden of debt she can never pay She
belongs to the Power Egypt is owned
t3T the Power Turkey is existing with
All her unspeakable crimes and atroci
ties protected by the Power Greece
Italy and Switzerland all dominated
and absolutely ruled by the Power
Africa excepting the Transvaal is un
der the dominion of the Power South
America and Central America are
weakened and impoverished by civil
wars and strife and drained of their
-wealth by the Power England is the
-principal seat of the Power and all her
colonies are under the same control
Her navy is engaged in collecting mon
ey due ihe Power No island is too
-small no country is too weak no gov
ernment is too strong to escape the tax
-of the collector The Tower is gather
ingin its half There is in all the
-earth one land to which struggling hu
manity turns Its eyes as a last despair
ing glance of fading hope There is one
laud in which the spark of freedom is
not yet wholly extinguished In the
jeople of this land there is a great deal
vof fight and vitality The Power knows
this hence its desperate efforts to re
tain its hold on this land It has created
a horde of millionaires that it might
ihave strong friends and allies to aid it
Jn keeping a grip on the throats of the
common people It has encouraged
trusts and taught them the science of
legal robbery It has made laws and
-elected law makers With every device
and cunning argument that skill can
fashion or knavery invent it is seek
ing to get the people fighting against
each other to set labor against capital
and capital against labor it is trying
to make labor believe that active capi
tal friend and partner of labor is its
real enemy and where it cannot suc
ceed in this it is endeavoring to drive
active capital into trusts to make it a
servant of its will The Power owns
more than 15 billions more than 15
thousand millions of our debts It has
raised these by its cunning machina
tions to the equivalent of 30 thousand
millions of the money in which it first
bought them Does any man among us
imagine it is going to give up 15 thou
eand millions without a struggle If
so let them undeceive themselves It
is a fight to death In discussing the
-question of a remedy let us first decide
what remedy is best to apply then how
to apply it We have seen that the
means by which the Power accomplish
ed this end was the demonetization of
silver that by securing the demon
etization of silver by the principal com
mercial nations of the world it reduced
the actual money of the world one half
which save it the most trouble and
leaving only the half it could manipu
late most easily gold Silver the
money of the people the friendly mon
ey which we can all see once in a
-while was slain To blind the people
and make deception easy and excuses
it caused a vast quantity of silver
token coins to be struck and called
-each of these coins a dollar The Power
knew the laws it had caused to be
made it lenew that these round pieces
-of silver were not dollars and would
give it no trouble It knew that on
-every one was not only stamped a lie
lut that fittingly as becomes a liar it
liad there taken the name of the Most
High God in vain It had set up the
golden calf and now sent all the her
alds to call the people to come and fall
down in worship at the shrine of Mam
mon We have seen by what means
the JPower worked out its ends Shall
-we not learn wisdom by what we have
seen and retaliate in kind Re-establish
our financial system upon the bi
metallic basis Wipe off our statute
3ooks that most infamous of all laws
one put there by fraud the law of Feb
12 1S73 and in its stead re enact with
such changes only as the present
weights and fineness of our coin de
mand otherwise word for word and
letter for letter the wise law of 1792
Eeadopt the money of the Constitution
snaking the lying coin the Power has
permitted to be struck and falsely call
ed a dollar into an actual dollar make
it what it pretends to be Take from
-the dollar the words In God we
-trust and place there the words We
T ield to no Power but God Take sil
ver and its paper representation the
-certificates out of the debit side of our
ledger and put it where it belongs on
the credit side Reduce our national
-debt at one stroke to the amount of sil
ver coin silver certificates and notes
in circulation and make the coins and
Tbullion these represent true dollars Do
T hear any objections to this as a true
remedy Our gold will leave us Let
it We do not iieed it and few will
miss it Will you my reader How
much will you lose as an individual if
-our gold leave us If you are like me
you will be no poorer I lost all my gold
-a long time ago The Power got half
my creditors the balance And what
-does it matter Under a bimetallic sys
tem of finance it matters not whether
-our currency be all gold three fourths
gold and one fourth silver half gold
-and half silver one fourth gold and
three fourths silver or all silver The
measure remains the same The yard
stick remains the same length It is
the gold and silver of the world that
makes the measure and whether the
gold le here or in Tokyo matters not
a whit so long as it is In circulation as
money Our gold will not leave us
That is a bugbear We will be flooded
with silver How much silver do you
suppose there is In the world The lat
est and best estimate places it about
four thousand millions of dollars If
we get it all it will be less by eleven
millions than the unjust debt we will
cancel It will all go into a building
GO feet cubic It can be put into
vaults of the United States Treasury
building and not crowd things any
but we wont get it No danger of that
Nu Uar of the Power can figure how
we can get over a billion of dollars of
it If we are so lucky as to get that
much we can retire the national bank
notes issuing silver certificates in
stead and making them legal tender
for all debts public or private If we
have any left we can build the Nicar
agua Canal Labor will be very glad
to get the dollars and we need the
canal One thing will follow We will
have money to do business with not
debts We can use our own weapon
and not a piece of tendril belonging to
the Power We will have money that
a common laborer or a business man
can see once in a while not a fancy
kind of money kept as a curiosity in
some safety deposit box We wiill have
more religion more happiness more of
the milk of human kindness more en
terprise more wages less sin less rev
elry less gambling less sheriffs fees
less misery less suicides less organized
robbery Do I hear further objection
to the remedy proposed There is no
further objection It is decided to re
enact the law of 1702 excepting only
as to the weight of the coins which
shall be as now coined 371 grains of
fine silver or 2322 grains of fine gold
to the dollar Not a soul on earth will
lose through such a law The Power
alone will lose and it has no soul In
deciding what remedy to apply we
have determined how to apply it Let
us attend closer to the politics Take
men from the people send these men
to Congress and to State legislatures
electing United States Senators Take
honest men We dont need orators
or corporation lawyers or agents or
trust magnates If such stick up their
heads throw a brick at them by mark
ing your ballot right We dont need
millionaires or sons of respected fath
ers or honorable men What we need
and should see that we get on the ticket
and then elect is plain honest citizens
men of the people men who have tast
ed of toil and on whom the Tower has
laid its heavy hand men who will not
sell their trust not accept bribes aaid
not desert the people who elected
and trusted them We want honest
men to vote against the Power Then
there are electors to vote for 1900 We
should see to it that delegates to the
nominating conventions are men in
whom we can trust and who will go
with an honest purpose to execute our
will The author of this is a life long
Republican and voted for William Mc
Kinley in 1S9G Now for the first time
he raises voice or pen against the party
he has loved and for which he has
given freely both time and talents Let
this be the emphasis to what I have
written here Let us unite our efforts
to nominate and elect a man for Presi
dent who will close the door on the
agent of the Power even if he come
with millions in his hands Let us
elect a Congress we already have a
Senate with such a majority in favor
of the remedy we propose that despair
shall seize upon the Power and all its
legions Let us organize Let us work
Let us vote Shall we apply the rem
edy To you my fellow citizens I
leave the answer
SEVILLE JOHNSTON
Watch the Treasury Department
Another peculiarity of the war rev
enue is that it makes no mention for
what purpose the bonds are to be is
sued It is not provided that they
shall be used to obtain money to prose
cute the war It authorizes the issu
ance of the 1500000000 of bonds or so
much thereof that may be necessary
aoid the Secretary of the Treasury is
made the sole judge of the necessity
Mr Gage has often declared that it is
necessary to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes and it would not be un
reasonable to suppose that wilth such
views Mr Gage would issue the bonds
to provide a basis for bank circulation
in order that greenbacks might be re
tired Mr Gage is a banker and has
repeatedly declared that national bank
circulation is necessary to a sound
financial system and the bonds provid
ed for in the bills would go a long way
to meet that necessity East Oregon
ian
Corporations in the Faddle
The administration is entirely indiff
erent to criticism of its friendliness to
corporations The war has made that
much plain It is led to be callous by
two considerations One of them is
that the enemy is contemptible and
consequently no blunder or misman
agement can have a very serious result
The other is that when election day
rolls around the corporations -will re
member those who saved them so roy
ally It is too much to expect that the
people will be powerful enough to pre
vail in a matter of this kind Twenti
eth Century
AFRICANS HARD TO KILL
Only Slichtly Hurt by Injuries that
Would Be Fatal to Caucasians
The constitutions of the peasantry in
this part of Africa are marvelous but
pot more marvelous than is the extra
ordinaty immunity from serious acci
dent that they appear to enjoy They
are the most careless irresponsible
happy-go-lucky folk that the mind can
imagine They have absolutely no re
ject for the power of steam au5 are
vvholly careless of gradations of im
pact You could not persuade them In
ten years that to be struck by any pro
jecting portion of a train carrying 500
tons weight and traveling at the rate
of twenty miles an hour was in any
way more formidable than being kick
ad by an angry cow Both blows hurt
-hat is all And nature appears to be
ji the consplracj with them to main
tain this condition of lgnoxance Acel
3ents befall them that with white men
would entail an Inquest and an appeal
to the employers liability act And
hey do but rub themselves and grin
Nothing seems to hurt them seriously
For instance not long ago a train
Ueavily laden and running on the down
5rade at top speed say twenty five to
thirty miles an hour approached to a
spot where a straightener was stali
ng dose beside the line Behind one
di the carriages was a solid platform of
wooden beams projecting a foot or
two on either side This was the
zeer platform so built In order that
the zeers great porous water jars of
the kind in which Morgiana hid the for
ty thieves might catch the rush of air
and the water be thus cooled The
train came on the straightener re
mainedas though he had calculated it
to a nicety just in the right place to
be struck with most force by the pro
jecting timber Of course everyone
shouted at him and equally of course
he paid no sort of attention with the
result that the blow took him full In
the back of the head
At the moment the train could not
be stopped but from the station about
a mile farther on Lieutenant Blakeny
sent back a bearer party with every
thing necessary for first aid convinced
in his mind however he had seen the
occurrence that the man must infalli
bly have been killed When the bearer
party returned the sergeant in charge
reported that the poor victim was za
zan shwier I e rather cross There
was nothing else the matter with him
and the next day having got over his
pardonable vexation he went to work
as usual
Again on another occasion and still
on the down grade at night a navvy
lost his cap overboard It was the flim
siest apology for a cap but it was ap
parently dear to him so he jumped out
after it When the circumstance was
reported at the next station an engine
went back to collect him and met him
hurrying along quite comfortable and
very pleased with himself he had
found it Wadi Halfa letter in London
News
Stern Discipline
The very hardest lesson a young
American has to learn when he enters
the army is that of obedience For the
first time his individual authority is
dethroned He is as fractious as a
thoroughbred colt that long rebels
against the whip and spur It is hard
for him to understand that his freedom
of action must be subordinated to mili
tary necessity He chafes if he does
not openly rebel but when once
whipped into line he makes the best
soldier on earth
My first drill master had been my
friend and the friend of my family
from my boyhood up We had hunted
and fished and courted together and ex
changed secrets with a freedom that
does not obtain among brothers One
day early in my experience as a sol
dier and while everything was bofng
hurried with a view to getting us into
Mexico we had been drilling till I felt
ready to drop The repeated orders
struck pain to my ears and T would
have conscientiously sworn that my
musket weighed a ton At length when
within easy earshot of him I shouted
For heavens sake Bob stop this tom
foolery and lets go over to the tav
ern
He never looked at me but roared
Corporal take that man and drill him
like the devil
The corporal did and I thought Id
die of exhaustion I fully meant to
challenge the drill master and whip
him If he declined but he succeeded in
making me understand the Imperative
necessity of unquestioning obedience
in the soldier Its tough with the raw
recruit but the quicker he learns his
part the better It is for all concerned
Officers worthy of their position aro
placed in that much talked of position
where friendship ceases Detroit Free
Press
COMPLEXITY OF BATTLE SHIPS
Almost Every Move Made Is Con
trolled by Machinery
In the Iowa it may almost be said
that nothing is done by hand except
the opening and closing of throttles
and pressing of electric buttons Her
guns are loaded trained and fired her
ammunition hoisted her turrets turned
her torpedoes media nisms of them
selvesare tubbed and ejected the ship
steered her boats hoisted out and in
the interior lighted and ventilated the
great searchlights operated and even
orders transmitted from bridge or con
ning tower to all parts by mechanical
appliances Surely no more striking
view than tins of the development of
thirty live years could be afforded
This growth of complexity and elab
oration and this almost infinite multi
plication of parts and devices have en
tailed upon the naval architect and
constructor demands and difficulties
never dreamed of in the earlier days
The staff required to design and con
struct an Iowa is multiplied in number
and the complexity of its organization
is augmented as compared with that
required for the design and construc
tion of the New Ironsides almost indef
initely
Similar conditions apply to command
and management so that while the
building of a modern battle ship entails
enormous work and responsibility on
the naval architect constructor and
staff the effective use of her as a tool
in the trade of war presents an equal
variety and intricacy of problems to
students of the art of naval warfare
Casslers Magazine
Queer Case
An application was made to the Gov
ernor to day for the pardon or release
from jail of George Miller of Chase
County who was imprisoned for fail
ure to pay a judgment of o00 assessed
against him for nonsupport of his wife
and child Miller represents that he
cannot pay the fine while in jail but
that he would soon pay it if liberated
and permitted to work For this pur
pose the county officers urged his re
lease An examination of the law dis
closes the fact that there wa3 no legal
way to accomplish his release the au
thorities and the Governor as well be
ing barred from the exercise of the par
doning power because the law says
the defendant in such cases shall re
main in jail until the costs and judg
ment are paid The question was re
ferred to the Attorney General who
was unable to discover any solution of
the knotty problem and he disposed of
it by writing the County Attorney that
the only thing he could suggest would
be to permit the prisoner to escape and
then due diligence in compelling him
to pay the judgment Topeka Kan
correspondence St Louis Globe Demo
crat
The Baby
She is a little hindering thing
The mother said
I do not have an hour of peace
Till shes in hed
She clings unto my hand or gown
And follows me
About the house from room to room
Talks constantly
She is a bundle full of nerves
And willful ways
She does not sleep full sound at nights
Scarce any days
She does not like to hear the wind
The dark she fears
And piteously she calls for me
To wipe her tears
She is a little hindering thing
The mother said
But still she is my wine of life
My daily bread
The children what a load of care
Their coming brings
But O the grief when God doth stoop
To give them wings
Independent
Dopr with False Teeth
The greatest curiosity at the kenned
show at the Crystal Palace London
was an aged and very sleepy little
Schipperke which boasts of the proud
and unique distinction of being the
only dog in the world with a complete
set of false teeth His fame speedily
spread among the visitors and he was
always the center of a curious crowd
and the object of much admiration At
the outset he resented the attempts of
strangers to open his mouth in order
to inspect his artificial grinders but
eventually he yielded to the inevitable
and accepted their attentions with con
siderable patience The dog is owned
by a dentist who practices his profes
sion in the city The poor old doggys
teeth were fitted up by way of an ad
vertisement as his master intends to
open a canine dental office
Sponge in Florida
A sponge with the great circumfer
enoce of five feet six inches has lately
been taken from the water of Biscayne
Bay Florida
After a man quits a job he tells
around that it was necessary to hire
three men to do his work - -
TOPICS FOE FAEMEBS
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS
Cultivation of the Orchard Improves
the Growth of the Trcea Farm In
surance Co wa Should Be Milked
Regularly General Form Notes
Cultivating in the Orchard
When the character and lay of the
land will permit a better growth of the
trees can be secured if thorough culti
vation is given during the early part of
the growing season for the first four or
five years at least after setting out
One advantage of planting a hoed crop
in the orchard is that it of necessity
compels cultivation The objection is
that in many cases it uses up plant
food In the soil that will be needed by
the growing trees by the time they
come into bearing Of course If ma
nure Is applied this objection is over
come But whether a crop is grown or
not so far as other conditions will ad
mit it will be found best to keep the
soil in a good tilth and the weeds down
during the early part of the growing
season at least During the early
stages of growth say the first two sea
sons at least when it can be done it
will be found best to cultivate well
during the early stages of growth and
then mulch well before hot dry weath
er sets in Newly set trees will suffer
much less from the drouth if well
mulched than if left unprotected and
until the trees get reasonably well es
tablished mulching in summer will be
found quite an advantage
One reason why so many trees die
and others fail to prove satisfactory is
because of neglect during the first two
or three years after setting out Get
the trees well started to growing while
young and it will be a comparatively
easy to maintain a thrifty growth but
a tree like a plant once stuuted will
never recover from the effects Outside
of what furrows are necessary to pro
vide good drainage it will be best in
cultivating to keep the soil level If
from any cause cultivation can not be
given to an advantage the next best
plan is to seed to clover Common red
or mammoth clover is better than any
kind of grass for the orchard Farm
ers Voice
Mutual Farm Insurance
Recently two friends have been burn
ed out of their homes both were living
in large farm house One of them was
insured in a mutual insurance company
organized by the farmers of the county
in Avhich he lived and he will got the in
surance without trouble The other
had his house insured in an old line in
surance company and an adjuster has
been around and tried to get him to ac
knowledge that his furniture was old
and worn out and that his loss was
about half the amount his policy calls
for He found on looking over the con
ditions printed in very fine type on his
policy that his books piano and sew
ing machine were not insured and will
be a total loss The company will pay
him about three fourths of the amount
his policy calls for which will be about
one half the actual loss by the time he
builds a new house and buys furniture
to replace that burned
Farmers are more liable to loss by
fire than any other class of people
risks considered and they should keep
their buildings and contents insured
but they should insure in a mutual com
pany where they will receive fair
treatment and get prompt and generous
settlement It has been proved by ev
ery one of the thousands of mutual in
surance companies in this country that
this form of insurance is vastly cheaper
and altogether more satisfactory than
insurance in a stock company located
in some other State or at best in a dis
tant city Farmers Voice
Milk Regularly
Regularity in time of milking is nec
essary The dairy cow is a good time
keeper and knows very well when
milking time comes If she is neglect
ed and allowed to go far beyond the
regular time she begins to worry and
loss follows There are some cows that
certain milkers can never get clean
j They milk out all that flows readily
strip around once or twice and call her
finish With some cows this will do
but with others the milker must reach
well up on the udder and work it with
a sort of kneading process A little
manipulation of this sort will cause the
whole quantity to flow into the teats
whereas without it there will be from
a gill to a pint of the richest milk left
in the udder every time which means
a prematurely dry cow Indiana
Farmer
TJnderdraining Pays
In periods of drought the danger of
insufficient moisture is materially les
sened as the power of the soil to ab
sorb rain and dew is increased through
better capillary movements thus
spreading through the soil what mois
ture may be available If water is
flowing through the drains from a bet
ter watered section it may be drawn
out by capillary attraction where need
ed This process of capillary attrac
tion is well illustrated in the passage of
oil through the wick of a lamp We
can see too that in periods of drought
water may thus be drawn toward the
surface from a considerable depth A
soil that is usually water soaked when
it does dry out will bake and crack
open and dry out much more thorough
ly while a well underdrained soil can
never bake and under similar circum
stances will always be found moist be
cause being porous there is a continu
ous supply of moisture coming up from
underneath to replace that which is be
ing evaporated by the heat of the sun
It is very interesting and often surpris
ing to notice the increased crop yield
derived from a field after it is well uu
derdrained In many cases the yield
will be doubled and the expense of
underdrainlng more than repaid by thai
increase of a crop In a single season-
Farming
Poultry Wisdom
Why do chicks die In the shells
Hens too fat
Eggs too old
Inbred stock -
Eggs get chilled
Too much moisture
Impure air In room
Improper ventilation
Too low temperature
Too high temperature
Small air cells in eggs
Diseased breeding stock
Impure air in Incubator
Too large air cells In eggs
Too much dampness in cellar
Egg chamber too dry when hatchlngJ
Why do chickens die after they arej
hatched
Lice
Sour food
Filthy runs
Inbred stock
Hens too fat
Want of grit
Damp houses
Too much meat
Brooders too hot
Brooders too cold
Lack of green food
Too dry air in brooder
Overcrowding in brooders
Neglect to sort out the sizes
Weakness from delayed hatch
Not enough bone forming food
Improper ventilation of brooder
Removed from incubator before thoff
oughly dried Farm Poultry
Remedies for Smut
Experiments made demonstrate that
the stinking smut of wheat and barleyt
can be prevented by soaking the
seed twelve hours in a solution of oni
pound of sulphate of copper bluestone
and twenty four gallons of water then
immersing the seed for five minutes in
limewater A solution of one pound oC
corrosive sublimate and fifty gallons ofi
water will also be effective The stink
ing smut of wheat and oats can also
be prevented by treating the seed with
water heated to 130 degrees Immersing
the seed ten minutes For the loose
smut of oats soak three bushels of see4
for twenty four hours in a solution o
one and one half pounds of sulphide of
potassium and twenty five gallons of
water The formalin treatment has
been found very effective In preventing
the stinking smuts of wheat and oats
It consists in soaking one pound of for
malin to fifty gallons of water Tha
strong formalin is poisonous though
pronounced by some to be safe yet
care should be used in handling it and
corrosive sublimate The seeds may bo
dried after any of the treatments by
spreading on a clean floor or on canvas
sheets spread in the sun preferably on
raised lattice work and turned or agi
tated several times Dry plaster may
also be found useful in drying the seed
Every seedsman should treat seed be
fore shipping but the furmer should
accept no risks but treat the seed hini
self Philadelphia Record
Green Bone for Hens
It should not be forgotten that though
hens are now on farms running at large
the worms and insects they get do not
supply the material for egg and shell
in sufficient quantities to keep up the
daily supply of eggs Some green cut
bone should still be given But moro
care must be taken to give only what
will be greedily eaten for If any meat
adheres to the bone it will soon becomo
offensive The grain fed in early spring
is a richer and better feed than fowls
that run at large usually receive So
for a few days the hens lay every day
after they are turned at liberty so that
they may pick up their living as best
they can Then the eggs gradually be
gin to decrease in number the fowls
becomebroody and are good for noth
ing as layers until late in the summer
and if they do not receive extra feed
they may not lay anything before next
spring Some time for rest between egg
production is needed But good food
and good care should make this time
as short as possible
The Oldest Hen
It is the belief of all that the White
Leghorns are the longest lived of any
breed of poultry There is one hen that
was hatched in July 1879 and has con
tinued ever since until recently This
hen had never been broody until a few
eggs were put under her which were
near the end of incubation having been
taken out from a nest that was covered
by sl Cochin hen She finished the incu
bation and raised the chicks all right
taking the best of care of them Thi3
hen has averaged about ISO eggs each
year and is now past or near at least
19 years of age Taking it all In all
3240 eggs from one hen is a great rec
ord Reliable Poultry
The Advantages of Good Roads
The movement for good roads is like
many other things in this world obsti
nately opposed by the very ones to
whom its accomplishment as a fact
would do the most good In a genuine
reform such as this the crusade is
long and arduous and disheartening to
any but the most determined of advo
cates The wheelmen have done good
missionary work but apparently they
have not convinced the rural mind thatr
the advantages they are contending for
would be general and far reaching
Baltimore American
Gonsberry Mildew
As a result of testing various reme
dies for gooseberry mildew the follow
ing recommendation is made by the
Xew York station Potassium sulphide
is the most effective remedy for con
trolling gooseberry mildew It should
be applied very early in the season just
as the buds are swelling at the rate of
an ounce in two or three gallons oi
water and the treatment repeated ev
ery ten days or two weeliSt