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ALGER INCOMPETENT.
As was to bo expected , Ihe report of
the commission appointed by the Presi
dent to investigate the conduct of the
war department gives Alger a liberal
coat of whitewash , and yet the coat .is
not so thick that Alger stands purely
white before the public.
Appointed by the administration for
the purpose of sustaining the adminis
tration , the" commission has failed to
find any substantial truth in the
rhargosof iueflicicucyou the part of the
war department The facts that sol
diers died of neglect , that they were
served with food unfit to eat , herded in
pes. camps and shipped like cattle in
pest ships are denied , and that is sup
posed to settle the matter.
As a matter of fact the question is
far from settled. There are hundreds
of fathers and mothers right here in
Chicago who know from sad , many
of them from heartbreaking experi
ence that their sons were neglected
and treated with great inhumanity dur
ing the war with Spain. Whitewash
will not answer. The charges will not
down and Congress will have to in
vest Jg.ite.
But in spite of its great anxiety to
exonerate the administration from all
blame , or rather to prove that no blame
should be attached to the administra
tion , the commission was forced by the
facts to say :
"In the judgment of the commission
theiv was lacking in the general ad
ministration of the war department
luring the continuance of the war with
Spain that grasp of the situation which
was essential to the highest efficiency
nml discipline of the army. "
This is a serious charge , although
couched in the most conservative lan
guage. In plain terms. Alger was in
competent , lie lacked that grasp of
the situation which would have ren
dered the work of the army fully
efficient. Alger stands impeached by
< he commission appointed to defend
him as a man unequal to the task he
had assumed. What will the President
do now ? Will he retain this incompe
tent ? Chicago Chronicle.
IHcIvinley on HIcKIinlcyisiu.
Careful consideration of the Presi
dent's Boston speeches does not con
vince one that it contains a message
of any value to the people in solving
the Philippine puzzle. With suave fa
cility , McKinley slips out from under
the responsibility and leaves the bur
den for Congress to bear , washing his
hands of the yhole matter and saying
with. ( Jloagiuous amiability : "I await
your pleasure , gentlemen. "
This is not the attitude of a leader ,
but of a trimmer , and sadly enough
this latter is MeKinley's customary at
titude. But the President , by virtue
of his position , is the leader. He has no
right to shuflle the responsibility
aside. He said once that he opposed
'criminal aggression , " and he encour
aged that very thing in the Orient
However' McKinley justifies this stJite
of affairs by saying that this is no time
1o submit questions of liberty to a
people engaged in shooting down their
rescuers. But the Filipinos find difti-
culty in recognizing their rescuers.
In response to this claim of the Presi
dent tluit the Philippines were intrust
ed to us by the hands of Avar , Andrew
Carnegie says : "The Philippines have
been 'intrusted to us' solely by the un
expected demand for them made by the
President himself after he had sudden
ly changed his mind , which was at first
that we should not burden ourselves
with them. The Philippine burden is
not chargeable to the war. This is the
President's own pandora box his XCAV
.Year's gift to his country , for which
he alone is responsible. Neither Con
gress nor the people had any voice in
the matter. But one need not wonder
why he should now attempt to evade
the responsibility , since he tells us that
'Every red drop , whether from the in
veins of an American soldier or a mis
guided Filipino , is anguir-h to my
heart. ' His conscience smites him. Xo
wonder. The guilty Macbeth also cried
out : "Thou canst not say I did it' "
This being the case , it would be more
satisfactory to the American people if
the President would make fewer fine
phrases and would put himself on rec
ord concerning his Philippine policy.
Chicago Democrat.
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Bimetallism. inw
When this nation enjoyed the bene w
fits of bimetallism pr
prosperity was gen
eral. The farmer and the wage-earner , as
th
ilie merchant and the mechanic were thw
contented and happy. Since gold w
th
snonomctallism has practically held thm
.sway the condition of the masses ha.s m
ni
gradually grown more unendurable. nim
Poverty 'has ' increased and discontent m
3ias grown to be almost universal. To
? ) c sure , the money dealers have waxed
fat. Wall street has boomed , trusts
is
Siave flourished and the classes have in
jrrown more powerful , to the injury
sind impoverishment of the masses. It
is easy to account for tliis condition of sa
Sino
eiffairs. When silver was demonetized
neal
.values iu real estate and the : prices of
products fell and have continued to al
fall because gold increased in purchax-
ang power. Every obligation of long " }
standing is now twice or three times so
as hard to pay , and the dealers and eh
holders of gold get the benefit , while ca
the owners of property are made to
Buffer. eij
There will be no relief from this con un
dition of affairs so long as the gold tei
anonopoly continues to be maintained , our
the gold monopoly will not end so of
I long as the Republican party holds
ixnver. That there should be alleged
Democrats who advocate the robbery
of the people by the gold conspirators
is a matter of sincere regret to all men
Who love the people. They who work
to retain the present oppressive condi
tion of monetary affairs are not friends
of the masses , but are of and for the
classes.
Over < 5 , . " > 00,000 voters cast their bal
lots for bimetallism in 3SOG. No presi
dential candidate appealed more earn
estly to the hearts of the masses than
did William .T. Bryan. This great ad
vocate of bimetallism is still dear to
the masses and in 1900 the battle for
popular rights will be resumed and
fought to a successful finish.
Poor Whitewash.
Xow that the whitewashing commit
tee appointed by the President for the
alleged purpose of investigating the
conduct of the war has made its report ,
it may be concluded that its members
preferred to give its opinions rathei
than facts. Its opinion is that the
army beef was not chemically treated
by the contractors. Where are its
facts ? Did it take any pains to discover -
cover the actual condition of affairs' ?
Did it call on the soldiers who were
made ill by the army beef to testify ?
Xone of these things was done , but
opinions are given with the greatest
show of confidence.
Iu this connection the Xew York
Journal , among other pertinent ques
tions to the commissioners , asks :
' Have you not confined your efforts to
bringing out whitewashing evidence ?
You have , in substance , done nothing
more than gather together the evidence
of men who knew , or pretended to
know , nothing detrimental. Did you
ever hear of the man in Texas accused
of murder ? lie was told that ten men
had testified that they saw him kill hi'
victim , ne replied : 'That's nothing.
I'll get a hundred and fifty men in
Texas to swear they didn't see me kill
him. ' Has not the commission been
working to get together the 'hundred
and fifty' who did not see the beef em
balmed ?
Democratic Burden.
While the Democrats are united on
all important issues , the Republican
party is torn into shreds. Its national
representatives are grouped into
countless factions , each laboring to deprive -
prive the others of political power , and
all hopelessly drifting further and further -
ther apart.
One group extols "the white man's
burden" policy ; another "the brown
man's burden , " while yet a third dole
fully chants the refrain of the black
man's burden. They have created dis
sensions in both the army and navy.
Competent and fearless generals and
naval commanders have been made
the victims of their puerile jealousies.
In their ranks are proud imperialists
and cadaverous expansionists , hypo
critical philanthropists and plundering -
ing Corsairs. They have twisted and
distorted the national constitution to
that degree that Thomas Jefferson'l
himself might mistake it for a procla
mation made by George III.
Without a common purpose , other
than the fostering of trusts , the many
factions within the Republican party
are fast disintegrating it. In its disso
lution lies the hope of the plain people.
To right the monstrous wrongs it has
inflicted is the Democratic burden.
Ko End to Trusts.
There is no end to the formation of o
trusts. Xew combines are organizing
with a rush. Old combines are enlarg a
ing their scope and crushing out com tlh
petition. The record for one day in h
Xew York shows that five great or s
ganizations were created for the ex a
press purpose of devouring the small
consumers. ' n
Every necessity of life will soon be b
the clutches of the trusts , and the tl
"
people , while suffering from this con
dition of affairs , seem helpless to di - O
cover a remedy. If they would reflect '
that the Republican parly fosters thr
trusts and that the Democratic parts
opposes the trusts they would sec thai
the remedy lies in placing the Demo
cratic party in power. :
V lebi
Lower , Wages a Certain Result bi
'here is no doubt that the unw/ir si
siV
ranted advance in the price of com V
modities by combinations of capital , in
which are now rife , is endangering the inE.
prosperity of the country. Assuredly E.
prices are illegitimately advanced
the consumption of American products \
will decrease. The irony of it all is
that the advance in the prices of com
modities must eventually be accompa fa
nied by lower wages to the working- of
men. Cleveland Plain Dejiler. ac
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Political Potpourri. ai
The length of a Senatorial deadlock II
now regarded by experts as the best fo
index to the price of votes. tli
The Standard Oil Company is now ?
satisfied that the recent defiance of the
Supreme Court by its attorneys was
a serious performance , but merely
light cflincdy. ' "
The last chapter of John Sherman's -
"Memoirs" will appear in time fo have lis
some influence on the next Presidential th
election. Mr. McKinley's blue pencil thBi
can't reach the manuscript Bir
American capital did not seek for on
eign investment under bimetallism , but re
under the gold standard we shall at
tempt to develop every country except O
own. Imperialism and an exodus ! e <
capital go together. rf
BIG FOOT WALLACE.
Adventurous Careci of the THost Ie-
markable Man in Texas.
"Bigfoot" Wallace is dead. When he
gave up the ghost on his ranch near
Devine the most remarkable man in
Texas had ceased to live. He was 81
years old.
All the romance of sixty years of bor
der life was crowded into his adven
turous career. At the age of 20 he left
his home at Lexington , Va. , and went
to Texas for the express purpose 01
avenging the death of his brother , who
was captured and slain by Mexicans in
1SGG. He was a participant in the re
markable struggles on the Texas border
before the war with Mexico , and was
everywhere known as a fearless fighter
and an implacable foe. His name was
for more than fifty years a household
word in Texas.
In the gloomy dungeons of Perote it
took seven giant Mexicans to throw
this struggling Texan to the earth and
bind him. After he had lain fourteen
days chained hand and foot face down
ward to a rock , without food or water ,
when the thongs were cut and the riv
ets forced apart his first act was to
spring at one of his tormentors and try
to throttle him.
His Christian name was William An
derson Wallace , and he was the third
sou of Andrew Wallace , of Rockbridge
County , Virginia , and was born nearly
83 years ago in the brick house now oc
cupied by his grand-nephew , W. B.
Wallace , who resides about a mile from
Lexington , Va. W. A. Wallace was of
revolutionary i stock. His grandfather ,
Col. i Wm. S. Wallace , was a soldier of
HIG FOOT
the revolution , and four of Col. Wal
lace's brothers were associated with
him in the service.
Wm. A. Wallace grew up a quiet
country boy of huge frame and great
strength and was a close associate or
the pleasant set of Lexington youth of
whom but one is now living , ex-Mayor
John W. Haughawaut. His quiet life
was interrupted in the fall of 1SCT by
the news that his elder brother , Samuel
Wallace , who had some years before
emigrated to the Texas frontier , had
been killed in the Fannin massacre by
the Mexicans. The news aroused in his
.
. breast a stern determination to avenge
his brother's death , and in a few weeks ,
accompanied by two other young men
of Rockbridge , he set out for Texas to
carry out his purpose. He brought a
valuable volunteer to the army of Tex
as , and the testimony of his story is
that the death of his brother was
avenged many times over in Mexican
blood. He was one of the famous band
of Mexican and Indian fighters known
as Hay's Rangers , from the name of
1 ,
their commander , himself a Rockbridge
man from the family who named Hay's
creek , a stream in the county.
Wallace's record is attested by the
fact that though he never enjoyed a
higher rank than lieutenant , his name
is honored among Texans as one of
the most famous in the military history
tln the Lone Star Slate. He was a
member of the fated Mier expedition ,
and in the lot-drawing prescribed by
the Mexicans , fortune favored him and
PIle
he drew a white bean , and his life was lese
spared ] , but he was kept for a long time so
as i a prisoner. to
The adventures which gave him the ov
name ; "Big Foot , " were in a long and
bloody : encounter with a huge chief of la-
the Lipan tribe of Indians , known as laEi
"Big Foot. " Wallace killed his antag
onist ] after being severely wounded
dirnself , and thenceforth "Big Foot"
was applied to him. In his late years W
be was liberally pensioned by the State do
3f Texas in appreciation of his services. or.
He was a man of massive frame , dii
creat strength and unflinching , daunt lei
less courage. He is survived by one
brother , Alexander Wallace , who re in
sides several miles from Lexington ,
\'a. , near Glasgow. "Big Foot" never tli
narricd. hi
him
ESTHER AND MORDECAI'S TOMB. m
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Discovery of Great Interest to ac
Biblical Students. acW.
The tomb of Esther and Mordecai , the
'amous characters in the Biblical book ha
f Esther , has been discovered in Hani- tin
idan , Persia , and the inscriptions on '
lie sarcophagi and the tomb itself , read WJ
ind translated , says the Xew York an (
lerald. This discovery is most timely , ca
or some writers have tried to discredit
he Biblical story and the festival of w :
iirim , which goes back to it for a ty-
wsis.
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Every reader of Scripture is familiar los
vith that stran'ge tale of the Jewish nil 1
naiden whose beauty so touched the tin
ving of Persia that he took her for his th
rife and placed her on the throne by
; side. The Jews of Ilaiuadan show I
his tomb of the hero and
heroine of the me
Jible story toall travelers with no small sec
iride for in it lies their
, title to nobility , yoi >
ne of their own people having actually coi
eigned with the king. HIP
This tomb has evidently been added
at various periods , and is now sixty A
eet high. The entrance is to the left inc
the center , leading into an outer pas-
J
sage. To the left is the tomb of some
ancient savage , and to the right the
tomb of an old physician , with a stand
bearing lamps and oil in front of it. A
wall separates the sacred part from
this outer section. At the western end
a door leads to the principal part of the
tomb. To the right is Mordecai's tomb
and to the left Esther's , separated from
each other by a corridor , along which
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TOMB OB' ESTIIKU AN"D MOKDECAI.
pilgrims pass going around tiie sarco
phagi. In a niche is a scroll of the law ,
and an ostrich egg is suspended beneath
the dome , as is the custom in all Per
sian tombs.
The sarcophagi are made of a dark
wood , evidently of great antiquity , and
are covered with inscriptions in He
brew. Fac similes of the inscriptions
have been taken from plaster impres
sions now in the possession of Dr. Za-
doc Kahn , chief rabbi of France.
LONG MESSAGE FOR HIS PIPE.
Telegraph Operator "Wired Through
Four Countries *
The telegraph office of the London-
Brussels and London-Paris cable com
panies are directly opposite to each oth
er in one of those narrow streets of
London where one hardly has room
enough to change his mind.
The operators are good friends , and
often when work is slow cross to each
other to have a friendly chat.
It happened during the English Sou
dan war that the operators were kept
constantly at their instruments , not
having time for calls. The operator of
the Paris cable discovered that he had
left his pipe on the table of his col
league across the way the night pre
vious.
To go over for it was an impossibility.
The clicking of the instrument would
not permit even rising from his chair.
He could not catch Ihe eye of his friend
to communicate to him by signs.
He called the Dover office to connect
him 7 with Calais , across the channel ;
then the operator there put him on with
Paris I. , thence with Chalon , Coblentz ,
Brussels , Ostend and back to England
with his comrade across the way.
Then he sent the following message :
"If it is possible for you to return my
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now HI : OOT nis PIFK. I as
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ipe without its being compelled to fol- hem
> w the route of my dispatch , please dee m
o immediately. " His friend happened in
3 have an assistant , who took the pipe a
ver at once. -
This message traveled through Eng
ine ! , France , Germany , Belgium and
lugland.
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Gettiriff Even. , it
If is not always easy to punish a boor ' itfo
-ithout ] losing one's temper , but a Lon- fo
on paper tells how a boat-load of sail-
L-S , on shore-lejive from a man-of-war , of
id it good-njvturedly and without vio- his
mce. gr
As they journeyed up the roadway gr
ito the Cornish village , a gentleman's sb
agonette passed. One of the tars tli
loughtlessly jumped on the stop be- tnWi
ind. Wi
"Git orf there ! " shouted the coach- se
lan : , and being Ji churlish sort of fel- "
w , he lashed the sailor viciously so
cross the face with his whip. That to
us enough. : LS
In ] an instant the other eleven blues - ?
lid closed round and stopped the trap , 1 > r
10 boatswain's mate in command.
'Tention ! " cried he , and 'tention there
as. "Dismount the gun ! " he shouted , ni
id it seemed as if every bluejacket ho
irried a whole carpenter's outfit.
In three minutes they had taken the ta
agonotte into one hundred and . '
the
-t\vo pieces , and that without so
Su
uch as scratching one bit of pain1 ! : or th
.sing a solitary screw. They laid them th1
out neatly on tiie stony road , and
le boatswain's mate , after inspecting
10 job , cried , "Good ! Dismiss ! "
! the
lie Why did you fail to recognize un
on the street to-day ? She I didn't
e you. He That's strange. I saw he
u twice. She Oh. that probably ac- next
nints for it. 1 never notice a man in
"
at condition. Chicago Xews.
said
When a girl thinks she is better look- "Yes
than she really is , it spoils her for ful
hat little good looks she has. car.
LADY CURZON IN INDIA.
It Means to Be a Viceroy's "Wife
Social Demands on Viceroyalty.
Under the title "The American Girl
Who Leads an Empire , " Edward Page
Gaston writes interestingly in the Wo
man's Home Companion of the respon
sibilities undertaken by Lady Curam :
"It sometimes devolves upon the wife
of the Viceroy to give audience to a na
tive Maharajah alone , when it is her
duty to advance and meet him on the
threshold , and duly wave him to a seat ,
after which her American tact prompts
her to speak of the satisfaction it is to
i
I see him in her home , to inquire after
the health of her distinguished guest
and his family , and to pay him all the
i usual compliments of the season. As
j the ladies of the viceroyalty generally
make it understood that they can ac-
I cept no gifts of value from their sub-
jects the exchange of tokens is confined
to photographs.
"Two thousand guests are sometimes
present at the state balls , when the
vice-royal parly is conducted by an im
posing procession to and from the as
sembly , which is opened by the quad
rille of honor at about ten o'clock.
After this Lord and Lady Curzon hold
a reception , and the warm climate
makes these wearing events upon the
hosts and hostess. That the social ad
ministration of Lady Curzon will not
fall behind those of her predecessors
was evidenced by orders for thirty-live
thousand invitations , programs and
cards of various sorts being given in
London previous to her departure for
India.
"One of the delicate duties of the
lady of the viceroyal mansion is to
learn the rules of management govern
ing the native servants , for these have
their places as unalterably fixed by
caste as persons in higher stations. In
the bedchamber service there is not one
or two brisk chambermaids to do up a
room as in America , but the various
.items in the almost trifling work are
divided among seven or eight men ser
vants , and Ihis is the rule throughout
an Indian establishment. Lady Cur-
zon's body servant stands or sleeps out
side the door to her room constantly ,
and when she goes to drive alone an
other attendant rides in the carriage
with her , and at any time would give
his life for her protection. "
FURNISHED HOUSES.
A.re Rented by tbe Fashionables for
the Sliort Term Session.
Xow that it has become the habit of
Xew-Yorkers to remain out of the city
for longer periods than they formerly
did , the furnished house has become a
much more important element in the
real estate business. This same ten
dency has been noted in London , where
it is no longer considered necessary to
the maintenance of one's position that
a house which is to be occupied for only
a few months should be kept through
out the entire year. It is said that
Americans who go there for the season
are now in the habit of taking a house
when possible rather than living in a
hotel at a greater expense and Avith
less certainty of comfort The con
venience of the furnished house may
be a very great one to the tenant , but
it is a highly profitable form of enter
prise to the landlords , who. in addition
to the advance in price paid for the use
of furniture , are in the habit of receiv
ing for a few mouths the same price
that would be paid for a whole year.
The prices demanded for furnished
houses are very high , and they are dan
gerous speculations only when they are
not taken by the beginning of every
winter season , which is commonly sup
posed to be from about the middle of
Xovember to the 1st of December.
After this later date the rent asked for
the furnished house declines steadily
and the profits of the landlord are di
minished. This loss is less in the case
those who are in the habit of occu
pying the house until it is rented , but
? a general rule the percentage of loss
likely to bo considerable when the
house is not rented promptly. The de
mand for such house has been so great
recent years that the number avail P
able has increased in spite of the risks.
Xew York Sun. s
Two Irish Stones. la
One day , hearing a knock at the door , li
mitres asked her Irish servant who liCi
was that called. I
g1
"It was a gintleman , ma'am , looking
for the wrong house , " was the reply.
A workman repairing the roof of one
the highest buildings in Dublin lost
footing and fell. Striking a tele
graph line in his fall , he managed to
grasp it "Hang on for your life ! "
shouted a fellow workman. Some of
the spectators rushed off to get a mat
tress on which he could drop. B\it the
workman , after holding on for a few it
seconds longer , suddenly cried out :
O1
"Sthand from under ! " dropped and lay
U
senseless in the street He was brought
W
the hospital , and on recovery was
jisked why he did not hang on longer. ?
-Sliure. I was afraid the wire wild
brake , " he feebly replied. pjn
Trouble in the Camp. ' \v
"There scorned to be a rather acrimo
nious < discussion going on as I went by
hoadqua-tors. "
st
"Yes. " said the Salvation Army captain
CI
tain : sadly. "Brother Jones , vho beats CIA
drum , happened to say to Brother
Smith , who docs most of the prfwhins. ofV.
V.
that ; actions spoke louder than words. "
nl
Indianapolis Journal.
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Other Trouble ? . gl
glhe
"Doesn't your broken engagement at he
beginning of a new year make you at
unutterably sad. Archibald ? " fii
"Xo ; a man can't die of a broken ac
heart when he has to hustle for his
meal or go hungry. " the
"I have a splendid ear for music. "
ne
the complacent young man. la
, " answered Miss Cayenne. regret- laWJ
Cully"but you tlon't sing with your was
. "
ha
" Dollar. "
A "Fifty-Cent .
The chief and constantly repeated ar
gument against free coinage is that it
would "ruin the country. " How ? we-
ask. Why , it is replied , we would at
once slump to a silver basis , and our
dollars would only be worth 50 cents
each. This , of course , assumes the en
tire case. We deny that the free corn-
age of both metals would cause the
United States to slump to a silver basis ,
and we demand the proof. We chal
lenge the gold people to even give one
good reason for so believing. They
cannot point to a single case in history
which is at all parallel , in supK > rt of
their claim. But let us concede for a
moment that the result would l > o a
"slump to the silver basis. " How would
'that ruin us ? The answer is that the
'dollar would only be worth 50 cents.
( This , however , is another assumption ,
( not only unwarrantable , but involving
an impossibility. What is meant of
course , is that the dollar would only be
worth 50 cents in gold. Xobocly denies
that the silver dollar would be worth
ilOO cents in silver. But the silver dollar
lar hammered into a piece of bullion is
worth more than 50 cents now. If we
were to go to an exclusively silver
basis , it would certainly increase the
demand for silver and raise its value
compared with gold. If AVO lost all of
our gold , we would certainly obtain a
very considerable amount of silver to-
take its place , for it is a fundamental
.principle in economics that every na
tion must have its distributive share
of the world's money. The free coin
age of silver would certainly not di
minish the aggregate supply. So. as we
have no more than our share now. if we
should lose our gold , we must get sil-
'ver to take its place. The effect of all
.this would be to increase the demand
for silver and lessen the demand for
gold. A man who knows enough te >
raise an umbrella when it rains , ought
to be able to see that this must neces
sarily enhance the value of silver and-
lower the value of gold , thus bringing ;
them nearer together than they now
are. Hence that the " 50-ceut dollar"
would be an impossibility.
Goldbugr Literature.
From a quite extensive reading of
goldbug literature , candor compels mete
to admit that its fallacies are not all
due to conscious hypocrisy. The late
Mr. Harter , in a carefully prepared
speech in Congress , declared that the-
effect of free coinage would be to re
duce all our money down to two-thirds
of its .then present value and instantly ,
as a consequence of that change in the
value of our money , a farm then worth
$12,000 in gold would become worth
but ? S.OOO in silver inone3 * ; and Mr. .
Edward Atkinson , in a private discus
sion with this writer , insisted that free
coinage would drive gold out of use and
all our other money would fall to two-
thirds of its gold value , and instantly
wages and the price of all commodities
would fall off one-third. Similar in
stances of imbecility on stilts could bo-
added ad nauseam.
There is widespread and gross ignor
ance as to what a change in the value
of money is , what it means , how
caused , how ascertained , and what are
the forces and what the law controlling
such change. E. D. Stark.
Silver Niftht Schools.
The First Congressional District of
Illinois is being organized for the cam
paign of 1000. Financial night schools
and home circle clubs are organized in-
every precinct. The money question is
briefly explained and the various re
forms advocated in the interest of la
bor are carefully studied. The listen
ers are appealed to , not on the grounds
of self-interest , but from a Christian ,
spirit ; of love to fellowmen who them
selves are more than crushed by the-
present financial and industrial system.
The night school department is self-
supporting and organizers who devote-
their time to the work receive the regu
lar union scale of wages. A book and
literature exchange is established in
connection with each school , and is-
supported at a small cost to members.
31oney and Property Value.
It is estimated that the total value of
all the property in the country is from
thirty to forty times the amount of
money. That is to say , each dollar ia
money sustains from thirty to fortv-
dollars of property. It can do this be
cause only a small portion of the prop
erty is offered for sale at one time. If
were all thrown on the market at
once , to be sold for cash , it could bring
no < more than tiie existing supply of
money. As a matter of fact , it wonld
not ' bring so much , because those who-
have the money would not be likelv to-
part with the whole of it. But it could
not < possibly bring any more than the-
'whole.
A Fine Lesson in Courtesy.
During the G o'clock rush for th *
street cars two women simultaneously-
entered a crowded Indiana avenue car.
large man made room for the smaller *
the two women , in appearaar- .
working girl , while the more fashion
ably , dressed girl remained standing.
"Thank you very much , " said the first
girl , while the other stared over their
heads. The man looked uncomfortably
the young woman standing , and
finally offered her his seat which she-
accepted without a word.
"Thank you very much , " reiterated
first little girl , with a sly smile.
"Beg pardon ? " said the haughty-
neighbor , while several persons-
laughed.
"Xothing personal , " she replied. "I
just thanking the gentleman in be
half of our sex. " Chicago Inter Ocean-
