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gressman represents 30,520 voters ;
Bryan received 29 per cent and Tilden
and Hendricks 43 per cent of the vote.
In Connecticut 70 per cent of the voters
vote , 5 per cent are illiterate , $3.52 is
expended on schools , 43 per cent have
money in savings banks , each congress
man represents 43,829 voters and Bryan
received 82 per cent where Tilden and
Hendricks received 51 per cent. 75 per
cent of the citizens of New Jersey voted
in ' 96 ; 6 per cent are illiterate , $2.95 is
used for schools , 9 per cent have inter
ests in savings institutions , each con
gressman represents 46,134 voters or
almost as many constituents as the
entire delegation of 7 from Mississippi ;
Bryan received 86 and Tilden and Hen
dricks 52 per cent of the vote cast. In
Pennsylvania 74 per cent vote , 7 per
cent are illiterate , $3.23 is used for
education , 5 per cent have money on
deposit , each congressman represents
40,878 voters and while Bryan received
but 86 per cent of the vote Tildeii and
Hendricks received 48 per cent. 81 per
cent voted in Wisconsin , 7 per cent are
illiterate , $2.45 is devoted to schools ,
each congressman represents 43,766
voters and Bryan received 87 per cent
of the vote to 49 per cent given to Tilden
and Hendrioks. In New York , where
71 per cent voted in ' 96 , 6 per cent are
illiterate , $8.90 is used in the schools , 25
per cent have money saved and on
deposit and each congressman represents
40,121 voters ; Bryan received 89 per
cent of the vote and Tilden and Hen
dricks 52 per cent.
False Gods Responsible.
In giving the records of the states
which gave Mr. Bryan his highest and
lowest ner camta streiiEth , and the com
ments thereon , we do not hold him
personally responsible for the deplorable
condition as revealed , by a compilation
of the facts , but as the leader , the
commander-in-chief of the
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of ' 96 we do hold him responsible for
the present condition of democracy
which is far worse than at any time in
its history. Space alone forbids an
analysis of the remaining 38 states , but
having the data at hand we may at a
later date give it to the public. The
people the common people the true
democracy have apparently been lulled
to sleep by flimflamming leaders and an
unscrupulous press , who have been sow
ing tares among the democratic wheat
and when the harvest of 1900 is ripe , it
is hoped the tares , together with the
flimflamming leaders and unscrupulous
press , will be gathered together by the
people , the common laborers , the true
democracy and cast into political
oblivion. F. H. CLIFFORD.
Oheraw , S. C. , Nov. 27 , 1899.
DEATH KATE IS ON DECMNE.
All who hope and believe that the
conditioniyjfjhuman life throughout jthe
wor w&gradually improving wiUffuid
practical support for their hope and
belief in an address recently delivered
before the British Medical Association
by its President , Dr. Ward Cousins.
Among other things he discussed the
future progress of preventive medicine ,
and predicted a steady and great decline
in the death rate in the coming century.
For the realization of this great object
he looked , above all and rightly looked
to an improvement in the conditions
and in the dwellings of the working
classes.
And he was especially right in point
ing out that this improvement cannot
come from mere legislation. "The great
mass of the people must become willing
and active helpers , " he said , and in equal
ly true words he showed how largely the
prevention of suffering and the preser
vation of health are within the reach of
the working classes in our great towns
if they will only cultivate temperance
and cleanliness. In this connection , we
are gratified to observe the action of the
New York health board in distributing
among the people a circular letter , set-
ing forth in clear and simple language
various easy methods to be observed for
the prevention of disease , the spread of
epidemics , and some sound advice
generally in regard to healthful living.
This is practical service for the public
good , and it will undoubtedly be success
ful to a material degree in a further
decrease of the mortality rates. Leslie's
Weekly.
The of
organs
DELIGHTED. . .
populism are now
gloating over a few bank failures caused
by the tumble of trust stocks and other
soap-bubble securities. De-pulpitized
preachers and other creedless , principle-
less exhorters for the money fallacies
now howl with triumph from Texas to
Idaho. Real ruin , absolute poverty ,
desolation and despair are the normal
conditions out of which populists and
their oracles are evolved. The recent
flurry in Wall Street , which alone
furnishes money for the game of draw
poker and takes the playing cards as
security has been to Bryanarchy a new
breath of life. All its orators , all its
newspapers , have clapped their hands
with joy , and crowed , as though the
morning of a universal money panic
had already dawned. The incident has
brouerht into verv eeueral notice
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the fact that populism , fusion , sophistry
in finance and flatulent oratory can
flourish only in times of disaster , as
fire-flies or June bugs are visible only in
darkness.
Will somebody start a subscription to
raise money to bring on a financial
blizzard , an economic cyclone , so that
crucifixions on crosses of gold'and also
crowns of thorns may be placed within
the reach of the plain people before the
campaign of 1900 begins ? ' 'My friends ,
the greatest trust is the money trust ;
but if you me trust , it must bust. "
WESTERN VALUES.
VALUES.stock and trust
panics it is a satisfaction to observe that
the land and laud product values of the
West are unaffected.
Money is plenty for loaning on good
farms at six per cent per annum the
same day that call loans in New York ,
on stocks and bonds , Fear to one hun
dred and twenty-five per cent a year.
And while octopus stocks , like steel ,
sugar and tobacco , drop from five to
twenty cents on the dollar , hogs ,
corn , wheat , beef and all other staple
food products remain steady in value
and with no noticeable declines.
The money kings cannot knock all
value out of such commodities though
they do send railroad and bank stocks
down to nothing in a single day.
Prosperity and
NOT A TEAM. . .
populism do not
harness up together and ninke a matched
team. The state of Nebraska is now
prosperous and its chief source of wealth
is agriculture. The animal and cereal
products of Nebraska farms for the
year 1899 , at present prices , make a cash
value of more than two hundred millions
of dollars.
With this prosperity the populist
leaders find fault. They belittle and
belie it. They antagonize capital , which
is to labor what steam is to machinery.
It makes the wheels go round. It is to
markets what power agents are to trans
portation , to mills and manufactories.
It makes things move. But capital and
croakers never pull together. Down
with the latter , up with the former.
Prosperity and populism will neither
pull nor trot in the same harness.
CONSERVATISMS.
McKinleyism is anti-constitutional
ism. . „
Mormouism is a dead issue galvanized
into prominence by emotional ignorance / >
and political depravity. *
Polygamy as a church rite is prefer
able to promiscuous polygyny under
church sufferance.
The equality of man means the equality
of women in all things as well as men ,
or else nil men were not created equal
after all.
It is better that a few women suffer
in their feelings than that thousands are
damned to suffer by Christian in
difference.
Man's inhumanity to woman is the
mark of Christian civilization in the
nineteenth century. What will the
twentieth have to say aboiat it ?
FRANK S. BILLINGS.
Sharon , Mass.
The Chinese are noted for the excel
lence of their razors. They are mode
of old horse shoes.